Have said this before in other forms, but will reiterate it here: if you're doing long-form writing of any sort, reading the words aloud into a microphone is a completely unparalleled cheat code. It's free, easy, and so effective it feels like it shouldn't be allowed. I do it in a few stages...
Two drinks with ice, on a countertop
It's another Friday! One alcoholic and one non-alcoholic drink for our Friday-at-home #cocktails this week. That's a Botivo, and a rye boulevardier. Bitterness all round - in a good way. Cheers!
Interesting new security issue for developers
Love this!
Love this!
There just isn't evidence that software engineering jobs are being lost because of AI.
When you look at individual companies which have cut jobs, I think this question explains a lot: 'Which sounds better to investors: “Oops, we over-hired!” or “We’re cutting edge with this AI stuff!”'
A fox with his nose in a daffodil and eyes closed bilssfully.
It's March 1st! Dydd gwyl Dewi Sant hapus -- Happy St David's Day to everyone, enjoy this fox enjoying a daffodil.
It is not quite true that Stratford International has never seen an international train: it sees them rather a lot. What is true, however, is that they don’t stop. Not once; not ever. What, you might wonder, the hell?
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Two negronis on a countertop
Happy Friday! Time once again to stay at home, right? Of course. This week, our Friday-at-home #cocktails are tequila negronis. Cheers!
I had a few thoughts about Small Prophets, different styles of comedy and why, perhaps, new writers are pushed towards quickfire gag-a-thons instead of writing stuff that's more novel and interesting.
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There are now almost twice as many public electric car charging points in the UK as there are petrol/diesel fuel pumps, a government analysis has found.
Obviously it's not a perfect like-for-like comparison given recharging/fuelling times, but symbolically important.
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Resharing my free-to-use picture resource list👇
I'm constantly trying (/failing) to get this point across.
If you're a trained expert in a field, then it may be worthwhile to question the scientific consensus of your peers.
If you're not, the scientific consensus is absolutely the best you can do and it's arbitrary foolishness to disregard it.
Result! I'm glad to be a subscriber. Keep up the good work!
so you've probably heard about the London measles outbreak. A lot of people are talking about anti-vax misinformation, but that's not actually the problem here. The problem is austerity. 🧵
Some day we'll all regret this & we'll hold hearings & rend garments & pledge "never again" & we'll be just as full of shit as we were last time.
London’s “worst mass eviction in recent history” is underway; hundreds of households across London told to get out of their homes this week by the same landlord, ahead of the renters rights act. The landlord? Billionaire Asif Aziz’s Criterion Capital. www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...
A closing ceremony is: lemon juice, dry vermouth, cointreau, and gin, in a 1:1:1:3 ratio. Very nice - tart and refreshing!
Two yellow cocktails on a table
Happy Friday! In honor of the winter Olympics, this week's Friday-at-home #cocktails are Closing Ceremonies. Cheers!
The government's immigration plans: a dog’s dinner of half-conceived policy, Reform rhetoric, mean-spirited sentiment, and profound intellectual muddle iandunt.substack.com/p/can-we-ext...
Highlander II. It went out of its way to undermine everything that was good about the first film.
"Desecration" feels like too strong a word to use in relation to Highlander, which admittedly wasn't great. But dammit, it was cool. And Highlander II just tore up its story for no good reason.
Screenshot of an Excel error message that reads: "Document not saved. Please save as if problem persists."
It took me a while to realise that this Excel error message wasn't actually complete gibberish
Documentation's useful until you need it.
Perhaps what we need isn't better architecture documentation, but better architecture *visualisation*, and a highly-collaborative and continuous design process?
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Lauren has done some amazing analysis here. Some conclusions I would have guessed, some I very much would not have.
Violets are blue
Roses are red
Linguistic in-jokes
Abound in this thread
Blackthorns are made with gin, sloe gin, dry vermouth, and sweet vermouth, in a 6:6:1:1 ratio, with dashes of both orange and angostura bitters. Very tasty!
Two cocktails on a counter, in front of liquor bottles
We're having Saturday-at-home #cocktails this week instead of Friday-at-home cocktails. Still nice, though! These are blackthorns. Cheers!
I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.
I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
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Living in Minnesota right now feels like being in the emergency room. Literally everyone is suffering in different ways, even if it's "just" a badly twisted ankle rather than a kidney stone or a full-on heart attack. The staff are working as hard as they can but energy and resources are dwindling.
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
