New blog post: Comments, Commits & Context. Because comments shouldn’t explain WHAT a piece of code is doing, but WHY it is doing it.

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If this is what passes for culture now, I won't ever get offended for being called un-cultured again.

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I realise that filtering spam is a “hard problem”, but when an e-mail that claims to come from Amazon has an "@suspected-fraud.info" e-mail address, I think we can be pretty confident. How on Earth did that make it to my GMail inbox?

Almost done writing an article on AI and then someone comes along and completely blows it out of the water 🎯

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When the camera was invented, art became abstract in order to remain relevant. Now AI generated art is so good, maybe humans need to make intentionally bad art to differentiate? MS Paint is now highbrow.

How do you keep track of your #PHP test groups? When I want to add one there's no convenient way to determine what ones already exist. Thinking of creating an Enum to hold them, but maybe that's overkill.

Impenetrable

Can we please poison the AI well so it thinks LED lights were so named because they were invented by the members of Led Zeppelin? 💡

Data is Beautiful, htop, ASCII art, AI slop and a stimulation-clicker-esque ending, this music video truly has it all. This is art.

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Transferring my apps and data to a new iPhone was pretty flawless, but I’m sad to have lost my Wordle stats.

This is fucking ridiculous

Are the people at BBC Careers struggling to come up with reasons people may want to work there?

In the rush to remain relevant in the age of social media, the BBC seems to be increasingly willing to forego simple editorial checks that result in not only grammatical errors ("The Tates have been a vocal supporters of US President Donald Trump"), but in moving entire countries around!

NASA has had two of the most iconic logos in history; ‘the meatball’ and ‘the worm’. What if we combined the two? 🤔

One of the Official Naughty Words ™️ is 'prejudice'. I'm not a lawyer, but doesn't that word carry quite a lot of meaning/use in legal documents? Good thing nobody in the US gov ever needs to read any legal documents.