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mapgie @mapgie.co.uk · 22/09/2026

All the meet-ups today are *&#@ AI based. Anyone in London want to grab a drink after work?

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mapgie @mapgie.co.uk · 21/09/2026

I saw this this morning and I'm still not over it.

$Screenshot of a Windows PowerShell terminal that reads: C:\Windows\System32> claude$

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mapgie @mapgie.co.uk · 15/08/2026

You can get rid of — but the stench of AI prevails and it's exhausting.

The pile-on had names. The same ones, again and again.

A pile-on is not produced by an institution; it is produced by people filing, day after day, on the same man. Eight of the Independent's pieces

One honest finding up front: this was not a red- top phenomenon. The Mirror ran two pieces and the Daily Star one; the BBC and Sky covered it as news, at news volume. The pile-

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mapgie @mapgie.co.uk · 14/08/2026

On an aeroplane, or in an open-plan office, why do people prefer the middle desk?

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mapgie @mapgie.co.uk · 21/06/2026

@coreybutler.com Just wondering if you know that nvm-windows ships with a hardcoded run.cmd path

$run.cmd 2026-06-17 2026-06-19 Start-Process : This command cannot be run due to the error: The system cannot find the file specified. At line:1 char:1 + Start-Process -Filepath 'C:\Users\corey\OneDrive\Documents\workspace\ + CategoryInfo + FullyQualifiedErrorId : InvalidOperation: (:) [Start-Process], InvalidOperationException : InvalidoperationException, Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands. StartProcessCommand$

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mapgie @mapgie.co.uk · 20/06/2026

As a civilization, could we stop putting sticky rubber coatings on tech, that melt after few years?

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mapgie @mapgie.co.uk · 05/06/2026

It's too fucking easy for Visual Studio to wipe all my custom syntax highlighting options, and all the backups are a filthy lie. Foomin.

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mapgie @mapgie.co.uk · 03/06/2026

It should be a criminal offence, prosecuted to the full extent of the law, to have your computer unmuted and pinging away in an open-plan office.

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mapgie @mapgie.co.uk · 18/05/2026

How many warnings do you have in your solution? 👀

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Einar W. Høst @einarwh.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

It’s very easy to read 15% of a book.

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mapgie @mapgie.co.uk · 05/05/2026

For all the talk of UX, the Internet is truly becoming unbearable to use.

A substack post, with two layers of gatekeeping:
A pop up for "Give us your email to read this article"
hidden by a subsequent pop-up about installing the app to read the post.

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mapgie @mapgie.co.uk · 02/05/2026

I feel like red button is the only moral choice though??

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mapgie @mapgie.co.uk · 23/04/2026

Imagine if end-to-end encryption was invented solely for bypassing app gateway WAFs.

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mapgie @mapgie.co.uk · 17/04/2026

"You are slow because you are large" Just @ me, speaker.

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mapgie @mapgie.co.uk · 17/04/2026

Having been a part of one of these before... Women in Tech panels need to be less excruciatingly dry to not risk doing us a massive disservice.

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mapgie @mapgie.co.uk · 17/04/2026

"Experience of Uniface 10 at least" And indeed, at most, shirty recruiter who thinks 70-100USD p/hour on a 12mo contract is an appealing proposition to me.

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Wes @notwes.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Meetup time!

Pulp art ipa and some npmx stickers including one that says “human first”.

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mapgie @mapgie.co.uk · 29/03/2026

There's a special place in hell for people who make web forms that don't allow pasting in password fields, and who validate input before the user has completed the form.

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mapgie @mapgie.co.uk · 25/03/2026

> 52 vulnerabilities (4 low, 12 moderate, 36 high) `npm audit fix` > 53 vulnerabilities (4 low, 12 moderate, 37 high) *sigh*

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mapgie @mapgie.co.uk · 24/03/2026

Samba is still at large.

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mapgie @mapgie.co.uk · 23/03/2026

> 5 high severity vulnerabilities *bump package version* npm install > 8 high severity vulnerabilities

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mapgie @mapgie.co.uk · 16/03/2026

Oh ffs. keepandroidopen.org

Screenshot of a website banner from keepandroidopen.org with a large red background and bold white text reading: "ANDROID WILL BECOME A LOCKED-DOWN PLATFORM IN 168D 4H 6M 22S." Below it, smaller text says: "Read our open letter opposing the Android Developer Verification program."

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mapgie @mapgie.co.uk · 14/03/2026

Why is not wooorking mama? Turn it ooon mamaaa. On Friday I need to go to work. On Friday. Friday. Hello, Mr Gruber, yes, and my favourite sandwich. What do you want for tuba, tuba tuba? Watchoo want for tuuuba?

Overhead photo of a toddler sitting on the floor in front of a white macbook connected to an external keyboard, and mouse, appearing to mimic a computer workstation. The child is holding an analogue landline telephone. The child's face is obscured by a yellow smiley sticker.
To the side of the image, the edge of a standing desk can be seen, with papers and a mousepad. A foot is visible to the bottom of the picture, making it clear it's a standing desk.

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mapgie @mapgie.co.uk · 09/03/2026

Why does it seem to be a universal constant that clients actively resist efforts to make their lives easier? "can I automate this scheduled button click for you?" - no! "can I give you a simple way to access error information in situ?" - no!

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mapgie @mapgie.co.uk · 04/03/2026

Making enemies with my 7000+ line PR because I woke up and chose violence.

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mapgie @mapgie.co.uk · 26/02/2026

Why do these bastard ticket machines default to tickets that would, were I to buy one and board the train with it, result in me being fined for paying an inappropriate fare?

South Western Railway ticket machine
Screen reads:
Top left:
"Ticket base data info:
Return ticket valid for date shown,
outward and return time restrictions apply Mon - Sat, including bank holidays"

Center: "Please select your fare"
Yellow 'attention' bar reads: "Any permitted" with an ℹ️ information button.

Two buttons occupy the rest of the screen:
Green top button: Off-peak day return £16.40 (selected)
Blue bottom button: Anytime Day Return £19.10

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mapgie @mapgie.co.uk · 13/02/2026

Make DACPACs make sense! Give us a pre-deployment script that runs pre-pre-deployment script and before the deployment plan that is calculated on a outdated state. And stop people committing atrocities to bypass the absence of this feature. 👇 Thanks @drewsk.bsky.social

Quote: "A pre-deployment script is executed before the deployment plan is executed but the deployment plan is calculated before the script executes"

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mapgie @mapgie.co.uk · 10/02/2026

DACPAC be like: "A pre-deployment script is executed before the deployment plan is executed but the deployment plan is calculated before the script executes." Make a plan based on a state that may change. Genius.

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mapgie @mapgie.co.uk · 03/02/2026

I need to make friends that can come round to my house and play with electronics with me.

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DaveDisaster @davedisasterman.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

He took me up on the offer. The first person I saw was @mapgie.co.uk, so I introduced them and he got chatting with the group. He was beaming when he left some hours later. Job done. Not so directly related to @garius.bsky.social post, but it's all part of the same process.

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mapgie @mapgie.co.uk · 17/01/2026

My company "forgot" about NDC London. Massive FOMO starting.... *now*

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mapgie @mapgie.co.uk · 10/01/2026

My new year's resolution is to be more cringe. It's going to be tough but I'm determined.

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mapgie @mapgie.co.uk · 09/01/2026

Anyone else using an MMO gaming mouse programmed with coding shortcuts?

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mapgie @mapgie.co.uk · 07/01/2026

I perpetually return to ponder the universe's greatest unsolved mystery: How is it possible for the human body to generate SO MUCH SNOT?

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mapgie @mapgie.co.uk · 04/01/2026

Hi, I'm a speeding bus that didn't stop & hit the side of a car a child was on a driver who lost control a 2004 festival crowd watching Muse dangerously bad dates the stress of various third sector jobs poor life choices mixing household cleaning products the wrong medication my own dark thoughts

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SEGAbits @segabits.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

On this year's SEGAbits year in review show we introduced a new award celebrating SEGA Writing and Journalism, which we awarded to Nick Thorpe of @retrogamermag.bsky.social - Thank you for everything Nick, you will never be forgotten.

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Nick Thorpe @hkt3030.neocities.org · 28/12/2025

Nik’s funeral is taking place on 30th December at 1pm GMT. For those that can’t attend, the funeral will be live-streamed. We have tried to contact as many of Nik’s friends as we could, but we may have missed some. The link is watch.obitus.com username: cuma6886 pin:962499

watch.obitus

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mapgie @mapgie.co.uk · 24/12/2025

I have the details for the livestream of @hkt3030.neocities.org's memorial. If you're a friend of his & would like these, please let me know.

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mapgie @mapgie.co.uk · 18/12/2025

Do you ever want to listen to something else that you like, but seem to have forgotten what artists you enjoy?

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mapgie @mapgie.co.uk · 10/12/2025

Cool, cool, but how do we make them stop?

Guardian headline reads:
Topic in smaller, red lettering: Anthropology

Headline in larger, white lettering: Humans made fire 350,000 years earlier than previously thought, discovery in Suffolk suggests

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mapgie @mapgie.co.uk · 08/12/2025

I got nerd sniped. My friend decided to do Advent of Code 2025 in COBOL because he's a massive nerd, but he stumbled at Day 1, Part 1. So... I have now done AOC 2025 Day 1, Part 1 in COBOL*. I'll see if I can have a crack at P2 tomorrow. *technically, gnucobol4 on WSL

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mapgie @mapgie.co.uk · 07/12/2025

This is really messing with my head so much right now. I'm in denial that @hkt3030.neocities.org is gone.

Cropped "send via direct message" screenshot showing two bluesky users: the second one is redacted, the first is the display picture and name of my friend who passed away at age 38 on Monday: Nick Thorpe, image is a red/white/yellow close-up photo of an eye.

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mapgie @mapgie.co.uk · 04/12/2025

Really shocked to see this news. I've known Nik for 20 years. I think he'd be blown away by all the responses to his sudden passing. Very sad news indeed.

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mapgie @mapgie.co.uk · 04/12/2025

I'm on wet sticky packed Northern line train at rush hour, heading to the City on a Thursday morning. I'm already questioning all the choices that led me here. Then I look up and see this and question my fundamental understanding of the English language.