Notices by Ninji :yeah: (ninji@wuffs.org)

[interview with customer] “every update just breaks something that worked fine before”

[brief cut to a 3-second clip of the CTO sitting in a gaming chair playing Minecraft]

[tired-looking lead engineer] “we keep telling the CEO not to SSH into prod and edit files but he just won't listen to us”

concept: a show like ramsay's kitchen nightmares, but about software instead

"i'm at spunkchute, a SaaS company that owes $2 million to AWS and is on the brink of closure”

"oh my [bleep] god. the main database server is running Ubuntu 8.04 and has two backdoors and a coin miner. SHUT. IT. DOWN.”

If I had a garden that I wanted to keep secret then I wouldn’t be advertising it on signs, but maybe I’m just old-fashioned

yesterday I saw a sign promising that for less than £100, they can put up a bunch of signs advertising your business on lamp posts

if I ever win the lottery, i'll do this but it'll just be pictures of my fursona

Great news: I got unbanned from Twitter!!

Now I can proceed to not use it again 🎉

so tired of computers taking people’s jobs. the title of “Password Manager” used to mean something.

years of learning all the letters and numbers and symbols, memorising TOTP secrets, all gone to waste because everyone just downloads LastPass now

New blog post: One Dog v. the Windows 3.1 Graphics Stack

I tried to get this 31-year-old OS to play ball with the Intel GMA 950 in my 16-year-old netbook, by taking an unofficial 24-year-old driver patch and further patching it myself. Sort of. It's a mess.

https://wuffs.org/blog/windows-3x-graphics

Greetings from the blåhaj mountain

just got my GDPR Wrapped 👀 learning so much about my browsing habits

Fun fact: SCART connectors have 20 pins (not counting the shield). USB-C only requires 18 wires.

This means that you could theoretically connect two Thunderbolt devices using a SCART cable, which would be pointless but also extremely funny

*cutely violates the GDPR*

*avoids fines by making puppy dog eyes at the Information Commissioner*

concept: a modern day Romeo and Juliet, about the ill-fated romance between an Automattic boy and a WP Engine girl

Good morning from Dublin 🇮🇪

i love going to IKEA and experiencing swedish traditions… like fika, köttbullar, and the systemd emergency mode

my new burger restaurant concept is inspired by modern software. the options for mayo are "yes" and "maybe later", and if you pick maybe later, the chef stands at your table with a squeezy bottle, threatening to add mayo to your burger when you least expect it

if your man:
• shows up out of nowhere at the perfect time
• adds mysteriously unused files to your test suite
• disables security measures on your behalf

then he’s not your man, he’s an advanced threat actor

@jk imagine telling a computer user from 2002 that a $100 phone has a higher screen resolution than any laptop they can buy, but it only displays four email subjects at once

Inhaling the Unity asbestos so I can become a better game dev

Cursed technology: This A380’s in-flight entertainment system lets you plug in your own device with RCA outputs

Even more cursed: Someone apparently managed to rip out one of the connectors

I pressed the “Get Receipt” button on the water refill machine at King’s Cross and it asked me to enter my email address, so now I have this water receipt