Reposted by stuartdToo Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 16/10/2026As both a certified CAR GUY and an economist-ish, I cannot imagine a headline more designed to drive me, personally, insane. This "flying car" technology is neither new nor novel. It is not practical and would not sell. Let me tell a story of actually useful car tech that never made it to market. 10135251070 3.5K
Reposted by stuartdMagic Bird Peddler @dfeldman.org · 16/10/2026Is this a Mario/Wario situation 1134 13
Reposted by stuartdMorgan Johnson @poormojo.bsky.social · 14/10/2026No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads 186143715868 14.4K
Reposted by stuartdOdd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 15/10/2025It’s the 111th anniversary today of the birth of Harry Rée, who was a teacher and conscientious objector when the Second World War broke out, and by the time it ended, when he was 31, had invented ‘blackmail sabotage’ and got a DSO, an OBE, a Croix de Guerre, and a Medaille de la Resistance 30891292 891
stuartd @stuartd.dev · 14/10/2026Outlook 97 with the Lookout plugin was the best email client I ever used 010 1
Reposted by stuartdceej @ceej.online · 12/10/2026are AI coding tools capable of delivering useful work: verifiably yes is there actual real demand for AI coding tools: verifiably yes is that demand sufficient to support the economics: a lot of people would sure like to know!! is AI ontologically evil: to be determined by the RoboWars 2882054 820
Reposted by stuartdChris Weatherspoon @cweatherspoon.bsky.social · 11/10/2026English football just finds itself in a completely ludicrous, damaging situation now. And it has been a very long time coming 1016436 164
Reposted by stuartdRuth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 10/10/2026It's both shameful and deeply humiliating for what was until recently the world's most powerful democracy to be reorienting itself so that it can be more like, and closer to, a second tier criminal autocracy like Russia. 431572 315
stuartd @stuartd.dev · 10/10/2026I got the impression they rather liked the power of moderating 220 2
Reposted by stuartdAdam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Reprehensible. Europe must respond with more help for Ukraine to rapidly escalate drone production so that Trump ending sanctions on Russian oil becomes irrelevant. Market access won’t mean shit for Putin if his oil production capacity is annihilated. 1319356 193
Reposted by stuartdRob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 08/10/2026Things I want AI to do for me * Emptying the dish washer and putting plates in cupboard * Washing my clothes and putting them on hangers * Using the bog brush to scrape shit from the bog that kids leave there * Putting the bins out * Looking for mould cups that I leave by the sofa 4304 30
Reposted by stuartdJohn Bull @garius.eurosky.social · 08/10/2023On 8th Oct 1952 the worst civilian rail disaster in UK history happened in London. 112 deaths. 340 wounded. That accident, and the actions of one woman from Florida have saved THOUSANDS of lives since. That disaster helped lead to the creation of paramedics. /1 🧵 www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU60...youtube.comHarrow and Wealdstone Train Crash NewsreelNewsreel footage of the aftermath of the 1952 Train Crash at Harrow & Wealdstone Station, which claimed the lives of 112 people and injured hundreds more. 10447240 447
Reposted by stuartdbryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare... 102144304733 14.4K
stuartd @stuartd.dev · 04/10/2026in software development we take it very seriously. it’s very good already and it’s getting better all the time 000 0
Reposted by stuartdGrady Booch @booch.com · 04/10/2026The first computers were human. Now, as computing has been woven into the very fabric of civilization, we are compelled to ask what it means to be human. 97110 71
stuartd @stuartd.dev · 03/10/2026@theguardian.com nothing on the biggest news of the week (for some of us)? 011 1
stuartd @stuartd.dev · 03/10/2026Touch type means “not needing to look at the keyboard” and has nothing to do with speed or what fingers you use 140 4
stuartd @stuartd.dev · 02/10/2026Yup - brilliantmaps.com/best-selling... I was born in Genesis and now live happily in the Cure.brilliantmaps.comBest Selling Musical Artists By English County of Origin - Brilliant MapsMap created by reddit user uvbseventysix 010 1
stuartd @stuartd.dev · 30/09/2026The only time I ever really engaged with Reddit was /r/thebutton 001 1
Reposted by stuartdthe babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026bad news babe a rogue openai agent must have hacked our refrigerator last night and drank 15 beers 4161871292 6.2K
Reposted by stuartdButt Praxis @buttpraxis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I will vote, make calls, knock doors, take up arms for whoever destroys the online gambling industry 343109400 3.1K
stuartd @stuartd.dev · 27/09/2026Fifty quid an hour?! That’s crazy. You could get a five a side football pitch for less than that. 100 1
stuartd @stuartd.dev · 26/09/2026It depends on how you define your job. If you define it as “writing code” then yes you will over time probably get worse at it through lack of practise. If you define it as “delivering software” though then you get better the more you practise making the machine write it for you. 230 3
stuartd @stuartd.dev · 26/09/2026I can’t even remember how old I am until I look up what year it is 110 1
stuartd @stuartd.dev · 26/09/2026Depends on what lengths they would go to. Set a dirty bomb off in a city and blame antifa? (hypothetically oc) 100 1
stuartd @stuartd.dev · 26/09/2026By staging a prerequisite, I guess. But like I said, hypothetical 100 1
stuartd @stuartd.dev · 26/09/2026Hypothetically perhaps martial law could work, if the generals went along with it 200 2
stuartd @stuartd.dev · 22/09/2026Is it Happy Birthday day today (or tomorrow or yesterday or whatever day it is in nz!) Happy birthday whenever day!! 110 1
Reposted by stuartdChris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Weird coincidence that all this is happening the same day as the AI air control rollout. “You’re absolutely right - a forty five degree angle of approach is entirely too steep for landings, and that’s on me. Would you like me to call some local mortuaries?” 451317362 1.3K
stuartd @stuartd.dev · 20/09/2026Standard Cobra top speed is 164mph. But not in West Worthing high street. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC_Cobraen.wikipedia.orgAC Cobra - Wikipedia 011 1
stuartd @stuartd.dev · 20/09/2026Tinkering with my app photos-wallpaper.app took me back to the day I was sat behind a full-on race prepared 427 Cobra at the lights.. glorious. 120 2
stuartd @stuartd.dev · 18/09/2026I like the implied concept of non-intimate sex toys - formal, distant, detached, reserved… 000 0
stuartd @stuartd.dev · 18/09/2026I’d go for “as many drinks as you like but you have to carry them all at once” 010 1
Reposted by stuartdU.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 16/09/2026Happy Baby Safety Month. 843612919 3.6K
stuartd @stuartd.dev · 15/09/2026Sometimes I think Rob chooses these ones deliberately and I am down with that 010 1
