Oh cool thanks Slack I cannot possibly see this ever being used for anything bad

I always get a kick out of explaining to people how #golang’s magical, mildly terrifying timestamp formatting works.

Thinking of writing a GitHub bot to replace me at work that just comments “could you please split this up” on every PR.

A glorious, if slightly muggy, day walking on the High Weald.

“The masses are not balking at paying for Twitter Blue because they’re trying to shelter themselves within a crumbling elitist internet order, but because they think Musk is offering an unworthy product and is also a dickhead.”

https://slate.com/technology/2023/04/elon-musk-twitter-blue-checkmarks-verification-lebron-james.html

• The period of time between the construction of the Great Pyramid and the reign of Cleopatra is greater than the time between Cleopatra and now.
• The gap between Stegosaurus and Tyrannosaurus Rex is greater than T. Rex to us.
• If the earth’s existence represents a twenty-four hour day, humans have existed for ~3 seconds.

I keep having to rotate time to make it fit in my brain

Someone created this evil-joel emoji on our work Slack and honestly it is quite useful for when I need to be vaguely menacing

I’ll be wandering around WASD this week if any pals want to hang out! I’ll be at the Thursday night thing and at the expo on Friday and prob Saturday. Please be aware I have been doing gamedev again so will probably trauma-dump.

I was on Twitter in 2019, I can promise you I have thought about feral hogs.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/03/feral-hogs-are-the-invasive-menace-youve-never-thought-about/

Alright, I caved. I have a Steam Deck. I also have £45 of store credit to get nice games for it; recommendations please!