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Ben @mrwedders.bsky.social · 8d

Caught my Xbox with it's pants down, never seen this before.

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Ben @mrwedders.bsky.social · 9d

The preview of Visual Studio 2026 is remarkably performant.

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Ben @mrwedders.bsky.social · 10d

This goes kinda hard.
youtu.be/6dcj_vabpyA

New Found Glory "Laugh It Off" Official Music Video

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Ben @mrwedders.bsky.social · Aug 25

Back to one of my favourite places today.
This straight as you approach the old station is still my favourite spot, stretching in to infinity flanked by trees. It's a little bit magical.

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Ben @mrwedders.bsky.social · Aug 23

There's some weird past-future tech going on in War of the Worlds.

Apparently Ice is running Windows 10 on an Athlogn XP 3200+ with an insane memory clock of 8.8GHz on his 64GB of presumably DDR1 memory.

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Ben @mrwedders.bsky.social · Aug 22

It cannot be understated how vital regexr.com is to my work 😂 I'm parsing stupid data on there at least daily

Ben @mrwedders.bsky.social · Aug 20

Fun evening at the theatre - feels like it's been ages since I was here.

Ben @mrwedders.bsky.social · Aug 13

Very cruel to put a thin line on your phone wallpaper, lost count of how many "oh shit is that a crack?" moments I've had today.

Ben @mrwedders.bsky.social · Jul 28

w- what if we kissed in the Red Bull Zone?

Ben @mrwedders.bsky.social · Jul 22

New drives have suitably pleased me after a bit of testing, time to start swapping them in... 12 hours per drive doesn't seem horrendous.

Ben @mrwedders.bsky.social · Jul 18

Love that Sky News felt they needed a bar chart to demonstrate how much 7500 is?

Ben @mrwedders.bsky.social · Jul 17

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Ben @mrwedders.bsky.social · Jul 15

Deeply upset by this Night Light toggle in Display settings in Windows 10, which is actually telling you if it's SCHEDULED.
If you have it on all the time like me it will always show as off, and perplexingly turning it on will actually turn Night Light OFF.

Ben @mrwedders.bsky.social · Jul 9

• How's those new hard drives bro?
• Bro! They are SATA AF!

Ben @mrwedders.bsky.social · Jul 8

Customs lottery win! Apparently the package is €45 of "adapters" 😂

Ben @mrwedders.bsky.social · Jul 8

Playing the customs lottery today, wish me luck 😀

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Ben @mrwedders.bsky.social · Jul 3

Looking at an interesting AI tool, get to the end and find instructions on how to ask ChatGPT to generate prompts for this tool.

We're so cooked as a species.

Ben @mrwedders.bsky.social · Jun 18

Holy yikes.
The one perm dev on my current contract gave his notice on Monday - which sucks.
The org has just given the project lead his notice too.
I will soon be the only dev left on a system I desperately do not want to own.
Time to update the CV? 😬

Ben @mrwedders.bsky.social · Jun 17

"Instead of using regex, the Lua string library has a special set of characters..."

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🏴‍☠️ Maddox 🏴‍☠️ @maddox.xmission.com · Jun 13

Is soup gay?

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Ben @mrwedders.bsky.social · Jun 10

God will punish the people who like YAML.

Ben @mrwedders.bsky.social · Jun 4

Broadcom's account registration blocks pasting in the password inputs - bullshit.
It also has a captcha that seems broken? I very definitely typo'd one letter, was unable to correct what I'd typed for some reason, but it accepted it anyway?

Ben @mrwedders.bsky.social · Jun 2

Sequoia runs way better than it has any right to on this.

Ben @mrwedders.bsky.social · Jun 1

I gave up on Dr Who a decade ago but a friend who still watches told me what the regeneration rumours were ahead of the finale, and I just went "well that makes no sense, why would they do that?"

...so I guess they did do that... 🫠

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Ben @mrwedders.bsky.social · May 30

Debian, macOS and Windows walk in to a bar...
Honourable mention to the 2010 MacBook Air that is having a Debian install erased because, regrettably, I need to do a Mac thing.