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Today Microsoft Azure asked me for some feedback. Pretty sure we solved "circles" back in the 1990s. I remember radio buttons working just fine in Netscape Navigator. But maybe AI decided it's better this way. 🤷🏻‍♂️

a feedback form. There are five radio buttons. They are oval, not circular, and the labels above them are badly formatted, don't fit in their enclosing boxes, and in several cases are obscured by their own associated control.

You know how dumb it feels every single month logging into @dropbox.com to download the invoice for my Dropbox subscription so that I can save it... into my Dropbox? What if the invoices just appeared by magic in a Dropbox folder linked to the billing account? Wouldn't that be something, eh?

I'm playing a gig. An actual Serious Gig with Proper Musicians and no comedy songs about JavaScript. You should come. It'll be awesome. Hope & Anchor in Islington, Friday October 2nd, doors 19:30, music starts 20:30. Tickets £8 in advance / £10 on the door. www.eventbrite.com/e/angel-stor...

ANGEL STORM: ALL STAR LIVE ROCK COVER BAND

Demon, Rory Gallagher, Billy Idol, Peter Frampton, Rush, Cream, Genesis, Soundgarden, Aerosmith, Janis Joplin, Pink Floyd, Scorpions... and many more.

(The typography on "Peter Frampton" is particularly exquisite.)

My workstation is a Ryzen 9050 with 128Gb of RAM, an RTX 5070 and three NVMe drives, and it is running Adobe Media Encoder like a very tired tortoise trying to suck treacle through a paper straw. Could we stop dicking about with AI models and get back to making computers faster and betterer please?

Niels Leenheer @html5test.com · last mo.

I think that @househouse.com - the studio behind Untitled Goose Game - should make a game based on the Sheep Detectives movie. There’s an actual murder mystery you have to solve but you can only control the sheep. 🐑

Two weeks from now Fronteers Dark Mode will happen in Dordrecht in The Netherlands. There are still a few tickets left. Be quick ⚠️ Join us for an afternoon and evening of great talks. With a spectacular line up: @anjana.dev, @tunetheweb.com, @cydstumpel.nl, @csswizardry.com and @heydonworks.com

Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · last mo.

True story.

Ben (Bee) Kahn@benkahncomics.bsky.social · last mo.

BREAKING: Wyld Stallyns will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran

“In a world where everyone uses the same tools, trained on the same data, we all end up being the same person… and that’s not a world I want to live in.” - @nickchapsas.com kicking off #NDCOslo

A conference expo hall full of people and exhibitor booths. Nick Chapsas is on the expo stage underneath a bank of giant projector screens.

All iPhones are foldable. Some iPhones are only foldable once. (with apologies to @terrypratchett.bsky.social)

I've said for a while that the road to sustainable open source is royalties levied by package managers and distributed directly to maintainers: freeasinweekend.org/open-source-... Now @seldo.com, co-founder of npm, has published an excellent article along similar lines: seldo.com/posts/nobody...

Nobody pays for open source. We can force them to. | Seldo.com

Thirty years of voluntary funding schemes haven't paid open source maintainers because asking doesn't scale. The real money already flows — to JFrog, Docker, Sonatype — at the registry layer. The fix:...

seldo.com

Got a feature request for the folks at @sessionize.com...

A modal dialog over a Sessionize CfP submission form:

"Just One More Thing...

You used a lot of em-dashes in your submission. Type one in this box. Copy/paste is disabled. You have five seconds."

with a text input field and a button "Submit (5)"

I have just reviewed 150+ "AI-assisted development" talks for a conference agenda. Precious minutes of my one and only life reading AI-generated abstracts for talks about how we don't need humans any more. Do you think the folks who submitted these talks would be happy with AI-generated rejections?

"The Godfather" is just starting on BBC4. I have never seen it. Let's see how this goes...

Last chance to get your tickets to Effective Claude Code! Next week, Tuesday & Wednesday afternoon, live on Zoom with me & @rendle.dev - skills, specs, agents, and everything you need to know about AI-assisted software engineering. Book now at claude.rendle.dev - use the code BSKY50 to get 50% off.

Effective Claude Code — Hands-On AI Workshop

A live online workshop for developers and software engineers who want to use Claude Code to deliver reliable, reviewable, production-quality software.

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Today I will be mostly enjoying the fact that according to the Schema.org type system documentation, there are four categories of person: alive, dead, undead, or fictional...

Person

A Schema.org Type

Thing > Person

A person (alive, dead, undead, or fictional).

Every time a client adds Google Tag Manager to a site I've built, I realise how God must have felt the first time somebody put an anvil on a butterfly.

Dylan Beattie@dylanbeatt.ie · 3mo ago

No, we're not going to show you how to vibe-code a million dollar app in a weekend using only your phone. Sorry. But we will show you how to use Claude Code and tools like OpenSpec to plan and deliver working software in meaningful, manageable iterations. claude.rendle.dev - BSKY50 for 50% off!

Effective Claude Code — Hands-On AI Workshop

A live online workshop for developers and software engineers who want to use Claude Code to deliver reliable, reviewable, production-quality software.

claude.rendle.dev

@rendle.dev and I have this awesome workshop about how to use Claude Code properly. We've had great feedback running it in-person, now we're running it online: 1 & 2 September, 2pm-6pm UK time, £500+VAT but if you use the code BSKY50 you'll get 50% off... bargain! Check it out: claude.rendle.dev

Reason #427 why the notification dialogs in Windows 11 need a "Fuck Off" button. The choice of "Yes" or "No, thanks" just doesn't cut it, frankly. (the person who immediately replies "bUt yOU shOuLd rUn LinUX!" is reason #428 why such a button would be a good idea.)

Would you like to pin yahoo.com to your taskbar?

Microsoft Edge would like to pin yahoo.com to the taskbar.

Yes No, thanks

Look at this. See the bikes? See the bikes stacked neatly? In the designated return area? Not discarded on the pavement like a child’s BMX? A BETTER WORLD IS POSSIBLE. And right here in the London Borough of Lewisham, too. ❤️

A dozen Forest rental bikes stacked neatly in the bike return area.

(You knew that. It’s in the post. But we are nothing if not thorough.)

James Alistair Henry@jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 3mo ago

It has been a while since a post made me genuinely laugh out loud. Touché, sir. Touché.

Ironically that alert just made me drop my portable bbq onto my firework collection

Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I just received two simultaneous notifications on my phone. One from the government telling me WE'RE ALL GOING TO BURN and DEATH IS ON THE WAY, the other that there's a new Friday Night Comedy available on BBC Radio 4... and honestly nothing has ever captured life in the UK in 2026 better than this.

New Episode: A new episode of Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4 is available. Listen now.

SEVERE ALERT issued by the UK Government.

There is a very high risk of wildfires nationally. Residents, landowners and visitors should not undertake any activity that could start a fire.

I wouldn't call myself a cartoonist, but I had the vision and just needed it to be on paper to the best of my ability.

A hand drawn eight panel cartoon. First two panels are a colander sitting frowning on a shelf. Then the colander is frowning straining pasta, then three more panels of frowning sitting on a shelf. Then a big panel where it's projecting a bunch of crescent eclipse shapes and smiling with speech bubbles around saying "Wow! Look! Amazing! Beautiful!" And then one final panel where it's sitting on a shelf smiling.

Dylan Beattie@dylanbeatt.ie · 3mo ago

So… the internet consensus seems to be that this was a total waste of time, that doing this at all makes me literally worse than Satan, and that I deserve to have my house burgled for even considering it. I just thought it was interesting ‘cos Linux printing has historically been quite complicated.

I set up a sandbox machine (Ubuntu 26.04) for running Claude Code in "yolo mode" (--dangerously-skip-permissions). This morning I told it "set up my printer" - that was the entire prompt - and it actually worked... scanned the network, identified the printer, configured CUPS, printed a test page. 🤯

Melonball @melonball.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Is this Moss?

MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Marlow Moss, Composition in Black and White Number 4, 1949 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135948

The Riklis Collection of McCrory Corporation