Shit I don't want: 1. clankers telling me if my shit is the same as everyone else 2. pretty much everything that this guy's face is on come to think of it

You either die young, or live long enough to become that old guy who answers every question with "well.... it depends..."

In #StarTrek you might de-evolve into a lemur because your neurotic hypochondriac coworker gets a flu shot. Still a better future than whatever all this shit is.

La Forge: "We want to do experiments on the critical systems of the spaceship/computer keeping us all alive." Me: gee, that sounds like something you should not do in production. Episode: *dramatic music plays, because stuff is very broken now* #TNG was so far ahead of its time #StarTrek

I had forgotten that Star Trek deals regularly with the loss of friends, parents, spouses, etc. A stark contrast to the modern era, where everything must carry 27 warning labels for an offhanded mention.

Anyone else ever get the urge to do a Worf-stache?

Every time I try to be more social I remember why I stopped trying to be more social.

It has been 0 days since investing time in #testing has saved me from a silly #database mistake in the #backend

Dug up some old media. No advertisements, no #TheAlgorithm trying to suggest what to play next. No episode summary, no discography, #nodistractions. Feels good.

Y'all ever just work on a thing to shut your brain up? Not serious effort, just wasting time, and then oopse you accidentally a thing? I may be in danger of that, brain won't shut up about it.

Been thinking a lot about #freelance work recently. The big platforms all look very "race to the bottom"-ey to me. Are there any effective alternatives to those platforms? Is there a market for back-end dev work in proper back-end languages? #softwaredeveloper

If you're conducting #interviews and you promise a followup by the end of the week, it's imperative that you hold yourself to that. If you fail to do so you're sending a very clear signal to the applicant. 1. We are disorganized 2. We don't value you as a candidate #recruiting #hiring

I spent some time watching #StarTrek TNG yesterday. I had never really directly noticed that there seem to be at least two intermingled storylines going on in each episode. I noticed it because it "felt" different while watching. Am I going crazy or is this something we no longer do in TV?

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It should be illegal to have more than two interviews for a role. 😒

Just a little reminder to all my GenX (I didn't forget you) and Millennials out there. Right now, we have the opportunity to not become the boomers. Shut the fuck up about the burritos. Learn to coach the youngs instead of shitting on them.

Has anyone ever looked at a suburb and not been immediately filled with the same sort of deep primal dread that a mouse must feel when being placed in a cage?

No streams this weekend either because I really need to work on this project. Progress is good, there's just a lot to do. Sorry for the late notice.

It's super funny that as everything becomes less and less usable because of all the AI that's been shoved into everything I'm seeing job posts demanding experience with clankers. Proompt harder lil bro, that'll fix it for sure. #fuckai

I keep hitting this disconnect where I think : "Man, I'm really not very good at front end and it's so hard." Then I read answers on SO and think: "wow, none of these idiots have any clue what they are doing or why they are doing it." Why is front end like this?!?!?! #software #developer

Unironically listening to Darude – ‘Sandstorm’ Because I have FREE WILL, LINDA!

It should be illegal to make phone numbers mandatory on job applications. I'm not giving you my number so someone can call me back to back at 4 am for the same shitty job (real story).

This is a product to gamify education for kids. They want someone to turboslop it out. #fuckai

Raw dogging American Dad DVDs on a dumb tv rn. RETVRN!

I had a dream that I hadn't checked my YT analytics in a while, so I opened up the page and had 250k subscribers. I was shocked but also relieved, in the "everything is gonna be OK now, I'm finally doing well" sort of way.

People tend to think that past humans were dumb because they didn't know about germs and had horses and boats instead of cars and planes. But they invented the pocket watch from first principles. Future people are gonna be right about us though. A lot of us are dumb as shit.

Is anyone studying how they make canned vegetables contain 25% of your RDI of salt without tasting like there's any salt in there at all? I feel like we should be able to apply this technology for good.

I've been a @jetbrains.com stan for a long time, but every patch I now have to turn off more AI bullshit, and right now their CEF browser thing is crashing constantly. The sloppified writing is on the wall. Good IDE's for Linux? Multi cursor, screen split, tabs. No vim/emacs.

The goal of this crowd is to spend the least amount of time possible playing the game, and then complain that the game is short. Getting stuck and exploring to figure out where to go is part of gaming. Learning how games generally work is part of gaming. "Limited time" is a terrible excuse.

Bits@bitshammer.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I sincerely dislike people who cry about "yellow paint" or other visual markers when reviewing games. Those are in games to help players who aren't terminally online gamers navigate the world. You know, the "casuals" who actually make up the silent majority market for video games. 1/

Hot take: given the sustained push Valve is making to support Linux gaming, your indie game NEEDS to care if it runs correctly on Linux/Proton. #indiegame #indiedev