Topics that make British people argue to the death:

Scones - jam or cream first
Pronunciation of scone
What baked beans belong on
Fry up rules
Roast dinner rules
What goes on chips
Milk first or last / how to make tea
Traffic rules (particularly merging)
Ketchup - fridge or

Discords replacing forums did irreversible damage to online fandoms.

No archiving, no backlog so the same discussions repeat ad nauseam, awkward onboarding, unfit for long-form content, impossible to hold a conversation over several days, you better be in the right timezone!

get you someone who looks at you like like a distributed systems engineer looks at monotonically increasing integers

I just asked someone how they were and they said, “I’ve had better days”.

Seeing as they’re British, this tells me they’re probably having the worst day of their life.

Seeing as I’m also British, I replied, “oh dear, sorry to hear that” and we left it there.

Me: I love learning new things

Me when it’s time to learn new things I’m not instantly good at:

I love how in Britain we have a sauce simply called “brown sauce”. And most people couldn’t tell you what’s in it. We hardly ever even describe the taste, it just tastes “like brown sauce”. Such a mundane name for a quietly joyous thing. Very British indeed.

Starbucks in Starbucks.

I'm sorry Slack, you're doing fucking WHAT with user DMs, messages, files, etc? I'm positive I'm not reading this correctly.

Teachers have to buy their own pencils.

Not if I can help it.

Only view on this morning’s hike was of the fog

“This vulnerability (CVE-2023-52424) impacts all operating systems and WiFi clients.”

👀

Hey Amazon you have a batch of mis-labelled USB-C cables and I keep getting the wrong one.

The successor to Kubernetes should be called k9s and pronounced 'Kubernineties'. Thank you for coming to my unhinged muttering outside the TED talk entrance

What are the weirdest technical books you own?

Mine are these two gems from 'Carlton Egremont III'. Rumor was that it is a pseudonym for Don Box.

Don, maybe time to finally come clean?

I sighed again. I was having a lot of opportunities to do it and I think I was getting good at it.

I just published C isn’t a Hangover; Rust isn’t a Hangover Cure link.medium.com/BfjqLXwQ1Ib

Still blows my mind that an ESPN+ subscription doesn't give you access to.... ESPN.

Kate Bush's 'Cloudbusting' is trending. It's been used in a film or TV show or something, a la 'Running Up That Hill', and everyone's losing their shit.

So maybe it's time for a Utah Saints revival. This is an absolute banger. youtube.com/watch?v=Xg9Wqs…

Real ones remember