Dan

I am in an abusive relationship with the technology industry Some things I'm struggling with in the technology industry, an appreciation for folk music, and some other thoughts.

I wrote about some things I'm struggling with in the technology industry, preceded by an appreciation for folk music.

I remain fascinated by people who are 100% all-in on using LLMs at their jobs (and telling everyone that they're doing it) and who appear to have never paused to consider "what value am I personally adding in here, at this point, and why do I think my employers won't eventually figure this out"

Thinking about Red Dwarf. Shout out to Rob Grant.

I forgot about that!!

I mean, I’d take that extra bank holiday (and let’s be honest I might watch the games and support Scotland) - but I work for an English company who don’t give us most bank holidays so that’s sad 😔

I’m not saying that Scotland are excited to be in the football World Cup, but what I am saying is that this morning a received a 2nd email from a venue saying they’re organising a watch party

My apologies, fellow millennials, for making you all realise just how old we are

All our base are belong to us

As a mortal
I would like to log out
So that I can have a good nights sleep

Hang this in the Louvre

"is there a technology the left are actually excited about?"

Countries that do not embrace wacky waving inflatable tube men could be "left behind," says Wacky Waving Inflatable Tube Man Emporium's Al Harrington.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

I’m not saying that TNT Sport have the best #olympics coverage (they do), but I’m watching day 6’s highlights where the presenter wanted to show us a slo motion clip of the men’s skeleton athlete’s bum wobbling

The more I hear about the drone cams at the Olympics this year, the more impressed I am

A photo of my gorgeous tortie cat looking sad at me

Being told off by my cat for working late

Why yes, Asda, I _shall_ continuously submit 1/5 ratings to your app and telling you exactly why until you undo your last update which completely screws up the UX

App product owners stop changing the UX to your app before fixing real life problems challenge

This is what being British is all about

Looks great on you!

What an odd decision to make!

Ah, so it’s not a specific highlights show this year?

Either that or I can’t find it anywhere on iplayer or in the schedules

It’s a shame, because it’s always a really good show. TNT’s isn’t as good :(

I really want to watch the BBC coverage, but the highlights have spoilers on their iplayer thumbnails and there’s no nightly highlights show or podcasts

BBC have driven me to paying for TNT, and actively avoiding iplayer. They made several poor editorial choices this year

I really want to watch the BBC coverage, but the highlights have spoilers on their iplayer thumbnails and there’s no nightly highlights show or podcasts

BBC have driven me to paying for TNT, and actively avoiding iplayer. They made several poor editorial choices this year

Given that Scottish Rugby use the tagline “there’s nothing like being there”, this sounds like a fantastic advertisement for watching the game at Murrayfield: Samsung being entirely incorrect

A 👏YouTube 👏 video 👏 is 👏 not 👏 a 👏podcasts

It’s not smaller it’s just further away

I want to see the Jira ticket for this website bug which was effectively “nobody thought a film would be rated as 0 stars”

Cat stuck in trash been while another cat checks up on it

Things were attempted

I am, once again, screaming into the void asking everyone not to judge an entire brand on a single logo on a trademark application document