Mark McLaughlin

The iOS download of Vampire Crawlers being somehow exactly 666 MB feels like the sort of ridiculous dedication from @poncle.games that I can get behind.

Desperately sad to hear of the passing of @afcwimbledon1889.bsky.social commentator Mikey T this morning; the man had sublime way with words right in the moment - wingers "marauding" down the left flank and describing "a salmon-esque leap" for a headed goal have always stuck with me. RIP, mate.

It's 2026, and I'm still an absolute fanboy for a beautifully designed custom DMG folder view. Lovely work, anonymous Apple designer!

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This week's Gemini CLI update 👇

Flipping on the Moby livestream at #coachella and hearing it as the "FIFA 2001" soundtrack first, and uh, "Bodyrock", second.

weekend plans: locking in and building something weird 💖 if you're looking for a side quest, gemma 4 just dropped in ai.dev! 31B dense or the 26B MoE are both available to call via the Gemini APIs: multimodal, 256k context, and exactly $0 wrote a quick guide below👇 🔗 dev.to/googleai/hac...

If anyone asks what I do for a job, this is now my go-to video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl9t...

Gemini CLI v0.33.0 is live! 🚀 Plan Mode is here—a safe, read-only environment to research and architect before you build. We’ve also shipped multiple UX improvements, ACP enhancements and more... Full details: github.com/google-gemin... 🧵

I had a summer temp job for a few days moving furniture in that building back in the early 90s, and this was absolutely normal. Utterly surreal in hindsight.

👋 Hi! For those unfamiliar I'm Hawk, a UX Engineer on the @vscode.dev team. As 2025 comes to a close, I've been wanting to get a pulse on how folks are writing code. Genuinely curious: What tool(s) do you use? What do you like/dislike about them? What do you wish your tool could do that it doesn't?

ACCIDENTALLY BOUGHT CHRISTMAS WRAITH. EVERYONE DEAD.

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Folks who know #atproto, I have Qs I still haven’t found answers to and would love any thoughts / opinions you have! 1. Given that most PDSs are hosted by @bsky.app, if an atproto app comes along that gets really popular, does that mean Bluesky is now covering the hosting costs of that app’s data?

Work hard, stay (very) humble, have fun, and be kind to others.

New blog post: You did no fact checking, and I must scream https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/10/i-have-no-facts-and-i-must-scream/ I'm neither a journalist nor a professional fact checker but, the thing is, it's has never been easier to check basic facts. Yeah, sure, there's a world of …

I've been considering whether to do this for months. Now that Radiohead tickets are being offered for huge mark-ups on resale sites (as per our story today), I think the time has come. We're going to play a game of Catch The Ticket Tout. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

I need some help! I’m working on a YouTube video that explores what it would take to build a web app that, if built today, could last 100 years. It covers tech stack, dev strategies, DX, etc but I need help coming up with a demo. Any fun ideas for a full stack app meant to live for a century??

I've been bedridden for the last 7 months, unable to work, and now my roommate who was covering rent is having tax issues. I need to raise a few thousand dollars to cover rent and bills for this month, so If you could send a couple dollars, it'd really help. Thanks so much. ko-fi.com/fooneturing

My appreciation of Ozzy Osbourne, one of the truly iconic figures in rock history, is up at @avclub.com www.avclub.com/ozzy-osbourn...

40 years ago, I was playing this very cheap and extremely cheerful Mastertronic budget rerelease. A really great game that had split-screen multiplayer - which was still a very new and exciting thing at the time. Really bloody hard too, but that was how it was back then.

Great to see Irish actors appearing in the most unexpected of places.

The Dons are going up! And good job by the @cbssports.bsky.social producer who absolutely knew why they were putting Mumford & Sons behind every recap clip in the breaks.

The official commentary for the @afcwimbledon1889.bsky.social win over Grimsby closing off with “avoiding a battering, now we’ve got bigger fish to fry” is just one of the many reasons I love this club.

Focusing on the essential imported goods before the tariffs land.

Assassin‘s Creed shadows is an absolute fantastic game. It’s a little repetitive, but so is life. It’s absolutely gorgeous, unbelievably massive, there’s easily 60 hours+ content here, 38 castles, you can literally just walk around just being a ninja and ignore the whole plot if you feel like it

WiFi captive portals. Pointless nonsense. I wonder how much time is collectively wasted on them (I’d hazard to guess that it’s a meaningful amount)

Want to work with the coolest team around? VS Code is hiring product designers👇 Senior Product Designer: https://jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/1798667/Senior-Product-Designer Product Designer II: https://jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/1798665/Product-Designer-II

$10 for a mocha at Storyville in Pike Place surely has to be the peak of whatever's going on with dining prices in Seattle, right?

It’s bittersweet that I had my last ever #foursquare city guide upvote as recently as this weekend. Such a treasure trove of useful data just disappearing without a trace this week.

Re: Web Components Logo I've created a repo with all the designs that you are free to use and modify as you wish! - Web components logo (color, dark, light) - Custom elements logo (color, dark, light) - Variants inspired by @zachleat.com and @davatron5000.bsky.social - Copy of Figma file

Wrote up my initial impressions of the new Google Gemini 2.0 Flash model - it's really good, and the streaming mode (where you can stream video and audio to it and get audio streamed right back) is pure science-fiction simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/11/...

ZIP discs really feel like planned obsolescence. I assume a ton of TIF files for “Follow The Leader” are trapped on this forever at this point.

Showbox Presents is joining Bluesky and we're celebrating by giving away a pair of tickets each week in December. To enter, simply give us a follow and we'll select a winner at random each Friday at 10am PT. Winners can choose from any upcoming show at The Showbox or Showbox SoDo! Good luck! 🦋

Happy “Unsubscribe from our marketing emails” Day to all those who celebrate.

Pretty sure that "Bomb Cyclone" and "Triple Bombogenesis" were hidden tracks on the first Limp Bizkit album. #WAwx #CAwx

Pretty much where I've got to and how I'm approaching the transition. Some brands are taking their dear old time, but they'll get there eventually.

Surprised and delighted to see the newest Tesla destination chargers now have J1772 adapters built in for us “Non-Tesla” owners. Need to use the app to activate, but I’ll take it.

Benefits of temporarily living downtown for the next few months.

Seattle area is 70°F at 8:00am, so I guess we all live in Arizona now.

I have a genuine business need for AI to summarize 1,000 word re-org emails into a simple tree graph.