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Brian Fenton

@fentie

Developer. Games, beer, food, dad, etc... Standard nerd. He/him. BLM, trans rights are human rights I'm also @brianfenton@phpc.social

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link's busted, works if I removed the Today's. looking forward to reading it

13.03.2026 14:47 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

to try and maintain our current sanity levels, some members of our local geek slack all pitched in on a variety banana box the first summer of lockdown, distributed semi-randomly through no-contact banana deliveries

12.03.2026 22:25 ๐Ÿ‘ 13 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

yeah we really upped our costco shopping, to the point that the spendier membership starts paying for itself without us having to buy like, two new sets of tires or a gi-huge-ic electric snow thrower

12.03.2026 20:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

you want your own personal cheese, or your own Mauritius cheese?

12.03.2026 14:34 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

my partner got a diagnosis well into adulthood, and now they're wondering just how different their father's life would have been if he could have been diagnosed at all, let alone early

11.03.2026 16:46 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

the almost alliteration there makes it worse somehow

11.03.2026 16:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

aren't they supposed to be using a banana for scale?

11.03.2026 16:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

babybel is clearly Up To Some Shit

11.03.2026 16:09 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

is this one of those fandago things where they play the video of the Tokyo concert in a theater, or is it live?

10.03.2026 18:19 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

and half his shtick is about how great it is to be Korean, while... very visibly not being Korean! and no one thought this was a problem

10.03.2026 16:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Marvel's Spider-Man. No Upside-downies After Double Pepperoni!
Marvel's Spider-Man. No Upside-downies After Double Pepperoni! YouTube video by KODI BOX

you're in good company www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHm-...

10.03.2026 06:25 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

_nodding_ shoving will protect you from the terrible secret of space

09.03.2026 22:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

do not trust the pusher robot. it is malfunctioning

09.03.2026 22:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Magical Kitties Save the Day You are Cute. You are Cunning. You are Fierce.

we have a copy of this at home and our youngest is obsessed with it. we've yet to play it, but he always asks for it www.atlas-games.com/product_tabl...

09.03.2026 14:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

our youngest thought that "soft" meant "pet" because we kept encouraging him to be gentle ("wanna soft Pete") and our oldest called the cats "meows". it's pretty amazing watching them learn how to interact with a Creature in the house

09.03.2026 00:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 37 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

pretty sure it's canon that Pa Ingalls didn't wash his ass

09.03.2026 00:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 21 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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a man and a woman are looking at each other and the man is asking " both " Alt: A scene from the movie The Emperor's New Groove where two men are looking at each other and each asking "both?" before agreeing that "both is good"
08.03.2026 20:12 ๐Ÿ‘ 13 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

same!

08.03.2026 20:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

fuzzy little man. sky potato

07.03.2026 23:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

fruit bats are big goofuses

07.03.2026 22:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

oh I believe it. when I worked there I got in the habit of setting time values in all our unit tests to like 3 months in the future, so if it was _going_ to blow up on some kind of event we had some warning to fix it

06.03.2026 17:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

yeah I think the only thing that's going to eventually sort it out for me (if ever) is a lot more practice, until I can largely bypass the "look for phrase" step where it goes sideways

06.03.2026 17:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

this of course also included things like people taking one hour shifts that crossed a DST boundary. They later asked us to implement recurring shifts out into the future. if my hair wasn't already gone, it would have fallen out

06.03.2026 17:53 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I once worked on scheduling software where we were asked to show the user their hours & elapsed wall clock time, in their timezone, including past records... and we'd stored everything in UTC, only. no TZ info. Workers sometimes traveled between shifts, or moved to other locations... disaster time

06.03.2026 17:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

this is exactly the type of mistake I'd make. My brain seems wired to only understand English and Not English, so whenever I can't think of the right phrase in the current Not English I end up with the correct phrase in the wrong language.

06.03.2026 17:41 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

unsurprisingly, she's all in and excited about it. Can you share any more details about how you're setting it up?

05.03.2026 17:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

the new CEO is still a white dude. they could have at least started with that

05.03.2026 16:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

actually my wife should do this with her class, they'd love it

05.03.2026 16:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

hard to go wrong with a hagfish then

05.03.2026 16:18 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

you're making me want to watch a hard drive defrag now

05.03.2026 15:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 18 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0