Saul Sutherland

@thatsthequy
33 Followers
122 Following
355 Posts

I ask computers to do things and sometimes they listen.

๐Ÿ‘จ๐Ÿผโ€๐Ÿ’ป #tech, #Apple and #tailscale

๐Ÿšด๐Ÿผโ€โ™‚๏ธ #cycling, #MTB and #bikepacking

๐ŸŽฎ #gaming, #PS5 and #SteamDeck

Tailscalar in #Vancouver BC

Bloghttps://blog.boxbox.me
GitHubhttps://github.com/thatsthequy

Shared credentials have a habit of creating headaches later.

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itโ€™s official: these new bathrooms in pdx airport represent the peak of human accomplishment.

individual, private rooms. no gaps.
a shared sink and waiting area.
light, bright, pleasant. accessible.

the toilet gold standard. we did it folks

What's your favorite obscure piece of everyday tech knowledge?

Mine is that double-clicking a selected floor button will cancel that stop on many elevators.

Proposed UI rule of thumb: โ€œIf I take a screenshot of your app at any moment, it must make sense.โ€ https://tonsky.me/blog/every-frame-perfect
Every Frame Perfect

How imprecise UI animations erode trust in product

tonsky.me
What a guy

RE: https://nileane.fr/@nileane/116704285750838861

If youโ€™re still using Proton mail:

The company is sponsoring the videos of French far-right / fascist YouTuber Vincent Lapierre.

If encryption is part of your vision for a better society, find a better service provider.

UPDATE 2026-06-08: Response from Proton. This comes after mods apparently deleted lots of critical posts in r/ProtonMail.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/1u05xs2/comment/oqgihvq/

#proton #fash

Loving the new Pedometer++ update. My only wish is that the workouts would cleanly flow through to Strava. For now the GPX export and manual upload works! @_Davidsmith #pedometerplusplus

Daily train service in Canada. For clarity, the operative word here is DAILY. The lines exist but there is no longer a daily service.

(via Threads user: @uptheroader)
https://www.threads.com/@uptheroader/post/DLqj7iNygSZ

the 'film is superior to digital because of film grain' folks: "Film grain equals cinema!"

Christopher Nolan: "I want the least film grain possible."