Reposted by James Finnie-AnsleyEddie Antonio Santos @eddieantonio.ca · 27/09/2026Reason #47 for why you too should maintain a Python package called "crimes": 011
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 15/05/2026This is a hill I will die on: A4 paper is ugly. There is nothing you can do to the text on a piece of A4 paper to make it look nice. Single-column text is either too wide or has margins that are too large, and multi-column text has columns that are either too long or too skinny. 100
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 14/05/2026No cap, we can cook by knowledge-maxxing and investing in cracked human assets to code-mog the competitors. BFFR, these goofy ahh jestermaxxing iPad kid sloperators are low-key mid 🥀 010
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 06/05/2026How I feel when a digital library downloads a .bib file instead of letting me copy and paste the BibTeX 010
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 30/04/2026How many more Microslop flopdates can GitDud handle before people really start looking for alternatives? 🥀 010
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 17/04/2026Rule #1 of live coding presentations: make the font larger, and then make it larger than that. 010
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 16/04/2026At this point they could put AI in Velveeta™ cheese product and I wouldn't be surprised.rnz.co.nzKiwi founded shoe company Allbirds pivots to AIThe Kiwi-founded shoe company is changing its name to NewBird AI, with shares surging 700%. 110
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 14/04/2026Why is it that whenever I near finishing a book I can’t stop myself from imagining what it will look like on my bookshelf when I’m finished with it like I’m Alfonso II d’Este. 100
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 13/04/2026AI is entering its legacy epoch. We are in a new era of quantum-resilient zero-trust blockchain-native encryption ecosystems that will fundamentally change the trust layer solutions for digital stakeholders. The future is in next-gen quantum distributed ledgers with end-to-end cryptographic agility. 210
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 07/04/2026Technical debt? Cognitive debt? Comprehension debt? How about “debt debt”: the debt we’re in because we’re just sitting around talking about how much debt we’re in while the gears of the machine grind unwaveringly onward. 000
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 06/04/2026I’m always looking for more digital stores to add to drm-free.info. If you know of any drm-free digital media/software vendors please feel free to contribute to the project by making an issue or pull request (repo linked in site footer), or let me know of any stores I’ve missed and I can add them.drm-free.infodrm-free.infoA list of DRM-free vendors for music, books, and other media 021
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 31/03/2026Here are seven inspirational quotes to use as epigraphs for your thesis: 110
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 26/03/2026Quotes from the middle ground: a couple of sticks together are alright. 000
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 25/03/2026Quotes from the middle ground: you can have half a cake and eat the other. 010
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 04/03/2026I wonder if some weirdo is going to create an auto-cleanroom tool that uses LLMs to duplicate software using fuzzing to test byte-for-byte equivalent behaviour. They'll probably give it a stupid name like ClawdRoom or GPTFuzz or something. 200
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 04/03/2026The connect and disconnect notification sounds on my headphones unexpectedly changed. This might be enough to finally push me over the edge. 010
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 28/02/2026Every time I see these stupid laundry capsules at the supermarket I think "Oh cool, they got C merch!" before I am bitterly disappointed when I realise what they are. 010
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 17/02/2026Beautiful. The AI generated a touching photo of meemaw holding a bottle of Coca-Cola® and using her favourite VPN on her new Microsoft Surface Laptop®. Those were her two favourite things in the whole world. It’s just how I remember her. 010
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 14/02/2026That feeling when you’re a supervised process amiright? #OTPMemes 110
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 12/02/2026I am being incredibly normal about the new barista at the café I go to 020
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 06/02/2026I love that having any accessibility options set in GNOME adds this little ghoulie to the top bar 110
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 28/01/2026COLD-HEARTED BREAKUP? Man seen across supermarket aisle already wearing wedding ring. More on this story as and when we have it. 010
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 24/01/2026Maybe they’re going to play 4d chess and try to reclaim the word slop 000
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 23/01/2026I keep on thinking about this tweet I posted on my (since deleted) Twitter... because, I didn't make a viral Tumblr post about a horse in 2019, but I did make a viral Tumblr post about a horse in 2023, and I keep wondering if I'm four years off and 2028 is going to be curtains for me 010
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 09/01/2026Oh yeah? Can your iPhone do THIS? *clicks a button that makes the battery puff up like a balloon* 010
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 28/12/2025I don’t know how much longer I can go on wearing mini pumps and cooking roast chickens for dinner 010
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 07/12/2025Currently working on a project that feels like it will go nowhere, and my terminal is just rubbing salt in the wound. 020
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 29/11/2025Yeah, I’m seizing the means of production. What’s your excuse? 100
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 20/11/2025If one more person who hard-codes their font sizes tells me that I should be using AI to create websites, I'm going to have an episode. 010
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 15/11/2025I ask for a handful of shaved champagne ham and they give me too little. I ask for a big handful of shaved champagne ham and they give me too much. Every day, the nauseating and indifferent brutality of the world becomes harder to bear. 010
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 07/11/2025Prayers HERd? Secret to being called she/her found to be wearing a hat and unknowingly showing just a little bit of bra strap. More at 11. 110
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 05/10/2025I ❤️ International Sorganization for Ostandardization 020
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 03/10/2025The news ends with a report detailing the relaxation of ADA and EAA as a consequence of the latest round of third-term trade negotiations. The TV cuts to ads. With a single tear running down my cheek, I stand up and cry: “McDonald’s! McDonald’s! McDonald’s!” 000
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 02/10/2025Me looking at the Ankarsrum stand mixer web page: 010
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 29/09/2025Brb just going to chat with all my friends on GitHub 110
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 13/09/2025I feel people talk so much about how great metaphors are as a teaching tool that some people forget to actually teach the underlying topic after they have introduced a metaphor for it. We are instructors, not poets. Our ultimate goal is to teach people a topic, NOT to teach people about a metaphor. 010
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 10/05/2025Hemingway wishes he could have written something this emotional 000
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 30/03/2025Me (in anguish): It charged me $120 for accidentally clicking that stupid AI button The other Cyclopes on the island: What did? Me: Nothing! Nothing did! 000
