Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 25/09/20261.7 million now, with a run rate of 1 download every 13.3 seconds. With this exponential growth, it will surely reach 1 billion downloads by June 2031. 100
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 24/09/2026Let's see Chrome or Firefox crush a Russian military pincer movement or liberate dozens of square miles of occupied Ukrainian territory. 010
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 24/09/2026I have never gained more respect for the manufacturers of a household appliance than when I learned they provided an option to turn off incessant beeps. Thank you, you are one of the good ones. I didn't even have to desolder a piezo or encase it in epoxy. 001
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 24/09/2026"If you drove today, a rare earth magnet helped you steer" No, your overconfident presumption is incorrect. My wonderful power steering pumps are delightfully hydraulic, not electric, so they don't use any magnets. The same goes for most of the vehicles I've driven. 000
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 20/09/2026That's not an axe, that's a hatchet. I've been waiting so long for an opportunity to trot out this pedantic correction trope. 000
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 20/09/2026After Fiddler and Charles couldn't explain it, I had to drag out Wireshark to figure out that Winamp's Error Syncing To Stream problem is caused by it only supporting TLSv1, which has been passé for 5 years. Frustratingly, this build's from 5 years AFTER TLSv1.2 went mainstream, so it was avoidable. 101
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 17/09/2026Nvidia GeForce Driver Installer Watch: currently 991 MB, sizes are accelerating, with the Big Gig now expected in December 2027 instead of 2029 as previously predicted. x.com/Aldaviva/sta... 000
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 17/09/2026Biting the bullet and upgrading 3 webapps from Java 8 to 25, including 9 years of breaking major version updates and numerous package and namespace changes from the Oracle javaxpocalypse. How hard could it be? In the immortally wise words of @spatula75.bsky.social, "It'll be a one-time disaster." 111
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 12/09/2026Happy National Video Games Day, when we remember, long ago, how the pilgrims and Native Americans set aside their minor differences and joyfully came together to celebrate the bountiful fall release schedule. 001
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 11/09/2026Unlike the respectful developers at CertifyTheWeb, Telerik doesn't make any effort to ask you if you're a non-commercial user and hide the nag banner if you are, so all the law-abiding users see that orange bullshit all over their screens forever. Luckily, I fixed it: gist.github.com/Aldaviva/6d1... 000
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 11/09/2026Why is my laptop heating up with just a browser and text editor running? Oh, it's because without asking me, Visual Studio Code automatically enabled dictation and started transcribing speech from a stream I had playing in the background into a script file I had been formatting. 000
Reposted by Ben HutchisonJake Eakle @jseakle.bsky.social · 10/09/2026nobody at my job seems to understand that many compound forms are noun-only, and remain two-word verb phrases. people are always talking about how a user can login, and whether a request will timeout, and how it's time to teardown some infrastructure. like ragged claws on the chalkboard of my soul. 081
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 08/09/2026I've used DNS to solve a problem in a way no one else figured out. It took me a long time to find, but Windows' Name Resolution Policy Table is my new best friend. Even more flexible than server-side conditional forwarders, and with the latency, availability, roaming, and DNSSEC of public resolvers. 100
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 04/09/2026My terms and conditions have changed. By continuing to show me your Bluesky posts, you agree to verify your age by sending me a video of Norman Reedus moving his head side to side and opening his mouth. 100
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 04/09/2026🚛 American Truck Simulator State Progress Watch: South Dakota comes out Sep 24, 2026, which will be 43–47% of states (based on counting states, population, or Interstate distance). Completion estimated in 12–21 years (2038–2048), including at least 1 Canadian province (BC, est. Feb–Mar 2027). 000
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 02/09/2026The millionth reason to not use 1Password, which pays raging bigot DHH, and instead simply use KeePass, led by normal and nice person Dominik Reichl. 000
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 01/09/2026I think the new Super Star Destroyer set is the 4th-smallest scale Lego set, at 1:11,029 scale. The only three smaller are the Death Star (1:229,062), the Planet Earth and Moon in Orbit (1:4.83e11), and The Milky Way Galaxy (1:1.37e21) if you interpret that set as the galaxy and not a painting. 000
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 26/08/2026A year later Atlassian has, without warning me, deleted all issues for all my Bitbucket repositories, because they want to sell me Jira. No option to export archived data, no email announcement, no alert banners on repo pages. 000
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 23/08/2026I can't believe we've all been tricked into posting on the UnitedxJetBlue frequent flyer social network collaboration. 111
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 13/08/2026Those who have never experienced the rigors of a 24 hour race like Le Mans, Spa, or Daytona don't appreciate how grueling and demanding it is to sit on the couch and watch that much TV over the course of weeks. It basically requires the physical acumen of a professional athlete. 000
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 12/08/2026If anyone tries to tell you hamburgers are named after Hamburg Germany instead of ham, make sure to correct them with the truth: hamburgers are named after the Hamburglar. 000
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 12/08/2026Inventory selected to optimize friend's birthday celebratory operations. Was privileged to discuss important topics like watches and knives with the gourmand, Benchmade ambassador, and horologist-philosopher @werealltubes.bsky.social. #edc #everydaycarry #gear #loadout #minimalist #tactical 000
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 06/08/2026To whoever I saw today with the license plate ILOVECPP, I hope you're able to escape your abusive Stockholm situation soon. 010
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 06/08/2026I've never understood why Task Manager destroys and recreates its window when you toggle Always On Top. This is unnecessary, just call user32.dll:SetWindowPos(…, HWND_TOPMOST) and don't destroy anything. MS even preserved this behavior when they rewrote the Win8–10 one for Win11 using WinUI2. 010
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 05/08/2026At least the last time Spider-Man was advertised using a car it was cool. 000
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 05/08/2026Now that 48% of the contiguous United States have been released or announced to be in development for American Truck Simulator with North Dakota, the time edges closer when New York will be added and I can race in the Cannonball Run from NYC to LA. I am frothing at the mouth in anticipation. 100
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 29/07/2026Some of my original gear from the very first days I started carrying. First analog watch from 1st grade, and first multitool from 10th grade. #edc #everydaycarry #gear #loadout #minimalist #tactical 000
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 29/07/2026This is why you should always use Jackson when deserializing JSON in Java, instead of some trash software that the idiots at Alibaba pooped out. 000
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 27/07/2026I still can't wrap my head around the fact that, as of 2023, my newer car was built closer in time to my older car than to today. Is this what parents mean when they say they always view their kids as babies, no matter how much they've grown up? 000
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 27/07/2026This month is the first time that motorsports aren't illegal in Switzerland since the 1955 Le Mans, thanks to a very fatal crash followed by 71 years of head-up-ass politics. 000
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 26/07/2026My little spider friend again, sitting in its web at night, learning to be more patient as I get close to it and shine lights at it. The strands of silk refract the light from the ring flash and produce a rainbow. 000
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 23/07/2026The problem always exists between keyboard and chair. But the real question is, whose chair? 100
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 22/07/2026Is there a common origin to the "ti" suffix for Nvidia and BMW model names, like RTX 5070 Ti and 2002ti? It turns out the answer is no. Nvidia started in 2001 with the GeForce2 Ti, meaning Titanium. BMW started in 1967 with the 1600ti, meaning Touring International, but Alfa Romeo used it earlier. 000
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 22/07/2026If this keeps up, I might be able to finally finish the trilogy and play Midtown Madness 3 (2003), which was a console exclusive unlike 1 and 2 for some weird reason. 100
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 18/07/2026Bluesky profiles have RSS feeds now? That's pretty cool, I've certainly spent a ton of effort implementing that sort of thing manually for similar services over the years. 120
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 18/07/2026Finally figured out how to change a Vivaldi installation from User to Machine: create file Application/viv.sys. Useful since Machine can't have a custom installation directory, but does have a Prompt to Download and Prompt to Install update flow, instead of Auto Download and Install on Exit. 000
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 18/07/2026This tiny little spider has decided that the best place to spin webs is directly outside my door, where I almost run face-first into them every day. 200
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 17/07/2026You can be certain that when you hear someone say Chekhov's, it's only a matter of time until they also say Gun. 000
Ben Hutchison @aldaviva.com · 17/07/2026It's exhausting to be constantly vigilant for opportunities to slice things into smaller things, copy electronic files, or read a book, but this is the burden of those of us who take the EDC pledge. #edc #everydaycarry #gear #loadout #minimalist #tactical 000
