We would give demos of this product, just turn it on to give prospective clients a data-backed view of how their organization worked, and about half the time it was like turning the lights on the morning after a party. Like there's someone's dog in the punch bowl, three dudes have passed out in the bathroom and does anyone know who they are, why is the couch on the balcony how did that even get there kind of party.

"We thought we were all just having a good time... what the hell happened here?"

i was getting pissed off with the bad performance of our cole&mason pepper grinder and thinking of buying a replacement (which would be £50+ for a decent one, judging by the reviews)

but then i thought i have an unloved £30 hario coffee grinder in the cupboard, which i am too lazy to use

so i put some peppercorns in it and YOWZA it has serious throughput

like, the cole&mason thing took many twists just to put a gentle sprinkling on a pizza (never mind the tedium of getting enough for a carbonara) and required much shaking because it could not reliably feed peppercorns into the burrs, and loosening the burrs made it produce chunks instead of grinding properly

whereas the hario grinder can produce enough for a pizza with just a quarter turn of the crank

i no longer have envy for a £180 pepper cannon

sometimes people ask me how LLMs are affecting wizard zines’ business and I literally have no idea.

I’d say the main thing affecting Wizard Zines right now is that I got really interested in writing open source documentation that is available for free which is part of why there haven’t been any new zines recently

(not looking for advice just sharing what’s up!)

"The steering wheel is the one component nobody has bothered to instrument."

One of the things I miss the most about working with the Flow team - apart from being @grimalkina -adjacent for almost a whole year, that part was amazing - was the part where the Flow product I was working on, ostensibly an engineering process metrics tool, was secretly a way that you could gauge, backed with data, how effective your managers and leaders are.

And: let me tell you.

https://www.productionalchemist.com/p/inever-seen-a-game-fail-because-artists-too-slow

it's not like Vampire Survivors in that I'm actually enjoying it and having thoughts occasionally but yeah this is the sorta game that makes you wonder if you can set parental controls on yourself

Terminal2Shell (CVE ID pending · also tracked as "TermGeddon")

https://terminal2shell.com/

A critical flaw present in every operating system since 1971 allows anyone who opens a terminal to obtain a fully interactive shell. Instantly. With no authentication beyond the one they already did.

OK yeah this game needs to be put in a cage

from today's stream:

https://vid.shadowkat.net/w/v86MYTc6eQNpjozYGbrTEF

wherein we waded into the depths of "edit mode" of the Tiny BASIC text editor.

currently the editor stands at 2.2KB in memory.

#livecoding #retrocomputing #permacomputing #solarpunk #basic #arduino

The struggle is real

https://pizzacakecomic.com/post/832932952185995264

It has yet to be determined which is scarier - that everything you do is a balloon, or if only a specific subset of the things are in fact balloon

Today a middle aged vegan punk rocker told me that a text written by Emily M Bender is AI generated slop, apparently because the text criticized data centers.

If you want to discuss interactive fiction and game urbanism with me, why not join the live presentation of my 'Create An Interactive City In Text using ink' course on November 17?

Reserve your seat here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1990873007759?aff=oddtdtcreator

If you miss a dose of Gallifrey™️ 5mg, take it yesterday as soon as possible.

https://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/fda/fdaDrugXsl.cfm?setid=26130af6-221b-2349-81b6-0c0132d6e524&type=display

I'm actually very happy with the cute mint green Rosyposy A6 notebook cover and pen case I scrounged off Ali Express, they're pretty good quality for something that's explicitly cutesy and aimed at teenage girls. But I'm considering asking for a Lochby or Galen Leather notebook zipper case for Christmas, something that's ultra-sturdy and can bang around in a bag for a decade, but alas they only come in Manly Colors.

I say this having worn a cute pink Hobonichi cover, which are quite good quality, to absolute tatters before.

my gender is: why don't they make ultra-rugged tactical EDC gear in cute girly colors :neodog_glasses_sob:

My company said they wanted me to be a Rockstar so I showed up at 2pm still drunk, trashed the break room, and then stormed out after demanding a raise.

Anti-Work posters seen around Melbourne

Hab mich grad random daran erinnert, dass ich als Kind gerne meinen Kopf an den Röhrenfernseher im Wohnzimmer gehalten habe und es dann so angenehm an der Stirn gebrizzelt ha. Vielleicht erklärt das einiges in meinem Erwachsenenalter.

c3ambiguitätstoleranz

here is the SVG for interested people: http://ftp.ol-tele.com/~eloy/stickers/Orphan_Source_Initiative.svg