Nick Fitzsimons

Tweet Claude Code wiped our production database with a Terraform command. It took down the DataTalksClub course platform and 2.5 years of submissions: homework, projects, and leaderboards. Automated snapshots were gone too. In the newsletter, I wrote the full timeline + what I changed so this doesn't happen again. If you use Terraform (or let agents touch infra), this is a good story for you to read.

Back in my day you needed a senior engineer for this sort of thing

Another vote for “-dough”!

Flavor Aid Wikipedia page with tabs labeled - Flavors - Jonestown massacre - References

You know some guy at the factory has been trying to edit that Wikipedia page for 20 straight years

So it seems it’s not so much a case of “Hell no, we won’t pay” as “The system was never expected to have to deal with the consequences of having such a stupid President, and it’s going to take some time to adapt it to handle the ridiculous situation he’s put us in.”

Assuming storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... is the relevant filing, it explains that their systems are incapable of processing the required refunds in a timely manner, they don’t have the staff for the manual processes required, and it’ll take ~45 days to implement the necessary features.

I have a four digit Slashdot user ID, and it’s prime ✨

I don't know how to explain this but Casablanca is a movie for adults.

There are lots of movies built on an element of fantasy about being young or brave or defying the odds.

Casablanca is not that. Everyone in that movie has back pain and they have all just accepted it.

Photo of a letter that reads: “If you don’t like my peaches, don’t shake my tree.” Sincerely, Shirley Jackson

If you don’t like my peaches don’t shake my tree

2 photographs of a biography of Marty Feldman. One has googly eyes added but it looks virtually the same.

Every time we see this Marty Feldman book it reminds us of that time we stuck googly eyes on it but all that happened was it looked even more like Marty Feldman. 👀

Telephone sales job. All the bosses were away for the day. Workers outside accidentally drilled through the power & phone lines & say it'll be tomorrow before they're fixed. I'm putting on my coat to go home when my colleagues say this is a great chance to brainstorm sales ideas ALL DAY.

Iran: look, it's simple. We literally just paint the silhouette of a plane on the ground. We literally just nail together some boxes in the shape of a tank. We literally just pull looney tunes shit. Their AI will make them spend $100 million to destroy $5 of arts and crafts.

the US: grok is this

So Philip Glass just joined TikTok. He only has like 4 posts and they’re simply him in what I assume is his living room playing the piano. First comment on one I saw was “your piano is too close to the fireplace, you’ll dry it out” and if that’s not the internet in a nutshell I don’t know what is.

Amused at Trump saying ‘We’re not dealing with Winston Churchill’ about Starmer. No, if you were dealing with Winston Churchill we’d have already have been fighting a war for two years before your lot even turned up, you scabby orange dough ball

Meme: a couple awake in bed but facing away from each other. Woman thinks “I bet he's thinking about other women”. Man: “I wonder if the cones hotline still exists”

This guy, but somewhat older

Listen app devs, nobody wants to use your in-app browser. We don't care that it's "powered by Chrome", if I click a link just let it open in default browser. Our cookies and cached info is there, you're actively hindering our experience, and making us less likely to use your app.

Tate was trying to get to Dubai on a bus.

When they got to the Saudi border everyone was told to get off for passport and baggage checks and Tate decided to stay on - presumably because the bus was air conditioned and he didn't want to stand in a queue.

He then got detained by Saudi guards.

I haven't been to the gym in months. My joints have stopped hurting and I've had so much more time to do meaningful things.

Saw the "OMG why are 40 & 50 year old people even ON social media?" post & my first thought was, "What do you think *should* happen, kid? Should we all just do a Logan's Run?" & then I realized this child has never once in their life heard of Logan's Run & I turned to dust & my ghost is typing this.

Something started happening in 2020 and is continuing to happen, which causes premature death and chronic illness, huh?

I was in a shop with a kid recently and telling the horrified cashier how Steve steals all my purses and money and hides them so I have no change and the kid shouted 'mum! Tell the lady Steves a cat she thinks you have an abusive husband'

I’m fascinated by the annotations. Was someone collecting the set?

Threads thread: thriller_instinct 3d Is it okay to bully 40 and 50 year olds who are on social media just for being on it, cuz like why are you here - 254 Q 3.1K G 28 746 corporateash 18h ••• My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you. 852 Q62 G6 72

“I have usernames older than you.”.
Holy shit

Apart from its countless other pleasures, I, a professional screenwriter, will never figure out how you write something with a plot hole the size of the Lincoln Tunnel & it just doesn't matter, nobody cares, maybe you notice it but then you forget, the movie is just that good

I recall travelling on a bus in Cornwall many years ago that only ran on market day. The driver knew all the passengers and on the return journey he didn't leave at the set time but when all his passengers were on board, and he didn't stop at bus stops but dropped them all off at their homes.

Artworks - v. by Tony Harrison - BBC Sounds The controversial poem by Tony Harrison, to mark his death.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/.... Evening stroll soundtrack: a reading by Tony Harrison of his epically powerful V almost has me in tears as I walk @bbcsounds.bsky.social

This is the future liberals want

1967 - Dystopian Sci-fi novel, Don’t Create The Torment Nexus published

1974 - Cult classic BBC mini series

1997 - BBC remake

2002 - Hollywood movie, upbeat ending added

2019 - Nexcon - A Torment Company IPO’s, $324 Billion market cap

2026 - Polymarket bets on who will be tormented next

A Reductress post features a photo of Kristi Noem with the headline, “Kristi Noem Put Down for Being Too Hard to Train”

Screaming

*hunger games cannon*

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#ShopFrontFriday Rome. For John Wick fans (there must be some out there surely) this fascinating antique/junk shop plays an important part in No2