Dillon Pentz

Every proportion on that fork is wrong

I used to quietly think that people who would call Microsoft things like M$, Micro$oft or Microshaft were being juvenile and not to be taken seriously, and I kind of still do, but in the era of Microslop, it's clear that the company needs all the bullying it can get.

This feels like it accurately describes my experience writing individual tests, writing a single test suite, or writing all the test suites for an application.

I have a theory that all code tests follow the same trajectory when making them:

0-30%: A slog, trying to establish a pattern.
30-80%: A breeze, mostly just repeating the patterns.
80-100%: A slog, dealing with edge cases/minutiae.

This feels true regardless of which scale you're looking at.

Real talk: I *want* Chris Hipkins (or whoever leads Labour going into the election, no shade) to be our next Prime Minister, but I *need* him (etc) to be PM of a government that materially changes NZ's trajectory, with policies and narrative that move us AWAY from the late stage capitalist hellscape

The way you pronounce "A Sega Saturn?!" is so good and had me repeating it joyfully

The footer to a promotional Microsoft 365 email. The cursor is hovering over the "Unsubscribe" link, showing that the URL contains a placeholder instead of a real unsubscribe link.

Thanks, Microsoft.

The dream will probably never happen, but each stepping stone towards making it more achievable is another bit of art that I can still invest myself in and put out there, so it doesn't pain me all that much that it'll likely remain a pipe dream.

I eat away at my dream game concept with bits of writing and conceptualizing every so often, but from experience working in teams and a software day job, there's a reason the games I'm actually trying to get done are smaller and/or focused on acquiring skills. The dream is still kept alive though.

At least, that is what I was able to piece together, and some of that may be inaccurate or not the full story. I don't necessarily trust the pushback to have been entirely above board either, even if I would share the same overall concerns.

Person who ran the labeller was into NFTs/crypto and had old blogs about being able to use the labeller to hide people or generally abuse the control which didn't read great even without actually doing those things. Also allegedly a very combative person? Labeller was taken down after pushback.

The *only* problem with this analogy is that Windows Phone actually had some redeeming qualities that some sensible tech people I know continue to hold onto fondly, whereas I don't know a single sensible person who has a good thing to say about the LNG proposal.

Uhhhhh, are those the correct images?

Ahh, I guess it's based on follows and not based on relative engagement. That makes more sense, since I follow and am followed a lot outside of NZ from communities that aren't NZ-centric.

bsky.app/profile/theo...

Kinda shocked I'm so far away from the NZ cluster, given that most of my engagement outside of particular parts of the year and particular events, is pretty NZ focused. That said, there's a lot of clusters I engage with that are on seemingly opposite sides, so maybe just an averaging thing.

"They Provide the Paint for the Picture-Perfect Masterpiece That You Will Paint on the Insides of Your Eyelids" (the Streetlight Manifesto version in particular)

It is the sacred duty of the adventure game protagonist to always reiterate the thing you can already observe with your eyes.

Train cancellations mean I'm stuck waiting to be picked up, so I'm doing some writing and editing on my Ace Attorney fangame.

I have to cut down *so* many things that are like,

Character: *something disproportionately angry*
Phoenix: (Wow, this guy seems angry.)

If I can see that was the plan, then surely someone whose job it is to cover this shit and communicate it should have recognised this as the plan and been able to call out this exact kind of messaging as the obviously manipulative bullshit that it is.

When the coalition formed, I mentioned time how much of a better deal NZF got with the deputy PM shenanigans: able to create distance in election year, being there to set the 3 year agenda, getting to blame early pains on the previous govt...

Like, this was so obviously the plan from the start.

"This scene works so much better now, and I've also managed to expand it to include X and Y. Let's see what that's done to the word count."

*the word count is now 4 fewer words than when I started*

"😐"

There's lots of reasons to not edit while still writing—reasons I will continue to ignore despite everything—but one I keep running into is: I'll refine a scene to be cleaner, letting me then have more going on inside it, but the word count will actually be lower, making it feel like no progress.

Okay, but if people just simply understood my pipe dreams, they would want them too! I just need to make them understand...

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It boggles my mind that kettles aren't universal. Boiling water is such a common thing to do??

"I was excited when I saw this new kettle my husband bought[,] only to [try] boil[ing] water and noticed this"

Is there maybe a missing comma after bought?

There are very good reasons we're moving away from this approach, but I'm still quite proud we managed to pull off these morphs mostly seamlessly.

This was a test I built for when we redid the layout and morphing logic for AGDQ 2023, and this isn't even showing the method we ended up going with!

Antis coming to take away your problematic gesterones

Bare in mind, as edge cases were dealt with, this became vanishingly rare, but any amount of times when your preview shows you one thing and you get something else is an unacceptable number of times for that to happen.