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We worry about the “bus problem” when it comes to one dev operations but should we also worry about the “dev getting bored” problem? I’m not sure what’s happened to Pinboard I hope…

I’ve tried building in load tests to releases and it’s been a headache so far: Test environments cost as much as prod environments suddenly (using premium versions of infrastructur…

I still can’t believe that the Silvertown Tunnel, the next Thames crossing will require a modern version of this rather than have a dedicated cycle space. I appreciate cycling clos…

It’s been merged into master [0] I think that means it’s coming with 4. One of my minor concerns is that exporting to iOS/Android might not be coming straight away but I’ll have to…

Trying to get my Godot project to a stable enough place that I can try early dotnet6 builds. It’s been quite fun abstracting as much game logic as possible into testable class libr…

Using it on an iPhone 12 Mini-Firefox and the “Add Bookmark” screen is a tiny form in an ocean of white emptiness. https://ibb.co/jZgzQnF

I really like Pinboard and Maciej but Pinboard feels forgotten. Even the Pinboard blog URL [0]he linked to in his leaving Twitter tweet[1]is showing the Apache Default page to me. …

Stuff like Spotify trying to ram their podcast platform down my throat is pretty obnoxious. I wish I could turn off podcasts. It looks especially bad when some of the podcasts are …

I’ve used laptops for this purpose in the past but I always disliked having my HDDs connected over USB. I was concerned that all my storage felt like it was active all the time eve…

Interesting to read in the current context of the Silvertown tunnel currently being built despite complaints from both sides of the river and an admission from TFL that it may make…

So to keep TfL afloat the government has to give them money and as part of that they have to spend a large amount of money investigating something most people don’t think is viable…

I think a lot of malware also gets installed whilst pretending to be something for cheating. Developers don’t want their brand associated with that.

Anything that helps the web export progress sounds like a good idea to me, I think there’s a lot of potential in that feature. Being able to play game demos in the browser before i…

There are so many adverts for Uber in London now, including buying the naming of the already existing Thames Clipper boat service [1] (previously MBNA Clippers). I think they are w…

It’s amazing how spammers will use every single vector to send stuff to us. I suppose if the cost of sending it is so low they have nothing to lose even when the take up is very lo…

I suppose that if you’re upgrading to iPhone and already have one it is a waste to give you yet another charger. I wonder how much energy is used creating these cables that often g…

Is this the real reason why the app seemed like it was suddenly going to be delayed? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53083340

I read this article on vice gaming earlier about giving credit to creators for assets used in development that I thought was interesting... https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qj4pz…

This is an interesting idea but is it possible that in this case the reason the top story has changed is because it’s newer?

Also worth noting that you can't currently export C# projects to mobile that was moved to milestone 3.2

I probably wouldn't use this as I would feel bad about it but as a UK listener I've listened to SO MANY adverts from American podcasts for products I can't buy. I pay for stitcher …

I don’t know if it’s sexism or not but is it possible that Fitbit and Apple Watch aren’t so good at tracking your movement/steps when your arms are stable whilst pushing a pram? I …

I move my mouse to either side so I don’t have issues with the general concept but this is nonsense and is just to pad the number to an even 10. “It makes you a more interesting pe…

I’m pretty sure all the MacBook feet are exactly the same, certainly the MBP line are. They could store 10000 rubber feet in a pretty reasonably sized box.... I was amazed when two…

My perspective from the U.K. is that it’s primarily the swatters fault but the terrible action taken by the police is somewhat “allowed” by US society due to fear of guns being ava…