Tom Gidden
@gid.cx
October 10, 2025 at 11:23 AM
I'm firmly on the bandwagon of macOS Tahoe corner-haters, but it makes even less sense in Preview.app. I'm proofing the print-ready PDF for @dingbats.net and while the real cards will have trimmed corners, I don't want them arbitrarily trimmed by Apple. Make radius configurable! >:(
September 27, 2025 at 10:01 AM
I'm firmly on the bandwagon of macOS Tahoe corner-haters, but it makes even less sense in Preview.app. I'm proofing the print-ready PDF for @dingbats.net and while the real cards will have trimmed corners, I don't want them arbitrarily trimmed by Apple. Make radius configurable! >:(
Suggestion for a ThePiHut product: a keycap set of black, olive-brown and red-orange, a pot of beige plastic dye, and a MicroSD card that boots straight into BeebEm.
Take my money.
Take my money.
September 25, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Suggestion for a ThePiHut product: a keycap set of black, olive-brown and red-orange, a pot of beige plastic dye, and a MicroSD card that boots straight into BeebEm.
Take my money.
Take my money.
@thepihut.bsky.social 3 minutes between order and dispatch on a summer Friday afternoon. You're making everyone else look bad.
July 18, 2025 at 2:05 PM
@thepihut.bsky.social 3 minutes between order and dispatch on a summer Friday afternoon. You're making everyone else look bad.
Reminds me of my Epoch-o-clock 2000™, built with a first-gen Zero and some spare 7-segment LEDs...
June 2, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Reminds me of my Epoch-o-clock 2000™, built with a first-gen Zero and some spare 7-segment LEDs...
Inspired by @retrobytes.bsky.social's video on Palm Pilots to dig out my old Palm games and bludgeon them into an emulator:
gidden.net/ggpalm
gidden.net/ggpalm
June 1, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Inspired by @retrobytes.bsky.social's video on Palm Pilots to dig out my old Palm games and bludgeon them into an emulator:
gidden.net/ggpalm
gidden.net/ggpalm
Well, thanks BBC. There goes breakfast. *boik*
May 2, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Well, thanks BBC. There goes breakfast. *boik*
And now I'm having PalmOS development flashbacks. Six month unpaid sabbatical to develop a mechanism for app plugins to unify the brand. Total revenue: $50. :(
April 9, 2025 at 11:13 AM
And now I'm having PalmOS development flashbacks. Six month unpaid sabbatical to develop a mechanism for app plugins to unify the brand. Total revenue: $50. :(
Oddly, I've known this story for about 25 years… for some reason I've been "Master Mind" adjacent since 1996 when I wrote a web game version, and got an intern to go to Hamleys to buy it for reference.
April 9, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Oddly, I've known this story for about 25 years… for some reason I've been "Master Mind" adjacent since 1996 when I wrote a web game version, and got an intern to go to Hamleys to buy it for reference.
I wore this t-shirt to a follow-up appointment once, after a physio gave me exercises I said would knacker my lower back. I'm not sure they connected the dots.
April 1, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I wore this t-shirt to a follow-up appointment once, after a physio gave me exercises I said would knacker my lower back. I'm not sure they connected the dots.
Betteridge's law: “Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word ‘No.’”
March 25, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Betteridge's law: “Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word ‘No.’”
If you ask @thewheatgerm.bsky.social, Woman is just a normal kinda critter. A fine critter to be sure, but a critter nonetheless.
March 8, 2025 at 11:45 PM
If you ask @thewheatgerm.bsky.social, Woman is just a normal kinda critter. A fine critter to be sure, but a critter nonetheless.
"10.30am ET" (whatever that means), or "3.30pm GMT" in old money.
March 5, 2025 at 2:44 PM
"10.30am ET" (whatever that means), or "3.30pm GMT" in old money.
Ah, up nice and early on a Saturday morning. Fancy some waffles, so get out the waffle-maker and wash of 4 years of dust/grease. Waffles made.
Migraine aura. Within a minute I can't see a bloody thing. Well, GFY, Saturday. Stupid bloody mornings. Don't like 'em. Don't trust 'em.
Migraine aura. Within a minute I can't see a bloody thing. Well, GFY, Saturday. Stupid bloody mornings. Don't like 'em. Don't trust 'em.
March 1, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Ah, up nice and early on a Saturday morning. Fancy some waffles, so get out the waffle-maker and wash of 4 years of dust/grease. Waffles made.
Migraine aura. Within a minute I can't see a bloody thing. Well, GFY, Saturday. Stupid bloody mornings. Don't like 'em. Don't trust 'em.
Migraine aura. Within a minute I can't see a bloody thing. Well, GFY, Saturday. Stupid bloody mornings. Don't like 'em. Don't trust 'em.
That's a Chubbyemu episode right there.
February 27, 2025 at 10:55 AM
That's a Chubbyemu episode right there.
A mild form of cancellation, or now-teenaged kid is just running out of room.
I don’t want to charity shop the #Hermitcraft Hermits; they wouldn’t be properly appreciated.
So, into storage with the Christmas decorations.
Bag 1/5. *sigh*
I don’t want to charity shop the #Hermitcraft Hermits; they wouldn’t be properly appreciated.
So, into storage with the Christmas decorations.
Bag 1/5. *sigh*
February 25, 2025 at 5:50 PM
A mild form of cancellation, or now-teenaged kid is just running out of room.
I don’t want to charity shop the #Hermitcraft Hermits; they wouldn’t be properly appreciated.
So, into storage with the Christmas decorations.
Bag 1/5. *sigh*
I don’t want to charity shop the #Hermitcraft Hermits; they wouldn’t be properly appreciated.
So, into storage with the Christmas decorations.
Bag 1/5. *sigh*
I made a dumb joke earlier this week on Star Trek Shitposting on Facebook that went largely unnoticed, but I thought maybe someone would chuckle mildly.
Checked FB today: one solitary Like, but from the son of Spock and ex-husband of Jadzia!
I shall treasure and dine out on that Like for years.
Checked FB today: one solitary Like, but from the son of Spock and ex-husband of Jadzia!
I shall treasure and dine out on that Like for years.
February 15, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I made a dumb joke earlier this week on Star Trek Shitposting on Facebook that went largely unnoticed, but I thought maybe someone would chuckle mildly.
Checked FB today: one solitary Like, but from the son of Spock and ex-husband of Jadzia!
I shall treasure and dine out on that Like for years.
Checked FB today: one solitary Like, but from the son of Spock and ex-husband of Jadzia!
I shall treasure and dine out on that Like for years.
I just realised this is what Iskall's lawyer's thinking right now…
January 31, 2025 at 9:29 AM
I just realised this is what Iskall's lawyer's thinking right now…
My venerable iPad case has finally perished but attempts to transplant stickers has failed. Not wanting to litter the new case with former employer's stickers, I'm bereft of suitable flair.
Then I remembered these old things, stowed away in a safe place.
(Still need stickers for the front, though)
Then I remembered these old things, stowed away in a safe place.
(Still need stickers for the front, though)
January 27, 2025 at 8:18 PM
My venerable iPad case has finally perished but attempts to transplant stickers has failed. Not wanting to litter the new case with former employer's stickers, I'm bereft of suitable flair.
Then I remembered these old things, stowed away in a safe place.
(Still need stickers for the front, though)
Then I remembered these old things, stowed away in a safe place.
(Still need stickers for the front, though)
Still on the same fractal hobby project I've been pottering with since ~2007. Just bought an nVidia RTX 4060, as it was finally discounted into my price range.
Seems fast enough. Also, my first use of PyCuda, rather than CUDA C++, OpenCL or GLSL.
Seems fast enough. Also, my first use of PyCuda, rather than CUDA C++, OpenCL or GLSL.
January 4, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Still on the same fractal hobby project I've been pottering with since ~2007. Just bought an nVidia RTX 4060, as it was finally discounted into my price range.
Seems fast enough. Also, my first use of PyCuda, rather than CUDA C++, OpenCL or GLSL.
Seems fast enough. Also, my first use of PyCuda, rather than CUDA C++, OpenCL or GLSL.
From my sister, the best Christmas card I ever received.
December 25, 2024 at 11:48 PM
From my sister, the best Christmas card I ever received.
You might appreciate our Daily @dingbats.net puzzle from a few Christmasses ago…
December 25, 2024 at 10:48 PM
You might appreciate our Daily @dingbats.net puzzle from a few Christmasses ago…