alex jegtnes

this was the best shot from basically my first ever attempt at astrophotography and I'm pretty pleased with it 📍 atacama desert, chile 📅 2nd sep 2024 📷 fuji x-t30ii + ttartisan 10mm f/2 ⚙️ 10mm, f/2, 30s, ISO 1600 #astrophotography #photography

still a few real ones out there making cool shit for humans 🫡

This week has involved too much computer, and as a person whose job is computer, I would like there to be less computer going forward. Thank you for your attention.

Hannah is remarkably talented and a delight to work with. I couldn't recommend you hire her enough:

It used to be that software developers built blog engines instead of writing blog posts. These days they're vibe coding apps to keep track of household chores instead of doing household chores.

I am sympathetic to Silicon Valley guys ascribing human-level consciousness to AI because if I had to talk to people from Silicon Valley all day I’d probably have a real low bar for sentience too

We're just 1 month away from WDC2026! Tickets are just £99! This year we have an awesome lineup of speakers @paavandesign.com @duncanpetrie.com @amyhupe.bsky.social @joshtumath.uk @hidde.blog @cjforms.bsky.social @rivea0.bsky.social @jesslynnrose.bsky.social webdevconf.com

I cannot believe that it's eight days until my wedding and the 1password chuds are making me add "change my password manager" to my bloody todo list. outrageous

tell you what lads, I am sick to my back teeth of waking up every day to find out about another figure in tech being fash, associating with fash, or funding fash; and long for the days when this caused some backlash in their immediate circles instead of a laudatory circlejerk on X The Everything App

I will ignore you so long that you'll think I've died if you ever make the mistake of sending me a voice note

the thing I'm contracting on has gone >15 years without a rewrite, and generally I really like it because rewrites are unnecessary, and it's not Just Another SPA (jQuery my beloved—we didn't know how good we had it) but today I came across a conditional check to see if the browser was IE5 for Mac 😅

Here's the official announcement of Parton's passing from her reps, along with the request that in lieu of flowers, the family asks for donations to be made to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library at www.imaginationlibrary.com

there aren't enough beverages in the world to pour out. what an enormous loss to the world 🫗🫗🫗🫗🫗🫗

The "double square" is much less well-known than the "double diamond" methodology, but much more frequently practiced

Yup. I know bullies online who are perfectly pleasant offline, and what I take from that is "Oh, so you know how to behave when you might get punched." And to tell on myself, this is one reason I'm a nicer person online now than I was a decade+ ago. I stopped liking that version of me, a lot.

sadly I can't be there but you should go if you can, LWS is a lovely crowd of smart and kind people

every time some discourse makes me learn the name of another youtuber i email the genx listserv and have them raise housing prices another 3.5%

hi I'm the excess deposits of immunoglobulin A in the blood vessels of the kidneys (I am aware this is incredibly niche content, if there is a single other person on Bluesky with aggressive onset IgA nephropathy I'll eat my hat)

if the government wants people to keep emergency alerts on there really, really, really needs to be an alert level below the current HEART ATTACK INDUCING SIREN FROM YOUR PHONE OMG PANIC, which imo, should be reserved for "active shooter within a mile of your location" and "incoming nuclear missile"

reminds me of contracting for a subscription-based publication where you had to phone up to cancel; I asked why this was the case when the software stack we used supported online cancellation—"oh, we implemented that a while back but had to revert it; too many people cancelled their subscriptions"

Do I know anyone who’s built a website that’s needed to be accessible from China? Any tips / pitfalls etc I should be aware of?

I really enjoy this series of interactive explanations of various every-day technology concepts and you may, too

I mean, we all joked about comic sans and everything, but what I wouldn't give to see it on a poster these days instead of that fucking dreadful slop font. Would go to war for comic sans, I would run through a wall for times new roman. Impact, I take back everything I said about you.

I'm looking for a new role as a lead frontend/TypeScript engineer. 👋 13 years of experience and I formerly led the web team at Unsplash. My CV: drive.google.com/file/d/1Hp7w... If you know of any roles, please reach out. I'd really appreciate if you could share. Thank you!

She loved her surgery cone for the first couple days (it made her feel powerful and intimidating) so we got her a courted ruff to look sinister in.

@mu.social hi folks—I fairly persistently (at least several times a week) lose my Mu auth status and have to re-auth to stay signed in. especially common if I open Mu links in new tabs. Firefox on Mac. is this a known issue? happy to help debug any way I can

New project! Two influential word lists made by language researchers define an "essential English vocabulary" for learners: one from 1953 and another from 2023. In this essay, Jasmine Nackash examines the differences between them and what that says about us. link: pudding.cool/2026/07/esse...

Thinking of starting a church for people who believe in dishwasher salt. I know there's others like me out there

I _know_ this is very 2013 of me but I find myself in need of a free (for non-commercial use) typeface with an outrageously good ampersand and I'm out of touch, help

@atls.city !set GB-ENG-London

if they're going to have a half time show that's as... interesting as this, please at least let graham norton provide some acerbic commentary during it

I've been freelance for six going on seven PMs (twelve years) now and I can't think of a single thing the governments of that era have done to make life easier

git has an experimental git history command as of 2.54/2.55 and it deserves more attention. Fixup, reword, or split a commit buried in your stack, and every branch built on top rebases automatically. It's already in core git, nothing to install. lalitm.com/post/git-history/

Air to Ground Message: HELLLLL YEAAAAA SEND THAT 41 YEAR OLD FRAUD HOME Area: Jacksonville, FL, USA Type: Airbus A319 A: #a1cb08a6b75 F: #fee17899d51

A thread, because things are feeling rough at present. 🧵👇 I'm not quite sure where to go or what to do. I'm watching my peers slowly burn out, go quiet, quit the industry, or struggle on hoping it'll get better in time. Even if the storm is weathered, what comes out the other side?

It’s 43 minutes past midnight. This is downtown Oslo.

taking the antenna off the roof because I’m worried about the glances my wife is throwing the norwegian team

I have had the biggest shit-eating grin on my face ever since that second Norway goal went in. sports is good actually

I used to recommend Mullvad a lot, I guess that stops today 🤷🗑️ det.social/@lostgen/116...

the primary reason I want gaming on MacOS to get better is because my MBP consumes a tenth of the power of my gaming PC, which is crucial in These Trying Times

Me: Okay, there's been a thunderstorm, the heatwave should be over now. (New health bar appears) (The sun is now named 'Sol, Starflame of Regret') (Objectively the greatest piece of classical music ever recorded starts playing).