jonty

jonty, 3 hours ago to random

Nonsense show idea: QVC Karaoke.

Players have three minutes to sell whatever they're handed without cracking up. Highest score determined by number of audience "orders" placed.

jonty, 6 hours ago to random

Exactly 12 years ago I made a terrible mistake

https://social.emfcamp.org/@emf/statuses/01HXRZ1PRXCPNPDSFQSCMED9TB

nevali, 23 hours ago to random

polyglottery is hard work

joelanman, 1 day ago to random

I have a database question - say you have an items table and a messages table, and messages can refer to items. If someone needs to delete an item, you can't because of the foreign reference in messages.

I know you could 'soft delete' - set a status column to deleted, but what if you really need to delete, for example because the content is illegal or the user has a legal right to delete it?

#sql

andrew, 1 day ago to Eurovision

Having re-watched them, I think there's a perfect trio of #Eurovision songs this year to introduce someone to how mad it is - Ireland (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMq8ofCstMQ), Finland (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nidDtyS0Wo) and then Croatia (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIBjarAiAVc)

gsuberland, 2 days ago to random

I swear I just heard someone drive past playing Nina Simone dubstep, what on earth

jonty, 3 days ago to random

I hope this email finds you. The email knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation. The email delivery subsystem uses deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the email from a server where it is to a server where it isn't, and arriving at a server where it wasn't, it now is.

jonty, 3 days ago to random

A surprising amount of organising @emf is rediscovering clever features we implemented in our massive codebase and totally forgot about.

There's a running joke that we are a software development organisation that accidentally runs a festival.

jonty, 4 days ago to random

Tonight I did not press send on an email to thousands of people, because I figured people who were not awake at 3am should probably check I didn't write ludicrous nonsense first.

Personal growth, right.

jonty, 5 days ago to random

Today it feels like I am sat directly in the tornado path holding a comically small umbrella

jonty, 9 days ago to random

We have now completed the ceremonial "oh no the EMF scheduler is broken / oh no the scheduler is doing exactly the right thing and we gave it bad data" half-day debugging session

jonty, 12 days ago to random

Today in @emf team conversations:

<elsm> olli: FYI I am bringing the Dome
<olli> oh my god the dome
<olli> I forgot about the dome
<olli> i'm so sorry

jonty, 13 days ago to random

User: you charge me when people make unauthorised requests to an S3 bucket?

AWS: yes of course

User: but

AWS: working as intended

User: but

AWS: thank you for your money

https://medium.com/@maciej.pocwierz/how-an-empty-s3-bucket-can-make-your-aws-bill-explode-934a383cb8b1

jonty, 14 days ago to random

Tiny bird season is great, but this year we have TINY HERONS

jonty, 15 days ago to random

2012 Olympics: our mascots are cyclopean nightmare fuel

Expo 2025: what if ꙮ could chase you

jonty, 17 days ago to random

It has been 0 days since I started a new project I absolutely do not have time for