Reposted by @jarimatti.bsky.socialGeorge The Station Cat @george-station-cat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Good morning and welcome to tuna Tuesday Spread kindness around like cat hair, everywhere, on everything, and impossible to get rid of. No surface should remain untouched. 281896220
Reposted by @jarimatti.bsky.socialHelen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026As both an academic and a writer, I am repelled by the "this looks like a long document. Would you like me to summarize it for you?" that seems to appear at the top of every pdf viewer now. NO. The *entire point* of good writing (either books or journal papers) is that every sentence has a purpose. 1354044792
Reposted by @jarimatti.bsky.socialdawn of the debb @debbshock.com · 30/07/2026this owl has just about had it with the bullshit and me too 312481483
Reposted by @jarimatti.bsky.socialEmily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 20/06/2026This isn’t actually funny but I keep cackling to myself when people say we should pursue AI because it will tell us how to solve climate change. Like, we *know* how, we’re just not. ::burns so much fossil fuel to ask:: hey AI, what do? AI: “stop burning fossil fuel” 24818205
Reposted by @jarimatti.bsky.socialGeorge The Station Cat @george-station-cat.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Night night sweet dreamies Just a little reminder that all you can do is the best you can do, so don’t be so hard on yourself. 1061756
Reposted by @jarimatti.bsky.socialGeorge The Station Cat @george-station-cat.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Night night sweet dreamies The things we regret most are often the chances we never took. The roads left unexplored. The words left unsaid The people we never reached out to Have no regrets ❤️ 763863
Reposted by @jarimatti.bsky.socialKJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 18/05/2026I am once again begging, praying, weeping for lists of written instructions rather than videos. I do not want to watch your two minute video in the hope of catching the two seconds where you whizz past what goddamn menu the thing is under. Write. It. Down. 165108162617
Reposted by @jarimatti.bsky.socialMikko Tuomi @mustapipa.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Tässä on JWST:n kuva yhdestä pienestä nurkkauksesta taivasta. Paria edustan tähteä lukuunottamatta, kaikki mämä ovat galakseja kuten Linnunrata. Maailmankaikkeus on valtava paikka. 820416
Reposted by @jarimatti.bsky.socialCharlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 17/04/2026What's your favourite Bible verse? (Wrong answers only.) ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn — Book of Dead Names, 2:14 3720925
Reposted by @jarimatti.bsky.socialDan Ciruli @danciruli.cloud · 19/02/2026I worked on a few fairly prominent efforts in open source (Istio, OpenAPI), but I think of all of them, it’s gRPC that I think has the coolest story. Pull up a chair and set for a spell (any inaccuracies in what follows are 100% my fault for having a bad memory!). 518945
Reposted by @jarimatti.bsky.socialGeorge The Station Cat @george-station-cat.bsky.social · 03/12/2025Good morning & welcome to Whiskers Wednesday If you wait until you feel ‘better’ to start living, you might be waiting forever Go live your life Do it sad Do it anxious Do it uncertain Healing doesn’t always come before the experience. Sometimes the experience is what heals you 191223107
Reposted by @jarimatti.bsky.socialGeorge The Station Cat @george-station-cat.bsky.social · 30/10/2025Good morning welcome to Tippetty tap tap Thursday Don’t let anyone dull your sparkle. The world needs your light, your laughter, your quirks, your kindness. Keep shining, even when others don’t understand your glow. 25122991
Reposted by @jarimatti.bsky.socialEric Wastl @was.tl · 22/10/2025Hello, friends! After 10(!) years of #AdventOfCode, I've made some changes to preserve my sanity: there will be 12 days of puzzles each December (still starting Dec 1) and there is no longer a global leaderboard. Read more: adventofcode.com/2025/about#f... adventofcode.com/2025/about#f... 51613119
Reposted by @jarimatti.bsky.socialYaron Minsky @yminsky.bsky.social · 23/10/2025We've had an exciting couple of weeks full of opportunities to teach people about the exciting (and mildly bewildering) features of OxCaml. And...we're looking to hire an experienced educator to help us in this work. Please share this with anyone you think might be a good fit! 1184
Reposted by @jarimatti.bsky.socialRomeu Moura @malk-zameth.bsky.social · 21/10/2025Have we looked in the British museum to be sure they are not behind the Louvre‘s heist ? 042
Reposted by @jarimatti.bsky.socialHazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 16/10/2025I see teams building massive react apps that could be static and then complaining they need to maintain it constantly. Babes, it’s designed for constant churn, of course it needs unnecessary maintenance work There’s nothing wrong with that, but if you need minimal maintenance, pick the platform 1191
Reposted by @jarimatti.bsky.socialGeorge The Station Cat @george-station-cat.bsky.social · 11/10/2025Good morning & welcome to #Caturday You are yourself, and you know what? Being yourself is enough. Send yourself a love letter and then take the time to read it to yourself. Express your heartfelt love to yourself. 2287960
Reposted by @jarimatti.bsky.socialIn Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 30/09/2025I’m not sure I want to know what he’s done this time… 1141233
Reposted by @jarimatti.bsky.socialGeorge The Station Cat @george-station-cat.bsky.social · 29/09/2025Night night sweet dreamies Some friends feel like home & sometimes that friend can be you The one who lets you be tired & messy The one who doesn’t ask you to be anything other than yourself. Choose yourself, even on the hard days Be that kind of friend to yourself 999367
Reposted by @jarimatti.bsky.socialGeorge The Station Cat @george-station-cat.bsky.social · 04/09/2025Good morning welcome to Tippetty tap tap Thursday For today, embrace it fully. Capture the little moments, tell someone you love them, smile at a stranger, and dare to do the things that once made you hesitate. 16100169
Reposted by @jarimatti.bsky.socialAlasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 18/08/2025We've lost so much progress lately. I swear someone is unplugging during autosaves. 837451
Reposted by @jarimatti.bsky.socialdaniel:// stenberg:// @bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2025"Exposure of Hard-coded Private Keys and Credentials in #curl Source Repository" a "critical" issue. We have this test suite in git... 165
Reposted by @jarimatti.bsky.socialDare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 20/07/2025Hanging in the window of my local comic book store. 227441
Reposted by @jarimatti.bsky.socialMathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 15/08/2025There are only two hard problems in distributed systems: 2. Exactly-once delivery 1. Guaranteed order of messages 2. Exactly-once delivery 23010
Reposted by @jarimatti.bsky.socialKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 10/08/2025"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people 133103521998
Reposted by @jarimatti.bsky.socialDarryl Mott @gamerstavernshow.com · 01/08/2025If you want a weird but true fact to talk about: Dexter Holland, lead singer of The Offspring, was instrumental in this. His doctorial thesis in molecular biology was sequencing mRNA in HIV. The paper was also heavily cited in creating the COVID-19 vaccine. 157121114732
Reposted by @jarimatti.bsky.socialEttore Berardi @ettomatic.bsky.social · 21/07/2025We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join my team at the BBC! You can apply here: careers.bbc.co.uk/job/Senior-S... Please share ❤️ #elixirlang #myelixirstatus #aws #hiringcareers.bbc.co.ukSenior Software EngineerSenior Software Engineer 43920
Reposted by @jarimatti.bsky.socialCharles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 09/06/2025DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors. 113110832658
Reposted by @jarimatti.bsky.socialJosh Price @joshprice.com · 16/05/2025BBC went from 100s of servers to 12 Insane cost savings and still able to deal with the tsunami of traffic with no risk of failure. Think of the peace of mind it gives engineers and the business! 153
Reposted by @jarimatti.bsky.socialBlue Fairylicious Girl🧚 @bluesnowflake.bsky.social · 04/04/2025🤣 881369568344
Reposted by @jarimatti.bsky.socialdaniel:// stenberg:// @bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/03/2025On this day twenty-seven years ago, I released the first #curl version. I called it 4.0 as I kept the versioning from the previous names. 12218
Reposted by @jarimatti.bsky.socialHeather Miller @heathermiller.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Distributed Programming autocorrect of the day: Disturbed Programming Still not wrong 1273
Reposted by @jarimatti.bsky.socialChester Wisniewski 🇨🇦 @chetwisniewski.securitycafe.ca.ap.brid.gy · 13/12/2024h/t to @johnshier 21936
