Peter Hilton
@hilton.org.uk
Product manager in 🇳🇱 Rotterdam, available for a new role from November 2025 • speaker, writer, and musician • blogs software product management/design/development at https://hilton.org.uk/blog/
So the soft pick is safer, but takes a good ten minutes of ‘omg where are these bits of fluff *still* coming from?’
November 8, 2025 at 3:22 PM
So the soft pick is safer, but takes a good ten minutes of ‘omg where are these bits of fluff *still* coming from?’
As far as I know, a wooden toothpick is too hard, and can damage the connectors.
November 8, 2025 at 2:16 PM
As far as I know, a wooden toothpick is too hard, and can damage the connectors.
Yes, and now I’m wondering which is the ‘ban all dogs’ post on my weekly product/tech blog 😬
Maybe it’s today’s programming jokes article: https://hilton.org.uk/blog/programming-joke-cycles
Maybe it’s today’s programming jokes article: https://hilton.org.uk/blog/programming-joke-cycles
Programming joke cycles
joke variation templates’ different purposes
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November 4, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Yes, and now I’m wondering which is the ‘ban all dogs’ post on my weekly product/tech blog 😬
Maybe it’s today’s programming jokes article: https://hilton.org.uk/blog/programming-joke-cycles
Maybe it’s today’s programming jokes article: https://hilton.org.uk/blog/programming-joke-cycles
Is that an implicit conversion? 🤔
October 30, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Is that an implicit conversion? 🤔
I’m asking because we’ll tell the classic binary joke onstage in next week's ‘Essential programming jokes’ J-Fall presentation:
‘There are 10 kinds of programmers: those who understand binary, and those who don’t.’
… and this is my reminder to include one (or two!) of the off-by-one error jokes 😬
‘There are 10 kinds of programmers: those who understand binary, and those who don’t.’
… and this is my reminder to include one (or two!) of the off-by-one error jokes 😬
October 30, 2025 at 12:43 PM
I’m asking because we’ll tell the classic binary joke onstage in next week's ‘Essential programming jokes’ J-Fall presentation:
‘There are 10 kinds of programmers: those who understand binary, and those who don’t.’
… and this is my reminder to include one (or two!) of the off-by-one error jokes 😬
‘There are 10 kinds of programmers: those who understand binary, and those who don’t.’
… and this is my reminder to include one (or two!) of the off-by-one error jokes 😬
Also, I hadn't had coffee yet this morning, and '10' is of course 'two' (or 'ten'), not 'three' 🤦🏻♂️
October 30, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Also, I hadn't had coffee yet this morning, and '10' is of course 'two' (or 'ten'), not 'three' 🤦🏻♂️
The Thursday Murder Club *solves* murder cases, and other crimes against product.
See also: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thu...
See also: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thu...
The Thursday Murder Club - Wikipedia
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October 30, 2025 at 12:26 PM
The Thursday Murder Club *solves* murder cases, and other crimes against product.
See also: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thu...
See also: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thu...
Retired: Process Excellence Working Group
Tired: Book Club (a new product management framework every month!)
Wired: Thursday Murder Club
Tired: Book Club (a new product management framework every month!)
Wired: Thursday Murder Club
October 30, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Retired: Process Excellence Working Group
Tired: Book Club (a new product management framework every month!)
Wired: Thursday Murder Club
Tired: Book Club (a new product management framework every month!)
Wired: Thursday Murder Club
@felienne.bsky.social Did this ever come up, in conversations about how to pronounce code?
October 30, 2025 at 11:10 AM
@felienne.bsky.social Did this ever come up, in conversations about how to pronounce code?
River bridge lanes in the Netherlands, from left-to-right: bus lane, road, two-way cycle path (red tarmac)
October 25, 2025 at 2:17 PM
River bridge lanes in the Netherlands, from left-to-right: bus lane, road, two-way cycle path (red tarmac)
That’s probably why they’re not *painted* red in the Netherlands. It’s red tarmac.
October 25, 2025 at 2:12 PM
That’s probably why they’re not *painted* red in the Netherlands. It’s red tarmac.