James Lyndsay (workroomprds)
@workroomprds.com
Getting better at software testing. Singing in Bulgarian. Staying in. Going out. Listening. Talking.
If there are directions to the lost city, is it really lost?
August 23, 2025 at 3:43 PM
If there are directions to the lost city, is it really lost?
This is a generated summary of a 90-minute conversation about ephemeral testing environments.
Sharing because it made me laugh, I needed a laugh, and maybe you do too.
Sharing because it made me laugh, I needed a laugh, and maybe you do too.
August 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM
This is a generated summary of a 90-minute conversation about ephemeral testing environments.
Sharing because it made me laugh, I needed a laugh, and maybe you do too.
Sharing because it made me laugh, I needed a laugh, and maybe you do too.
It's unlike me to post a Swifty.
And I imagine (from the source: PA via www.bbc.com/news/article... ) that it's *not* generated.
But the left hand, and the eyes?
I wonder if it makes you too feel the need to recalibrate the characteristics of a 'real' image.
Again.
And I imagine (from the source: PA via www.bbc.com/news/article... ) that it's *not* generated.
But the left hand, and the eyes?
I wonder if it makes you too feel the need to recalibrate the characteristics of a 'real' image.
Again.
August 13, 2025 at 11:55 AM
It's unlike me to post a Swifty.
And I imagine (from the source: PA via www.bbc.com/news/article... ) that it's *not* generated.
But the left hand, and the eyes?
I wonder if it makes you too feel the need to recalibrate the characteristics of a 'real' image.
Again.
And I imagine (from the source: PA via www.bbc.com/news/article... ) that it's *not* generated.
But the left hand, and the eyes?
I wonder if it makes you too feel the need to recalibrate the characteristics of a 'real' image.
Again.
Today's most pointless graph.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
July 29, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Today's most pointless graph.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This is where I post from...
July 19, 2025 at 10:16 AM
This is where I post from...
No menu bar.
Nothing to quit.
But apps are working.
I may be about to be aware of how bad a day I’ve been having.
Nothing to quit.
But apps are working.
I may be about to be aware of how bad a day I’ve been having.
June 9, 2025 at 1:33 PM
No menu bar.
Nothing to quit.
But apps are working.
I may be about to be aware of how bad a day I’ve been having.
Nothing to quit.
But apps are working.
I may be about to be aware of how bad a day I’ve been having.
Who thinks this UI works?
June 1, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Who thinks this UI works?
The Eva Quartet are glorious. They’re in London on Saturday 7 June. Details in video (and I’ll post in a comment shortly)
June 1, 2025 at 9:23 AM
The Eva Quartet are glorious. They’re in London on Saturday 7 June. Details in video (and I’ll post in a comment shortly)
Found this in my own instructions to an LLM.
Not a deliberate mistake.
Play with three versions of the software that resulted
(reader, it ignored me)
exercises.workroomprds.com/comparing_ge...
Not a deliberate mistake.
Play with three versions of the software that resulted
(reader, it ignored me)
exercises.workroomprds.com/comparing_ge...
April 9, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Found this in my own instructions to an LLM.
Not a deliberate mistake.
Play with three versions of the software that resulted
(reader, it ignored me)
exercises.workroomprds.com/comparing_ge...
Not a deliberate mistake.
Play with three versions of the software that resulted
(reader, it ignored me)
exercises.workroomprds.com/comparing_ge...
Tickle your fancy…
March 26, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Tickle your fancy…
Do you see the central spot? It's a galaxy, half a billion light years away.
Do you see the ring? That's another galaxy, 4Bly away.
It would be a spot, lost behind the first, but the /gravity/ of the less-distant galaxy is acting as a lens.
www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
www.aanda.org/articles/aa/...
Do you see the ring? That's another galaxy, 4Bly away.
It would be a spot, lost behind the first, but the /gravity/ of the less-distant galaxy is acting as a lens.
www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
www.aanda.org/articles/aa/...
February 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Do you see the central spot? It's a galaxy, half a billion light years away.
Do you see the ring? That's another galaxy, 4Bly away.
It would be a spot, lost behind the first, but the /gravity/ of the less-distant galaxy is acting as a lens.
www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
www.aanda.org/articles/aa/...
Do you see the ring? That's another galaxy, 4Bly away.
It would be a spot, lost behind the first, but the /gravity/ of the less-distant galaxy is acting as a lens.
www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
www.aanda.org/articles/aa/...
I’m in Test Valley.
It’s near Andover, if you’re wondering.
It’s near Andover, if you’re wondering.
December 19, 2024 at 12:45 PM
I’m in Test Valley.
It’s near Andover, if you’re wondering.
It’s near Andover, if you’re wondering.
Caused some consternation at Waterloo this morning.
When staff took it down, it revealed a more-permanent poster asking “how did we do?”.
When staff took it down, it revealed a more-permanent poster asking “how did we do?”.
February 10, 2024 at 6:59 PM
Caused some consternation at Waterloo this morning.
When staff took it down, it revealed a more-permanent poster asking “how did we do?”.
When staff took it down, it revealed a more-permanent poster asking “how did we do?”.