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fish @naxxfish.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I would like to remind you that this website exists: www.fieggen.com/shoelace/ind... : Ian's Shoelace Site. It's a site entirely dedicated to shoelaces and various aspects therein.

fieggen.com

Introduction

If you want to lace shoes, tie shoes or learn about shoelaces, “Ian's Shoelace Site” is the place!

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fish @naxxfish.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

You know when you encounter a senior person in a company, and after talking to them for a while you realise they have been professionally bullshitting for their entire career and people keep promoting them because they sound like they know what theyre doing? Yeah, that is what LLMs remind me of rn

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fish @naxxfish.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Why is chromecasting YouTube so incredibly buggy?

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fish @naxxfish.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

FYI, pretty much all of the frontier models couldn't figure out how to add a HTTP header to a Prometheus HTTP service discovery scrape job. There are people trusting these things with their prod infrastructure ? Wild ...

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fish @naxxfish.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

So you know how most people eat chocolate digestives "upsidedown"? (If you don't, I apologise for the existential crisis you're about to have) Well, how would you fix the design so people intuitively ate them the right way up ?

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fish @naxxfish.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Ok how do I get Chris Spargo to make a video about these ? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stretch...

en.wikipedia.org

Stretcher railing - Wikipedia

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fish @naxxfish.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I just want to be able to talk to people at work, I don't want an"Agent Surface". What would I tell it to do ? "Please convince my bosses agent that this feature is poorly scoped "?

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Keza MacDonald @mackeza.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

This week's newsletter: PlayStation price rises aren't about Sony’s greed. It’s an indication of the rot at the heart of big tech, which has become a closed economic system predicated on making things worse for most of us so that a very few can make billions. www.theguardian.com/games/2026/a...

theguardian.com

Why is gaming becoming so expensive? The answer is found in AI

We are paying more for a PlayStation so that idiots can use ChatGPT to mislead people on dating apps – something is rotten in the state of gaming

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fish @naxxfish.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

When I used to do digital notes on an iPad, it used to be Goodnotes. However coming back to it I find they are cramming AI into it instead of improving the product. After considerable research, looks like concepts.app is an even better app that has no AI, nor any plans to add any.

concepts.app

Concepts App • Infinite, Flexible Sketching

Every idea begins as a concept. Write notes on the infinite canvas, make mind-maps and mood boards, sketch plans, designs and illustrations. Share with friends, clients and other apps.

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fish @naxxfish.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

I was alive when the Fruitiger Aero aesthetic was prominent - and it wasn't in any way cool. It was similar to how we view Corporate Memphis today - soulless and appeasing a desire for progress. Default Winamp skin, on the other hand, _that_ was where it was at.

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fish @naxxfish.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Sneaky gits, found this sticker in a public place - takes you to a "fan" AI chat service that lets you pretend you're talking to famous people. I bet there are more out there ...

Sticker with a QR code that says "FREE WIFI".

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fish @naxxfish.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Sorry, I have to post some AI content. This is what an AI generated video of a war correspondant being interrupted by a missile strike looks like. Apart from the obvious text mangling (presk?), there's other things wrong ...

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fish @naxxfish.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Copilot in Notepad can get in the sea 🎉

Integrating AI where it’s most meaningful, with craft and focus
You will see us be more intentional about how and where Copilot integrates across Windows, focusing on experiences that are genuinely useful and well‑crafted. As part of this, we are reducing unnecessary Copilot entry points, (ed: highlighted) starting with apps like Snipping Tool, Photos, Widgets and Notepad.

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fish @naxxfish.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

I want to make some stickers, mainly because I want to stick them on my stuff, and figured maybe other people might do too. Then I realised that people will probably think it's AI -so I'll have to record a time lapse of designing them to prove it's not. That seems like a lot of overhead.

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fish @naxxfish.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

I found a copy of this in my files, with no reasonable explanation. I think at some point I must have wanted to know how the Gameboy screen was done, either by VFX or actually somehow playing back several minutes of video on a real DMG www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZSU...

youtube.com

Knife Party & Pegboard Nerds - Harpoon [Monstercat Official Music Video]

YouTube video by Monstercat Uncaged

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fish @naxxfish.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

I don't know what I'm dismissing exactly here....

A printer control panel with the text "A new firmware is available. Select "Dismiss" to start update. Updating firmware may improve functions and solve certain problems. " There are two buttons below, "No, later" and "Dismiss" (highlighted)

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fish @naxxfish.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I think I found the AI coding tool kryptonite. The Network Rail Open Data feeds. It drives them up the wall. "Which one of these 4 schedule types is the real one ? What ID is the right ID to link a train to a schedule ? Why are there so many stations in the north sea?" And round and round it goes

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fish @naxxfish.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Whenever I get perplexed by an issue at work, I now remember that my colleagues once found a bug in their game that was caused by a vacuum cleaner being used near the game when it was running www.gamedeveloper.com/business/how...

gamedeveloper.com

How an EyeToy and vacuum cleaner almost broke LittleBigPlanet

What's the strangest bug you've stumbled across during development? Unless it involves a vacuum cleaner and an EyeToy conspiring against you, it probably doesn't have anything on this.

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The Vulkan Working Group @vulkan.org · 25/02/2026

The Vulkan Working Group has published, Building a Simple Game Engine, a new in-depth tutorial for developers ready to move beyond the basics and into professional-grade engine development. Learn more: www.khronos.org/blog/new-vul... #vulkan #tutorial #programming #gpu #gameengine

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fish @naxxfish.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

It's my favourite when I search for a programming problem I have, skip past the (incorrect) AI results to a forum post by a real human ... .. who pasted the output of ChatGPT that was also wrong.

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fish @naxxfish.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Let me tell you a story about cascading machine learning failure. I was working on a project that analysed radio programmes and tried to tag them by topic. When reviewing the data, we spotted something odd. An afternoon call-in show was consistently being tagged with "US politics". 1/

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Alice Averlong 🏳️‍⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 23/02/2026

Outer Wilds, if you haven't played it yet, is one of the best games of all time. It's a fun space exploration game with a timeloop twist, and 90% of all game progress happens in your head, as you learn things about the universe and your situation. Absolutely play it if you haven't yet.

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fish @naxxfish.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

It's quite alarming how often it turns out that sucessfully failing a task is actually the correct outcome in software.

Windows XP dialogue box, with the title "Windows XP" with the text "Task failed successfully." and an OK button below it.

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fish @naxxfish.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

You know what would be really immersive? A game that was entirely filled with NPCs that talk to you in oddly generic yet specific ways, with over-done voice internation and a massive lag between interacting and replying. Oh wait, no, the exact opposite 🙃

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fish @naxxfish.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

If, like me, you had only ever seen Ace Attorney through the medium of memes - HOLD IT! Go play the original trilogy. It's worth it.

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fish @naxxfish.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

I guess 252GB is more than you could ever have hoped for in 2009, but I'm barely using the orignal capacity right now.

Screenshot from macOS Finder iPod browser window showing "<redacted> iPod, (5th generation) - 252.64 GB (238.13 GB Available)"

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fish @naxxfish.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Didn't quite appreciate it at the time, but 60GB is actually quite a lot of music...

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fish @naxxfish.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

I already like the band HENGE but when I saw that in their music video Slingshot, they have some VFX shots with "scrolling code" which is ACTUALLY PLAUSIBLE GIVEN THE SCENARIO... hengemusic.bandcamp.com/track/slings...

hengemusic.bandcamp.com

Slingshot/Hypersleep, by HENGE

track by HENGE

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fish @naxxfish.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

I know, everyone, lets hook up a complicated random noise generator to your credit card and identity documents and see what happens! Sounds like a perfect plan with no drawbacks.

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Malwarebytes @malwarebytes.com · 20/02/2026

Researchers discovered a publicly exposed frontend on a government-authorized server, containing 2,456 accessible files from the age verification vendor used by Discord.

malwarebytes.com

Age verification vendor Persona left frontend exposed, researchers say

Behind a basic age check, researchers say Persona’s system runs extensive identity, watchlist, and adverse-media screening.

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fish @naxxfish.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Things I say that sound like they don't make sense but they actually do #37 "Wow, that game is very HDR"

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fish @naxxfish.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Just learnt about 8 years late that Buzz from 3DBuzz - where I learnt 3D modelling in Maya as a teenager - passed away from cancer.

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fish @naxxfish.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

That moment when a can jumps out of the recycling bin like an intersecting object being resolved by a collision system.

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fish @naxxfish.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

I am become dad, vacuumer of cars

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

It's time for another electric vehicle charging video. Too many people believe EV charging solutions require expensive, huge electric circuits (or worse: service upgrades). The really high-power ones people tend to go with can be a headache, but there are many other options! youtu.be/W96a8svXo14

youtu.be

The "standard" car charger is usually overkill—but you electrician might not know that

YouTube video by Technology Connections

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fish @naxxfish.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Yeees this is exactly how I would use this product Amazon. No, there is no option to rotate it.

An augmented reality image of a desk with a keyboard and desk mat up against a white wall, with a computer generated image of a monitor overlayed onto it, except the computer monitor is facing downwards towards the desk.

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fish @naxxfish.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Did you know that if you find a swarm of honey bees in the UK you can contact a local beekeeper to come collect them ? Ask me how I know 🤣 www.bbka.org.uk/find-a-local...

bbka.org.uk

Find a local Swarm Collector

If the bees have been identified as honey bees you can enter your postcode to find our nearest volunteer swarm collectors.

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fish @naxxfish.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

What's the #gamedev version of the Willhelm scream? I propose it could be ... the Blender tutorial doughnut. www.blenderguru.com/tutorials/bl...

A 3D render or two iced donuts, with sprinkles, on a plate which sits on a wood surface. In the background on the surface is a partly out of frame mug, and a white wall

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Royal Institution @rigb.org · 09/06/2025

[Work opportunity 🎙️] We're looking for a technician to join our Audio-Visual team, working on an exciting variety of live programmes and events, including the famous Christmas Lectures. www.rigb.org/av-technicia...

rigb.org

AV Technician

A client facing role providing high quality in-house audio-visual provision for an exciting variety of live programmes and ev

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fish @naxxfish.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Now I know where to go any time I need to raise something to the power of 1/2

An overcast day, a building across a road with floor to roof tinted windows with red window frames, with no visible doors, in the middle a name placard runs the full width of the building with a name reading "Square Root Business Centre".

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fish @naxxfish.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Painting a shelf with biocidal primer sounds like I'm doing something that should be against the Geneva convention.

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fish @naxxfish.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Donating blood and nurses keep checking on me because I keep spacing out. I've had to explain that's just normal behaviour for me 🤣

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fish @naxxfish.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

I've never quite understood why we use the phrase "meteoric rise to fame". Aren't meteors things that fall out of the sky? Maybe that's the point ...

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fish @naxxfish.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Saying that the Met Office's new weather predicting supercomputer is "cloud based" is a bit ambiguous ... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

UK weather forecast more accurate with Met Office supercomputer

Detailed weather forecasts and better predictions about the rain will soon be enjoyed in the UK.

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fish @naxxfish.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Christ, that was a near miss for the EBU.

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fish @naxxfish.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

@standupmaths.bsky.social are you aware that it is now possible to get a calculator delivered to you by Deliveroo ?

A listing in the Deliveroo app of a calculator which can be purchased for £17.99

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Jonty Wareing @jonty.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

The saddest thing about OK Go videos is that anyone who doesn't know will assume they're rendered and miss why the film they're watching is so extraordinary. If you don't know: It's practical effects, one take, and way more time and effort than anyone should reasonably spend. youtu.be/gz9BRl7DVSM

youtu.be

OK Go - Love (Official Video)

YouTube video by OK Go

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