fredley

See also: The search for Autumn https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2007/02/autumn200702 …

I do this too. Making games for the Playdate has been the most enjoyable programming I've done in years.

RISC OS was the first graphical OS I ever used - my father ran Sibelius (the very first version I think) on an Acorn computer for engraving music. The three-button mouse approach is totally unique, I&…

I am a certified (British) Vegemite fiend, I go out of my way to stock up from the supermarkets that carry it (it's tragic to see a whole metre of shelving, top to bottom, taken up with different…

An elite-like for Playdate.

Aren't Glassdoor's reviews pretty much a scam anyway? Last I heard companies can pay $$ to gain moderation control over their own profile to delete/downrank bad reviews.

The way you make an addictive anything: * Random, variable rewards, with the possibility for really great rewards. * In as many different ways as you can feasibly include. * Optimise for 'near-mi…

I'm a WFH worker. My company is fully remote. They are really great at managing departures and make sure everyone's aware and has a chance to say goodbye. However I can't shake this fee…

It's interesting that despite being a BBC article, the customers supposedly ditching them are nearly all US retailers, with only one very minor UK retailer mentioned. From my experience (in the U…

Not as big as King's Chapel over the road though!

Photopea is an embarrassment to GIMP. I had a very similar experience trying to use GIMP once. Using Photopea was seamless and easy and it hasn't lacked any feature I've wanted yet.

That's how I was rolling until I got a new (to me!) car to replace a very old banger. It has phone connectivity and it's great, but it basically requires voice control, which works quite wel…

On language, in Britain there was (and still is to an extent) a whole host of words that would mark you as 'non-U' (aspirant middle class) rather than 'U' (upper class). https:&#x…

At times it can feel like being trapped in a nation of self-saboteurs.

A House Through Time, series 3, is one of the best portraits of Bristol I think I've ever seen. Astonishing television. https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000jjn8&#x…

Bristolian here (nice to see others here too!) Painting houses like this is quite common in Wales, near the sea particularly. See places like Tenby. Bristol being very close to Wales means it does hav…

I now wear a cheap (~£20) vintage mechanical watch. It tells the time. It does need charging every day or two, but charging only takes a few seconds and doesn't require an adapter or power socket…

In any other field of engineering, the engineers are all trained and qualified. In software 'engineering', not so much.

Have you read Sahil Lavingia's blog? https://sahillavingia.com/reflecting

No micro transactions, offline single player. A luxury in 2023.

Tim's book "Almost Everything there is to Know" had a profound impact on me as a child. I was lucky enough to see him give a talk once in Cambridge. He's as disarmingly curious and…

Just let me exclude songs from recommendations, please. There are songs that are superficially similar to those I enjoy, but that I never want to hear. It's infuriating.