Cam Jackson

I think an overlooked impact of the @tanstack.com hack (and ones like it) is the embarrassment for techies having to say things like "mini shai hulud" and "wormy boi" out loud. Humiliation ritual for people trying to be taken seriously by management.

The insane proliferation of blind boxes. Every company is so bereft of innovation that their best idea for a new product is *gambling*. Consumer confidence and disposable income is so low that the most anyone can afford is 10 or 20 bucks for a quick dopamine hit and a bit of plastic tat.

Flashbacks to the shitty amateur trivia night where they asked for Gandhi's given name. I convinced my table to write down Mohandas instead of Mahatma. My absolute nerd rage when they tried to give everyone a point except us! 😤 In the end they gave everyone a point which felt even worse, somehow.

90s futurism was peak. Where's my arcology?

When I'm president of the universe, anyone who makes a link which overrides Cmd+Click to open in the current tab instead of a new tab, will be immediately fired into the sun. Same for those who implement links as <button>s.

Why are LLMs so addicted to "here's a more detailed breakdown"?

Why is it *de*-oderant but *anti*-perspirant? De- implies removal, anti- implies prevention. Shouldn't it be antioderant? Deo won't help if you already stink, the only true deodorant is a shower.

We should get rid of the 5 cent coin. Then we actually don't need cents at all, we only need decs. The 10/20/50 cent coins would become 1/2/5 dec coins. Prices wouldn't be like $3.40, they'd be like $3.4. No need for the extra decimal place. Could be fun.

Actually the best life advice I ever got: Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly. A half-cleaned room is better than an uncleaned room. Occasionally flossing is better than never flossing. A 10-minute workout is better than no workout. When it’s all you can do to get out of bed, get out of bed.

As if Clive Palmer's spam texts weren't offensive enough already, now he's sending me CSS? Surely this crosses a line?

There was an Indian / Sri Lankan /Malaysian place near me which use to do THE BEST masala dosa in the freaking world. Family owned joint, it was there for yonks. Stayed takeaway-only post-lockdown, then they sold the restaurant, it went downhill and it eventually shut. Devastated.

"This mf said [typo]" is always so funny to me idk why. Something about a massive roast over a tiny error is so good.

SHOCKING CONFESSION: Melbourne man admits he can't really tell the difference between a latte and a flat white.

A food court but it's for food crimes.

I don't need an AI coding assistant. What I need is a pull-request tool that can tell me when code has *moved*, either up/down or to another file. The fact that diffs are still nothing but additions and deletions since basically forever feels so primitive.

Having a boys weekend this weekend 😈 (Sitting at home with my two cats while my wife is on a business trip)

They should invent a quiz show that's specifically about all my interests, to the exact depth that I know them.

Happy Gravy Day to all who celebrate: youtu.be/iIEj8T-pYTQ?...

Planes should board by column not by row. Window seats first, aisle seats last. Save all the sitting down and getting up and sitting back down again.

Stop putting day-night cycles in games which do absolutely nothing except make it annoying to see.

"I'll do that in a minute", I think to myself, knowing full well that in 30 seconds my train of thought will be 4 tangents deep and I will have no memory of the task.

We need a crackdown on packaging that says "re-sealable!" and it has one of those ziplock thingies but doesn't actually *seal*, like, you can still squeeze the air out.

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Developer: I'm pretty sure this cup is unused. I'm going to delete it. What's the worst that could happen.

Can you keep your @bsky.social handle if you verify with a domain? Like, I want to prove that this account belongs to the person behind camjackson.net, but I don't want to lose the @camjackson handle that I snagged?

Timeline cleanse: it's a cool sunny morning in Melbourne

This is kinda selfish but as a not-American is there a way to create a bsky feed without all the American doomposting? Like I get your country is fucked and I feel bad for you and I support your right to scream into the void but I don't need to hear it 24/7, I'm just here for the lols and dopamine.

Wooohoooo we made it! Thanks @effy.space for the invite ☺️