Alex Chousmith

Roses are red Violets are blue I get distracted easily What were we talking about?

if you played sonic the hedgehog and put down the controller, sonic would look at you and tap his foot impatiently. this was proof that sega genesis cartridges had souls. the decision was made to make the storage cases a lot larger than the cartridges so they would have room to move around in there

go off jack white

I switched from Samsung Android to iPhone some 13 years ago when I could not AirDrop pictures of the child to my wife, and the text message quality of the jpg & video from Android to iPhone was garbage. Good to see them adding it back in, 13+ years later

This is like, why i bluesky

Opening @bsky.app mostly just to click the ❤️ on the latest posts from @kibblesmith.com 🤷‍♂️

Au being the symbol for gold means 'AuDHD' is like gold-plated ADHD, and I think that makes perfect sense.

Follow up fun: pausing the 13 streaming apps to watch the company mandated AI training which of course does not offer any closed captions

ever since I was a child, I knew I wanted to one day have 13 streaming apps, all of which hide the closed captioning options in a different place

nightmare fuel

Keeping things light around here to get into the holiday spirit

Red Lobster never released a commercial with a jingle that went “Shrimply having a wonderful Fishmastime.” That’s why they went bankrupt.

Jack White is the king of “indie dudes love sports too” representation matters baby

PEBKAC

Developers: Can you believe what ABC, CEO of DEF, has said? Me: Who? Developers: Check out what developer GHI has done! Me: Who? Developers: Company JKL released version X of the MNO library! Me: Who? What? I don't know if I'm old, out of touch with the tech community, or just living a happy life

One of the huge perks of working at a software company is, when there's something about the product that bothers you personally, you can get your hands dirty and find out why it's basically impossible to get fixed

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is cheekface inevitable

On-prem infrastructure specialists when AWS and Azure faceplant: OPEN THE CAGE DOOR GET ON THE FLOOR EVERYBODY DO THE DINOSAUR

Not to be dramatic, but the upcoming time change is going to ruin my life.

Your package will be delivered sometime today. The driver has the package. The package is out. Oh you just left your house for a couple hours? The package was left outside your front door 5 minutes after you left…

Your grandparents bought a house on a single income. You have a master's degree and three roommates. But at least you can summon any song ever recorded in 2 seconds, so it evens out?

We stopped shipping new JavaScript frameworks every week so now I guess we're shipping new AI browsers every week.

Where in we learn that a us-east-1 outage teaches us a lot about what systems just went with the default 😅

shout out to Willy Wonka for improving on the lottery by adding chocolate and murder. absolute genius.

does anyone know a song about noodles

The prophets of the 1950s promised robot maids by 1990. The prophets of the 1990s promised virtual reality workplaces by 2010. The prophets of 2010 promised self-driving cars on every street by 2020. The prophets of 2020 promised On-Chain Everything. 8/22

This is the sort of insider tip life hack that I come to social media for. Like when another person noted I could brew 2 shots of espresso but put a cup under each side instead of making 1 shot and then another shot after ☕️

the beatnik economy? you mean snapitalism?

slightly ominous mailer from the Red Cross

AI agents being able to run unit tests is SUCH a massive unlock. If you're a dev who has utilized unit tests heavily: using a tool like Claude Code makes so much sense. And if you don't yet use tests: with AI agents, don't see how you would not do it sooner or later...

yessssssssssssss

This is exactly right. It's happening about the internet itself, too. People are assigning false rose-colored nostalgia memories to the web, describing a "good old days" that elides how terrible and exclusionary the past eras of the internet were.

resolved: sandwiches taste better when cut diagonally

nothing says "we care about your privacy" more than sharing your data with 222 partners

Going through my closet. We used to have dreams in this country