tomw

tomw, 1 year ago to random

My hobbies? Well I like to make to-do lists with about 30 things on. Then I do 2 of them.

tomw, 1 year ago to random

An "open protocol" that requires you to beg for an invite to try it out is not an open protocol. It is pure bullshit.

tomw, 1 year ago to random

"There's a new Twitter owned by a different rich guy to the one who screwed us over last time" = bad idea.

"There's a new Twitter owned by the EXACT SAME rich guy as the one who screwed us over last time" = ...

Why does anyone have to tell you that this is a bad idea? HOW is this a debate? HOW IS IT POSSIBLE that people are seriously using this and being all "oh well you see" about it? WHAT about this whole situation is making you so ridiculously gullible? I. Cannot. Comprehend. It.

tomw, 6 months ago to random

Spotted in the DIY shop: this socket has a WPS button

tomw, 9 months ago to random

Looking at Windows computers for the first time in ages for Reasons. Wow, it's really stratified into 'business computer' versus 'gaming computer', hasn't it? When did this happen?

tomw, 18 days ago to random

I just used jQuery in a new project and you know what, I don't even feel bad. I just needed to hide all the elements with one class and show all the elements with a different class. A one-liner in jQuery and not in anything else!

tomw, 23 days ago to random

Every security expert ever: "Do not use incrementing ID numbers"

Every Shopify-based shop: "Thanks for your order # 1201"

tomw, 1 month ago to random

I'm starting to see more posts about "hey you know the cloud actually uses a lot of electricity" and concerns about things like storing photos forever.

But this is a drop in the ocean compared to what is about to happen with AI. The sheer amount of computing resources that generative AI takes makes storing some photos look like a joke. You're looking at worse resource use than cryptocurrency, alongside a higher chance that using it will actually catch on.

tomw, 3 months ago to random

The realisation that I have become a coffee shop laptop guy

tomw, 3 months ago to CSS

Tailwind is stupid but it has made me feel better about using inline #CSS styles sometime. Inline CSS styles have basically the same uses and tradeoffs as Tailwind without the need for another dependency

tomw, 1 month ago to random

All my emails go something like:

"Yes that's all good. Happy with Wednesday or Thursday.

Tom"

People either appreciate this brevity or find it weird, there's not really an in-between

tomw, 22 days ago to random

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tomw, 6 months ago to random

On current trends the average movie will soon be 4 hours long
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/oct/28/uk-cinemagoers-hail-return-of-intermissions-as-films-hit-three-hour-mark

tomw, 6 months ago to random

Can anyone help me with the problem I'm having with my neighbour?

A while ago my neighbour kicked me. So I've been going round his house every day, unlocking the basement where I keep him and giving him a good kick, in self-defence.

Anyway, recently the bastard kicked me again. The situation has really become intolerable.

I'm currently kicking him to within an inch of his life until his violence stops.

Some friends are starting to say I should stop it. AITA?

tomw, 5 months ago to random

No one knows wtf they're doing with DNS any more, they just add a load of random TXT records as instructed by Google/Mailchimp/Sendgrid/etc until it works.

tomw, 8 months ago to random

Today I have been to London Bridge the train station, London Bridge the tube station, and London Bridge the actual bridge.

None of these, I can report, were falling down.

tomw, 5 months ago to random

One day I plan to go to a rodeo and say "actually, this is my first rodeo"

tomw, 7 months ago to random

webp has never done anything but annoy me in every context where I have ever encountered it

tomw, 8 months ago to random

Practice self-care today by not using React

tomw, 7 months ago to random

If you ever have imposter syndrome as a web developer, you can just visit basically any other website. They all barely work.

tomw, 8 months ago to random

Webp? Heic? Avif?

Make it stop! Just use the normal image formats that every program can open and every image upload function accepts.

tomw, 7 months ago to random

This is interesting – I've been involved a couple of times in a "let's turn off comments" decision and it was always partly spam, partly that all real discussion of posts/articles had moved to social media. As that discussion fragments across platforms, it makes sense to try to bring back on-site commenting.

https://kottke.org/23/10/introducing-the-new-kottke-comments

tomw, 8 months ago to random

Mastodon getting working search is going to reveal that all of my toots are just variations on the same 10 or so ideas

tomw, 7 months ago to random

Got a new lowish-end PC in a standard tower type case (it's not for me... reasons) and what struck me is: the thing is practically empty!

I can see motherboard, processor, hard drive, several fans and a chonker of a graphics card, but there is so much unused space in the case. It's like 80% air.

Whatever happened to all the... computery gubbins that PCs used to have inside?

tomw, 9 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random

Argh, please settle this once and for all, I can't take it. What is a "staycation"?