So glad I made the switch to GrapheneOS, and hurridly pulling my data out of Google’s services. It may take me another month or two before I’m just down to migrating the rest of my email from gmail (reckon that might take me all year) but these articles just spur me on more.

Starmer is such a weak centrist cuck.

Just finished Red Shirts by Jon Scalzi, a Star Trek satire about the disposability of side characters in sci-fi. Not a bad book, by any regards, but had a very simplistic writing style that got tedious at times. The best part of the book was when the narrative finished 75% of the way through the novel, then it spent three chapters exploring three of the minor characters from the narrative and the repercussions the plot had on them. This made the book worth reading, but I still felt a little unsatisfied at the end.

I’m now reading Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky. I’m only two chapters in, but so far, this looks much more up my street. Earth has become a fascist technocracy that sends its political prisoners to far off planets to endure forced labour. The descriptions of acceptable losses in the first chapter made the tense descent of the main character to his new prison planet all the more so. Interested to see where this one goes.

I just recently set up a private NextCloud instance and had OnlyOffice integrated for document editing, until I tested it on my phone and saw you needed to pay for a license to edit documents on mobile. Went with Collabora instead, which is working nicely. Dodged a bullet there.

I’m not the author, just saw this elsewhere and thought it needed more visibility.

Good luck. I’m also on that process. Just changing email provider is enough work with over 300 accounts using my Gmail address. Don’t give up, but be aware it’s a lot of work.

I’m over 20 years into my career, so I think I’m technically (and literally) a grey beard now. I always make time for junior devs if they need it or request it. Often I try to softly inspire them to a good solution, or challenge their thinking when I think they’re going down the wrong path or are creating too much work for themselves through over-engineering.

Pair programming is an invaluable learning tool for any team. It produces great results as you are both challenging each other while also quickly spotting those silly mistakes we all make.

Rubber Duck Debugging is also a fantastic way to solve issues quickly, as just talking through how you think the code works while reviewing it, you often spot the issue with almost no input from the person acting as the duck.

I’d also recommend doing code katas like codewars for any skill level, as solving problems that you wouldn’t usually come across in day to day work can lead to ways of thinking that you wouldn’t get otherwise. If you can, get more people on your team to do the same katas and then all talk through your solutions as a group. We would often use languages we were less familiar with to solve the kata in order to pick up new skills as well.

You never stop learning in this industry. There’s always new tech, new languages, and new ways to solve a problem that will make you a better programmer.

Fuck off cunt

Bad sub, you call me Sir, Boss, or Daddy.

Dude, you literally said you have to do more work for the same pay because someone who is paid way more than you fucked up, but it wasn’t as bad as what that overpaid fuckup said it could’ve been, so yay. And this is why you’re hoping the fascists in charge aren’t going to step on your neck too hard.

Lick into the tread now, you like the dirt in there. Good little sub.

Go on boy, lick that boot. Get it nice and clean now. Good boy.

We watched Slay, a 2024 camp horror comedy where a group of drag queens who booked the wrong venue have to defend the bar and its biker patrons from a horde of vampires.

It’s silly, but with some very charming characters, lots of references to other cult vampire flicks, and kept us laughing throughout. A cult classic in the making.

Replace the NASA website with a continuous stream of the movie Hidden Figures with a scrolling banner above it saying “Fuck off Elon”

Specifically, control of women, their bodies and their freedom.

Yep, there’s been no repeal of the GDPR laws, so they are still officially on the books in the UK.

Surely it’s the other way around?

It’s known that all snake species can automatically swim, and it’s believed that they first evolved to be limbless on land, then adapted to water, then came back to the land and all modern snakes evolved after this happened.

I mean, this isn’t that dissimilar to a Persona game: normal school kid by day, with requirements on time; superhero badass at night delving into the digital world to fight bad guys.

It’s totally not a problem fuelled by the ruling class, it’s those subhuman foreigners.

The Earth is spinning at around 1000 mph at the equator, orbiting the sun at 67,000 mph. The solar system moves at 450,000 mph around our galaxy, which in turn moves at 1,300,000 mph through the cosmos. If you can phase through things, falling through floors is exactly the least of your problems.

In a similar vein, here’s human Bender.