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Dominic Mitchell

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he/him. Hacker-at-large. Occasional Brightonian. Googler. @happygiraffe@mastodonapp.uk https://happygiraffe.net/ DMs unavailable due to OSA, sorry

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My problem is even more fundamental: I have no idea what to type into the chat box. There's just a blank space. It's like facing writer's block every single time

03.02.2026 14:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

"Prompt Engineering" == "UX Failure"

03.02.2026 11:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I've been using it for a work a bit… results are very mixed (for me!) but it's definitely useful in _some_ capacity.

02.02.2026 10:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Assembly language for Borg

01.02.2026 17:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Another one for my series of comics on Theoretical Physicists . This one is an EPICALLY niche joke about the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. 

An illustration of Werner Heisenberg driving a 1930s style car down a German street

Text reads:
Werner Heisenberg got lost every time he checked his speedometer

Jaunty Art 26

Another one for my series of comics on Theoretical Physicists . This one is an EPICALLY niche joke about the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. An illustration of Werner Heisenberg driving a 1930s style car down a German street Text reads: Werner Heisenberg got lost every time he checked his speedometer Jaunty Art 26

Werner Heisenberg got lost every time he checked his speedometer

01.02.2026 10:02 πŸ‘ 142 πŸ” 37 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 5
The fully rigged Loch Shiel, with three masts, fine lines, and a hold full of goods that quietly disappeared into the local economy at the first opportunity after its loss.

The fully rigged Loch Shiel, with three masts, fine lines, and a hold full of goods that quietly disappeared into the local economy at the first opportunity after its loss.

30th of January 1894, and the Adelaide-bound Loch Shiel attempted to take shelter in Milford Haven, jiggered it up, and sank with 7,000 bottles of whisky (according to the manifest) or absolutely no bottles at all, never seen 'em, if you looked official and asked the inevitably inebriated locals...

30.01.2026 19:54 πŸ‘ 200 πŸ” 30 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 1

I'm not sure but maybe @swtch.com qualifies?

28.01.2026 19:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Definitely. I've already embarrassed myself in code reviews with "did this bit come from the AI assistant?" when it hadn't

28.01.2026 08:25 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
tourguide welcomes you to Scotland in January
tourguide welcomes you to Scotland in January YouTube video by Eleanor Morton

Tourguide welcomes you to Scotland in January
youtube.com/shorts/vbtmA...

23.01.2026 10:49 πŸ‘ 299 πŸ” 71 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 9

They were attacked by Sir Lipsum!

23.01.2026 07:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...

21.01.2026 09:38 πŸ‘ 2828 πŸ” 1117 πŸ’¬ 55 πŸ“Œ 34

10/10 no noots

21.01.2026 09:56 πŸ‘ 419 πŸ” 97 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 0
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Everything, everywhere all at once: what 2026 might hold, with Dan Kaszeta Podcast Episode Β· Behind The Lines with Arthur Snell Β· 20/01/2026 Β· 47m

I had a conversation about almost everything with the great @dankaszeta.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...

21.01.2026 00:25 πŸ‘ 51 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 4

me: This code needs to be sped up. I know, let's add some concurrency!

me: now, I just need to make the tests pass

me, *two hours later*: hmmm, that wasn't as trivial as it looked

Every. Single. Time.

20.01.2026 12:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's incredible to me that so much work has been done on this, so recently.

And thanks Russ, for writing this up in a way that the mathematically challenged like myself can find readable.

20.01.2026 09:09 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Just seen it and wholly agree. An incredible piece of work, very distinctive from its predecessor

18.01.2026 20:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Dang but the Duke of Yorks is so distinctive

17.01.2026 19:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
a mini barbie dreamhouse atop a giant (relative to the house) chicken legs

a mini barbie dreamhouse atop a giant (relative to the house) chicken legs

I felt like making some art last night/today and could have made something beautiful and/or meaningful but I made this instead.

It's a Barbie Yaga Malibu Dream Hut.

No regrets. Can't defeat fascism without joy.

09.01.2026 04:20 πŸ‘ 4757 πŸ” 1498 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 139

It's crap, and missing many things present in the previous version. I've uninstalled it.

17.01.2026 09:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

My gas boiler still has a thing we call a pilot light to tell when it's ready

17.01.2026 08:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Some serious floof coming along there

17.01.2026 08:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Today I spent fifteen minutes calling customer support, successfully. I have been putting this off for at least four months πŸ€¦πŸ»β€β™€οΈ

16.01.2026 14:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's almost enough to make me use YouTube…

16.01.2026 12:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

SGTM, get the OS window management for moving between useful groups of work

15.01.2026 22:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Today has been a run commands to do stuff. The most code I've written has been … πŸ₯Β β€¦ awk!

15.01.2026 18:46 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This makes me happy even though I don't work in JavaScript much any more!

14.01.2026 22:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's not the box, it's the sunbeam πŸ˜β˜€οΈ

14.01.2026 12:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

As someone who was gifted a penguin experience at a zoo for my 30th, I have to disagree. They may or may not be cute to you, but close up you really get to see how they're all individuals with their own little traits. It's stuck with me for the last 20 years (yes I'm old)

13.01.2026 18:19 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons Looking at the first principles of icon designβ€”and how Apple failed to apply all of them in macOS Tahoe

I hadn't seen this absolute deep-dive on one specific part of the new Tahoe UI. I hadn't realised quite how bad it was.

tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-i...

13.01.2026 18:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Guarded by cheese goblins

13.01.2026 08:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0