FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

A discussion at work about shades of pink inspired me to make this ^^
#lesbian

A discussion at work about HTTP status codes reminded me of this gem.

https://twitter.com/thecrunsher/status/1111258419087007745

Hello, users~! A little while back, I played a tabletop RPG called Princess Wing with my friend and partners. It's a game designed to feel like an episode of Sailor Moon or PreCure.

And the video of the game is now up on YouTube!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukTrR1604oc

It took a while to get up since I wanted to be way more thorough than usual in my editing. There's not a lot of information about this game in English, so I figured having a session of the game up in video form would be useful for people!

wait uh, hm

reads Apple press release

HELP. WHAT YEAR IS IT

We wanted to share some demographics around these layoffs so our supporters are able to follow along. These numbers include the whole staff at Bandcamp (including non-union eligible workers), but are important to keep in mind as we continue to negotiate severance with Epic Games.

Be free my tiny minions!

(The good photography by @electrocutie)

"Why programmers like cooking: You peel the carrot, you chop the carrot, you put the carrot in the stew. You don’t suddenly find out that your peeler is several versions behind and they dropped support for carrots in 4.3" -- Randall Koutnik

STOP DOING OFFICES

Spotted in SE Portland last week #nightinthewoods

The progress bar GUI widget was created so that a program could show its progress to users in a nice, linear, and moderately predictable way.

But now the progress bar is used primarily to show a complete lack of progress, moving back and forth in the progress tray like the light on a Cylon's face, as reassurance to the user that, no, the program hasn't frozen, only that the company behind it couldn't care less about its users.

i love that my server literally runs out of disk space on a regular basis because the fediverse instance software it's running can't regulate the size of its media cache. i love disappearing from the internet for hours at a time. i

I should probably write a blog post about Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth: where it came from, how it compares (unfavourably) to basically any hardware synth, why it sounds bad, how it could sound better if you use it right…

Perhaps the best remote I have ever seen.

Bumblebees learn by observing other bees. Bumblebees, like ants, may even teach each other. In a University of London experiment a bee watched a "fake bee" (a fuzzy yellow & black orb on a stick) pushing a yellow ball into a circle for a sugar water reward. The bee copied this action.

When a nest mate was introduced, they learned by watching the bee trained in the previous experiment. I find the idea of a "fake bee" adorable.
https://www.popsci.com/brainy-bumblebees-can-push-balls-into-goal/