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Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh

@kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk
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Professional code wrangler, amateur tea drinker, part-time cuddler (but willing to go full time for the right people). Warning: This catboy contains much *nya*, which is known to the State of Catifornia to cause cuteness.

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Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 27/08/2026
As a highly available developer, I ensure I keep everything at a n+2 redundancy. For example, we normally expect a steady rate of 0 mistakes, but I ensure that I am always making at least 2 mistakes at at time for proper redundancy.
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Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 10/08/2026
Sometimes, one must accept, embrace, and enjoy that Miqo are darn hot
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Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 05/07/2026
Also, Solar Panels.
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Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 11/05/2026
In response to the sheer amount of image data on web pages, I'm adding "this image could have been a vector" next to "this meeting could have been an email" on the wall of stock lines.
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Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 23/05/2026
Remember to give your Discord guilds appropriate enrichment based on their interests. For example, some discords may find having a spreadsheet they can fill out and keep up-to-date an excellent communal bonding activity.
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Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 12/05/2026
This is why I case Ephemerate on myself every night, to allow me to return as a new person in the upkeep.
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Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 11/05/2026
The SVG version of my avatar image less than 4kB (including white-space and comments). With gzip it compresses to 1,164 bytes, leaving 336 bytes of space for TCP and HTTP headers in a single Ethernet frame. I miss designing things (professionally) that way...
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Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 11/05/2026
In response to the sheer amount of image data on web pages, I'm adding "this image could have been a vector" next to "this meeting could have been an email" on the wall of stock lines.
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Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 10/04/2026
That is simply how Sorin imagines humans imagine a protector. No other reasons. Ignore the glowing scrying orb calling from the shelf.
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RedScharlach @redscharlach.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower
The sun rising over the London skyline this morning, only it’s a very cloudy sky and the sun is visible only as an orange streak of fire that coincidentally seems to be emanating from the spire on the top of St Paul’s dome
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Luna @moonbase.lgbt · 13/12/2025
oh, to be a cat, unburdened
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Aubo 🏳️‍⚧️ Shop update 10/24! 👻🧡 @aubryjoi.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Eepy enby kitty stack 🥱💜 [ #nonbinary #cuteart #non-binary ]
A hand holding a sticker showing four cute, stylized cats stacked and all very sleepy. They are each one color of the non-binary flag, in order: yellow, white, purple, black. The sticker has a glittery coating.
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Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 29/06/2025
Based on conversation elsewhere, I have realised this will require a ChangeManagementMeetingAutoscaler component which if the backlog of unscheduled pods grow will add more people to the change management meetings in order to make decisions faster.
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Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 29/06/2025
Don’t treat your workloads like cattle or pets, treat them like many big bureaucracies treat humans (a way that is unhelpful all around)
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Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 29/06/2025
Cursed #kubernetes idea: a ManualReviewScheduler that, wherever a new Pod resource is created, raises a service ticket back at corporate asking which node it should be assigned to. Each pod becomes a line item in a change management meeting.
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Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 18/06/2025
Yes?
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Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 18/06/2025
Very honoured to go on a tour of a polyhedral dice mine; here’s a photo of raw dice before polishing, numbering, and balancing.
Photo of a rock museum display. Small naturally occurring chunks of purple-to-brown Almandin (a type of iron-aluminium garnet) form shapes like polyhedral dice used for table top games. They are contained in a chunk of white rock about a foot (30cm) in diameter.
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Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 18/06/2025
If not we can just reboot and put it back, no problems
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Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 18/06/2025
Can we meld two 32 bit architectures together to create the 64 one we need?
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Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 18/06/2025
At least you can be sure that the live stream chat will only have wrong answers. Which is another way it is the same as gaming
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Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 13/06/2025
If reviews start describing games and art as “polysaturated” I’m going to get so excited and rapidly so disappointed.
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Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 25/05/2025
What’s the efficiency rating?
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Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 23/05/2025
Hey, that Displacer Beast is my emotional support animal! (The emotion is “fear”)
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Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 04/05/2025
Ok, untap, perfectly order my deck, uhhh, help, how do I get to upkeep?
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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Holy shit. Sex Matters, LGB Alliance, Transgender Trend and Genspect have gone full mask off. If you want to look, you can see the link in post below. I’ll be writing to every MP I can to alert them to this. Flip sake. Go to watch #StewartLee and come back to this.
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a man in a suit and tie is singing into a microphone while standing on a stage .
Alt: a man in a suit and tie (comedian. Stewart Lee) is making goofy faces and noises into a microphone
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Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 30/04/2025
Or, some repeatable Fling 🤔
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Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 30/04/2025
It was going so well until that final moment
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Sy Brand @tartanllama.xyz · 08/04/2025
"Professionalism" is a ploy to stop more programmers from wearing cat ears because it makes them too powerful
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vaguely reassuring state machines @happyautomata.com · 11/03/2025
🌸🌹🌼🍁🍂🍃🌲🌳
A randomly generated finite state machine, made of the emoji 🌸, 🌹, 🌼, 🍁, 🍂, 🍃, 🌲, 🌳
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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 11/03/2025
Rhetoric is a skill entirely separate from "being correct."
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Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 11/03/2025
Today in review, through the medium of version control branch names: - INC-1483 - INC1483 (for the one system that can't handle dashes in slugs) - nya - raise-the-technical-deficit-ceiling - nyaaaa - nyaaaaaaaa.a
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Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 05/03/2025
Time for a “whenever this becomes tapped” deck
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Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 28/02/2025
Cat Realtor: "So this next box is a knock-through for extra space" Cat: "...this is stack of delivery pizza boxes with the middles clawed out" Realtor: "A knock-through!"
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Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 21/02/2025
Maybe back pain was a plague sent to programming after the invention of C++?
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Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 20/02/2025
we'll snugg and we'll mewl, like true sleepy kitties snugg and we'll mewl amongst soft blankies 'til we fall sleeping in the channel of fair dreaming from sundown to sunrise is a long 40 winks
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Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 12/02/2025
Developers Hate Him For Following This One Secret Technique (actually reading the JIRA ticket)
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Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 11/02/2025
(For anyone who doesn't have random logic problems lodged in their brain and would like additional context, these are plays on the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barber_... and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dining_...)
en.wikipedia.org
Barber paradox - Wikipedia
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Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 11/02/2025
When out and about, I try to hold the hands of nearby partners. However, I do so in a specific order occasionally leading to handhold-deadlocks.
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Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 11/02/2025
My role in the polycule? I give headpats to all cuties who do not headpat themselves.
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Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 09/02/2025
The clock ticks unaware of our existence. We watch the hands turn. 
Time to hang up the laundry.
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Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 09/02/2025
Time is inexorably slipping into the past. There is a darkness at the periphery of things. Time to do laundry.
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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 06/02/2025
Quick! ChatGPT is down send a litmus test to all your coworkers to see if they actually know anything.
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Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 01/02/2025
I dunno, with some of the one drops out there, is a 16/16 for zero still fast enough? /j
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Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 29/01/2025
There's sleepy kitteh on your timeline Guess found the little "new post" sign? If you ask a sleepy kitteh, If they'll be post more tomorrow A soft-tune waddles in and then they both sing you a song. meow meow meow meow sleepy kitteh nya nya nya nya little sing-song. we'll see you tomorrow :3
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Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 29/01/2025
There’s a kube container on the V M Is the kube container meant to eat mem? If you ask a kube container, if they’ll be running later The scheduler waddles in and the kube container’s gone
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Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 29/01/2025
(To be read to the tune of www.tiktok.com/@doctor_waff...)
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Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 29/01/2025
There's a sleepy kitteh on your time line Do they know know what's going on this time? If you ask a sleepy kitteh, if they're getting dreamy, An incident waddles in and sleepy kitteh's gone.
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peterb from Tea Leaves Programming @peterb.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
"Dick Pick died at age 56 due to stroke complications" oh COME ON.
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Alice Averlong 🏳️‍⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 28/01/2025
computers are a completely normal field where there are databases built on descendants of PICK OS, a database made in the 60s to organize parts for a helicopter that never existed, for a system called Generalized Information Retrieval Language System (GIRLS), as created by a guy named Dick Pick.
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