Jon Reeve

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

An excel spreadsheet with each cell filled with the word Gloria

A real Good Samaritan One act of kindness that befell Leeds writer Bernard Hare in 1982 changed him profoundly. Here he tells his story.

i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry

merry christmas xx

Don't really need the latter half of this... "just when you thought airlines couldn't get any worse, Easyjet" 😁

Invalidate caches and restart... Certainly sounds like a developer 🤣

You're drink! 😉

CUT MY LIST IN TWO PIECES

THAT’S HOW YOU START QUICKSORT

The process can get killed whenever, so don't count on coming back intact and save state that matters for good ux

I'm currently looking for a new fully remote, contract role. I have 15 years of Android experience, and plenty more Kotlin, Java , C / C++, and even more obscure stuff

Charging watch on the layover between flights 🤦‍♂️
Preordering the new #pebble while it charges 🥳

Save The Prince Charles Cinema The future of the iconic Prince Charles Cinema in London’s West End is under serious threat! We are beyond disappointed that our landlords, Zedwell LSQ Ltd and their ultimate parent company Criterion...

Londoners, the legendary Prince Charles Cinema is in peril:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa... #london #savethepcc

Here’s a shocking finding, gen Z: democracy isn’t perfect | David Mitchell According to a new poll, half of our 13- to 27-year-olds can’t see the point of all those time-wasting elections and parliaments. Why do they not know that authoritarianism is worse? The phrase “shocking findings” is hugely overused in the media, which…

Here’s a shocking finding, gen Z: democracy isn’t perfect | David Mitchell

I'm currently looking for a new fit remote, Android development contract role.

I have over 15 years of Android development experience, and bring lots of positive energy to the team.

Although I'm based in the UK, I'm set up to work for companies based anywhere.

I have immediate availability.

Alan Rickman as Hans Grüber, his first scene in the movie Die Hard as he disembarks the truck into the building.

Got a feeling this just might be the year Hans pulls it off 🤞

Diagram with large number: 2.7.123 First “2” is commented: Proud version. Bump when you are proud of the release Second “7” is commented: Default version. Just normal/okay releases Third “123” is commented: Shame version. Bump when fixing things too embarrassing to admit

I propose we replace semantic versioning with pride versioning

Oh and if you want power monitoring (interesting but also of use for automation based on power-draw, ie. is thing on stand-by or really on) then LocalBytes do good pre-flashed plugs (Tasmota / ESPHome)

Apart from the usuals, some hue motion sensors (expensive but they really are the best) and some gledopto ZigBee LED strip controllers take care of some middle-of-night / baby bedtime hallway lighting. Also all the lights come on at different colours + brightness based on time of day.

Yup, this confused the heck outta me last time, had me going back + forth for a while wondering what was going on

Deliver-oof

💯; the memories thing does nothing for me. Yet I now first have to go to "collections" to find my albums... 🤷‍♂️ It's like a shifty salesperson hiding what you want and trying to foist upon you what they want to sell

Funny comic strip of a devil and a person in hell. “welcome to hell” “this isn't so bad” “I’m going to teach you the rules of this board ga-“ “NOOOOO!” Illustration drawn in simplistic cartoon line art style. By Amii Illustrates.

Friends don't let friends struggle to eat cake alone ♥️😁

A Maina pistachio pandoro, Bauli chocolate pandoro ("panmoro"), and a Bauli limoncello panettone.

Safe to say that the Italian deli xmas display worked on us, very well. Now we just gotta figure out who gets what, ie. who's most likely to open it right away and share 😅

A recipe for beef fizz

If you’re stumped on what to bring to the office Xmas party you can thank me later

Big ol' Benjamin Button Bag o' Beans 😁

Using up the last coffee beans in the bag...
"Ah yes, I think I've finally dialed this one in. That is actually delicious."

Had to go lookup RLM to watch this review immediately :)
youtu.be/eXVoHtbma0c?...
Such a perfect movie 💯

A dodgy looking knock-off shirt featuring the "Powerpopp Ladis" rather than "Powerpuff Girls"

Who amongst us didn't enjoy watching the Powerpopp Ladis.

Blusher, Bibbles and Butternut pictured here of course.

Did you know that you can troubleshoot FCM directly on any Android phone?

From the Google Dialer, dial *#*#426#*#* to open the FCM Diagnostics page.

It has a page with connection status and a page with recent events.

🤯

Docs: firebase.google.com/...