Firehose

Next time I write display: absolute, just kill me.

I always listen to Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music when coding so I can hear how computers think.

I saw this place when I was in Malaysia.

All I could think of were weblogs. It overwhelmed my thoughts and consumed my mind each time I saw it. I’m too far gone.

Cool blog, dude.

I’d like to thank my superannuation fund for sending me an email full of images which all have the alt text ‘alt_text’.

Fun fact: If you write proper semantic code and don’t abstract everything with bloated frameworks, you don’t have to spend as much time faffing around with ARIA.

Me quickly cycling through all the CSS display properties: ‘Surely one of these bails me out…’

Hey guys. I need a few billion dollars in funding to make a diamagnetism-based human levitation machine. Anyone interested in investing?

True horror is having to start a writing session with this incantation:

:setlocal spell spelllang=en_us

Revolt rebranded to Stoat today. Should be an interesting future for the platform. Lots of work to update stuff and move it all over.

https://stoat.chat/updates/long-live-stoat

If you’re wondering the implications for AutoMod: https://automod.vale.rocks/blog/revolt-is-stoat-now

Just marked a margin as !impotent. Sorry margin.

If your screed on AI doesn’t include the word ‘emergent’, what are you even doing?

I don’t think nearly enough people are aware of William Shatner’s music career.

Some highlights for your consideration:

• Elton John’s Rocket Man
• Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody
• Pulp’s Common People - I genuinely don’t mind Shatner’s rendition of this one.
• The Beetle’s Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds - Paul McCartney said of it, ‘That was good – I think he was on drugs when he did that – but it was good. I’d say still one of my favourite versions of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.’