Pete Birkinshaw
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binaryape.bsky.social
Pete Birkinshaw
@binaryape.bsky.social
Hat-wearing devourer of chickpeas, Manchester vegan, manager of identities, developer of obscure software, Green inactivist, Elixir & Ruby coder, watcher of K-dramas, daft-apeth.
Alignment: Quixotic-Good

https://binary-ape.org
That trailer is huge! (for a trailer)
January 12, 2026 at 1:15 PM
-- Mass Effect
January 12, 2026 at 1:02 PM
You are writing a Markdown parser? That's brave/foolish/embracing the chaos
January 12, 2026 at 12:59 PM
I would call a small dog Sheru though
January 12, 2026 at 11:30 AM
Take care of your 12" rulers, they aren't making them any longer
January 12, 2026 at 8:14 AM
Not saying everything is fine under European human rights laws, but at least the bad stuff is illegal and eventually something may happen.
January 12, 2026 at 8:13 AM
His torture and imprisonment (kidnap, really) are apparently fine under the constitution, since nothing has happened for TWENTY YEARS.
January 12, 2026 at 8:09 AM
The only Good Golf is Crazy Golf
January 12, 2026 at 7:24 AM
A twist: my wife is from the USA and has never heard it called dressing, so maybe it’s regional or a new thing?
January 11, 2026 at 8:51 PM
Vegan, so nothing to stuff, cook it as balls or in small baking dish, I call it stuffing.
January 11, 2026 at 8:44 PM
I’ve enjoyed it (very good, dramatic audiobooks, Michael Sheen is great) but after 1000ish pages with foreshadowing and setup I kind of expected more at the end. It just feels very rushed and missing parts.
January 11, 2026 at 8:40 PM
No, that seems to be it. Apparently there was a different ending originally but the publisher demanded a rewrite.
January 11, 2026 at 8:32 PM
Many years ago I fell flat on my back in snowy weather, just as a whole group of primary school kids and a parent or teacher walked past. Fortunately no swears happened, but I wailed “OH! This is so undignified!“ in a voice that sounded too much like C3PO as I lay there.
January 11, 2026 at 6:51 PM
I can't work out what the disc things are in the top right (other than slop) - if it's pan, what's the wire? Has it combined cooking and a record player arm?
January 11, 2026 at 5:04 PM