App Idea: Blueyskeet, a specially-themed Bluesky client designed to introduce toddlers to their first shitposting experience.
amy brown 👻@amybrown.xyz · 14h agotake your son to shitpost day
Brian Uri!
@urizone.net
Coder, composer, creator. Farmed in ALX, tabled in Loudoun County. Once got a piggyback ride from Arnold Schwarzenegger.
amy brown 👻@amybrown.xyz · 14h ago
Sugar, S1: Every time John Sugar checks in with Jonathan Siegel, he should greet the man with, "Dr. Livingston, I presume?"
Just placed 14th globally in the first 3-part puzzle of the 2026 Everybody Codes event. A fun warmup puzzle to kick things off!
Really need to talk to my HOA about how this full moon is keeping me up at night.
Instead of cleaning out the playroom this Fall, just rake the mess into a corner. This is better for the environment and promotes the incubation of next year's children.
Enough with the Ocarina of Time remake. Where's my Betrayal at Krondor remaster?
Stumbled upon a really nice review of my 26-year-old text adventure game, Augmented Fourth, which makes me giddy about the fact that people are still enjoying what was essentially my excuse for skipping college math classes. Review: www.filfre.net/2025/12/huge... Game: www.urizone.net/aug4.uri
![Augmented Fourth is another fantasy game, but it is light-hearted and easygoing where Worlds Apart is ambitious and demanding. Philistine that I am, I got on much better with it.
This game never aspires to be anything more than a romp, but what a fun romp it is. Like its author, who was studying music, computer science, and mathematics at Virginia Tech when he wrote it, its protagonist is a trumpeter. In this world, however, music is magical. (Well, okay, it’s magical in our world as well, but here the magic is far more concrete.) Boiled down to brass tacks, Augmented Fourth is Infocom’s Enchanter, but with the spells in your spell book replaced by magical refrains you can play on your trumpet. Fortunately, it’s a sturdy conceit to build an adventure game around. And even more fortunately, Augmented Fourth is as clever and charming as the Infocom classic that so plainly inspired it.
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This is the only game on this list that I would recommend — would recommend full-throatedly, in fact — to someone who hasn’t played a lot of interactive fiction, or hasn’t done so recently. If all of those giant games above seem way too intimidating, fair enough: give this one a try. It won’t change your life, but it will make you smile. And sometimes that’s all you really need, isn’t it?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:oie4i4ixg42k4mjqx22t2fn7/bafkreihwutfzo74zmq2737xwqwrsn622qucemz5tnsrj7b5iykezrdi4qu)
Just passed a $4.09 sign and exclaimed, "Wow, that's cheap!"
Brian Uri!@urizone.net · last mo.Thinking back fondly on the out-of-the-way BP gas station that sold gas for 79 cents per gallon in Salem, VA in the year 2000.
Smashing that Like button, not because I'm enthusiastic, but because I'm in my 40s and have too many calluses for this touchscreen.
Whenever I'm lazy and use a Boolean to represent 2 states, it guarantees that I will someday have to rewrite the code to support more states. Latest occurrence was this morning, on code that had only needed 2 states for 8 years.
Love Nov/Dec, when my productive schedule devolves into a bog of puzzles: - 10/26: Everybody Codes, 20 three-part coding puzzles released every weekday. - 11/13: Puzzle Boat 13, 150+ puzzlehunt puzzles from @foggybrume.bsky.social. - 12/1: Advent of Code, 12 two-part coding puzzles from @was.tl.
Maybe we should bring some open-world to college football instead. The field is 400x200yds, you can do the downs in any order, and the goalposts are splashed with glowing paint so the kicker can aim better.
IGN@ign.com · last wk.EA Sports is working on a new open-world football game, seemingly separate from Madden and College Football. https://bit.ly/3VYyOrc
Rotating art around the house to exploit the seasonal changes in room lighting. This one is "Rock Paper Scissors" by @curious3d.bsky.social.
Watching Dark Matter S2E8 and now I need a Dayo Okeniyi / Margo Martindale buddy comedy in my life.
Safeway's in-store radio station just spelled out their pharmacy's entire website URL (complete with slashes and "dot H-T-M-L") then segued directly into Clocks by Coldplay, so I think 2003 is making a comeback.
The winter sun illuminates my monitor and I think, "I should really clean those smudges off". Then the sun goes behind a cloud and I keep working. Repeat daily.
Chainguard's justification for their Prisoner's Dilemma decision to release a PHP fix before the rest of the group. The jury's opinions are... mixed. Trigger Warning: LinkedIn.
I wanted to share what happened with the PHP embargo, our role in it, and my decision process last night to ship the fixed builds early. First of all, the PHP Foundation and maintainers did an… | Dan ...
I wanted to share what happened with the PHP embargo, our role in it, and my decision process last night to ship the fixed builds early. First of all, the PHP Foundation and maintainers did an amazing...
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AWS taking its time to release updated Linux images addressing today's PHP vulnerabilities.
31 years ago today: The TC Williams Homecoming Parade. I'm marching backwards through Bradlee shopping center and conducting Louie Louie. Band director, Richard Dill, in the cozy red sweatshirt in the back. TC beat Annandale 39-20 (but 6 years later they'd lose to Robinson at Homecoming, 6-56).
Sitting in a doctor's office waiting room and I've heard the TV say "pneumococcal" more in the last 5 minutes than in my entire lifetime.
Got fired from my job for saying that PHP 5 ought be enough for anybody.
Brian Uri!@urizone.net · last yr.Got fired from my job for saying that 1 AWS region ought to be enough for anybody.
You Can See Everything is about trying on old summer clothes after a long winter.
Enjoying Pluribus, S1, seven episodes in. Like all Vince Gilligan shows, some of the scenes run self-indulgently long. However, the cinematography, framing, and camera work is always really visually satisfying.
Current mini game: Finding the perfect minute to depart in order to optimize my commute through the bus routes of two neighboring school districts.
"Disavow" makes it sound like we're in a 90s CRPG where all the dialog choices lead to the same ending.