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Emmz 💻🎸🎤🏳️‍⚧️

@rendle.dev
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rendle.dev - mother of daemons Keeper of the Profane Keywords. Coder. C# and Zig for profit and fun. Really Good at talking. @linebreakers.band bassist. PubConf World Champion. Chaotic Good. she/they

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Emmz 💻🎸🎤🏳️‍⚧️ @rendle.dev · 02/08/2026
if your Claude starts saying fuckweasels that's on me. sorry not sorry. also yes, i know that's not how LLMs work.
a snippet from a Claude session where i said 'oh, fuckweasels' and Claude replied '"Fuckweasels" is going in my mental lexicon.'
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Emmz 💻🎸🎤🏳️‍⚧️ @rendle.dev · 18/07/2026
10 minutes to @linebreakers.band on stage D at @emfcamp.bsky.social
festival stage in a field at EMF Camp with Linebreakers info screen at the back
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Emmz 💻🎸🎤🏳️‍⚧️ @rendle.dev · 21/06/2026
Advertise your Bluesky account with a Simpsons image
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Emmz 💻🎸🎤🏳️‍⚧️ @rendle.dev · 19/06/2026
oh gods is this Penny Arcade's demographic now?
Banner ad on the Penny Arcade comic page, for "chair tai chi", which is for "men over 50 who haven't exercised in years" apparently
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Emmz 💻🎸🎤🏳️‍⚧️ @rendle.dev · 06/06/2026
“Hegseth uses his D-Day anniversary speech in France to openly express his wish that Hitler had won.”
Image of a tweet by Aaron Rupar reading “Hegseth uses his D-Day anniversary speech in Franch to take veiled shots at NATO and European immigration policies” with image of the fascist Hegseth taken from some news programme or other
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Emmz 💻🎸🎤🏳️‍⚧️ @rendle.dev · 10/02/2026
am i being meat-puppeted by my own ai agent now?
Claude Code giving me detailed instructions on how to test the software it just wrote for me.
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Emmz 💻🎸🎤🏳️‍⚧️ @rendle.dev · 10/02/2026
💖 to the DS9 nerd who left this comment (context: this is the first NDC video posted with my "new" name)
YouTube comment from RoamingAdhocrat that reads "Emmz Rendle, my beloved old friend!"
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Emmz 💻🎸🎤🏳️‍⚧️ @rendle.dev · 01/10/2025
32 Chunk winning Fat Bear Week causes debate between me and @dylanbeatt.ie #856wasrobbed
Woman screaming at cat meme with captions:

"HE ATE ALL THAT SALMON WITH A BROKEN JAW YOU INSENSITIVE CLOD"
"THAT'S PROBABLY WHY HE'S NOT AS FAT AS 856 THEN, ISN'T IT?"
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Emmz 💻🎸🎤🏳️‍⚧️ @rendle.dev · 21/09/2025
This was the final slide from my Reasons To Be Cheerful talk yesterday at #DDDPerth and it seems to have resonated with a lot of people so I’m sharing it here.
Banksy piece with a little girl letting go of a heart shaped balloon, with added text reading “you can do whatever you want forever”
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Emmz 💻🎸🎤🏳️‍⚧️ @rendle.dev · 21/09/2025
Answering messages from #DDDPerth: Yes! 🦈
NGL message: Should Blåhaj be worshipped
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Emmz 💻🎸🎤🏳️‍⚧️ @rendle.dev · 19/09/2025
Last week we were at NDC Copenhagen; this week I’m in Perth, Eli is at PyCon and Dylan is on the NDC committee. Hopefully some sort of resumption of service next week. Meanwhile here’s a quokka selfie.
Rendle losing a “who’s the cutest” contest with a quokka
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Emmz 💻🎸🎤🏳️‍⚧️ @rendle.dev · 13/08/2025
I can Photoshop though
Joseph Stalin outside 10 Downing Street
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Emmz 💻🎸🎤🏳️‍⚧️ @rendle.dev · 13/08/2025
:%s/rmer/lin/g AI because I can’t draw and I’m on my phone and drinking gin. If it’s a problem just call me names and I’ll delete it.
Joseph Stalin standing at the Government Dispatch box in the UK Parliament
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Emmz 💻🎸🎤🏳️‍⚧️ @rendle.dev · 30/07/2025
I’m learning all about electric from a Christian home-schooling book. Turns out the electric works much the same way the moon and insects do: god does it.
A photo of a paragraph from a textbook that reads:

Ask your student what he thinks makes atoms stay together. (Answers will vary.) Tell him that scientists have many ideas but do not know for sure because nobody has ever seen inside an atom.
Then read Colossians 1:16-17. Everything is held together by the power of Christ Jesus. Without His preserving power, the universe would fly apart. While those who are unsaved struggle to find out why atoms stay together, we as Christians know that God does it. (Bible Promise: I. God as Master)
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Emmz 💻🎸🎤🏳️‍⚧️ @rendle.dev · 25/07/2025
Autocomplete in 2025 is wild
A screenshot of a test spec for automated transcription software. On one line I have started to type the expected output, and got as far as "And so my fellow Americans", and the autocomplete in the Jetbrains editor has filled in the rest of the line. For context, if you don't know coding stuff, a couple of years ago it only knew which properties a given object has. Now it knows American History 101?
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Emmz 💻🎸🎤🏳️‍⚧️ @rendle.dev · 24/07/2025
I hate this country so much. Would the last person to leave please burn it to the fucking ground and salt the earth on their way out?
The Bluesky notification reminding me that I live in a neofascist nanny state. Text reads: The laws in your location require you to verify you're an adult to access certain features. Tap to learn more.
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Emmz 💻🎸🎤🏳️‍⚧️ @rendle.dev · 16/07/2025
Finally got round to adding an aspire function to start and stop the Aspire Dashboard container to my .zshrc
function aspire {
  if [[ $1 == "stop" ]]; then
    docker stop aspire-dashboard
  else
  docker run --rm -it -d \
    -p 18888:18888 \
    -p 4317:18889 \
    --name aspire-dashboard \
    mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/aspire-dashboard:latest
  fi
}
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Emmz 💻🎸🎤🏳️‍⚧️ @rendle.dev · 10/07/2025
Just sittin' here, writing raw SQL like it's 1994.
A C# method using the Npgsql library and actual, hand-written SQL to fetch a single string value from a database table, instead of all that EF Core nonsense. Fuck you, I'm old. Get off my lawn.
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Emmz 💻🎸🎤🏳️‍⚧️ @rendle.dev · 09/07/2025
Screen grab from Wikipedia:

RELATED ARTICLES

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Non-consensual distribution of sexually explicit material

Political positions of Amy
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Deepfake pornography
Explicit material applying deepfake technology
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Emmz 💻🎸🎤🏳️‍⚧️ @rendle.dev · 26/06/2025
Looks like it.
A photo of an entry from Samuel Johnson's Dictionary (1773) that reads as follows:

Delight n. s. [delice, French; from delecto; Latin.]

Joy; content; satisfaction. Saul commanded his servants, saying, commune with David secretly, and say, behold the king hath delight in thee, and all his servants love thee. — 1 Sam. xviii. 22.

That which gives delight. Come, sisters, chear we up his sprights, And shew the best of our delights: We'll charm the air to give a sound, While you perform your antick round. — Shakespeare.

Titus Vespasian was not more the delight of human kind: the universal empire made him only known, and more powerful, but could not make him more beloved. — Dryden.

She was his care, his hope, and his delight; Most in his thought, and ever in his sight. — Dryden.
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Emmz 💻🎸🎤🏳️‍⚧️ @rendle.dev · 06/06/2025
The “mean jerk time” scene from Silicon Valley season one episode eight. The characters are all making strange hand gestures
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Emmz 💻🎸🎤🏳️‍⚧️ @rendle.dev · 06/06/2025
Duh.
Tweet:

Elon Musk

Time to drop the really big bomb:
@realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public.
Have a nice day, DJT!
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Emmz 💻🎸🎤🏳️‍⚧️ @rendle.dev · 01/06/2025
Happy #Pride everyone
Happy Pride Month 2025
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Emmz 💻🎸🎤🏳️‍⚧️ @rendle.dev · 31/05/2025
Brands might be cowards but the Human Rights Commission is going hard this year
Absolutely amazing artwork with an American eagle in the Pride colours and the tagline “These Colors Don’t Run”
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Emmz 💻🎸🎤🏳️‍⚧️ @rendle.dev · 31/05/2025
If you see this post a dragon
A very cute pink and grey and white dragon with a very pretty pink and grey and white flag.
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Emmz 💻🎸🎤🏳️‍⚧️ @rendle.dev · 27/05/2025
i know what they mean but this is a bad headline. that load-bearing comma is not up to the job.
Headline reads “RFK Jr. revokes COVID shot recommendations for kids, during pregnancy”
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Emmz 💻🎸🎤🏳️‍⚧️ @rendle.dev · 22/05/2025
Sorry, no Tech Bugs and Rock’n’Roll today because @dylanbeatt.ie is giving a talk about Linebreakers and I’m watching it.
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Emmz 💻🎸🎤🏳️‍⚧️ @rendle.dev · 09/05/2025
New Banksy just dropped
A banana skin on a bollard. I’m hilarious.
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Emmz 💻🎸🎤🏳️‍⚧️ @rendle.dev · 06/05/2025
Beautiful writing. This made milk come out of my nose, and I’m drinking gin.
A Sim man in a swimming pool. He is thinking about bed. There is no ladder. The caption reads “you know what you did.” I am dead now.
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Emmz 💻🎸🎤🏳️‍⚧️ @rendle.dev · 06/04/2025
No I’m not religious but I believe in the holy trinity 🙏
Chris Wolstenholme, Matt Bellamy and Dominic Howard, who make up the rock band Muse
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Emmz 💻🎸🎤🏳️‍⚧️ @rendle.dev · 05/04/2025
Boo
Message box in iOS App Store saying App Not Available in your country or region which is wack, yo
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Emmz 💻🎸🎤🏳️‍⚧️ @rendle.dev · 25/02/2025
The character Tron from the movie Tron: Legacy. Caption reads "I fight for the verbs"
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Emmz 💻🎸🎤🏳️‍⚧️ @rendle.dev · 16/02/2025
Oscar Isaac as Nietzsche?
Oscar Isaac with full beard, and I put the photo through a "silvertone" filter so it looks 19th century
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Emmz 💻🎸🎤🏳️‍⚧️ @rendle.dev · 14/02/2025
Happy 35th birthday to this photograph of Earth from 6 billion kilometres (3.7bn miles) away, taken by Voyager 1 as it left the Solar System forever. Carl Sagan's thoughts on the Pale Blue Dot are in the Alt text.
From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar", every "supreme leader", every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

...

There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

Carl Sagan
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Emmz 💻🎸🎤🏳️‍⚧️ @rendle.dev · 07/02/2025
From the movies? Blue the velociraptor. Just generally? Deinocheirus. Adorably goofy looking things.
Artists impression of a deinocheirus. It looks like a cross between a raptor, a spinosaurus and a zebra. It's got little fluffy spikes on its head and forearms and I want one. I would hug it and kiss it and call it Steve.
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Emmz 💻🎸🎤🏳️‍⚧️ @rendle.dev · 02/02/2025
A photo of a clinically obese leopard.

Top text: Just one more MAGA face? It's only wafer thin.

Bottom text: No, fuck off, I'm stuffed.

If you don't get the reference, it's the "Mr Creosote" scene from Monty Python's Meaning of Life.

If you don't get the other reference, it's the tweet reading "I never thought leopards would eat my face," sobs woman who voted for face-eating leopards.

If you got both references, well done, you may press the button.

If you don't get that reference, it's from The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy radio play, episode 11, which was broadcast in 1978, so don't feel bad.

Someone better read this after all the effort I've put into it.
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Emmz 💻🎸🎤🏳️‍⚧️ @rendle.dev · 02/02/2025
Musk’s vision for X is based on China’s WeChat app, which is like Twitter, WhatsApp and PayPal rolled into one. It also tracks and analyses all user activity - posts, messages and purchases - and shares that data with the government. This is what Musk has bought, for $280m.
Wikipedia entry for WeChat:

User activity on Weixin, the Chinese version of the app, is analyzed, tracked and shared with Chinese authorities upon request as part of the mass surveillance network in China.
Chinese-registered Weixin accounts censor politically sensitive topics.
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Emmz 💻🎸🎤🏳️‍⚧️ @rendle.dev · 29/01/2025
Side-by-side photos of two pistol shooting competitors at the 2024 Olymipics. The guy on the left has a bunch of stuff on his face; this side is labelled "Chat GPT". The guy on the right is the Turkish entry, Yusuf Dikec, who is just wearing glasses; this side is labeled "Deep Seek".
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Emmz 💻🎸🎤🏳️‍⚧️ @rendle.dev · 16/01/2025
Yeah, but
Okay, bear with me. It’s a picture of a Swarovski bracelet, so obviously tacky af, but this one has a ring of crystals being held by two gold hands in a way that can’t help but remind anyone who was online in the 90s of one of the most upsetting photographs they’ve ever seen. I don’t really want to go into it, but if you don’t know what I mean and you really must, google “goatse”. Don’t, though. Your life will not be improved or enriched.
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Emmz 💻🎸🎤🏳️‍⚧️ @rendle.dev · 16/01/2025
Or DevOps is a vague, nebulous, poorly-defined term and my understanding is just as valid as yours.
Screenshot from Wikipedia:

Permissions: In the context of pipeline-related permissions, adhering to the principle of least privilege can be challenging due to the dynamic nature of architecture. Administrators may opt for more permissive permissions while implementing compensating security controls to minimize the blast radius.
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Emmz 💻🎸🎤🏳️‍⚧️ @rendle.dev · 16/01/2025
If you're doing #DevOps and your developers don't have admin permissions on your non-prod cloud estate, here's a tip: you're 👏 not 👏 doing 👏 DevOps.
Inigo Montoya (from The Princess Bride) saying "You keep using that word... I do not think it means what you think it means."
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Emmz 💻🎸🎤🏳️‍⚧️ @rendle.dev · 09/01/2025
Atlassian acquiring Trello so they can put Jira ads in it completely misses the reason why people are using Trello in the first place. It's a very simple reason: it's not Jira.
An ad for Jira that suddenly appeared on the Trello board for the TBRR podcast. It shows all kinds of colorful charts and graphs and such, and the copy reads: "Jira makes alignment easy. Flexible for your projects, aligned to company-wide goals." There is a button marked "Try it free" as if price were the reason nobody uses Jira unless somebody hovering around the C-suite makes them.
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Emmz 💻🎸🎤🏳️‍⚧️ @rendle.dev · 07/01/2025
When you go to make an “it’s spelled Mark Zuckerberg but it’s pronounced Cunt” meme but you forgot Graham Chapman was wearing a massive polystyrene nose in that sketch and you don’t want to be accused of antisemitism by disingenuous nazis. (Complete sketch script in alt text)
Graham Chapman as Raymond and Michael Palin as Interviewer, doing the following Monty Python sketch:

Interviewer: Good evening. I have with me in the studio tonight one of Britain's leading skin specialists - Raymond Luxury Yacht.

Raymond: That's not my name.

Interviewer: I'm sorry - Raymond Luxury Yach-t.

Raymond: No, no, no - it's spelt Raymond: Luxury Yach-t, but it's pronounced 'Throatwobbler Mangrove'.

Interviewer: You're a very silly man and I'm not going to interview you.

Raymond: Ah, anti-Semitism!

Interviewer: Not at all. It's not even a proper nose. (takes it off) It's polystyrene.

Raymond: Give me my nose back.

Interviewer: You can collect it at reception. Now go away.

Raymond: I want to be on the television.

Interviewer: Well you can't.
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Emmz 💻🎸🎤🏳️‍⚧️ @rendle.dev · 07/01/2025
Oslo peeps: Save the date! @linebreakers.band are playing a free gig in May. We did it last year and it was epic.
Poster for The Linebreakers' gig at Brewgata in Oslo on Friday, 23rd May 2025. There are photos of me, Heather, Dylan, Vagif, Hannes and Eli. The gig is at 7pm, after the NDC Oslo conference finishes. We're basically the afterparty.
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Emmz 💻🎸🎤🏳️‍⚧️ @rendle.dev · 07/01/2025
Schroeder playing his tiny piano while Lucy lies on top of it gazing at him in completely unnoticed adoration. God, I love Peanuts.
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Emmz 💻🎸🎤🏳️‍⚧️ @rendle.dev · 30/12/2024
Does Tom Kerridge even know what you call cookie dough after it’s been in the oven at 190°/170° fan/gas mark 5 for 25 minutes? Because I do. It’s a fucking cookie.
Packaging for a “Molten Cookie Dough by Tom” so-called dessert from M&S, with a photo of a giant baked thing with pure, unadulterated chocolate spilling out of it in a tsunami of sweet, sweet goodness
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Emmz 💻🎸🎤🏳️‍⚧️ @rendle.dev · 28/12/2024
Post your queen
Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley in a promotional photo for Alien (1979).
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Emmz 💻🎸🎤🏳️‍⚧️ @rendle.dev · 24/12/2024
“You will be visited by three spirits.” The three spirits: cdn.comedy.co.uk/images/libra...
Nigel Planer, Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmonson in “Filthy, Rich and Catflap”, a BBC sitcom from the late 80s or early 90s.
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Emmz 💻🎸🎤🏳️‍⚧️ @rendle.dev · 20/12/2024
Post your favourite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only.
Orac, from the BBC’s ambitious attempt to copy Star Trek, Blake’s 7. Orac was an advanced AI; Orac was also a few tubes and wires in a Perspex box.
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Emmz 💻🎸🎤🏳️‍⚧️ @rendle.dev · 20/12/2024
How many times is this that James Corden and Ruth Jones have brought their much-loved sitcom to a close at Xmas?
Radio Times contents entry that reads “Gavin & Stacey
It's the final chapter - James Corden and Ruth Jones bring their much-loved sitcom to a close” with no discernible sense of irony whatsoever
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