Chris Hanney
@chrishanney.bsky.social
Incredibly old in Internet Years. He/him.
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The doc I'm producing recently popped up on Letterboxd and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't extremely stoked by this fact.
Add it to your watchlists, nerds: letterboxd.com/film/legends...
Add it to your watchlists, nerds: letterboxd.com/film/legends...
Legends of Adventure: The Story of Sierra On-Line
From the team behind the Prime Video docuseries Gamebreakers, Legends of Adventure is the new feature documentary about video game pioneers Ken and Roberta Williams and the rise of Sierra On-Line.
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December 2, 2025 at 4:58 PM
The doc I'm producing recently popped up on Letterboxd and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't extremely stoked by this fact.
Add it to your watchlists, nerds: letterboxd.com/film/legends...
Add it to your watchlists, nerds: letterboxd.com/film/legends...
Most pies are good. The pie takes on BlueSky are mostly bad. File this one (yet again) under my Old Man Stance that everyone should have fewer opinions.
November 26, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Most pies are good. The pie takes on BlueSky are mostly bad. File this one (yet again) under my Old Man Stance that everyone should have fewer opinions.
All fathers should love their sons the way Buck Martinez loves Trey Yesavage.
October 25, 2025 at 6:38 PM
All fathers should love their sons the way Buck Martinez loves Trey Yesavage.
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2005: Your website looks like it was designed by a 3-year-old and barely works, this can't be a trustworthy source of information
2025: Your website looks like it was designed by a 3-year-old and barely works, this is the last bastion of truth on the Internet
2025: Your website looks like it was designed by a 3-year-old and barely works, this is the last bastion of truth on the Internet
September 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
2005: Your website looks like it was designed by a 3-year-old and barely works, this can't be a trustworthy source of information
2025: Your website looks like it was designed by a 3-year-old and barely works, this is the last bastion of truth on the Internet
2025: Your website looks like it was designed by a 3-year-old and barely works, this is the last bastion of truth on the Internet
Exercising in my 20s: *Do something wrong* Whoops. *Shake it off*
Exercising in my 40s: *Do something wrong* Oh God!! *dies*
Exercising in my 40s: *Do something wrong* Oh God!! *dies*
September 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Exercising in my 20s: *Do something wrong* Whoops. *Shake it off*
Exercising in my 40s: *Do something wrong* Oh God!! *dies*
Exercising in my 40s: *Do something wrong* Oh God!! *dies*
Coming around to Java having a default toString method for objects. Thought it was heavy handed at first but the number of times I'm like "how can I get a String representation of this?" is changing my mind.
September 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Coming around to Java having a default toString method for objects. Thought it was heavy handed at first but the number of times I'm like "how can I get a String representation of this?" is changing my mind.
Teaching myself React and like, I'm a JavaScript agnostic, it's fine, but really starting to see why the JS haters lose their minds with these frameworks. "Let's redo the entire architecture of a multi-page website, but all on one page, the user none the wiser, entirely with JavaScript! Muaha ha!"
August 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Teaching myself React and like, I'm a JavaScript agnostic, it's fine, but really starting to see why the JS haters lose their minds with these frameworks. "Let's redo the entire architecture of a multi-page website, but all on one page, the user none the wiser, entirely with JavaScript! Muaha ha!"
I hope whoever popularized thin scrollbars has had a lot of minor misfortunes in life. Like I wouldn't wish real calamity on anybody, but this person does need to suffer periodically for what they've done.
August 11, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I hope whoever popularized thin scrollbars has had a lot of minor misfortunes in life. Like I wouldn't wish real calamity on anybody, but this person does need to suffer periodically for what they've done.
I know the correct response is to be slightly exasperated every time you need to use '===' with JavaScript (which is basically all the time), but honestly I crack a little smile. It never stops being a little bit funny to me and you have to find your joy where you can.
August 7, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I know the correct response is to be slightly exasperated every time you need to use '===' with JavaScript (which is basically all the time), but honestly I crack a little smile. It never stops being a little bit funny to me and you have to find your joy where you can.
The internet will soon be turtles all the way down
How is the SEO industry responding to the AI-driven collapse in Google traffic? By pivoting to "GEO," and thinking up ways to influence, trick, or introduce bias into chatbots — and, of course, by using AI themselves nymag.com/intelligence...
August 6, 2025 at 6:11 PM
The internet will soon be turtles all the way down
2036 is doomsday for baseball writers - the year where you can no longer pump out a Bobby Bonilla contract article when there's nothing else going on.
July 1, 2025 at 4:35 PM
2036 is doomsday for baseball writers - the year where you can no longer pump out a Bobby Bonilla contract article when there's nothing else going on.
Audaciously using a semi-colon in my cover letter, because how else will I prove to them that I did an English degree before doing CS?
June 12, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Audaciously using a semi-colon in my cover letter, because how else will I prove to them that I did an English degree before doing CS?
One thing that's not constantly getting worse? HTML and CSS. Every time I go back to use them things are a little better than before. Of course, it helps when your starting place was people contorting tables with endless <tr><td>'s and manually inserting images of rounded edges for their borders...
May 28, 2025 at 6:57 PM
One thing that's not constantly getting worse? HTML and CSS. Every time I go back to use them things are a little better than before. Of course, it helps when your starting place was people contorting tables with endless <tr><td>'s and manually inserting images of rounded edges for their borders...
Reading the docs, hard! Yuck! --> What if we had resources that nicely summarized the docs --> Brief happy period --> Aggregators and AI churn out bad summaries of the summaries --> Can't find anything useful --> Back to reading the docs
May 14, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Reading the docs, hard! Yuck! --> What if we had resources that nicely summarized the docs --> Brief happy period --> Aggregators and AI churn out bad summaries of the summaries --> Can't find anything useful --> Back to reading the docs
This is the world's least important complaint but I really hate when word processors have multiple ways to insert vertical space after a line and I spend more time than I'd like to admit figuring out which one it is so I can remove it.
May 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM
This is the world's least important complaint but I really hate when word processors have multiple ways to insert vertical space after a line and I spend more time than I'd like to admit figuring out which one it is so I can remove it.
Starting my Java journey and I'm trying out Eclipse but it feels very... clunky. Like something Microsoft might have designed in the 2000s.
April 9, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Starting my Java journey and I'm trying out Eclipse but it feels very... clunky. Like something Microsoft might have designed in the 2000s.
I've always preferred text over video for learning things but finding decent informative articles on the web has become such a chore that I'm gradually throwing in the towel and using video resources more and more.
April 8, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I've always preferred text over video for learning things but finding decent informative articles on the web has become such a chore that I'm gradually throwing in the towel and using video resources more and more.
Wonder if at some point the world, sufficiently antagonized by the US, will realize all those international property law treaties that benefit America so much might be due for a revisit.
March 13, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Wonder if at some point the world, sufficiently antagonized by the US, will realize all those international property law treaties that benefit America so much might be due for a revisit.
Bummer that capitalist democracy has succeeded in spite of a bunch of middling morons for years, but those same morons believe every success is because of them, and now they're all in charge.
March 7, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Bummer that capitalist democracy has succeeded in spite of a bunch of middling morons for years, but those same morons believe every success is because of them, and now they're all in charge.
So many applications will pop up with some annoyance and a "Not Now" option when what I desire so fervently is "Not Ever."
February 26, 2025 at 1:27 AM
So many applications will pop up with some annoyance and a "Not Now" option when what I desire so fervently is "Not Ever."
The thing that sucks about Ryder is that whenever there's a problem he doesn't figure out what he needs ahead of time, calls the entire Paw Patrol in, and then it turns out he only requires like 2 of them to get the job done. He's like every crappy project manager I ever had to work with.
February 16, 2025 at 4:49 PM
The thing that sucks about Ryder is that whenever there's a problem he doesn't figure out what he needs ahead of time, calls the entire Paw Patrol in, and then it turns out he only requires like 2 of them to get the job done. He's like every crappy project manager I ever had to work with.
When I install your app, does it set itself to automatically start up when my OS boots? If so, I kind of hate you.
Does your app minimize to the system tray when I hit the X to close it? It does? Okay now I legit hate you.
Does your app minimize to the system tray when I hit the X to close it? It does? Okay now I legit hate you.
February 2, 2025 at 4:57 PM
When I install your app, does it set itself to automatically start up when my OS boots? If so, I kind of hate you.
Does your app minimize to the system tray when I hit the X to close it? It does? Okay now I legit hate you.
Does your app minimize to the system tray when I hit the X to close it? It does? Okay now I legit hate you.
Spotify's web app is so terrible and unreliable but I don't care you guys can't make me download your native app not in a million years. I'll suffer and seethe instead.
January 24, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Spotify's web app is so terrible and unreliable but I don't care you guys can't make me download your native app not in a million years. I'll suffer and seethe instead.
For reasons I'm sure are entirely unrelated to the current political climate, I've really been getting back into Metallica's ...And Justice for All
January 22, 2025 at 3:10 PM
For reasons I'm sure are entirely unrelated to the current political climate, I've really been getting back into Metallica's ...And Justice for All
I don't know if it's a boomer or millennial or what complaint, but widespread legalization of gambling is a colossal mistake and I think we'll be stunned when the bill really comes due. Funny part is intellectually it seems insane for me to have the State say you can't make a bet. But it should.
January 19, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I don't know if it's a boomer or millennial or what complaint, but widespread legalization of gambling is a colossal mistake and I think we'll be stunned when the bill really comes due. Funny part is intellectually it seems insane for me to have the State say you can't make a bet. But it should.