😩 Thank you for this PSA. Hopefully I can look at it optimistically rather than with anguish.

"Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book."

Terry Pratchett, Soul Music

#GNUTerryPratchett #Discworld

hey tech friends, i wrote a thing. pls check it out
carterembry.com/2025/adoptin...

#typescript #javascript #scale #migration

Happy 13th Birthday to mi primer hijo. Sir Magnus McFluffington is 13 years old today. He's been our adventure buddy since he joined the family, and he's always ready to see what's new, enjoy a concert, hike through the woods, or watch fireworks on the porch. 1/?

> He said, as so often happens on these occasions, "Aargh."

-Terry Pratchett, "Eric"

dear advertisers - stop with the doorbells in TV ads. DING DONG! i know it seems clever but it just makes me hate your product.

Functional tests (like Selenium or Cypress) are quality tools, not engineering tools. Unit tests and integration tests are engineering tools. Maintaining functional tests are a full time job and will fail without constant attention.

One of our friends at the dog park mentioned seeing a video of Joe Biden freezing up/going blank like McConnell. It took some digging but I found this. This propaganda is extremely harmful and can reach everywhere, even here in Croatia.
apnews.com/article/fact...

At this point I could FizzBuzz in my sleep.

i have a confession. i never understood twitter. i was excited about mastodon but it turns out i don't get it either. i tried but just didn't find any interest. will this be different? probably not. maybe. probably not.