Jessica @cat@awoo.space

still being bitten by the fact that GitHub’s repo file search stubbornly ignores directories called “build” in the year of luigi twenty gayteen

looking forward to humans moving into space because it’ll mean we finally have to address the fact that computer time zone representations are currently fundamentally broken

just like anything that isn’t “convection via heat spreader directly onto the user’s lap” would be great honestly

when will the cowards at Apple make a MacBook Pro that’s got decent thermal management so it’s actually usable in summer

I appreciate what you’re doing but I’m not joining another Slack so long as the platform has zero community safety or moderation features.

I’ve said it before, and I’ll keep saying it: Slack is *not* a good fit for your community, and they do not want to be.

Steam: to take on Discord, we’re launching an extremely broken chat service

Discord: we’re uh, selling games now I guess

today I learned: git emits some warnings which are fatal

TFW there’s a new one coming

phwoa, what a battlestation

fellow marginalised people in tech, do you have strategies for responding in a kind, polite & constructive manner when your inputs are dismissed out of hand for a presumed lack of domain knowledge or presumption of being a bystander?

I find it difficult to avoid being frustrated

it’s not even internally consistent what are you doing 2016-me

tfw you look at your old code and go what the fuck was I thinking with this syntax style

jsdomme

TransLink: the next two buses are 99s
TransLink: [four 9s go past]
Me: 🤔

demonstrating the game boy you’re asking nearly CA$1,000 for works by showing it running Trip World, a CA$400-600 game, is a real power move

wow I have a very legitimate email in my inbox offering me 50% of 950,000,000,000,000 US dollars for no reason whatsoever, “risk free and will be done legally in accordance
with the laws”

it’s always nice when a lawyer talks plain just like you or me

when someone pisses in the pool you tell them to fucking stop, not just fucking wait for someone to document that some arsehole pissed in the fucking pool

“Twitter is the best place to get live updates about the things you care about most” but ‘it’s journalists’ job to refute disinformation on our platform, not ours to prevent its spread’ ok sure jack you dickhead

this feels like not a bad batting average