Rory Gianni @digitalwestie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026crazy wikipedia page of the day en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsuya...en.wikipedia.orgMitsuyasu Maeno - Wikipedia 000
Reposted by Rory GianniOlly Headey @olly.world · 24/09/2026"It's the end of Rails World as we know it (and I feel fine)" Some thoughts on the DHH keynote. Must be a weird vibe in that conference hall... #railsworld #rails olly.world/its-the-end-...olly.worldIt’s the end of Rails World as we know it (and I feel fine) - OllyProgramming frameworks come and go. They usually get slowly mothballed as developers move on to something new, shiny, simpler, faster, or more interesting.... 4203
Rory Gianni @digitalwestie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026On the one hand, we must roll with the times on the other hand... my god what a way to utterly shit spray on every speaker and attendee at #railsworld. Incredible stuff. 020
Rory Gianni @digitalwestie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Scouring bsky for #RailsWorld go-er reactions to the 37signals bomb but not really finding any? What gives? I want some drama. 310
Rory Gianni @digitalwestie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026SPACESHIPS ▸ 617 pts · wave 21 · 94 wrecked ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓░ NAVIGATOR III can you beat it? spaceships.treybastian.comspaceships.treybastian.comSPACESHIPSInverted Asteroids: you are not the ship. Place gravity wells and sling the rocks. 011
Reposted by Rory GianniTrey Bastian @treybastian.com · 16/09/2026SPACESHIPS ▸ 443 pts · wave 19 · 76 wrecked · #1 today ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓░ NAVIGATOR III can you beat it? spaceships.treybastian.comspaceships.treybastian.comSPACESHIPSInverted Asteroids: you are not the ship. Place gravity wells and sling the rocks. 101
Rory Gianni @digitalwestie.bsky.social · 09/09/2026First blog post in, well, years? rgianni.com/posts/a-doom...rgianni.comA Doom Ride-Along: Understanding 2.5D RenderingLearning Doom-style 2.5D rendering by converting map coordinatess to screen pixels using Ruby, Spinel, and SDL. 010
Rory Gianni @digitalwestie.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Just got some linkedin spam offering to grow brand awareness by editing wikipediastatic.klipy.comAndrew Klavan's Disgusted ReactionALT: Andrew Klavan's Disgusted Reaction 010
Rory Gianni @digitalwestie.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Starting to see github repos could have been a single .sh file 000
Rory Gianni @digitalwestie.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Lol, turning the tables on automating workers: "Work happens around the clock; leadership doesn't scale with it. Decisions queue, seats sit unfilled, and your best people spend their days chasing status. Open Executive is the open, proactive AI executive team" sentelabs.ai#open-executive 000
Rory Gianni @digitalwestie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Massively distracted from my regular work. Giving @matz.bsky.social 's Spinel a go, and for first time ever writing Ruby and getting out a compiled binary! SDL library playing nicely providing native drawing and events. 000
Reposted by Rory Giannihenry ✷ @strange.website · 26/08/2026as a boy i really hoped these puppies would feature more heavily in adult life than it seems like they're going to 71638
Rory Gianni @digitalwestie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026🙋Do you have #opensource stewardship experience? If that's you, then I'd love to chat (15mins) ideally in next few days. I need to make recommendations on the direction of a large project soon and could do with some advice. 010
Reposted by Rory GianniRachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026and it's really difficult to rebel against eg being in a WhatsApp group with 3 other people who might pick up your kid after school, even if you loathe meta with an abiding passion. So it makes sense that people will protest physical infra - esp if it is extractive and ugly 4584
Rory Gianni @digitalwestie.bsky.social · 24/08/2026If you're into fashion/cinema/photography and in Stirling area, head over to the Macrobert Art Centre and check out my dad's exhibition. www.macrobertartscentre.org/shows/821027... 020
Rory Gianni @digitalwestie.bsky.social · 21/08/2026www.experimental-history.com/p/i-like-em-... Yeah this was good, really good, and it makes sense to me, thickness you can feel. It's the film or the book of that thing you saw that you're still thinking aboutexperimental-history.comI like 'em thickOR: an apology to my English teachers 000
Rory Gianni @digitalwestie.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Of late, I'm going "down the stack" trying to understand internals of stuff. Discovered @fabinou.bsky.social 's fabulous blog and book on Doom 1111
Reposted by Rory GianniJacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Intellectually I know this, but seeing it on a graph makes me wince www.ft.com/content/ec59... 8210103
Rory Gianni @digitalwestie.bsky.social · 11/08/2026"Anyone can generate now. That race is over and it was never worth winning. The discipline that remains—the one the machine cannot rent you and the dashboard cannot see—is in the deletion." notashelf.dev/posts/taste-...notashelf.devTaste Is All That's Left | BlogOn what is left to do once the machine can make anything, and why taste is the last craft worth keeping. 000
Rory Gianni @digitalwestie.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Filling in a thing, and I've been asked my favourite software dev books or blogs. It's somewhat stopped me in my tracks, I'm not sure I have any. 100
Rory Gianni @digitalwestie.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Ever-bigger? Car size at a crossroads - www.transportenvironment.org/share/ever-b...transportenvironment.orgCampaigning for cleaner transport in EuropeEurope’s leading advocates for clean transport & energy 000
Rory Gianni @digitalwestie.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Why do I see so many memes on Reddit with the Prime watermark on it? 🤔 100
Rory Gianni @digitalwestie.bsky.social · 25/06/2026As rough as that was it wasn't as bad as watching Scotland-Morocco 000
Reposted by Rory Giannipeterkwells @peterkwells.com · 22/06/2026"Data centres don't use that much water So why did people think they do?" rowlandmanthorpe.substack.com/p/data-centr...rowlandmanthorpe.substack.comData centres don't use that much waterSo why did people think they do? 121
Rory Gianni @digitalwestie.bsky.social · 20/06/2026I hate to bring up refereeing, but this guy is confusing as hell #sco #mar 000
Reposted by Rory GianniWill Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Parents: is YOUR child staying up late at night arguing about the costs of HS2? 720541
Rory Gianni @digitalwestie.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Changing my career to whatever would necessitate a Fiat tris 010
Rory Gianni @digitalwestie.bsky.social · 08/06/2026On the topic of enshittification, I am basically unable to transfer and pay a tradesman because he has a new monzo business account. My bank simply says "no, too risky", despite the poor sod working his socks off in my garden. Consequently, I need to fanny about with cash for next few days. 121
Rory Gianni @digitalwestie.bsky.social · 08/06/2026www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree/ "the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved into enshittification and how to resist it"forbrukerradet.noBreaking FreeIn the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved into enshittification and how to resist it. 111
Rory Gianni @digitalwestie.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Ha what delight. "CrankGPT is a fully offline and off-the-grid AI box." squeezlabs.github.io/handcrank/ 110
Reposted by Rory GianniIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 04/06/2026This was a groundbreaking piece of work. A work so good it means a life well spent. Millions of people understand Iran, the diaspora and the weird bittersweet details of the immigrant experience through the work she did. 17781156
Reposted by Rory GianniCSS by T. Afif @css-only.dev · 28/05/2026What about a straight line that bends when the circles get closer and stretches when they get farther. It's surely not possible using pure CSS, right? Right!? 👀 css-tip.com/bending-line/ Probably my new favorite demo, powered by the modern features. CSS is awesome! 😍 713220
Rory Gianni @digitalwestie.bsky.social · 26/05/2026It's all going a bit Frank Herbert www.vatican.va/content/leo-...vatican.vaEncyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026)ENCYCLICAL LETTER MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV ON SAFEGUARDING THE HUMAN PERSON IN THE TIME OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE [ Multimedia ] ___________________________ 000
Reposted by Rory GianniOpen Web Advocacy @open-web-advocacy.org · 22/05/2026Firefox now supports Web Serial on desktop 🦊 This means web apps can connect to compatible hardware devices such as microcontrollers, development boards, 3D printers, power meters, and other serial-connected hardware. Allowing the Web to do even more! 📖Read more: 🧵👇️ (1/11)blog.mozilla.orgMozilla and Adafruit bring Web Serial workflows to Firefox | The Mozilla BlogLaunching Web Serial in Firefox 151 The web is built by communities, but not all communities use the web the same way. That philosophy shaped part of 28215
Rory Gianni @digitalwestie.bsky.social · 24/05/2026No Juve. Como in the champions league. Roma return. Magnificent. #seriea 010
Reposted by Rory Giannidaniel wraith @danielroe.dev · 12/05/2026it’s a big ask > think a little bit and don’t be a prick 0304
Rory Gianni @digitalwestie.bsky.social · 11/05/2026With Mike Berners-Lee et al involved the nebriefing.org should provide a legit view on #climate situation. Can't make this viewing but coming up this week if you're in #Edinburgh www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/peoples-em...eventbrite.co.ukPeople’s Emergency Briefing Film Screening – EdinburghJoin one of two screenings of the People’s Emergency Briefing film, followed by discussion exploring what action could look like locally. 000
Rory Gianni @digitalwestie.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Ugh, checking out someone's sideproject repo on gh with a couple of forks and a few stars. The only issue and pr are from two different founders basically shilling their startup. 010
Rory Gianni @digitalwestie.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Facing a deep internal battle not to become a total grump about how things are going 020
Reposted by Rory GianniMira Missingtexture @fedi.argentumcation.zip · 06/05/2026You're not supposed to use the 2-in-1 shampoo because it violates the Unix philosophy 8548222
Rory Gianni @digitalwestie.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Does anyone want daily updates? Just let me use my software. 000
Rory Gianni @digitalwestie.bsky.social · 04/05/2026These are delightful! www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...www3.nhk.or.jpTexico | NHK WORLD-JAPANLearn the principles of programming without even touching a computer in this new-style education program. Unique animated characters assist in the fun and lucid introduction of 5 core programming proc... 010