Barry Carlyon | The Grumbling Archipelago of Pragmatic Code

It's nearly that special @droppedframes.bsky.social time of the year

Toe the line, keep the peace…

LIVE // Multiplayer #SteamNextFest games! @barrycarlyon.co.uk is joining us so nothing can possibly go wrong.. Twitch.tv/soaryn

Graphs what do they show? NUMBERS!

Aboid anything2Shell with this one simple trick Leave a broken NGINX config and wait for it to self restart for whatever reason

went with chart.js for now

Not the top Steam review of Dressmaker making me cry this morning!

What are people using for graphs on websites/internal tools and the like these days?

nginx configs *sigh*

Well now having lost 2 days of regular dev time. Lets see if we can catch up…

Vulnerability xkcd.com/3314/

Well that was a Wednesday

We’re temporarily taking GOG offline for maintenance for a couple of hours. GOG GALAXY will also be offline during this time. We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience!

Oh damn it's as bad as expected: If you are running anything on PHP turn it the hell off RIGHT NOW until you can patch it. Yes this means every single Wordpress, Drupal, and Wikimedia install. www.wiz.io/blog/php2she...

This might be the most watched GitHub Actions build in the history of the platform: github.com/docker-libra...

UPSTREAM IS BUILDING

Patch is live www.php.net/archive/2026...

oh boy here we go

a critical PHP vulnerability may take websites down today. Admins are preparing for emergency patches, with estimates suggesting that more than 1.3 million internet-connected hosts are likely affected www.theverge.com/tech/1015257...

I dunno whats worse. The fact these RCE's exists or the fact that the Skids are gonna hammer every server regardless of whats on the server

it is going to be a LONG day for every sysadmin

I shipped

I love devops :D

RIP RedLynx

Well that as a hell of a 30 minutes phone call…

On top of getting into the fast lane for validation, you also get a dedicated tool to manage your data & syncs. Worth it ^^ medium.com/igdb/your-ga...

Announcing RimWorld update 1.7! It moves the game from Unity to Waylith, our in-house engine, and runs 2-4x faster in our tests. Try it now on the unstable beta. Oh, and RimWorld isn’t the only game on Waylith... Read on Steam: store.steampowered.com/news/app/294100/view/672882362547178633

You know it's a monday when you merge main instead of merge from the other branch and ping 13 people my mistake then have to rebase.....

The most fun thing ever to randomly see

Twitch streamer fucks around (collabs with US Army), finds out (loses 70% of viewership) aftermath.site/dan-gheesling-...

Dressmaker is a masterpiece.

Sooooooooooooo github about to declare an outage? I think so....

scoop: Xbox has secured exclusive GTA 6 streaming rights. The streaming rights come in November, when Microsoft is opening up access to Xbox Cloud Gaming. Details 👇 www.theverge.com/report/10058...

Bluesky wants to give you your own domain on the open web

BREAKING: Paramount closes its $81 billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery, forming a new Hollywood giant called Skydance.

Control Resonant is once again a video game about the wonderful and terrifying possibilities of architecture: aftermath.site/control-resona...

Galaxies is just 10 days away. We'll have exclusive new looks at games from Konami, Square Enix and Embark Studios plus 40 more exciting partners. Check out our teaser video and we'll see you in chat on the 15th! 💜 www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSUX...