Mastodawn

Hey "seniors":

Ask "stupid questions" where your juniors can see you asking them and getting answers from other people. Don't make juniors feel alone in not knowing something and being the only ones asking for help.

James Bell 1d ago

Dr. Cat Hicks 6d ago

This study includes ALL THE FIRST AND SECOND GRADERS ENROLLED IN SCHOOL IN FRANCE

"the gender gap increased with schooling rather than with age. These findings point to the first year of school as the time and place where a maths gender gap emerges in favour of boys"

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09126-4

Rapid emergence of a maths gender gap in first grade - Nature

Boys and girls exhibit very similar maths scores upon school entry, but a gender gap in favour of boys becomes highly significant after 4 months of schooling, which increases with years of schooling, independently of age.

Nature

James Bell 1d ago

Paddy Duke 3d ago

#webdesign and #webdev folks:

How often do you use fixed breakpoint media queries in your CSS?

By that I mean set breakpoints based on the browser viewport, whether they use relative units or pixels. Also let me know if you use a predefined list of values for small/medium/large sizes, or different breakpoints for different elements.

(Please boost for a better sample size)

	All the time
	Fairly frequently
	Very rarely
	Never

Poll ends at Jul 22 at 1:04pm.

James Bell 2d ago

Alphastream

2d ago

Shower with Your Battlemat?

Yes, you should indeed shower with your battlemat. Find this and other tips as I add my review of the time-tested Chessex Battlemat.

Mastering Dungeons is on vacation this week! We will be back next week.

Need to "cleanse" your timeline? Teos has a video for you involving showering and battlemats...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQjU6SNzLBo

#DnD #TTRPG

James Bell 4d ago

North West Ruby User Group 4d ago

This Thursday! Come hear @caius expound the virtues of tugging on those mysterious threads that we happen upon during our day to day code weaving #ruby

https://nwrug.org/events/tugging-threads-july-2025

NWRUG Event: Tugging threads, Thursday 17th July

After last month's Brighton Ruby break we're back for another edition of Ruby in the North West, AKA NWRUG. This month we have our very own Caius (https://ru...

James Bell 5d ago

Scott Hanselman 👸🏽🐝🌮6d ago

We are back! #C64 https://www.commodore.net/ The first official Commodore 64 in over 30 years is here - a faithful recreation of the original motherboard on FPGA hardware. HDMI, WiFi, USB, but compatible with every existing cartridge and peripheral. Not an emulator - a recreation. Same price as my first $299

Home | Commodore

Commodore

James Bell Jul 4

Scott Hanselman 👸🏽🐝🌮Jul 4

It’s so frustrating that there is this illusion that we are all 49%/49% right now. Us versus them, good versus bad, and it’s all because of the BS that is the electoral system. It’s very likely 70% versus 30% and we’re just not seeing representative government.There’s just no common sense right now

James Bell Jun 30

r҉ustic cy͠be̸rpu̵nk🤠🤖Jun 30

With the clarity of hindsight, it's fine to say Honda would obviously nail a reusable rocket test

But, I don't think anyone outside the company actually expected this. Honda has a history of venturing out to experimental work E.G. robotics, but this is totally new

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/06/hondas-hopper-suddenly-makes-the-japanese-carmaker-a-serious-player-in-rocketry/

Snakes On A Plane

MCP is doing the heavy lifting here. I've written two "agentic" apps. I immediately realized I could improve both by replacing the LLM part with normal fucking code. The revolution here is MCP shoehorning API access into many more programs and services than we previously had https://worksonmymachine.substack.com/p/mcp-an-accidentally-universal-plugin

MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System

Or: The Day My Toaster Started Taking Phone Calls

Works on My Machine