Chris Wilson
@ciw1973.bsky.social
Blocked and deleted the chat, of course.
November 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Blocked and deleted the chat, of course.
I had an almost identical, "oh, fuck off!" moment earlier.
November 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I had an almost identical, "oh, fuck off!" moment earlier.
Yeah, it's very wasteful of screen real estate, with all of those curved edges meaning UI elements now need to be bigger for the same effective hit zone, and it's difficult to comprehend how such changes could have made it beyond even the most basic of UX testing. Plus, it just looks shite.
November 24, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Yeah, it's very wasteful of screen real estate, with all of those curved edges meaning UI elements now need to be bigger for the same effective hit zone, and it's difficult to comprehend how such changes could have made it beyond even the most basic of UX testing. Plus, it just looks shite.
Yup, and we now have both of these. They arrived today.
November 21, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Yup, and we now have both of these. They arrived today.
I've not made any attempt to read up on the history of this, and the options which were considered, but this is solving a very specific case which is inefficient in the current language, so why not simply optimise for that case, rather than add a new method?
The underlying code would be the same.
The underlying code would be the same.
November 20, 2025 at 6:38 AM
I've not made any attempt to read up on the history of this, and the options which were considered, but this is solving a very specific case which is inefficient in the current language, so why not simply optimise for that case, rather than add a new method?
The underlying code would be the same.
The underlying code would be the same.
Always found it incredibly reassuring that whenever there's a blip of any kind (and even, it seems, if it's a f'king massive one) Cloudflare provide an honest, detailed, but always well written and easily digestible debriefing within hours. So, yeah, they screwed up, but still feel I can trust them.
November 19, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Always found it incredibly reassuring that whenever there's a blip of any kind (and even, it seems, if it's a f'king massive one) Cloudflare provide an honest, detailed, but always well written and easily digestible debriefing within hours. So, yeah, they screwed up, but still feel I can trust them.
...cue an hour of the three of us dancing around the dining room to Rock Hubbard, including an epic interpretive dance to the Commando High Score music from our son, including devil horns, and a big rock finish with him sliding on his knees.
I love our family, and am so proud of our little boy.
I love our family, and am so proud of our little boy.
November 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
...cue an hour of the three of us dancing around the dining room to Rock Hubbard, including an epic interpretive dance to the Commando High Score music from our son, including devil horns, and a big rock finish with him sliding on his knees.
I love our family, and am so proud of our little boy.
I love our family, and am so proud of our little boy.
@c64audio.bsky.social
Got back home early evening, after last night's awesome #Fastloaders gig in Leicester, and after we'd eaten, our four year old wanted to know about the band.
Played him a video I'd recorded of Lost Patrol from the soundcheck, which he loved, and he wanted to listen to more...
Got back home early evening, after last night's awesome #Fastloaders gig in Leicester, and after we'd eaten, our four year old wanted to know about the band.
Played him a video I'd recorded of Lost Patrol from the soundcheck, which he loved, and he wanted to listen to more...
November 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
@c64audio.bsky.social
Got back home early evening, after last night's awesome #Fastloaders gig in Leicester, and after we'd eaten, our four year old wanted to know about the band.
Played him a video I'd recorded of Lost Patrol from the soundcheck, which he loved, and he wanted to listen to more...
Got back home early evening, after last night's awesome #Fastloaders gig in Leicester, and after we'd eaten, our four year old wanted to know about the band.
Played him a video I'd recorded of Lost Patrol from the soundcheck, which he loved, and he wanted to listen to more...
We all had; yes they were, and yes it was.
November 9, 2025 at 6:59 PM
We all had; yes they were, and yes it was.
If you haven't played with Durable Objects yet, they'll quite possibly blow your mind; as they open up so many architectural patterns that simply aren't possible/practical, or certainly aren't cost effective to implement with other public cloud providers.
November 9, 2025 at 12:00 PM
If you haven't played with Durable Objects yet, they'll quite possibly blow your mind; as they open up so many architectural patterns that simply aren't possible/practical, or certainly aren't cost effective to implement with other public cloud providers.
Their docs are great, but as you say, you need know about the platform, then hunt for them.
The free tier is incredibly generous, and they're planning to make pretty much all of the services which were previously only available on paid tiers, available on free, but the paid tier is only $5/month.
The free tier is incredibly generous, and they're planning to make pretty much all of the services which were previously only available on paid tiers, available on free, but the paid tier is only $5/month.
November 9, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Their docs are great, but as you say, you need know about the platform, then hunt for them.
The free tier is incredibly generous, and they're planning to make pretty much all of the services which were previously only available on paid tiers, available on free, but the paid tier is only $5/month.
The free tier is incredibly generous, and they're planning to make pretty much all of the services which were previously only available on paid tiers, available on free, but the paid tier is only $5/month.
Don't feel they've ever really promoted the developer platform well, and the number of people I speak to (and enthuse about it) that don't know them beyond their CDN and possibly security offerings is ridiculous.
After years spent working exclusively with AWS, their Workers platform is a real joy.
After years spent working exclusively with AWS, their Workers platform is a real joy.
November 9, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Don't feel they've ever really promoted the developer platform well, and the number of people I speak to (and enthuse about it) that don't know them beyond their CDN and possibly security offerings is ridiculous.
After years spent working exclusively with AWS, their Workers platform is a real joy.
After years spent working exclusively with AWS, their Workers platform is a real joy.
Yeah, it was a key marketing point for them, and at the time a whole bunch of big orgs were shouting about getting landed with huge egress fees from AWS.
You still get charged for the individual operations (or likely don't, as there are plenty included FoC, even on free tier) and then just storage.
You still get charged for the individual operations (or likely don't, as there are plenty included FoC, even on free tier) and then just storage.
November 8, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Yeah, it was a key marketing point for them, and at the time a whole bunch of big orgs were shouting about getting landed with huge egress fees from AWS.
You still get charged for the individual operations (or likely don't, as there are plenty included FoC, even on free tier) and then just storage.
You still get charged for the individual operations (or likely don't, as there are plenty included FoC, even on free tier) and then just storage.
That's a shame, but many thanks for getting back to me.
Is it purely a time/resources thing; or are there financial, technical, and/or legal blockers to getting this over the line?
Alas, I'm not really in a position to directly help myself, but would a Kickstarter or similar campaign be an option?
Is it purely a time/resources thing; or are there financial, technical, and/or legal blockers to getting this over the line?
Alas, I'm not really in a position to directly help myself, but would a Kickstarter or similar campaign be an option?
November 3, 2025 at 6:11 AM
That's a shame, but many thanks for getting back to me.
Is it purely a time/resources thing; or are there financial, technical, and/or legal blockers to getting this over the line?
Alas, I'm not really in a position to directly help myself, but would a Kickstarter or similar campaign be an option?
Is it purely a time/resources thing; or are there financial, technical, and/or legal blockers to getting this over the line?
Alas, I'm not really in a position to directly help myself, but would a Kickstarter or similar campaign be an option?
@defold.com Any news on publishing to XBox?
It seems to be perpetually "coming soon".
Looking to get back into games development, and have a couple of small games spec'd out, ready to get started over the festive break; but whilst Defold ticks a lot of boxes for me, that missing is a deal breaker.
It seems to be perpetually "coming soon".
Looking to get back into games development, and have a couple of small games spec'd out, ready to get started over the festive break; but whilst Defold ticks a lot of boxes for me, that missing is a deal breaker.
November 1, 2025 at 11:27 AM
@defold.com Any news on publishing to XBox?
It seems to be perpetually "coming soon".
Looking to get back into games development, and have a couple of small games spec'd out, ready to get started over the festive break; but whilst Defold ticks a lot of boxes for me, that missing is a deal breaker.
It seems to be perpetually "coming soon".
Looking to get back into games development, and have a couple of small games spec'd out, ready to get started over the festive break; but whilst Defold ticks a lot of boxes for me, that missing is a deal breaker.
October 30, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Had a bunch of BBC released cassette tapes when I was young(er) and picked up a couple of *slightly* dodgy CDs containing MP3s all of the Goon Show episodes available at a Sunday market a while back, and whilst it's not all gold, far from it, there's so much hilarious stuff in there.
October 30, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Had a bunch of BBC released cassette tapes when I was young(er) and picked up a couple of *slightly* dodgy CDs containing MP3s all of the Goon Show episodes available at a Sunday market a while back, and whilst it's not all gold, far from it, there's so much hilarious stuff in there.
It's going in this direction, isn't it?
October 29, 2025 at 7:29 AM
It's going in this direction, isn't it?
Don't believe you. That's not a thing.
October 27, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Don't believe you. That's not a thing.
I thought it was OK but had, probably not too surprisingly, a weird aftertaste. Certainly didn't hate it, but also wasn't in a rush to get more.
October 23, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I thought it was OK but had, probably not too surprisingly, a weird aftertaste. Certainly didn't hate it, but also wasn't in a rush to get more.
Plenty to choose from, and no GIF, but it's from the live action version of 101 Dalmatians:
"What sort of sycophant are you?"
"Erm...what sort of sycophant would you like me to be?"
"What sort of sycophant are you?"
"Erm...what sort of sycophant would you like me to be?"
What’s the best one liner in movie history?
October 16, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Plenty to choose from, and no GIF, but it's from the live action version of 101 Dalmatians:
"What sort of sycophant are you?"
"Erm...what sort of sycophant would you like me to be?"
"What sort of sycophant are you?"
"Erm...what sort of sycophant would you like me to be?"
You'll be sticking a case on it anyway, so making it so thin is completely pointless from a consumer perspective.
pointless.how
October 15, 2025 at 4:27 PM
You'll be sticking a case on it anyway, so making it so thin is completely pointless from a consumer perspective.
I'm genuinely struggling to imagine any setting where this sort is pattern for carpet wouldn't be immediately stressful.
October 4, 2025 at 10:31 AM
I'm genuinely struggling to imagine any setting where this sort is pattern for carpet wouldn't be immediately stressful.