Merennulli
@merennulli.bsky.social
Software development project team lead and leading source of bad puns. Views expressed are solely those of the voices in my head. (Meren- is a male name prefix)
I'm realizing I get to legitimately use "antediluvian" when talking about how old I am.
January 20, 2026 at 5:38 PM
I'm realizing I get to legitimately use "antediluvian" when talking about how old I am.
Another person being worse is not an excuse for you to be horrible.
January 16, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Another person being worse is not an excuse for you to be horrible.
Stop the 2-form pseudoauthentication abuse. 2FA is to secure accounts of important things. It's not securing anything when you let someone enter any random email address or phone number they want, but it is limiting your users. The latter seems to be security theater by charity-leeching corporations
January 15, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Stop the 2-form pseudoauthentication abuse. 2FA is to secure accounts of important things. It's not securing anything when you let someone enter any random email address or phone number they want, but it is limiting your users. The latter seems to be security theater by charity-leeching corporations
Denial of service attack-level "scraping" isn't cool, Anthropic.
January 8, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Denial of service attack-level "scraping" isn't cool, Anthropic.
On what planet does turning autoplay on by default make sense for text-heavy social media? (This was Reddit, not Bluesky)
January 5, 2026 at 6:21 PM
On what planet does turning autoplay on by default make sense for text-heavy social media? (This was Reddit, not Bluesky)
What's with the bots on Bluesky today?
December 31, 2025 at 6:50 PM
What's with the bots on Bluesky today?
Well...I think we've reached the limits of me trying to help a fellow website dev out.
December 16, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Well...I think we've reached the limits of me trying to help a fellow website dev out.
Somehow every time I write a novel, it injects itself into my walking-thoughts. The sort of thoughts that flood in when I get up to walk somewhere.
Not in a helpful "this will be useful later" way. Just the "everyone's going to hate this character, why did I make her the MC?" way.
Not in a helpful "this will be useful later" way. Just the "everyone's going to hate this character, why did I make her the MC?" way.
December 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Somehow every time I write a novel, it injects itself into my walking-thoughts. The sort of thoughts that flood in when I get up to walk somewhere.
Not in a helpful "this will be useful later" way. Just the "everyone's going to hate this character, why did I make her the MC?" way.
Not in a helpful "this will be useful later" way. Just the "everyone's going to hate this character, why did I make her the MC?" way.
I'm still shocked a tech security company named itself after the creature that killed Tasha Yar. The Enterprise's security officer.
December 9, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I'm still shocked a tech security company named itself after the creature that killed Tasha Yar. The Enterprise's security officer.
Tip if you work at Amazon: Make your next black Friday promotion Dark Mode for your site.
Also, a product complaint: New monitor I just bought can't dim as dark as the dying one it replaced, making me have to face just how obnoxiously white the Amazon site is. :P
Also, a product complaint: New monitor I just bought can't dim as dark as the dying one it replaced, making me have to face just how obnoxiously white the Amazon site is. :P
November 28, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Tip if you work at Amazon: Make your next black Friday promotion Dark Mode for your site.
Also, a product complaint: New monitor I just bought can't dim as dark as the dying one it replaced, making me have to face just how obnoxiously white the Amazon site is. :P
Also, a product complaint: New monitor I just bought can't dim as dark as the dying one it replaced, making me have to face just how obnoxiously white the Amazon site is. :P
Yes, officer, this is the comic that made me cry.
![Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihwhjblp5lyiwp63ouar7ocfea7evmckytoeo7rkfuoo4gw5rnrra@jpeg)
November 27, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Yes, officer, this is the comic that made me cry.
November 25, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Biggest feature Nebula needs is the ability to completely hide certain videos. Not just "see less often" a channel from one specific slider on the homepage. Especially now that they added MyWildBackyard's phobia-spam thumbnails.
November 24, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Biggest feature Nebula needs is the ability to completely hide certain videos. Not just "see less often" a channel from one specific slider on the homepage. Especially now that they added MyWildBackyard's phobia-spam thumbnails.
I am quickly being reminded why I hated Samsung. About 40-50% of the notifications are crApps that you can't take away notifications permissions from or uninstall like WIFI calling.
November 11, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I am quickly being reminded why I hated Samsung. About 40-50% of the notifications are crApps that you can't take away notifications permissions from or uninstall like WIFI calling.
There comes a point where you just have to give up and accept that someone isn't listening and was never listening, and will never stop trying to make you into the punching bag for their own awful viewpoints.
November 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
There comes a point where you just have to give up and accept that someone isn't listening and was never listening, and will never stop trying to make you into the punching bag for their own awful viewpoints.
It was bad enough when this meme applied to corporations seeking profit through careless use of dangerous tech. Now it's not even profitable.
Oh well. Full scream ahead.
Oh well. Full scream ahead.
a man wearing glasses says you were so preoccupied
Alt: Dr. Malcolm from Jurassic Park saying "You were so preoccupied with whether or not you could that you didn't stop to think if you should."
media.tenor.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:11 PM
It was bad enough when this meme applied to corporations seeking profit through careless use of dangerous tech. Now it's not even profitable.
Oh well. Full scream ahead.
Oh well. Full scream ahead.
Why is everyone's solution to every problem "take things away from people who can't afford a seventh mansion in Miami"?
November 3, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Why is everyone's solution to every problem "take things away from people who can't afford a seventh mansion in Miami"?
We should just make this Daylight Savings thing a daily event. Every night, have our clocks give us an extra hour of sleep.
October 31, 2025 at 7:39 PM
We should just make this Daylight Savings thing a daily event. Every night, have our clocks give us an extra hour of sleep.
A technology being a bubble does not mean it's not transformative. It means most of the businesses investing in it aren't going to make their money back because they did so carelessly. AI will usher in a new world in the next 20 years, but it will lose people money in the next few years.
October 27, 2025 at 6:36 AM
A technology being a bubble does not mean it's not transformative. It means most of the businesses investing in it aren't going to make their money back because they did so carelessly. AI will usher in a new world in the next 20 years, but it will lose people money in the next few years.
"A level 995 Cleric casts Fireball with 1,000D6 damage. No longer supported in 5th Edition."
Dice Man — it's just how he rolls...
More radical fashion from the 16th-century Schembart Carnival here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/radical-fashion-from-the-schembart-carnival-1590
More radical fashion from the 16th-century Schembart Carnival here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/radical-fashion-from-the-schembart-carnival-1590
October 17, 2025 at 5:34 PM
"A level 995 Cleric casts Fireball with 1,000D6 damage. No longer supported in 5th Edition."
Being a not-for-profit organization (or a scammy corporation who conned an NFP to be their donation manager) does not make it okay to create an account for someone without their consent.
October 13, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Being a not-for-profit organization (or a scammy corporation who conned an NFP to be their donation manager) does not make it okay to create an account for someone without their consent.
First time in a Fazolis since they added digital kiosks. Had to "Skip" entering a phone number to sign up for spam 3x. Definitely doesn't make me want to come back.
October 5, 2025 at 11:21 PM
First time in a Fazolis since they added digital kiosks. Had to "Skip" entering a phone number to sign up for spam 3x. Definitely doesn't make me want to come back.