Stuart Langridge

I told you, you can have an ice cream when we get there.

Website: https://kryogenix.org
TTRPG stuff: https://tabletop.social/@sil

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2025-05-17 20:01:17 UTC

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Austria. Austriaren’t. No. #eurovision
Also hysterically overblown staging

2025-05-17 19:54:50 UTC

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It’s us. Not heard this. #eurovision

2025-05-17 19:13:34 UTC

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Super duper drumming #eurovision

2025-05-17 19:09:35 UTC

Iiiiiiiit’s #eurovision ! Got a beer, let the fun begin

2024-12-08 11:54:15 UTC

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if you're feeling investigative, I'd be interested to know whether anybody actually did the "a map with a growing red line shows the route taken" travel montage thing BEFORE Indiana Jones. It feels like something that they took from a thousand previous instances as homage, but I think they might have invented it. They certainly codified it. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TravelMontage lists a few previous instances (Apache from 1954, frex) but I dunno whether that's the same as the iconic Indy image.

2024-11-22 08:55:14 UTC

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November 22nd, 1993 - I pass my driving test. It's all connected, man

2024-11-19 15:57:05 UTC

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sure, but the MPs are verifying themselves against their own personal websites, right? I mean, that's better than nothing, but it's not *that* hard to register kemi-badenoch.biz or whatever, if you're looking to fake people for a few days as recently :)
I agree it's like Parliament email addresses, but they already exist. Convincing them to set up subdomain verification for all MPs sounds like it willl take a while, so doesn't help now. (No reason not to start today, though.)

2024-11-19 15:42:15 UTC

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I mean, domain-based verification is fine and all (I've done it!). But I think the Venn diagram of "people who are famous enough that verification is truly important" and "people who connected enough to the tech team at their employer to get them to create a subdomain or DNS fiddling" is quite close to being two circles. It's very useful if you're me, or if you're an org rather than a person. But the institutional inertia required to get it set up if you're a journo or MP feels hard to me

2024-11-04 17:10:31 UTC

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Don't grieve.
Anything you lose comes round in another form.
Rumi
It's a famous quote according to a quick search, although I'm sceptical of internet quote searches. Rumi's real, though.

2024-09-17 21:25:35 UTC

HA HA HA HA HA HA I have found out why my iPhone iCloud backup was larger than 5GB but there was no way to reduce its size!
Turns out... if you bookmark a web app to your Home Screen then its data is included in your iCloud backup. This is very good! Nice one Apple.
But it doesn't show up in the "Backup Details" list of apps in your iCloud Backup settings, so you don't know where the space is gone. This is not as good. I shall file a bug.

2024-09-06 14:33:25 UTC

another Stuart Genius Move: my "how to promote to production.md" document is in the production branch of the repo, which means that I can't read it until I've already switched to production. Well done Langridge, you're amazing

2024-08-28 21:16:18 UTC

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ah cool! I didn’t realise this wasn’t a thing; spoiled by phanpy I suppose :) it’s really useful!

2024-08-16 06:59:09 UTC

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no, and no, respectively. :) now off to look them up!

2024-08-15 15:34:53 UTC

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second vote for quickemu (and quickgui to go along with it)!

2024-06-28 15:40:46 UTC

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Chapter 2: That Thing You Think Is OK? You're Wrong And Here's Why

2024-06-28 11:53:30 UTC

Well, America, having just watched that debate, if Biden doesn't drop out, there will never ever be a better chance for an actual independent candidate to run and win and stop the two-party system, at least a bit. It'd still be shockingly hard for them to win, but someone who can galvanise real people rather than nutters (and everyone under 50) and credibly claim to be and represent the best of America... I think they'd be in with a real shout, here, if they do it quick and do it right.

2024-05-22 16:29:08 UTC

Literally laughed out loud at my desk at this. Very strong.
https://mastodon.world/@CountBinface/112485661600596055

2024-05-09 18:48:14 UTC

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thought for a second there that you meant memory :)