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Dave W
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big queer infra overlord. 
devops, infosec, politics, shitposts.
collaboration not competition.

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a11y can be read as ‘ally’ for a fucking reason

This is what I mean when I say vibe coding isn’t always a bad thing. I had a CSV full of Linear tasks, but the Linear importer was losing the parent/child relationships and the project links.

So I got a LLM to write me some code to read the CSV, and send it to the Linear API instead.

I had a job that needed doing, I didn’t wanna waste time working on something which wasn’t the point, so I got a model to do it.

Job done, 15 minutes instead of an hour or two. Code then thrown away. The end.

AMERICAN RIGHT: If the Government violates my rights we will raise armed insurrection

AMERICAN GOVT: *goes on a rights-violating bender*

AMERICAN RIGHT: no not like that

THINGS DAVE IS NOT ALLOWED TO DO (but really wants to) No. 3747583288: a supercut of Ncuti Gatwa’s breakout (almost literally) package from THE WELL

An excellent DOCTOR WHO. Great couple of episodes. Last week's wasn't my favourite kind of episode, but incredibly creative and amazing work.

This week's is real DOCTOR WHO cosmic horror fare and *absolutely* right up my street.

Again, I didn't see the twist coming, either - and it was inspired.

well TIL, apparently that double bass I thought I was a bit crap at? I was offered a music scholarship to eton.

not that I’d go to eton if you fucking paid me and that was true at the time, I’m sure my rents had a conversation with me.

I'm pretty invested in the Notion ecosystem, using Notion and Notion Calendar, and they've just rolled out Notion Mail which is absolutely superb. The killer feature is AI filters, letting you define your filters with natural language, and the model figures out where to put it and learns from future manual categorisation.

You can then optionally configure it to split the matching messages off from the inbox - they stay in the inbox as far as Gmail is concerned with a label applied, but are optionally moved to a separate section in Notion Mail.

It doesn't yet have the feature I would have thought would be obvious, which is passing an email into Notion proper, but I can't imagine it's not on the roadmap. I've prodded them about it, anyway.

Requires Gmail or Google Suite, but I think most of us use that. Don't think it requires you to use Notion.

https://www.notion.com/product/mail

If you use he/him pronouns and do something I like, you are getting called a good boy. I’m sorry, I don’t make the rules.

DUST on YouTube posts some cracking shorts, including this excellent one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv8kOzRZK8g

I imagine this is obvious but for the love of God do NOT install the new CBP Home app, especially on Android.

guarantee you it’s phoning home with more detail than you’re comfortable with.

I’m going to do a security analysis at some point in the near future.

It is no accident that the EHRC (UK body to protect equality, which to nobody’s surprise it is very much not doing) and the ECHR (European Court of Human Rights) sound so similar that they could be confused.

If you're saying positive things about trans people, you should continue saying positive things about trans people, including using this phrase, if it reflects what you want to say.

Now we've got that out of the way, the phrase 'living [pronoun]'s truth' makes me want to turn my own head inside out

Re-upped my armodafinil from United and I can THINK again.

I'm not one to make claims about 'miracle drugs' but armodafinil (or modafinil if you want to go racemic) is the closest thing I've ever experienced to one.

Trying to script the GitHub CLI?

```

gh config set pager cat

```

You're welcome.

The only negative thing I have to say about the Beano is Walter, but I’m inclined to suspect that they’ve changed his characterisation - I’ll check and see if he shows up later.

Flipping through the Beano, along the regulars like Dennis and Minnie, we have -

- A Black superspy

- A disabled woman scientist

- A Black woman in trans colours who interacts only with women

- An Indian / South Asian family

- A feature on the Indian woman who edits the Beano

- A feature drawing a little girl in her own story

You know, I'm pretty sure there are more women in this than men. How did we sleep on this?

I honestly don't know what to say.

I haven't removed the background and have included the front cover to prove that this is, in fact, actually real. THE BEANO, 2025-04-26. Yes, I know that's the future, but that's the date on the issue.

For USians, this is very much a childrens' comic. https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/9a48e66ec6a813050f31911d595d5ad76db512b45b2edec6bee73a9fbbd4aca7/80777927bb9662280f4d087d0ca74dc778dd7af5031b46269587bb0676dd1761.webp https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/9a48e66ec6a813050f31911d595d5ad76db512b45b2edec6bee73a9fbbd4aca7/53639b9191436ee5a2f48a9bf6a747cd2ef60e63afd85a95b7b4326f1ca6f93e.webp