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Scott M | Haunted Edition 🎃 @voxparlour.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Eerie Unbound is happening. The evolution of English Eerie

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Neil de Carteret @lumphammer.com · 24/08/2026

No cheating. Post the last photo of the sky from your camera roll.

A colobus monkey clambering along the top of rope in the treetops. He has a black body, with a fringe of white fur that rings his back, and a majestic in tuft of white fur at the end of his tail. He looks like he’s maybe heading off to get lunch.

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Neil de Carteret @lumphammer.com · 23/08/2026

Raccoon

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Neil de Carteret @lumphammer.com · 19/08/2026

I really need more a lot more people to back Merryshire Detective Club, the cost fantasy murder mystery TTRPG in the next 21 hours so we get the SRD add-ons www.backerkit.com/c/projects/p...

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Merryshire Detective Club

You play amateur detectives in a cozy-fantasy setting. Your band of plucky investigators solves mysteries (quite often, murder mysteries) that crop up with remarkable regularity in the lovely little h...

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Neil de Carteret @lumphammer.com · 22/06/2026

Why is there so much animus against .webp? The only reasons I can see are 1. you’re nicking images off websites and you don’t have tools to handle webp, and 2. Pixel art get smushed more by webp than jpeg.

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Astro @astro.build · 26/03/2026

Astro 6.1 is now available! More control over image optimization, more markdown configuration options, and updated hooks for working with i18n. astro.build/blog/astro-6...

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Astro 6.1 | Astro

Astro 6.1 introduces codec-specific Sharp image defaults, advanced SmartyPants configuration, and i18n fallback routes for integrations.

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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 13/01/2026

Guy who went to mime school: that’s a video. That’s a picture. That’s an octet stream.

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Claytonian @claytonian.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

If your RPG has "trail" in the title, I expect to be a western. Needless to say, Trail of Cthulhu has let me down.

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Neil de Carteret @lumphammer.com · 22/07/2025

I’ve always fancied turning my hand to font design. I think I’d be good at it. Perhaps in the same way that some men think they could successfully score a point against Serena Williams.

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Gareth Hanrahan @mytholder.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

I've got about several storylines from early Who, primarily in the Hart ton years and some from wee, but parts of joke issing.

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Neil de Carteret @lumphammer.com · 22/06/2025

My taste in horror gets darker and darker just so it continues to function as a counterpoint to reality

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Neil de Carteret @lumphammer.com · 19/06/2025

A wee poem I wrote for an immersive theatre thing tonight, which I didn’t end up needing.

A poem written in a heavy metal font on crumpled paper:

Entrails are red
Morals are grey
When the Blood God arrives
We will all become prey

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Neil de Carteret @lumphammer.com · 17/06/2025

There’s still time to pledge, and some great writers coming up in the next stretch goals!

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Graham Walmsley 🎲 @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Good morning! Julian Simpson (@juliansimpson.bsky.social) creator of the Lovecraft Investigations, will write "Haumea" when the Cosmic Dark Kickstarter hits £45,000. And we're about to hit Kieron Gillen's stretch goal, so please help us hit that. (And repost!) www.kickstarter.com/projects/gra...

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James Graham @jamesgraham.theliberati.net · 18/05/2025

One of the things that broke my immersion in Andor was the number of guard rails in the Imperial Senate. This is meant to be Star Wars not Health and Safety Wars!

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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Music is joy! #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmil...

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Neil de Carteret @lumphammer.com · 06/05/2025

Kieron’s post has been rattling round my brain since yesterday, and it’s because I massively appreciate designers who actually think about how RNGs will behave. Unlike certain others who create special mechanics that have as much statistical effect as yelling at the dice.

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Holly Brockwell @hollyqueenofspayeds.com · 28/04/2025

We still really need help, I know everything is terrible right now but if you can spare a few coins, our kitties would appreciate it so much ❤️

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dan @danabra.mov · 15/04/2025

⚛️📝 New on Overreacted: JSX Over The Wire overreacted.io/jsx-over-the...

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JSX Over The Wire — overreacted

Turning your API inside-out.

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

A light blue diagram depicting the sea, with the water's surface at the top, and just below it is an outline of the Mary Rose, with the depth (12m, 40ft or 6.7 fathoms). There is a line showing the seabed, which takes a rapid dive into the vertical...

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Grant Howitt @gshowitt.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

writing cyberpunk advertising billboard copy for A Thing and apparently this sort of thing isn't suitable their loss

BUY JIZZPOP

THE ONLY SODA THAT MAKES YOU CUM

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Matthewせいじ @matthewseiji.com · 31/03/2025

Me (jiggling the door handle): Locked. I’ll have to find another way through.

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Neil de Carteret @lumphammer.com · 22/03/2025

Just commited the worst bit of filth in some code codepen.io/n3dst4/pen/b... #css #filth

Two triangular shapes containing text. The left one, the triangle points downwards and the text wraps neatly inside it, tapering as it gets further down to fit in the shape. The right one, the triangle poinmts upwards, and text also fits neatly inside, but it starts and the bottom (the widest part). This is a notoriously hard problem for layout engines to solve. The actual text in the shapes is not super relevant, but here it is:

Left: "This is some text wrapped around two floated triangles. It naturally renders at the top, which is the how stuff renders in HTML. It gets narrower as we go down, but the wrapping algorithm works to keep it constrained to this triangular shape all the way to the end."

Right: "This is the same, but the triangular shape is pointing the other way. The question is, how did I get this text to render at the bottom of this triangle, i.e. starting at the widest point and going up?"

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Neil de Carteret @lumphammer.com · 21/03/2025

Just wasted a stupid amount of time trying to get Cursor to do an incredibly simple code change that I could have done (and eventually did do) in 30s with a regex-replace. I even tried the pay-per-second resoning model. I'm not even remotely worried about the need for human developers for a while.

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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I'm no one to scold anyone about spelling, but I see these words confused all the time, so I just wanted to help out by writing a poem: If you read, then you have read. If you lead, then you have led. If you plead, then you have pled. If your metal is Pb, then you have lead.

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Neil de Carteret @lumphammer.com · 26/02/2025

Some thing I love when I’m learning a new thing, is returning to the docs I read at the very start, later when I have more of a core understanding. The words that felt like terminology salad have now turned into crisp erudition.

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Neil de Carteret @lumphammer.com · 24/02/2025

I’m starting a moderation list to make the Fesshole replies section less fucking tedious bsky.app/profile/did:... Anyone on this list has at some point committed a tedious reply to a Fesshole post.

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Neil de Carteret @lumphammer.com · 18/02/2025

Your outie almost never fails a CAPTCHA

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Patrick Skinner @pmskinner.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

I use ‘nonplussed’ correctly 100% of the time while being wrong about its meaning 50% of the time.

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The Ken In Yellow @kenlowery.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

One of my long-simmering little not-quite-a-theories is that the world has deformed so much to what CEOs and the investor class want that it's infiltrating our language in weird ways. Such as this. Who gives a fuck about your "brand portfolio." Why is this public-facing language now?

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Neil de Carteret @lumphammer.com · 08/02/2025

Among my top ten least favourite trends in modern UIs is the almost total refusal to show me an actual fucking date. "Last week", "two months ago"... argh, you're making me do mental arithmetic

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Neil de Carteret @lumphammer.com · 30/01/2025

How I feel about initiative systems in TTRPGs is that they only exist to dictate an order for us to roll the dice at the table, because we can't have everyone rolling and shouting out numbers at the same time. Initiative isn't "real" in the game world.

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Neil de Carteret @lumphammer.com · 30/01/2025

Me: I’m scared that we are going to cede decision-making power to AIs that fundamentally have no compassion or moral compass Copilot: It’s certainly a very scary subject! What is it about the machine uprising that terrifies you the most? 😄

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Neil de Carteret @lumphammer.com · 29/01/2025

Warhammer is over. We have a final winner. This is absolutely fucking perfect.

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Neil de Carteret @lumphammer.com · 29/01/2025

I’m currently conducting a review of every initiative system used in every GUMSHOE game. I think somewhere at Pelgrane they must have a stack of d100 tables titled “Random Initiative System Generator”

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Neil de Carteret @lumphammer.com · 27/01/2025

I've been thinking about ##ttrpg combat systems, and how I hate them so very much. The music changes. A tense standoff turns to violence. Chaos breaks out. Blood death and bullets. And we represent this by massively slowing everying the fuck down and going into "turns".

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Neil de Carteret @lumphammer.com · 22/01/2025

That childlike joy when a package turns up with Rowan, Rook & Decard tape on it. @mytholder.bsky.social @gshowitt.bsky.social

Two hardback books, “Heart: The City Beneath” and “Dagger in the Heart”, both published by Rowan, Rook & Decard

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Neil de Carteret @lumphammer.com · 22/01/2025

PSA: Do *not* use Authy as your 2FA/TOTP solution. They have some kind of insanely shit proprietary token which will inveigle its way into some of your accounts and make them permanently linked to Authy, to the point that if you ever delete your Authy account you lose access to the other account 1/-

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Me at the Hacienda in 1988: Is this pure MDMA? I can’t imagine ever feeling better than I do right now. Me at home in 2025: Were these pyjamas left to warm on the bathroom radiator? I can’t imagine ever feeling better than I do right now.

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Neil de Carteret @lumphammer.com · 17/01/2025

Blambot once again creating font so perfect that I’m inventing projects in my head just to have a reason to use it.

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Neil de Carteret @lumphammer.com · 17/01/2025

My prediction for AI coding assistants is that they will drain the brains out of a generation of coders and then become enshittified to save money, leaving us with with either a huge skills shortfall OR a generation of devs who cost the same amount gross but half their salary goes to OpenAI.

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