I learned that the artist behind the artwork for the game Elite was none other than Philip Castle, the designer of the posters for A Clockwork Orange and Full Metal Jacket, among others.
He passed away on February 20, 2026, at the age of 83 🙏
A Gradle play in two acts.
Act 1:
WARNING: The property android.dependency.excludeLibraryComponentsFromConstraints improves project import performance for very large projects. It should be enabled to improve performance.
Act 2:
WARNING: The option setting 'android.dependency.excludeLibraryComponentsFromConstraints=true' is deprecated.
When someone asks me what the #Fediverse, #Mastodon or #ActivityPub is I'll use this illustration from UNIX Review, April 1985.
https://jmtd.net/log/ladytron/
I write about seeing Ladytron live in Newcastle last night and provide a 5-track playlist of their songs to sample.
#music
A full 18 years since they last played Newcastle, and the same venue (Digital night club)
Nazi punks fuck off
International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, March 21, 2026
Fight racism, fascism and anti-Semitism every day, always, without compromise
#fucknazis #fightracism #nazipunksfuckoff #deadkennedys #punkrockhistory
Today, thanks to a former PhD student, I learned that LLMs are terrible at generating Whitespace code: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.09678
Also today, I was invited (and I am accepting) to join a group on redesigning our undergraduate curriculum, which includes discussions on our choice of first programming language.
I am not saying that these things are related. I just happen to be mentioning them both at once because I saw them both today. You get a lot of characters in one toot after all.
What?