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• Post #4394094

  Spotted on the #sailing subreddit: someone named their windvane (mechanical autopilot) "Ziggy". Such a great name for it.

• Post #4382370

  Uh, does YouTube not have a Block feature? That's pretty pathetic, if so. Ah. You can only block them based on interactions - live chat entries & comment mentions. PATHETIC.

• Post #4304873

  "Valtraxian Dimensional Flu"

• Post #4299047

  Naming an NPC: Neil Patrick Chairris

• Post #4292477

  "biblically accurate waterfall model"

• Post #4268288

  According to a spam I just got, I am a "mastodon influencer". Do you hear that? That is the sound of inevitability. BOW TO MY INFLUENCE, PEONS!

• Post #4215693

  RE: https://mstdn.social/@MaryAustinBooks/117004176617392964 Beyond the very funny trolling, this is just a plain good idea. Clean those couches, people!

• Post #4175761

  I'd post more, rather than replying so much, if i felt i had anything useful to say. But I'm tired. Literally. Should be working, but the past 1-2 hours of writing project specs wiped me out. Currently lying down.

• Post #4133022

  @nelson@tech.lgbt @timbray@cosocial.ca it's a series. 10 episodes.

• Post #4130041

  Is there a `docker obliterate` command, that completely removes every possible stray image/container/network that could be interfering with things? I'd like a total clean slate ... oy.

• Post #4054684

  "Maybe if everyone in Ceres had this view, they'd respect it more?" ... governor's rep hands him a potted cactus ... "There. Now you can make your own view."

• Post #4053990

  Current status: supremely annoyed at WordPress's half-baked concept of "child themes"; or else maybe the "twentytwentytwo" theme is particularly unhappy to be living in 2026.

• Post #4039703

  CSS + camping + low battery .. fun, although not the greatest combination.

• Post #4025469

  OH: "Oh, you can be like Edward Bottlehands"

• Post #4021724

  RE: https://wizzzard.online/@tholindeth/116963536731528146 i say, i say, i have a keen desire to partake of your vital essences - divert your a-flowin' energies - that is to say, i want to drink your blood.

• Post #3967853

  I was wondering where "Fuck Your Fascist Pancakes" came from, and I am proud to learn that it is Canadian in origin.

• Post #3948402

  @logan Hmm, no. It might have been River (no, not River Cartwright). But I feel it was more of a sean-bean-crossed-with-patrick-dempsey type.

• Post #3944912

  Oh no, we've overloaded the participle accelerator!

• Post #3877896

  It's spelled "interuterine device", right? (This dumb joke brought to you by my attempt to design a logo this evening, at the same time two of my domains quietly expired - breaking the DNS. I had internet on my mind, and the logo project happened to have the letter "t" in it, and some of the font choices were ... extremely familiar to logo criticisms of the recent past.)

• Post #3873116

  @mkbhd I have my window open to a downpour and a thunderstorm - it's very relaxing.

• Post #3782035

  "Retired Canadian tech millionaire Avi Bryant is transforming the site of Ucluelet’s Second World War seaplane base into a hub for building electric boats." Neato! https://cheknews.ca/new-marine-electrification-hub-in-the-works-on-vancouver-island-1335504/

• Post #3779585

  "Petrov. I will try to forget your comments when I prepare my report."

• Post #3779095

  Debating whether or not it is too late to start a Hunt for Red October rewatch. Rest In Peace, Sam Neill.

• Post #3778815

  "I would like to have seen Montana."

• Post #3675960

  bleary-eyes and scruffy-tailed

• Post #3660912

  Oh lovely. So here's a preview of what using the internet is going to look like in 5-10 years.

• Post #3630716

  Hmm, Tideways is having some issues today. Hopefully it isn't too difficult for them to get untangled. (This is a platform for examining the performance of php applications, not related to sailing/boating, btw)

• Post #3627851

  Found & fixed an elusive bug in Sculpin this weekend (https://sculpin.io - a classic PHP-based static site generator). The bug had to do with the order in which files were read off of the filesystem - it was causing some pages to be missing data on a certain website. This took over a dozen hours to investigate and ponder and breakpoint-debug. But, despite that, it was a good exercise in thinking things through and better understanding the `Sculpin::run()` lifecycle. #php

• Post #3602494

  "We have to cut funding because the tax cuts haven't given us the boost in revenue we promised! We've tried lowering taxes, but we're all out of ideas!" -- seemingly every year since the 70s, right?

• Post #3591007

  I'm so accustomed to/traumatized by my favourite shows getting cancelled after the first season that I sometimes forget to/fear to watch the second season of the ones that do get renewed. Severance. Night Agent. One Piece. I've got quite a backlog.