Nostr notes by Ninji

who called it an AI girlfriend and not “slop! in the name of ...

2026-03-25T20:36:11Z

who called it an AI girlfriend and not “slop! in the name of love”

when your transfemme plural friend shares a HRT update ...

2026-03-19T21:15:40Z

when your transfemme plural friend shares a HRT update

it would be so weird to live with a time traveller. they'd ...

2026-03-19T20:18:42Z

it would be so weird to live with a time traveller. they'd walk into the room and go “just got back from the shops. did you want me to get anything for you”

every time I see LLM-generated code, it reminds me of when i was ...

2026-03-13T15:46:11Z

every time I see LLM-generated code, it reminds me of when i was 7 years old and would write fake OSes in QBasic with elaborate startup sequences, displaying messages like “Checking RAM…” to give the appearance of doing useful work

Sometimes I can play rhythm games badly, as a treat 📸 LeaChim ...

2026-03-04T22:21:10Z

Sometimes I can play rhythm games badly, as a treat

📸 LeaChim at #NFC2026

Was made by @statik.bsky.social!

2026-03-01T12:37:31Z

In reply to nevent1q…7wjp
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Was made by @statik.bsky.social!

Can you still say it’s a #FursuitFriday post if neither of us ...

2026-02-27T17:38:26Z

Can you still say it’s a #FursuitFriday post if neither of us is wearing a “fur”suit??

Well, I guess that’s food fur thought…… (I’m sorry, I had to)

#NFC2026 with @snowywolf.bsky.social

I keep notification summaries on purely because it generates the ...

2026-02-18T20:39:01Z

I keep notification summaries on purely because it generates the most unhinged text based on my own posts

my headcanon of the watchOS development team at Apple is that ...

2026-02-17T01:51:55Z

my headcanon of the watchOS development team at Apple is that there’s a massive feud between the OS updater people and the sleep tracking people

why else would these features be totally incompatible?? automatic updates require your watch to be charging overnight, but then it won’t track my sleep

Seeing friends at Scotiacon has been a lot of fun but it ...

2026-02-09T04:02:40Z

Seeing friends at Scotiacon has been a lot of fun but it continues to piss me off that I can’t wear the dog face in my avatar because any vaguely canine-shaped mask that isn’t a traditional fursuit head is labelled a “pup hood” and therefore forbidden for reasons that nobody can actually explain

Felt hot in the stairwell today ...

2026-02-06T21:38:43Z

Felt hot in the stairwell today

someone in a group chat told me that I always dress like an F1 ...

2026-01-29T22:29:40Z

someone in a group chat told me that I always dress like an F1 driver. buddy, I can't even drive F12 let alone F1

Do you like taking unscientific personality tests? I have ...

2026-01-21T22:11:34Z

Do you like taking unscientific personality tests? I have developed one that will definitely tell you something about yourself. Guaranteed free of malware! Extremely shareable results!! It’s free and online!!!!

https://wuffs.org/quiz/

Wow I just got this totally legitimate award, thank you everyone, ...

2026-01-16T19:12:54Z

Wow I just got this totally legitimate award, thank you everyone, I'm honoured, what a great way to celebrate #FursuitFriday. No I will NOT be answering any questions, thank you for your understanding

📸 Haz (npub1wtt…5v2n)

The name “JPEG XL” implies the existence of other ...

2026-01-13T22:53:35Z

The name “JPEG XL” implies the existence of other next-generation file formats such as:
• Big PDF
• MP3 Pro Max
• SVG Deluxe
• 7Zip 7Furious
• DOCX-treme
• GIF Supreme

"consumers aren't buying based on AI” is demonstrably ...

2026-01-08T16:36:59Z

"consumers aren't buying based on AI” is demonstrably untrue, because i am a consumer, and i buy based on AI. i see a product uses AI and i choose something else

just installed Windows 11 on my computer and it looks a bit ...

2026-01-06T17:20:52Z

just installed Windows 11 on my computer and it looks a bit weird?? anyone know what's going on

Nope, never had a 360

2026-01-04T19:54:18Z

In reply to nevent1q…rypa
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Nope, never had a 360

last night i downloaded this random ROM hack for Taiko no ...

2026-01-04T16:33:48Z

last night i downloaded this random ROM hack for Taiko no Tatsujin on the 3DS (the drum rhythm game, for the unfamiliar) and for some reason one of the very first songs in it was Buddy Holly by Weezer

i’m still thinking about it because it just feels so hilariously out of place in Taiko to me

saving up all my DNS requests so i can send them right after ...

2025-12-31T17:20:10Z

saving up all my DNS requests so i can send them right after midnight. they’re going to be my new year’s resolutions

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2025-12-27T21:58:48Z

[at the furry con] this room party could’ve been a group chat

What would you do if you saw this dog on the S-Bahn? [A] Look ...

2025-12-27T18:50:09Z

What would you do if you saw this dog on the S-Bahn?

[A] Look respectfully
[B] Offer him a treat
[C] Tug his harness
[D] Invite him to your pyramid scheme
[E] Other (please specify)

(Sadly I’m not in Hamburg this week, but since everyone is, I thought it’d be fun to share this throwback from EF)

call me a TLS certificate because I'm in constant need of ...

2025-12-24T09:56:36Z

call me a TLS certificate because I'm in constant need of validation

In more incredible interactions with normies: Someone at the ...

2025-12-19T23:06:02Z

In more incredible interactions with normies: Someone at the little supermarket next to 100 Montaditos beckoned me over and called me “wolfman” and excitedly showed me off to his buddy in the shop, and a woman going into the metro station meowed at me

Didn’t think I’d encounter two distinct Burger vs. Burguer ...

2025-12-18T22:42:18Z

In reply to nevent1q…8u35
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Didn’t think I’d encounter two distinct Burger vs. Burguer mismatches but here we are… How does this keep happening

Achievement unlocked: A stranger referred to me as “el lobo ...

2025-12-17T15:55:46Z

Achievement unlocked: A stranger referred to me as “el lobo feroz”

I’ve been blessed by nice weather for adventuring today :3

📸 harley! ✨ (npub1sze…y65q)

Incredible attention to detail on Barcelona’s transit: When you ...

2025-12-17T13:31:57Z

Incredible attention to detail on Barcelona’s transit: When you buy a ticket from a machine, it records which language you used

So when you tap with a ticket bought in English the barrier says “have a nice trip”, and in Spanish it says “buen viaje” or “hasta pronto”. There’s a Catalan version too of course

There’s construction on this building by La Rambla and the ...

2025-12-16T22:19:26Z

There’s construction on this building by La Rambla and the businesses’ signs are covered up, so they’ve put alternatives on the hoarding

… But it seems that whoever designed this has decided to take some creative liberties

so happy to see a non-binary lift out in the wild ...

2025-12-16T12:58:09Z

so happy to see a non-binary lift out in the wild

sitting down with my tired friend ...

2025-12-12T12:41:05Z

sitting down with my tired friend

i, too, am serving downstairs but you don’t see me making a ...

2025-12-06T20:44:35Z

i, too, am serving downstairs but you don’t see me making a sign about it

This hotel bed feels too big for me, what am I supposed to do ...

2025-12-06T02:12:36Z

This hotel bed feels too big for me, what am I supposed to do with all this extra space

(It’s 2am on a Friday night, I’m allowed to post a thirst trap)

have you ever noticed that the RCA connectors are basically the ...

2025-10-25T20:39:05Z

have you ever noticed that the RCA connectors are basically the three typical burger sauces… Makes You Think

Decisions were made at the Big Tesco yesterday ...

2025-10-19T17:40:48Z

Decisions were made at the Big Tesco yesterday

To all my Dutch friends: [TJ "Henry" Yoshi voice] ij is ...

2025-10-04T19:08:20Z

To all my Dutch friends: [TJ "Henry" Yoshi voice] ij is two letters. you can't say it's only one

I wrote a blog post! Why I remain a GenAI sceptic: ...

2025-10-04T10:45:30Z

I wrote a blog post! Why I remain a GenAI sceptic: https://wuffs.org/blog/why-i-remain-a-genai-sceptic

This is a bit of a comedic rant about egregious misuses of AI, and why I just can't bring myself to use it, even for tasks where it would actually save me time and effort.

Decisions were made at Morrisons and Tesco yesterday ...

2025-10-01T21:55:34Z

Decisions were made at Morrisons and Tesco yesterday

the biggest difference between the US and Europe is that in the ...

2025-09-30T21:25:47Z

the biggest difference between the US and Europe is that in the US, a nonsense four-letter string is probably a streaming service (e.g. hulu, tubi, poob) and in Europe, it’s probably an e-scooter hire scheme (e.g. bolt, tier, dott)

got to meet some VLC cosplayers in the south side of Glasgow ...

2025-09-21T20:55:52Z

got to meet some VLC cosplayers in the south side of Glasgow today!!

I really like how my new nose ring looks but I hope it doesn’t ...

2025-09-14T20:39:24Z

I really like how my new nose ring looks but I hope it doesn’t make me look intimidating

Still thinking about the dog I saw on the S-Bahn… What a baby ...

2025-09-10T18:14:10Z

Still thinking about the dog I saw on the S-Bahn… What a baby

Here are some random photos I’ve taken recently ...

2025-08-13T22:11:48Z

Here are some random photos I’ve taken recently

⚠️ 🦊 FOX ALERT 🦊 ⚠️ I saw this fox on my way home. ...

2025-08-08T21:38:21Z

⚠️ 🦊 FOX ALERT 🦊 ⚠️

I saw this fox on my way home. They were carrying something in their muzz but ran away before I could see what it was.

This concludes today’s Fox Alert 🦊

i know mastodon was designed as a copy of twitter but i didn’t ...

2025-07-10T17:09:18Z

In reply to nevent1q…ucyg
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i know mastodon was designed as a copy of twitter but i didn’t expect them to copy this part too

(scheduled tweets were a feature in tweetdeck for years… but they were actually just a private twitter api endpoint that they didn’t add to any of their other official clients)

Now, the question is, can I convince work to let me write this ...

2025-07-08T22:18:03Z

In reply to nevent1q…m83m
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Now, the question is, can I convince work to let me write this module in Zig

Using C++ would probably be the safer bet, but aughhh the sheer amount of bikeshedding involved in things like picking a build system or setting up tests

(Rust is also theoretically an option but I've soured on it a bit)

I've been poking around at Zig (the programming language) and ...

2025-07-08T22:13:53Z

I've been poking around at Zig (the programming language) and I actually like it quite a bit

I fear that this has now ruined C/C++ for me. Comptime is exponentially more pleasant than C++ templates, and having out-of-the-box facilities for things like cross-compilation and testing is *really* nice

[youtuber voice] have YOU ever developed a parasocial ...

2025-07-07T22:46:27Z

[youtuber voice] have YOU ever developed a parasocial relationship with a content creator? let me know down there in the comments, i’d love to hear what you think

We accidentally placed a collection order from the wrong ...

2025-06-23T21:45:16Z

We accidentally placed a collection order from the wrong Domino’s so I’m now on the subway carrying several pizzas and I feel absolutely ridiculous

PSA: Always double check where you’re ordering from

Decisions were made at TK Maxx and the big Tesco today ...

2025-06-18T20:39:46Z

Decisions were made at TK Maxx and the big Tesco today

Things I have learned at work today: Firefox (or one of the ...

2025-06-12T19:33:11Z

Things I have learned at work today: Firefox (or one of the extensions I have installed) gets VERY sad if I open a webpage that has 3.5k forms on it and then try to use one of them

I’ve seen a lot of weird abandoned objects in my time but this ...

2025-06-04T18:35:05Z

I’ve seen a lot of weird abandoned objects in my time but this might be one of the strangest: An immaculately preserved trolley from Safeway, the UK supermarket chain that stopped being a thing in 2005

And I’m pretty sure this logo is a few years older than that!

... How did I manage to beat you to unironic use of ...

2025-05-31T17:41:37Z

In reply to nevent1q…qpa0
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... How did I manage to beat you to unironic use of "stakeholders”?? Now I'm concerned for myself D:

white smoke just came out of our router... this means that the ...

2025-05-08T20:35:37Z

white smoke just came out of our router... this means that the DHCP conclave has ended and a new IP address has been selected

hate that my brain immediately parsed this as a knockoff of KFC

2025-05-04T23:34:09Z

In reply to nevent1q…c2mv
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hate that my brain immediately parsed this as a knockoff of KFC

saw a link to an open-source project with “AI-powered ...

2025-05-01T22:15:12Z

saw a link to an open-source project with “AI-powered compilation” and i looked at the code out of morbid curiosity

this was in the diff to their Cursor config file

anyway, brb, i’m going to go yell “DO NOT burn!!!” at the pizza that i’ve had in the oven for the past 3 hours. i’m sure that’ll help

[interview with customer] “every update just breaks something ...

2025-03-29T20:03:41Z

In reply to nevent1q…g6g2
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[interview with customer] “every update just breaks something that worked fine before”

[brief cut to a 3-second clip of the CTO sitting in a gaming chair playing Minecraft]

[tired-looking lead engineer] “we keep telling the CEO not to SSH into prod and edit files but he just won't listen to us”

concept: a show like ramsay's kitchen nightmares, but about ...

2025-03-29T19:56:39Z

concept: a show like ramsay's kitchen nightmares, but about software instead

"i'm at spunkchute, a SaaS company that owes $2 million to AWS and is on the brink of closure”

"oh my [bleep] god. the main database server is running Ubuntu 8.04 and has two backdoors and a coin miner. SHUT. IT. DOWN.”

Today I have been 🦊 blessed 🦊 by a night-time sighting of ...

2025-03-24T19:53:40Z

Today I have been 🦊 blessed 🦊 by a night-time sighting of the Braehead fox

This time, not in the Sainsbury’s car park, but further up the road after the IKEA, garden centre and pub

looking at the Tesco reduced section when a woman picks up a ...

2025-03-20T19:27:02Z

looking at the Tesco reduced section when a woman picks up a Tesco Finest “chicken, bacon and leek pie”, looks at her friend and goes “would a fox eat that??”

any foxes out there want to tell me how you feel

reading this toot is making me shrivel up, as someone who was far ...

2025-03-17T22:20:38Z

In reply to nevent1q…7nvj
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reading this toot is making me shrivel up, as someone who was far too obsessed with the first two NSMB games

FACT CHECK: this “new” speed limit has been actually been in ...

2025-03-17T21:10:43Z

FACT CHECK: this “new” speed limit has been actually been in place for anywhere between 8 and 10 years

you can’t trust anything you see these days, shaking my smh head

Man, it's weird seeing so many of my friends talk about going ...

2025-02-18T11:12:13Z

Man, it's weird seeing so many of my friends talk about going to NFC when this is the first one I've skipped...

Just as well I did though since I'm still ill post-SC :(

Decisions were made at the Big Sainsbury’s today ...

2025-02-12T23:45:49Z

Decisions were made at the Big Sainsbury’s today

New blog post: One Dog v. the Windows 3.1 Graphics Stack I tried ...

2025-01-02T20:40:19Z

New blog post: One Dog v. the Windows 3.1 Graphics Stack

I tried to get this 31-year-old OS to play ball with the Intel GMA 950 in my 16-year-old netbook, by taking an unofficial 24-year-old driver patch and further patching it myself. Sort of. It's a mess.

https://wuffs.org/blog/windows-3x-graphics

wow, they must be making some real fast children here in Glasgow ...

2024-12-30T22:55:01Z

wow, they must be making some real fast children here in Glasgow

Here are some random photos I’ve taken recently ...

2024-12-14T14:13:35Z

Here are some random photos I’ve taken recently

Ways to remember important things: ❌ Flashcards ❌ Memory ...

2024-12-10T00:11:03Z

Ways to remember important things:
❌ Flashcards
❌ Memory palaces
✅ Incorporating them into an embarrassing scenario that you will never be able to forget about

just got my GDPR Wrapped 👀 learning so much about my browsing ...

2024-12-05T20:30:51Z

just got my GDPR Wrapped 👀 learning so much about my browsing habits

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2024-12-01T22:28:39Z

not sure who needs to hear this today, but: [loud POST beep]

Fun fact: SCART connectors have 20 pins (not counting the ...

2024-11-22T19:29:35Z

Fun fact: SCART connectors have 20 pins (not counting the shield). USB-C only requires 18 wires.

This means that you could theoretically connect two Thunderbolt devices using a SCART cable, which would be pointless but also extremely funny

We’re watching a video of a DEFCON talk and I’m losing a ...

2024-10-25T23:58:50Z

We’re watching a video of a DEFCON talk and I’m losing a couple of HP every time the very Danish speaker pronounces JavaScript as “yay-ver script”

concept: a modern day Romeo and Juliet, about the ill-fated ...

2024-10-09T21:48:43Z

concept: a modern day Romeo and Juliet, about the ill-fated romance between an Automattic boy and a WP Engine girl

I made this table comparing WeWork and my local gay sauna. I hope ...

2024-10-02T18:01:22Z

I made this table comparing WeWork and my local gay sauna. I hope somebody finds this useful

“I want that twink obliterated” Sorry, you’ll have to make ...

2024-09-22T16:26:51Z

“I want that twink obliterated”

Sorry, you’ll have to make a Jira ticket for that first

a little bit of Garamond in my life a little bit of Optima by my ...

2024-09-07T22:42:59Z

a little bit of Garamond in my life
a little bit of Optima by my side
a little bit of Segoe's all I need
a little bit of Times’s what I see
a little bit of Arial in the sun
a little bit of Impact all night long
a little bit of Comic Sans, here I am
a little bit of you makes me your man

Typeface No. 5!

Huff

2024-09-03T20:12:55Z

In reply to nevent1q…qr93
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Huff

As a child, I would go into shops and see point-of-sale systems ...

2024-09-03T19:21:58Z

As a child, I would go into shops and see point-of-sale systems that had text-mode interfaces on tiny CRTs, and I always dreamed of writing my own

I still have a soft spot for TUIs but I'm not sure I'll get many chances to write one in this millennium :(

There’s a Long Preston and Preston, but no Short Preston :(

2024-08-30T15:56:35Z

In reply to nevent1q…2z25
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There’s a Long Preston and Preston, but no Short Preston :(

Apparently it’s International Dog Day 🐺 How would you ...

2024-08-26T18:22:24Z

Apparently it’s International Dog Day 🐺

How would you caption this photo of me? Wrong answers only

📸 @chadthegryph.bsky.social

Before the Internet, if you wanted to update your Debian install, ...

2024-08-11T10:51:33Z

Before the Internet, if you wanted to update your Debian install, you’d have to drag your computer all the way here. Linux users have it so easy these days

I’m staying in a Premier Inn small enough that the breakfast ...

2024-08-11T07:11:59Z

I’m staying in a Premier Inn small enough that the breakfast buffet doesn’t have fried eggs, they just ask you if you want fried eggs and cook them on demand

So someone just walked up to my table, put a plate on it, said “eggs” and walked away

context for the 95% of you who have no clue: in Scotland, people ...

2024-08-06T18:24:34Z

In reply to nevent1q…kd5j
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context for the 95% of you who have no clue:

in Scotland, people under 22, over 60 and with disabilities get free buses, where the government pays bus operators a percentage of the single fare for each journey. so companies like McGill’s hike the single fare to get more money out of this scheme

had to resurrect a horrendous meme template from the bowels of ...

2024-08-06T18:19:31Z

had to resurrect a horrendous meme template from the bowels of the internet for this very specific idea that popped into my head yesterday

Here are some random photos I’ve taken today ...

2024-08-03T20:40:10Z

Here are some random photos I’ve taken today

Finally got a haircut yesterday so I now look less like a ...

2024-08-02T18:39:54Z

Finally got a haircut yesterday so I now look less like a disaster

Rare picture of me without glasses

Here are some random photos I’ve taken recently ...

2024-06-17T19:41:23Z

Here are some random photos I’ve taken recently

I got a box in the mail from @wearwolfcreations.bsky.social and ...

2024-06-07T16:03:56Z

I got a box in the mail from @wearwolfcreations.bsky.social and this dog head was inside???

Surely nothing bad will happen if I put it on… 🐺

It does sound like it’d be distracting though >.>

2024-06-04T17:48:25Z

In reply to nevent1q…ejrx
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It does sound like it’d be distracting though >.>