Alex R
alex@tech.lgbt
<p>Tech lead pretending I know what I’m doing, currently using <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Svelte" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Svelte</span></a>, <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Golang" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Golang</span></a>, and a bit of <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Ruby" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Ruby</span></a> and <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Angular" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Angular</span></a>. Into bicycles and urbanism (I just want some better bike lanes, please!). My brain is approximately 63% Nintendo games by weight. Partner to the sweet <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.ie/@antainemacaoidh" class="u-url mention">@<span>antainemacaoidh</span></a></span> 🏳️🌈</p><p>Profile pic by <sp
Posts
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Post #4296499
OP: I’m enjoying using Signal for messaging! flossdingus at fosstodon dot social: You fool. You utter incompetent. I can’t believe you’d use Signal when LibreSquirt is right there.
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Post #4037903
This is how Micron ships one (1) warranty replacement NVMe SSD. €1 coin for scale.
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Post #2294099
One interesting thing about cross-border rail travel is getting an IMSI catcher notification pretty much directly on the border between each pair of Germany, Belgium, France, and the UK. But maybe there's an innocent explanation for that?
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Post #2294098
Triumphantly played my seat reservation only to walk straight into the train seating trap card: an elderly person sitting there already
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Post #2294097
BHX is giving its usual bus station but it's being used as a shelter after a natural disaster vibes
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Post #1694727
RE: https://unstable.systems/@jneen/116302498173795149 I think this gets at the idea that a decent chunk of the popularity of LLMs among many software engineers is in some way a reaction to how terrible our tools are. We largely code like we're still using punched cards, so having something that'll handle the mechanics of making holes with minimal setup is always going to be attractive.
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Post #1482723
Not Zork making @YouAreCarrying get all political
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Post #1294063
It'd be nice as an industry to have something in between 'vibe coding' and 'artisanal burnout'
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Post #757457
Subject: [Action Required] Important AWS Account Notice As previously communicated on 2025-09-30 in an email we sent at 23:45 UTC while you were on annual leave, AWS will be sunsetting all Amazon ElasticJizzWailer (EJW) nodes, starting yesterday. Please migrate your workloads to Amazon CloudFunk™, which is conceptually and morally incompatible with the legacy YAML-based EJW configuration language. Please use the CloudFunk Pricing Confabulator[1] briefly and unsuccessfully, then hit the button...