Mastodawn

Today a little voice in my head said, "Maybe the reason you write such thorough unit tests is because your unstable childhood makes you pathologically unable to trust things that you haven't personally verified in excruciating detail."

I guess at least I've found a way to derive value out of my neuroses.

scb1122 Jan 27

“Have your cake. Eat it too.”

[political content redacted]

https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/move-fast-fix-things

Move fast. Fix things.

Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister Darren Jones' speech on rewiring Whitehall and building the new digital state.

GOV.UK

scb1122 Dec 31

opcode Dec 30

Chaos post always delivers #39c3

scb1122 Nov 23

https://aeon.co/essays/victorian-diary-writers-kicked-off-our-age-of-self-optimisation

Victorian diary-writers kicked off our age of self-optimisation | Aeon Essays

Our cursed age of self-monitoring and optimisation didn’t start with big tech: as so often, the Victorians are to blame

scb1122 Nov 3

The irony escapes me

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/style/lamp-club-luddites.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Lamp Club, a Luddite Group, Has Come to Free the ‘iPad Babies’

A student at the New School started a group to get herself, and her peers, off their phones.

The New York Times

scb1122 Oct 13

𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇Oct 13

Transit is stuck in a 20th-century paradigm: a mix of city-center-serving subways/metros and commuter rail for the suburbs.

(And too many cities can't even manage this.)

But #Paris is building the first truly 21st-century #transit system.

Nothing to do with hyperloops or maglevs...

🧵

scb1122 Oct 10

https://pca.st/episode/66dd6ec6-dc29-4d36-b9cb-d8630283894f

#Jesus Fuck

He Believes America Should Be a Theocracy. He Says His Influence Is Growing.

Pocket Casts

scb1122 Oct 3

#ios26 is fully embarassing that granny accessibility aesthetic…. M-a-k-e B-I-I-I-I-IG

scb1122 Aug 11, 2025

I’ve brewed a cup of coffee using toilet paper as a filter. It’s now - officially - a drug

scb1122 Jul 22, 2025

YEEEEEESSSSSS!!

https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2008/nov/01/5

Lost in translation: road sign carries email reply

Swansea council erects Welsh road sign reading 'I am out of the office at the moment' after an email misunderstanding

The Guardian