Drew McLellan

In a dog-eat-dog world, my main fear is the final remaining megadog.

Nice goatse.

Tributes have been coming in for the man who fell and died atop his own bonfire. Sounds like he was a good guy.

@simonw I feel like these need to be plotted on a quadrant plane graph with axis running Good Pelican to Bad Pelican and Good Bike to Bad Bike

More terrible pelican SVGs and the source code I used to generate them are in this repo: github.com/simonw/pelican…

Playing with a new LLM benchmark: how good are they at drawing an SVG of a pelican on a bicycle? Here's the difference between Claude 3.5 Sonnet new and Claude 3.5 Sonnet previous

WordPress: you don't contribute, you just take Also WordPress: We're taking extraordinary measures by usurping your plugin with 2 million active installs because a security flaw we won't let you fix is a major widespread issue They can't both be true.

@seldo The major failing here is assuming all employees are the same. When a business treats the workers as a uniform resource unit rather than individuals, it’s clear there is no genuine interest in wellbeing and a very naive understanding of what long term productivity looks like.

Did CEOs have some kind of group meeting where they decided to make employees miserable

@WarriorZoltar As a man who also suffers from depression and keeps his own room, I really identify with your husband’s situation and am thankful for such an understanding and supportive partner as you also clearly are. Ignore the haters.

My husband suffers from debilitating depression. He and I have our own rooms, and his got away from him to the point where it was overwhelming to even think of cleaning it. One of my Christmas gifts to him is a clean room. He is going to go to bed a happy man.

Not sure what’s happened to quality control at @YorkshireTea but the number of split tea bags ruining a brew is getting out of hand.

@matthewcp @seaotta Backward compatibility is tough! Went through a lot of these decisions with Perch CMS over time. I wonder if there’s a reason in this case not to have the object’s toString method return the src value? Seems like that’s what you’d want in a template scenario.

@seaotta Sorry you experienced this, we went to great trouble to make sure this happened in a major version (3.0 IIRC), delaying the release of the Image component to not break existing usage. If we failed to do that properly, I do apologize!

Breaking all your image paths when you upgrade to a new version doesn't seem like great DevEx - sincerely a DevEx PM who has built products for devs

@brad_frost Workday.

What's the hardest piece of software you've ever had to learn?

@SophieEB sorry, but I have to ask. Was there any closure who took your tuktuk? It’s something I think about often 😅

@christianbian @SurePetcare Did you make any progress hacking your cat flap?

My mission is set, I am going to defeat @SurePetcare and run my own system! I cant deal with slow customer service and having a broken flat only after 3 years of usage #notcool #hackmode #diy

I’m looking for an iOS app that would allow a user to apply custom-designed templates (e.g. borders, logo) to a photo for making a branded social media post. Any suggestions?

Had one of those dreams where @iainlee turns up and introduces himself as @richardpbacon and you know it’s not right but it’s the same ballpark so you just go along with it.

Are you interested in speaking at WDC2023? We're on the look out for both Lightning and Full Talks! All the information can be found on the site: webdevconf.com/speak/

@naomigo @phpsw Thanks for giving us your time, I really enjoyed your presentation. Are you slides available anywhere? (If not, I'd obvs recommend noti.st)

Had a great time @phpsw last night talking TDD and how to explain it to a non-technical audience, including the return of the vending machine! Thanks for having me!

At my first post-pandemic tech meetup. Listening to @naomigo imparting invaluable wisdom on TDD to @phpsw

@harryhill Just saw Blair! In Bath and I’ve not laughed so much in ages. Amazing job by the cast, crew, musicians, producers and writers. Thank you. 😆

One of the last remaining pieces of embedded shrapnel from the browser wars.

@davatron5000 I’m not sure if it’s the clumps around your ear or the hair on your glasses that’s sending me. 💀💀💀

A toaster with user profiles.