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Stephen Spencer @vitaminj.co.uk · 10/10/2026

Beetle now has lower back pain and a mortgage

Stephen Spencer @vitaminj.co.uk · 05/10/2026

The Lite edition doesn't have battery and speaker? So to play tiny games on the Lite, it has to be plugged into a host console, and it's silent? Is that right, @takiudon.bsky.social?

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Stephen Spencer @vitaminj.co.uk · 04/10/2026

30 /SECONDS/ surely! If (audio == veryCloseSiren && speed < 1) handoverToRemoteHumanDriver()

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Stephen Spencer @vitaminj.co.uk · 30/09/2026

And "Invoking Article xyz" (suddenly everyone is an expert in obscure legislation)

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Stephen Spencer @vitaminj.co.uk · 09/09/2026

Oh! Also - huge request! - could there be a way to put a templated variable for the branch name being merged into pull_request_template.md, expanded when it's used - e.g. for titles, links to other CI systems, deployers, internal hosting of branches, that kind of thing?

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Stephen Spencer @vitaminj.co.uk · 08/09/2026

All of these braindead HOW-TO SEO click-desperation slurry articles are getting a bit tiresome, would be great if you could tag them so they don't publish on your feed as "news"

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Stephen Spencer @vitaminj.co.uk · 31/08/2026

Remember to touch on the pink reader on the ceiling when changing between gravity orientations

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Stephen Spencer @vitaminj.co.uk · 28/08/2026

Doesn't look like it? Isn't Bugzilla for the desktop apps, and the Github issues (such as I linked) for the Android ex-k9 app?

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Stephen Spencer @vitaminj.co.uk · 26/08/2026

Feedback Bot 3000 is ready to triage your new compliments! Any complaints may however be met with deadly (styrofoam) force!

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Stephen Spencer @vitaminj.co.uk · 20/08/2026

da da da da da da da da diddly diddly doooo ... TA DA DA DAHHHHH

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Stephen Spencer @vitaminj.co.uk · 19/08/2026

Ok no, it's obviously more galaxy-brained than that monzo.com/blog/tolerat...

monzo.com

Tolerating full cloud outages with Monzo Stand-in

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Stephen Spencer @vitaminj.co.uk · 19/08/2026

I like to think that their systems back up everyone's balances on every transaction as .plan files via ftp somewhere, and that fallback screen is just a finger client

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Stephen Spencer @vitaminj.co.uk · 19/08/2026

And bears are catholic and the pope shits in the woods

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Stephen Spencer @vitaminj.co.uk · 14/08/2026

Well at least now I know my janky Kickstarter tiny square phone supports "authorities scare you shitless for something that isn't time sensitive" alerts

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Stephen Spencer @vitaminj.co.uk · 12/08/2026

Please could you (re)evaluate this bug with notifications reappearing that I don't see specifically called out - the single biggest annoyance that's been going on solidly for about 6mo! Surprised it's not hit anyone in the team, or maybe caused usage metrics to go down? github.com/thunderbird/...

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Notifications Remain in Shade After Deleting · Issue #10936 · thunderbird/thunderbird-android

App versions: 18.0, 17.0, possibly 16.0 as well Review initially posted for v17.0 claimed notifications remained in notifications shade after deleting them Reviewer for version 17.0: Since a recent...

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Aras Pranckevičius @aras-p.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

"GPU texture address mode collies" meme continues to be my main achievement in life, I think.

Border collie, Clamp collie, Repeat collie, Mirror collie

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Stephen Spencer @vitaminj.co.uk · 31/07/2026

Some longstanding QoL features? Picking one of my annoyances: github.com/orgs/communi... But like, stuff in here? github.com/orgs/communi...

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Stephen Spencer @vitaminj.co.uk · 31/07/2026

I look forward to the results of the "independent external review" being "yeah, no, the report seemed accurate" and being then brushed under some form of carpet

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Stephen Spencer @vitaminj.co.uk · 21/07/2026

The NHS has provided me with three 5-minute sessions of looking at ocean.jpg, then I'm on my own (though on the last session I get to take home a plastic cup of water)

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Stephen Spencer @vitaminj.co.uk · 14/07/2026

Ohhh sorry to hear, but sounds like you're already planning on riding high on the Zuck golden-handshake dime

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Stephen Spencer @vitaminj.co.uk · 10/07/2026

PineTab 2? Bit old. Optionally with Sailfish OS community port (no apk support)?

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Stephen Spencer @vitaminj.co.uk · 08/07/2026

Hmm maybe 57898 and/or 348350 Sorting on tag vs sorting by starred seems to leave the rest of the messages in different date orders, neither user-selected

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Stephen Spencer @vitaminj.co.uk · 08/07/2026

Regarding "The “inbox as a to-do list” workflow", I've always thought it would be a good idea to be able to sort the inbox by descending date but then also pin starred (or specially labelled e.g. "needs response") items to the top of the list, so they're always in view. I should file a bug, right?

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Stephen Spencer @vitaminj.co.uk · 08/07/2026

So you can track when your dog has ripped your leg off and run away with it?

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Stephen Spencer @vitaminj.co.uk · 18/06/2026

Though I have wondered - presumably this is a bad idea if your US bank charges you some kind of per-transaction foreign currency fixed fee, and US banks are well known for lagging behind and charging any fee they can get away with?

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Stephen Spencer @vitaminj.co.uk · 04/06/2026

Shit, I knew I'd made this joke already. Now who's got a problem with their WPU bsky.app/profile/vita...

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Stephen Spencer @vitaminj.co.uk · 04/06/2026

This is a common interrupt handling problem in CatOS. Sadly there isn't enough space in the Walnut Processing Unit to implement a proper fix

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Stephen Spencer @vitaminj.co.uk · 01/06/2026

It always baffles me why this kind of thing is behind a feature flag (just fix it!) or A/B tested. Is some Project Manager presenting some slides - "We had 1.8% more interaction and click-through with open dialogs when we didn't flashbang the users!"

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Stephen Spencer @vitaminj.co.uk · 31/05/2026

Phew got it in the nick of time 🐴 Horsle 🐴 31 May 2026 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 cabletwo.net/horsle

cabletwo.net

Horsle- the horse-based word game

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laura - yscmab out now on steam!! @freezydorito.lol · 26/05/2026

no no you dont get it our houses were designed to retain heat in the summer _and_ to retain cold in the winter we thought this was gonna be a hilarious funny bit a bit of a laugh with the mates anyway the situation is Dire

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Stephen Spencer @vitaminj.co.uk · 22/05/2026

Will each and every business/venue need to display a little trans-flag or trans-flag-crossed-out on the front door (maybe next to opening times?) to let people know which rules they apply? Perhaps combined with a sign about their stance on Irish people, Black people and dogs?

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂

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Stephen Spencer @vitaminj.co.uk · 16/05/2026

I had always wondered this! Like, it has to be a video! But V is customised, do they overlay just you into a video? No! Magic! Very impressive they got it to work (eventually) on PS4! Thanks for the investigation

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Stephen Spencer @vitaminj.co.uk · 15/05/2026

> New!  You can feel haptic feedback effects on compatible input devices I didn't notice this when it went into Dev, but I fully expect I will now be able to get out my Logitech iFeel vibrating mouse from 2001 and experience this new feature!

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Stephen Spencer @vitaminj.co.uk · 12/05/2026

He also has a strange thirst for throwing trans people under a bus, preferring taking skewed last-tory-gov "research" at face value rather than talking to people or paying any attention to all the rebuttals

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