Kate @katef.bsky.social · 8htrying to understand code i wrote recently where i construct two different arrays of different element counts, and use the same index for both, and it's CORRECT. and thinking 1. how can i delete this 2. i could be dancing instead 2220
Kate @katef.bsky.social · 28/09/2026i'm guessing rabbit lady wouldn't have blocked me if i hadn't included (1) here. i still haven't found a way to encourage people to write alt text without sounding like i'm annoyed about it. that's most likely because i'm annoyed about it 3250
Kate @katef.bsky.social · 28/09/2026okay listen up 1. write alt text, i will add some below 2. someone being fun isn't good criteria for a lasting friendship. it's maybe a good start. but then you have to BUILD A FOUNDATION that the rest of the friendship lives on 3. that part is how you do better than "hey" 1170
Kate @katef.bsky.social · 27/09/2026measuring things in years sucks. there's gotta be something better 7201
Reposted by KateAnnette @weeble.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I gathered lots of useful data. Like "tell players they do not need to break and enter, or climb anything". Also "do not take photographs in an area that may induce players to breach section 41 of the Criminal Justice Act 1925". 2101
Reposted by KateWhoAreYouPerson @whoareyouperson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026"this wall is in fierce motion, but not at a timescale that we can understand." -kate's alt-text. beautiful reminds me of portal 2. a near abandoned facility taken back by nature, brutally violating humanity's intent for structure permanence. nature thrives in our absence of timely maintenance 191
Kate @katef.bsky.social · 25/09/2026~ The Five Stages of Grief ~ according to yours truly 1. anger 2. crying 3. anger again 2. more crying 1. anger 1380
Kate @katef.bsky.social · 25/09/2026in no small part it was fun because of people who are no longer here 1353
Reposted by KateKate @katef.bsky.social · 25/09/2026looks the same as every other book on topology to me 5242
Kate @katef.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"Also it seems ai has been merrily hacking into the hugging thingy site and also one of Australia sites all in its own." my mum, who knows i work for The Internet, regularly lets me know what's going on with the Websites 🥺 1580
Kate @katef.bsky.social · 22/09/2026i asked my neighbour for help today, because i got a bit of grit (read: an enormous rock) in my eye and i couldn't get it out. she declined to help, which i honestly wasn't expecting. what happened to someone that they won't help you get something out of your eye? 4220
Kate @katef.bsky.social · 22/09/2026what kind of PPE do you wear to stop you being scared of spiders 11221
Kate @katef.bsky.social · 22/09/2026opinions please? i think that's for big stuff like lathes and drill presses, where if it gets caught it'd pull you into the machine? and then you can't escape and you get mashed into a fine paste. but for handheld tools if they get caught, the tool pulls out of your hand. hm. 5111
Kate @katef.bsky.social · 21/09/2026i bought this adorable 12V circular saw. it's about the size of a good sardine. it is incapable of cutting any timber i have 7281
Kate @katef.bsky.social · 20/09/2026> Hi Katherine, > Saw your contributions to libfsm and thought there could be a fit with <insert name of their shitty product here>. my *contributions* to libfsm you say 4410
Kate @katef.bsky.social · 20/09/2026we're kids when we're getting surgeries, adult men when we're in a bathroom 0458
Kate @katef.bsky.social · 18/09/2026planned obsolescence! this laser level is definitely designed to stop working after it falls off a ladder, bounces against a wall and gets kicked into a hole. anyway I fixed it hooray 1394
Kate @katef.bsky.social · 16/09/2026took some time off work, went dancing tonight to get out of work headspace, danced with a guy in an adjacent town, and he's a compiler engineer and knows like half my colleagues and we talked about AST nodes and targeting ISAs via higher level IRs HOW DO I STOP WORKING PLEASE HELP 2985
Kate @katef.bsky.social · 16/09/2026in "i definitely don't have adhd news" i got on this train about 10s before it departed, probably about a minute total from leaving my house to the train departing. including buying a ticket. also it's the right train! it's even going near where I wanted to go 1330
Kate @katef.bsky.social · 15/09/2026become my manager! i'm hiring. pros: you get to manage me. other pros: you also get to manage other people too, they're good and competent and i like them a lot. cons: THERE AREN"T ANY CONS SEND ME YOUR CV. ps. please be good at being a manager 5437
Kate @katef.bsky.social · 11/09/2026considering electric shock collars attached to CI failures for improving team morale 3533
Kate @katef.bsky.social · 11/09/2026the fly brain is just the bits of gold foil without the little puffs of air though, isn't it? 081
Kate @katef.bsky.social · 09/09/2026when i'm making an omelette and i am adding ham to my omelette, as i move the ham closer and closer towards the omelette... i would really, really like for my brain to stop telling me the hamming distance 2481
Reposted by Kateaustin (e/accordion 🪗) @thebadcode.com · 09/09/2026this is like those nightmares where you’re trying to drive a car from the back seat 0271
Reposted by KateSnoot 🐾 @snoot.pink · 08/09/2026had a similar thing occur with the “clear” command because a team member got annoyed it’d, er, clear their terminal, so they just replaced it with a blank file 1132
Reposted by KateJoh @joh.dev · 08/09/2026Fun fact: the og /bin/true was an empty file. Which runs successfully and does nothing. Hence $?=0 2214
Kate @katef.bsky.social · 08/09/2026; sudo systemctl start $(something) ; sudo systemctl is-active ; sudo systemctl help ; sudo systemctl hello ; echo $? 0 my colleague (with both the foresight of apollo and the insight of athena): file $(which systemctl) friends /usr/bin/systemctl was an EMPTY FILE. how does this happen 2214312
Reposted by KateKate @katef.bsky.social · 07/09/2026something i think most people miss in alt text: conveying the *feeling* for the image, and what strikes you immediately when glancing at it. you nailed those. these are bewildering things to look at! why would we describe them clinically and precisely, you know? 1204
Kate @katef.bsky.social · 07/09/2026something i find absolutely exhausting, discussion about this stuff is always so guy-coded, it's all what's most efficient or most impactful, or produces some result or whatever. always the most of something. i don't care about any of that. i enjoy writing code. why do we gotta optimise our output 913018
Kate @katef.bsky.social · 06/09/2026wish i'd thought to screenshot this. IBM tweeted "what are mainframes good for?", i replied "getting railed against", and they blocked me :D and then later deleted their tweet 2761
Reposted by KateRosabelle Houdin @rosabelini.bsky.social · 05/09/2026@katef.bsky.social what do you use to make the waveform visualiser? 131
Reposted by Katefrank: print witch @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social · 05/09/2026We had Ks in Welsh until some bloke decided to translate the bible into the language & the printers were like, we don't have enough Ks for this project so they swapped them for Cs instead 49816
Kate @katef.bsky.social · 05/09/2026every time i apt upgrade my laptop, happyautomata breaks in a new and exciting way. i genuinely can't imagine what would cause this failure mode 4410
Kate @katef.bsky.social · 04/09/2026> Unable to connect. Check your internet connection and try again. Bitch i work for the internet wtf 2533
Reposted by KatePlashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Two of my excellent and now departed colleagues are giving an online talk tonight on Moomins: Grief, Comfort and Loss. events.humanitix.com/moomins-grie...events.humanitix.comMoomins: Grief, Comfort & LossA public online lecture exploring the ways in which Moomin characters - particularly Toft and Toffle - can aid in negotiating grief, loss and change. 14012
Kate @katef.bsky.social · 02/09/2026i danced with a canadian today. what are some cool things you can say to canadians? 5230
Kate @katef.bsky.social · 02/09/2026hello, british person here. TIL you are supposed to pan fry gnocchi 6200