Chris, and a spooky owl

@cawhitworth@mastodon.online
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In another life, I am an erudite, fascinating, witty, sexy libertine. As it stands, I am mainly a disappointment.

Profile pic: me and a grumpy owl. I’m the one on the left.

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LocationCambridge, UK
PronounsHe/Him
Githubhttps://github.com/cawhitworth
"Why do I know what Maciej thinks?? Why do I know that DHH is a fucking creep and a weirdo which is why I will never pay for their email service which otherwise seems pretty cool, why do I know that Brave is the homophobic browser in bed with cryptocurrency bros, why do I know that the Kagi dude thinks adding suicide prevention hotlines to search results for “how to kill yourself” is censorship, why do I know about Matt Mullendweeb’s entire existence??" - @phire https://phirephoenix.com/blog/2024-11-05/modernity
modernity is stupid: a rant not about politics

Omnivore is a read-later app. You know, one of those things that lets you save interesting articles you encounter throughout the day and the service will go crawl the page and download the content in a nice readable format and zap it to whatever device you wanted to zap it to, so that later when you’re not anxiously toggling between the same seven feed aggregators for fifteen seconds at a time, like maybe you’re waiting in line in the grocery store and you can’t do the NYT mini because they’re on strike and you don’t cross picket lines and god forbid you have a single second of mental silence, you can open the app and begrudgingly educate yourself on something that you alleged wanted to learn about at some point in time.

The Roof is on Phire
By which I mean, the office christmas lights are on now.
If the only legitimate use of a computer is to play games, then the only legitimate use of a microcontroller is to make RGB LEDs light up in pretty patterns.

I’ve been quiet lately. Went on sabbatical from work, joined a ceramics studio and did a lot of pottery. Trying to work out how to do more, because it’s clearly a lot more fun than actual work.

#pottery #ceramics #handmade #pots

Just got an automated "AI" comment on a PR, suggesting I replace some parsing code that might throw an exception in the event of invalid input with something that silently swallows the exception and returns a default value instead, and I can't even

Ladies, if he:

--has a saucy orange bill
--sports bold black & white markings
--toddles around flapping when cranky
--says, "Pink! Pink!" instead of "Nyuk! Nyuk!":

That's not Pingu; that's a white-crowned sparrow.

Microsoft execs figuring out privacy
(Seems to be something about the studio that makes things lean towards the muted end of things; these are studio glazes - unlike the last pot which was a commercial brush-on - and they have a definite earthy vibe to them) #pottery #pots #ceramics

Not entirely how I expected this glaze to turn out but it’s quite nice nonetheless?

It’s either the clay or the studio kiln (or both) but it’s supposed to be a blue that breaks metallic brown - not sure where the olive colour is coming from.

#pottery #pots #ceramics