@dylanbeatt.ie
coder • speaker • musician • MS MVP • creator of @codewithrockstar.com • founder of @linebreakers.band • organiser of @ldnug.org • fun stuff: dylanbeattie.net • work stuff: ursatile.com • he/him • 🥔
@dylanbeatt.ieI'll be live on software-architektur.tv in 10 minutes talking about modern CSS (and probably architecture and DNS and open source and UX and a whole bunch of other stuff!) Tune in, it'll be fun :)
@dylanbeatt.ie...how many times did you end up clicking it? 🤣
@dylanbeatt.iePC Paintbrush, 320x200 in 256 colours... ah, those were the days.
@dylanbeatt.ieIt is true that we never had this problem with ASP.NET web forms. We had many, many, MANY other problems - but never this one.
@dylanbeatt.ieToday Microsoft Azure asked me for some feedback. Pretty sure we solved "circles" back in the 1990s. I remember radio buttons working just fine in Netscape Navigator. But maybe AI decided it's better this way. 🤷🏻♂️
@dylanbeatt.ieNot this time - it's MTV-era Genesis. (Which suits me just fine - I think both Genesis *and* Peter Gabriel recorded their best material after Gabriel left the band - but I realise purists consider that heresy... 😉)
@dylanbeatt.ieYou leave my boy Jassachusetts alone! He didn't hurt anyone!
@dylanbeatt.ieI'd rather they automated it. I already give them money. I like giving people money and getting good products in return.
@dylanbeatt.ieYou know how dumb it feels every single month logging into @dropbox.com to download the invoice for my Dropbox subscription so that I can save it... into my Dropbox? What if the invoices just appeared by magic in a Dropbox folder linked to the billing account? Wouldn't that be something, eh?
@dylanbeatt.ieI'm playing a gig. An actual Serious Gig with Proper Musicians and no comedy songs about JavaScript. You should come. It'll be awesome.
Hope & Anchor in Islington, Friday October 2nd, doors 19:30, music starts 20:30.
Tickets £8 in advance / £10 on the door.
@dylanbeatt.ieMy workstation is a Ryzen 9050 with 128Gb of RAM, an RTX 5070 and three NVMe drives, and it is running Adobe Media Encoder like a very tired tortoise trying to suck treacle through a paper straw. Could we stop dicking about with AI models and get back to making computers faster and betterer please?
@dylanbeatt.ieI think that @househouse.com - the studio behind Untitled Goose Game - should make a game based on the Sheep Detectives movie. There’s an actual murder mystery you have to solve but you can only control the sheep. 🐑
@html5test.comReposted by @dylanbeatt.ieTwo weeks from now Fronteers Dark Mode will happen in Dordrecht in The Netherlands. There are still a few tickets left. Be quick ⚠️
Join us for an afternoon and evening of great talks. With a spectacular line up: @anjana.dev, @tunetheweb.com, @cydstumpel.nl, @csswizardry.com and @heydonworks.com
@dylanbeatt.ie“You remember Stack Overflow? Trying to get gold badges? All that work for a few pixels?” …I’m in this picture and I don’t like it. 🤣
@alexwinter.comReposted by @dylanbeatt.ieTrue story.
@dylanbeatt.ie“In a world where everyone uses the same tools, trained on the same data, we all end up being the same person… and that’s not a world I want to live in.” - @nickchapsas.com kicking off #NDCOslo
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@dylanbeatt.ieNah, you're fine. I feel sorry for whoever's in the adjoining room with the rest of the bear. (I got a sheep in mine.)
@dylanbeatt.ieAll iPhones are foldable.
Some iPhones are only foldable once.
(with apologies to @terrypratchett.bsky.social)
@dylanbeatt.ieI've said for a while that the road to sustainable open source is royalties levied by package managers and distributed directly to maintainers: freeasinweekend.org/open-source-...
Now @seldo.com, co-founder of npm, has published an excellent article along similar lines:
