Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 27/08/2026As 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. 012
Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 10/08/2026Sometimes, one must accept, embrace, and enjoy that Miqo are darn hot 000
Reposted by Ben, a Cuddly KittehBen, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 11/05/2026In 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. 123
Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 23/05/2026Remember 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. 010
Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 12/05/2026This is why I case Ephemerate on myself every night, to allow me to return as a new person in the upkeep. 010
Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 11/05/2026The 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... 020
Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 11/05/2026In 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. 123
Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 10/04/2026That is simply how Sorin imagines humans imagine a protector. No other reasons. Ignore the glowing scrying orb calling from the shelf. 010
Reposted by Ben, a Cuddly KittehRedScharlach @redscharlach.bsky.social · 21/12/2025Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower 10979291569
Reposted by Ben, a Cuddly KittehAubo 🏳️⚧️ Shop update 10/24! 👻🧡 @aubryjoi.bsky.social · 15/07/2025Eepy enby kitty stack 🥱💜 [ #nonbinary #cuteart #non-binary ] 101187344
Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 29/06/2025Based 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. 020
Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 29/06/2025Don’t treat your workloads like cattle or pets, treat them like many big bureaucracies treat humans (a way that is unhelpful all around) 020
Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 29/06/2025Cursed #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. 221
Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 18/06/2025Very honoured to go on a tour of a polyhedral dice mine; here’s a photo of raw dice before polishing, numbering, and balancing. 130
Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 18/06/2025If not we can just reboot and put it back, no problems 100
Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 18/06/2025Can we meld two 32 bit architectures together to create the 64 one we need? 120
Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 18/06/2025At 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 220
Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 13/06/2025If reviews start describing games and art as “polysaturated” I’m going to get so excited and rapidly so disappointed. 000
Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 23/05/2025Hey, that Displacer Beast is my emotional support animal! (The emotion is “fear”) 000
Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 04/05/2025Ok, untap, perfectly order my deck, uhhh, help, how do I get to upkeep? 020
Reposted by Ben, a Cuddly KittehPhilippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Holy 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.media.tenor.coma 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 1710330
Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 30/04/2025It was going so well until that final moment 160
Reposted by Ben, a Cuddly KittehSy Brand @tartanllama.xyz · 08/04/2025"Professionalism" is a ploy to stop more programmers from wearing cat ears because it makes them too powerful 1432350
Reposted by Ben, a Cuddly Kittehvaguely reassuring state machines @happyautomata.com · 11/03/2025🌸🌹🌼🍁🍂🍃🌲🌳 1154
Reposted by Ben, a Cuddly KittehSwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 11/03/2025Rhetoric is a skill entirely separate from "being correct." 1029029
Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 11/03/2025Today 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 010
Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 05/03/2025Time for a “whenever this becomes tapped” deck 050
Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 28/02/2025Cat 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!" 000
Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 21/02/2025Maybe back pain was a plague sent to programming after the invention of C++? 000
Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 20/02/2025we'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 000
Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 12/02/2025Developers Hate Him For Following This One Secret Technique (actually reading the JIRA ticket) 011
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.orgBarber paradox - Wikipedia 000
Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 11/02/2025When 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. 110
Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 11/02/2025My role in the polycule? I give headpats to all cuties who do not headpat themselves. 110
Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 09/02/2025The clock ticks unaware of our existence. We watch the hands turn. Time to hang up the laundry. 000
Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 09/02/2025Time is inexorably slipping into the past. There is a darkness at the periphery of things. Time to do laundry. 120
Reposted by Ben, a Cuddly KittehSwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 06/02/2025Quick! ChatGPT is down send a litmus test to all your coworkers to see if they actually know anything. 1832948
Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 01/02/2025I dunno, with some of the one drops out there, is a 16/16 for zero still fast enough? /j 150
Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 29/01/2025There'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 :3 010
Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 29/01/2025There’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 100
Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 29/01/2025(To be read to the tune of www.tiktok.com/@doctor_waff...) 000
Ben, a Cuddly Kitteh @kitteh.tea-cats.co.uk · 29/01/2025There'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. 210
Reposted by Ben, a Cuddly Kittehpeterb from Tea Leaves Programming @peterb.bsky.social · 28/01/2025"Dick Pick died at age 56 due to stroke complications" oh COME ON. 0341
Reposted by Ben, a Cuddly KittehAlice Averlong 🏳️⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 28/01/2025computers 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. 25878199