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Oh oh oh for good measure: they recently started using a webfont which contains a ligature which turns “No” unconditionally into №, rather than only the literal № character, so our favourite vegetarian burger place now sells the “Number Bull Burger”

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I don’t think anything sums up our experience using DoorDash more succinctly than that their order page has an Apple Pay button which prints a console error which says their domain is not registered to use Apple Pay

Today at @SteelAndOak@twitter.com we met this lovely friend named Aura

like it would almost make me think it was a Nintendo of America development, except that the shape much more closely resembles the Super Famicom/European SNES shape? Maybe they wanted to design it once and split the difference? What an odd device!

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I’m still fascinated that the Super Famicom mouse was the same in every region, despite having what looks to be the North American SNES colour scheme of grey and purple rather than grey and 💚💙💛❤️

(it froze completely, on this screen, so I think the answer is “fuck off”)

getting to read the document Microsoft were given to try to convince them to name the original Xbox “11-X” (in Game of X) has done a lot to convince me market research is a huge scam

I need to bring your attention to this gem of an internet web site: csoon.com/index.html

The Samoyed says 0xf00f

The computer hangs

when’s hypercard coming out for switch

when things are going well on a friday afternoon

profusely apologising to everyone for pulling docker images at the café

Serious question: how stupid would it be to affix a Qi charger pad to my wireless headphones and plug into the USB port?

like I get that this is more work, I really do, but the thought of responding with …that, and not with something like “I don’t currently maintain a changelog, but if you could help me get it started that’d be a good motivator to continue!”, you just might be an arsehole?

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what’s changed to warrant a minor version bump? fuck ouy that’s what

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when someone asks you to consider writing any sort of changelog in your project which uses semantic versioning, and you are absolutely, definitely acting in good faith as a project maintainer

I like how instead of smoothly streaming and occasionally rolling an ad, the Twitch iOS app has decided that it should periodically throw out its entire streaming cache to check if there’s an ad and then resume from the last iframe when there wasn’t one to show at all

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