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Oof, sounds like you've got plenty on your plate. An "obrigada" will charm anyone in Porto in the meantime.

Probably for the best. Sanity is hard to come by... Is any of those languages Portuguese, by any chance?

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It's fine, it's fine... Just three writing systems, several different words for numbers, and just wait until you want to enumerate objects! There's a good deal of free resources, though, which is nice.

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I think I have a book with a misprint on the cover 👀 🦊

mapgie @mapgie.co.uk · 15/08/2026

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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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-

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 · 22/07/2026

Mine didn't change... 🥲

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mapgie @mapgie.co.uk · 22/07/2026

They don't, so I watch them with someone who will...

mapgie @mapgie.co.uk · 26/06/2026

It was my own fault 😂

mapgie @mapgie.co.uk · 24/06/2026

Cool, thanks. Spent absolutely ages trying to understand why my absolutely node free program was doing this, only to realise I'd forgotten the ./ before run.cmd 🙃

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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 · 21/06/2026

Ah, in this case I want to give my child an old Blackberry to play with, so powder might not work. But I'll keep that in mind because it certainly comes up often enough!

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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?

mapgie @mapgie.co.uk · 09/06/2026

It's a game for the dyslexics in my life!

mapgie @mapgie.co.uk · 05/06/2026

This just sounds like a challenge tbh

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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What if you lure people in with silly memes first?

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

Thankfully, mine is mostly free of such nonsense, but when it does crop up it is entirely infuriating. So many lies, so much AI, so many bots, fuelling so much hate.

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Reposted by mapgie

It’s very easy to read 15% of a book.

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Ha, thanks. I'll drop you a message.

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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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By the time I finished putting most of the slides together, I had detoured into what I thought I should be talking about instead of what I wanted to say, because I didn't quite feel I deserved to say it.

This is hard. I prepared a talk once and unforseen circumstances meant I never finished it or delivered it. Part of me thinks that was a blessing. I knew what I wanted to say but I copped out of saying it for fear of the response it might get.

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The red button doesn't make anyone die. I think this conversation has probably run its course.

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I absolutely am being earnest because I entirely reject the notion of red as murder. Red can't "murder" anyone that didn't decide death was a worthwhile risk. But why? Nothing makes blue worthwhile. There is no objective societal gain in the blue choice. It introduces risk, uncertainty, and death.

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If you're going to have faith in others, have faith in them not accepting a game where death is an option and thus that they won't introduce it (thus, choose red).

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Absolute nonsense. Red is not attempted murder. Nobody is actively harmed by a red choice. Blue isn't virtuous: it introduces the concept and risk of harm. That's just never there if you don't chose for it to be. Red is the only "I don't want to die, and I don't want anyone else to die" choice.

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Voting blue kills a significant number of people if not enough people do it. By voting blue you accept your own death and the death of others is a possibility.

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Choosing blue introduces the concept of killing. Red is the only guaranteed death-free scenario, thus the only moral choice.

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If you hit blue you may die and others may die. If you hit red you won't die, and if nobody else wants to die either, they would also hit red. You don't need 100% of people to hit red. But if you hit blue you're choosing "I may die & you might also die if you hit blue". Unnecessary gamble.

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mapgie @mapgie.co.uk · 02/05/2026

Voting red doesn't kill anyone. Voting blue does. Why would a significant majority of people hit blue and take a gamble on themselves and others? And if it is a significant majority voting blue, everyone lives anyway.

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If 100% hit red, nobody dies. Each person who votes blue does so knowing that they risk dying and that others may die. Blue introduces uncertainty and death. Voting red = "I don't want to die and I hope you don't either". Voting red doesn't introduce loss of life. The blue gamble does.

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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 · 29/04/2026

"... and to kill a sproc, go for the joins"

mapgie @mapgie.co.uk · 26/04/2026

So, at a time when fascism is rising globally, they're saying "shhhh, close your eyes..."? 🤔

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

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.

Hard choice but this one always tickles me. I miss my doofus.

A black and white cat suggestively licking his toes

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