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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 08/10/2026

Next up: Silver Pines which was released today. It's supposedly a survival horror metroidvania mashup. Sounds intriguing. I love both genres

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 04/10/2026

When Nikola Tesla said "you may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension" I'm pretty certain he had these in mind

Screen cap of a listing from Iceland's website for "energy drink flavour chicken wings"

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 01/10/2026

O' to be a beetle perched atop a leaf

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 30/09/2026

Once again reminding myself to click the links

Fron the linked proposal:

Syntax?

There could be syntax to make creating composites more ergonomic and cleaner to read.

```
#{ x: 1 };
// Syntax for:
Composite({ x: 1 });
```

Such syntax may open the door to some runtime optimizations.

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 26/09/2026

Next up, Well Dweller, the new game from one of my favourite devs who always makes banger metroidvanias

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 26/09/2026

Just finished Shinobi: Art of Vengeance. Great game. Super smooth movement and combat. Mostly linear and level-based, but with some satisfying backtracking as you gain new skills.

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 17/09/2026

This has to be one of the most diabolically bad interfaces I've ever seen lol. No qwerty, both cases and numbers all in a single line, and you can't hold the button to repeat up/down

Interface for entering a wifi password on a SkyQ box

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 14/09/2026

And a nice little purple one

A little purple mushroom amongst decaying leaves and some ivy

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 14/09/2026

Saw some cool ones last year. Hoping for more this year

A load of mushrooms with a reddish tinge, at the bottom of a tree

More mushrooms emerging from a tree. The photo is taken from a low angle

A big woody looking mushroom, taken from a low angle

A delicate white mushroom among moss, taken from a low angle

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 29/08/2026

It's wild how good phones are at macro shots these days

Macro shot of a grasshopper taken with a Pixel 9a

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 24/08/2026

Forget a regular laptop stand. Get a monitor arm and a laptop holder with a VESA mount. Laptop no longer takes up desk space, easy to adjust to eye level etc. I've got a dual arm setup, so I can pair it with an external monitor:

My desk where I have both a laptop and monitor on monitor arms. There is also a split keyboard (kinesis freestyle pro), mouse (logitech mx master 3), digital piano (Roland fp-39x) and some other doodads

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 23/08/2026

If you're going for a hydration build, this is OP

A bottle of lime and mint cordial by Bottle Green. The bottle is tall and tapered with green glass

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 21/08/2026

Some real ones I've seen recently. The insane thing is that the place with the burgers actually does *good* burgers. It makes no sense

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 21/08/2026

I was thinking "I wonder if her top is made of moquette fabric". Then this question came up lmao. Gotta be

The contestant wearing a top consisting of brown, orange, green rectangles with a question asking about a moquette fabric made of "burnt orange, black, brown and olive green rectangles"

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 04/08/2026

I got my PT2 yday and I was surprised how dim the display was… To the point it's a little hard to read indoors without activating the backlight. So I'm surprised to hear you say you barely need it. Have I got some setting wrong? @ericmigi.com

Photo of a pebble time 2 on my wrist showing a dim screen

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 01/08/2026

Gorgeous day for some birding along the coast

A rocky coast set against blue skies and whispy clouds. In the distance are some buildings. One of the buildings is round with a conical roof

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 24/07/2026

Pretty funny because he is deeply disliked in the UK across the whole political spectrum. He had a meltdown on twitter when such a poll came out last year. So much for his not caring

Elon Musk public perception, by yougov

Fame: 97%
Popularity: 21%
Disliked by: 62%
Neutral: 14%

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 06/07/2026

I gave some Monk a spin after our recent discussion. I really liked this album

Cover art for "Solo Monk" by Thelonious Monk

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 29/06/2026

Lol these two posts back to back

A post under OPs where there is a weasel looking into a tube

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 25/06/2026

🤯 Just encountered one of the wildest bugs of my career: A html page, containing a script tag, containing a "<!--" in a string, alongside a JS comment containing "<script>" It puts the html parser into a weird state which swallows all subsequent html into an unclosed comment

```html
<script>
const foo = "<!--"
// <script>
</script>
<div>this disappears</div>
```

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 15/06/2026

Not my finest presentation, but tasty nonetheless

Noodles in a coconut sauce, served with pak choi, cucumber, a small amount of tofu. Topped with a hearty squeeze of lime, sesame seeds, crispy garlic, and crispy shallots

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 11/06/2026

I am among those who refuse to call them sprinkles

Tobias Funke from arrested development:

"There are hundreds and thousands of us"

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 08/06/2026

Made hummus for the first time

Tofu and chickpeas tossed in harissa paste and roasted. A cucumber, tomato, and coriander salad. Served on top of hummus flavoured with cumin and smoked paprika

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 05/06/2026

My man is living his best life

Close up of the cat, appears to be smiling

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 27/05/2026

Starting a new game. Played the first a few years back. This one apparently leans more metroidvania

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 10/05/2026

I will never tire of bluebell season

My dog, a whippet-collie cross, kneeling down in a bluebell meadow while chewing a stick

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 26/04/2026

Depending where in Ireland, you might be in luck! www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wi...

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 25/04/2026

Look at this magnificent beast

My dog, a smooth collie/whippet cross, standing in a meadow of bluebells

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 23/04/2026

The most sought after spot in the house apparently

My dog, a whippet/collie cross, basking in the same spot that my cat was earlier in the day

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 23/04/2026

Experimenting with the new customizable select functionality today. Turns out Cally's <calendar-select-year> and <calendar-select-month> components will work out of the box! Codepen (chrome only for now): codepen.io/editor/Wicky...

A date picker component built with Cally using the new customizable select functionality in HTML/CSS to style the year/month select components

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 21/04/2026

The delicate remains of last year's hydrangea petal

A black and white close up photo of a hydrangea petal which survived from last year. All that remains is the delicate inner structure

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 21/04/2026

Hoping for some pears this year

Close up shot of the flowers on a pear tree

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 19/04/2026

I saw this absolutely wild paragraph relating to Palantir UK earlier today

Excerpt of a book relating to Palantir UK:

> Through a friend, he was introduced to Palantir, and after several rounds of interviews, he flew to Palo Alto to meet with Karp. As soon as Mosley took a seat, Karp began reciting a fiery speech that Oswald Mosley gave in 1939 demanding that Britain seek peace with Nazi Germany. ("Our generation shall not die like rats in Polish holes. They shall not die but shall live to see above their heads the English sky, to feel beneath their feet the English soil, and to enjoy the fair English countryside....") Karp didn't just repeat a few sentences; he went on for minutes, reproducing the speech from memory. Mosley sat in stunned silence. When Karp finished, he executed a few tai chi moves and walked out of the room without saying goodbye. A shaken Mosley figured that his family's dark past had torpedoed him again. But it hadn't: he was hired and ended up running Palantir's UK business

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