java as in javascript

i installed PiHole on my home network i fear this is a slippery slope into the "spend your savings on building a home lab" part of my life

in my last job, we had this script that processed data from a Mass Spectrometer: only 2 functions inside it 6k+ lines all in archaic VB Script no comments no one knew who wrote it no one dared asked only knew what it did via word of mouth

"I prompted claude" "I prompted GPT 5.5" yeah, well i prompted my brain for some answers and it responded with some random song i've not heard in years also got a bonus reminder to unplug the vacuum cause it's been charging all day

updated my system today

back in my day, they called AI machine learning and we used it to make teeny tiny bits of gold for shits and giggles can still smell the acid

4s in the chat for these lads

me to our incident commanders after we fixed our php issues knowing full well we'll probably see them again in a month or two for yet another internet-breaking cve

NOT NOW NODEJS

what a week for cybersecurity

web developer: oh hey you guys are back early infra: four's haunted web developer: what? infra: *loading a pistol and getting back on the computer* four's haunted

who would have guessed the the number 4 and some php tech would cause so many problems this week

> massive php CVEs detected > we own a massive legacy stack in php > no one really knows the legacy stack > rip my morning and afternoon

ok non-tech ppl might be hearing some scary things about "critical vulnerabilities" involving certificates. the main thing you need to know, without getting down in the weeds about it, is that the fourth seal is broken. lo, a rider approacheth upon a pale steed, and his name is Death

i bought a sketchbook i can't draw for shit this'll be fun

only a matter of time before we get these secret underground labs like the shit from resident evil from one of these AI companies

we'll also sell digital keychains with common names on a dot-matrix or those kindle-like screens running on embedded rust

i can see a future where LLMs do all the major software engineering tasks similar to how mass-production of consumer goods happened and we'll end up seeing small shops in quaint villages with local artisans of high-quality, hand-crafted software that tourists will go "that's neat" and leave

years ago when i was at university i saw a person ride a unicycle over the top of the hill i saw the same unicycle a couple of days later at the library and couldn't help but think: "what if they get a flat tyre?" that question stills plagues me to this day

the "I'm going back to X/Twitter" statements have the same energy as "I'm going to stare directly into a Laser Pen"

nothing makes me more irrationally angry than trying to get test mocks to work

i can now read Nix shame i'll never use it

> new classic wow experience with forever > hundreds of new quests and stuff > new race and everything > still do the same old tirisfal and silverpine route

everytime i go to edinburgh, it follows the same cycle: > i hate edinburgh > go to edinburgh > actually, edinburgh isn't bad at all > don't visit for ages > forget cycle repeats indefinitely

not sure I've ever related to a message more than this one

an official write-up of a spike done in my work

> "i want you to do X" > ~ crystallizing ~ 3m45s > command failed > "is there anything else i can help with?"

This post perfectly explains what I was talking about a while back regarding developers that get sucked into AI losing their way and probably not even realizing it. blog.bustikiller.com/2026/09/25/o...

i went to my first ever magic: the gathering pre-release event for the new set got absolutely kerb-stomped for 4 hours and won a single pack 10/10 would recommend and go again

if anyone picks these, they must be a fun guy

blizzard allows players to make first and last names in WoW: Forever are you sure you thought this all the way through? like, _really_ sure...?

the one thing i will always reach for AI assistance for first alongside reading docs is working with AWS clients in Typescript. AWS docs are steaming hot garbage

wtf is a jev?

a windy loch lomond

don't be nice.

halls of origination was the best non-classic World of Warcraft dungeon

kids playing "chap the door and run away" on my door gave the gentlest of knocks amateurs. back in my day, we made it sound like the police were about to raid your house

i've recently been feeling rather burned out with tech and all the AI nonsense floating around so i decided to take a step back and do some other things in my spare time and holy shit, it works

it's that time of year again where i forget how to mock things in test suites! can't wait!

if Rust has taught me anything, it's that the pain is temporary but references last 'a lifetime

wonder how long it'll take before these AI agent things for CTFs decide that taking down Cloudflare will be an appropriate action at least then i'd get a couple of hours off work

the horrors will persist until morale improves

don't know why people complain about Rust being complex, look at this wee thing all it's doing is saying hello and people are mean to it

when you look at the world, sometimes you think that Algalon the Observer in the Ulduar raid of the peak MMORPG World of Warcraft had the right idea by wanting to scour all life from the face of the planet i'm sure we could all benefit by witnessing the fury of the cosmos

Before you say positive things about DHH because of Omarchy, a reminder that it's been like 3 weeks since he published a blog that compares Roma people to the wolves Denmark eradicated in the 1800s. He's an open, virulent racist and always has been. Everything he touches should be radioactive.

Re: "Funding for Omarchy is good news for the Linux ecosystem overall" No it's not