Colin

• Hypertext wrangler
• #1 fan of Amanda (npub1cz3…g6lw) 🤷‍♀️ and Haskell 🐶
• My barista calls me Colon, Carling, Paulin…

Me: https://colin-gourlay.com

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npub1q2e69mrshf2zhr6k4hwhldn3f0zd8hhatwsjgg8dp0gfdsdvhg3sw0q7tj

NIP-05 Address

colingourlay_at_bne.social@momostr.pink

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2026-04-29 04:40:34 UTC

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siiiiick scar! (congrats on listening to your body)

2026-04-22 06:57:26 UTC

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I was sold when I saw the word ‘hexagon’

2026-04-20 21:48:20 UTC

New Apple CEO John II will take the company in a bold new direction, when he succeeds Mike I, Mike II, John I, Mike III, Gil I, Steve I & Tim I

2026-04-16 23:18:46 UTC

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on the upside, they’re terrible at reading the room

2026-04-16 22:09:20 UTC

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welcome back! It’s refreshing to see someone return after a hiatus who isn’t just announcing a vibe-coded turd of a product

2026-04-16 08:49:12 UTC

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how strange! I’m at a gacha place and just saw these
https://assets.bne.social/media_attachments/files/116/413/520/225/180/670/original/dd0ee81ed50db1ef.jpeg

2026-04-15 13:27:34 UTC

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I’ll persevere! 💜

2026-04-15 07:29:45 UTC

I’m trying to re-learn how to type on a split keyboard. I’m an actual baby again. It’s very apparent how much I set myself back by never learning how to touch type
https://www.zsa.io/voyager

2026-04-13 03:36:48 UTC

Please clap
https://assets.bne.social/media_attachments/files/116/395/304/796/482/071/original/c9b7aa22c0e6d946.jpeg

2026-04-07 10:54:22 UTC

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never fails to please

2026-04-07 09:10:49 UTC

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always ready for a Mountie or a Samoa

2026-04-04 00:27:39 UTC

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foley-age?

2026-04-02 07:19:02 UTC

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there’s still a part of me that thinks the leak was a a response to one of their engineers asking for a (free) industry best-practice refactor of the whole product. If the model truly is the secret sauce, what do they have to lose by sharing the source of what-amounts-to a heavy client

2026-04-01 23:24:19 UTC

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holy shit. I think they may have cracked (😅) the build quality since then, but that’s wild. Boiling water is no joke!!

2026-04-01 15:39:42 UTC

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I know it won’t have the same feel as your favourite mug, but we got these and love them: https://www.masterreplicas.com/en-us/products/the-picard-tea-cup-set-1

2026-03-27 08:43:06 UTC

A gooder than usual pakidge from Mike Monteiro
https://assets.bne.social/media_attachments/files/116/300/249/848/048/127/original/054ebde4f0b39cbc.jpeg

2026-03-27 03:48:21 UTC

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😵

2026-03-26 07:27:33 UTC

“As of next month, we’ll be helping ourselves to more of your money.
Warmest regards”

2026-03-23 02:03:16 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@kenney/116274672283126720
If you (a programmer) want to get your game ideas off the ground and have them look a bit better than ‘shit’, these are invaluable
#note16c5…tzun

2026-03-19 08:14:25 UTC

Developer comments that begin with “I am not a lawyer, but…” are the best comments

2026-03-16 10:39:31 UTC

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SOLD

2026-03-16 02:21:22 UTC

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used to be one of the most fun ways to spend an hour on the weekend

2026-03-15 23:53:18 UTC

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the real joy for me was sitting watching the defrag visuals

2026-03-14 00:55:47 UTC

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happy anniversary, best tweet!

2026-03-10 07:34:46 UTC

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whoa!

2026-03-10 02:49:10 UTC

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if it wasn’t for Pokopia releasing I’d be straight into playthrough 2

2026-03-01 23:49:41 UTC

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wonderful idea! 💜

2026-02-27 08:17:09 UTC

I’ve got my spare pants at the ready
https://assets.bne.social/media_attachments/files/116/141/603/187/285/122/original/b3b88c9c315b2760.jpeg

2026-02-24 01:32:14 UTC

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congrats!

2026-02-23 07:03:24 UTC

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wishing you a steady recovery 💜

2026-02-20 06:18:47 UTC

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yes, but please don’t actually do this

2026-02-20 03:24:55 UTC

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ah, I see you haven’t yet discovered edge mousing

2026-02-18 10:21:11 UTC

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yes please!

2026-02-17 08:07:36 UTC

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😩

2026-02-17 07:40:31 UTC

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mon the biff

2026-02-16 02:30:46 UTC

Hahaha yes!
https://assets.bne.social/media_attachments/files/116/077/955/866/663/972/original/5d0e66e368c38d7b.jpeg

2026-02-13 10:22:38 UTC

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I’m finally readying my copy of Spiritual Journey

2026-02-12 12:28:51 UTC

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the 4 did away with this material, finally. I’m on my 3rd MX master, and hope this is the last one I have to buy

2026-02-12 01:01:17 UTC

I love* that to remove a label from a GitHub issue, I should click either the tick or the cross.
*loathe
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2026-02-11 10:09:19 UTC

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so ready

2026-02-10 06:33:39 UTC

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cars could have two air quality monitors (one interior, one exterior), enabling an “auto” setting like what folks have gotten used to with lights. This is the stealth excuse to get AQMs into all cars

2026-02-07 09:53:57 UTC

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it’s working now!

2026-02-07 09:40:58 UTC

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2026-02-07 05:06:55 UTC

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yup. Happened 3 times in a row (checked both in-app browser and going through a restarted app). I’m not on mastodon.social, in case that’s an issue

2026-02-07 03:41:37 UTC

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thanks for building this. I had a problem with sign in. After logging into my instance, the browser window stayed open on the website timeline and didn’t redirect back to the app

2026-02-06 12:21:26 UTC

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oof. You weren’t wrong

2026-02-06 08:07:30 UTC

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these are good times to be an RE fan!

2026-02-06 06:33:31 UTC

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if they don’t unlock red/yellow/green herbs in Animal Crossing, I’m not into it

2026-02-05 14:53:02 UTC

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what a coincidence that Codeberg’s language colour for Shell is brat green 🟩

2026-02-05 08:51:34 UTC

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“Meats and cheeses always pleases” — Bob Mortimer

2026-01-31 07:02:03 UTC

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yes, please

2026-01-30 22:41:20 UTC

Double take when walking past the bookstore. Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised to find what I thought the book was called on a shelf in the near future.
https://assets.bne.social/media_attachments/files/115/986/456/355/942/705/original/9d67eff2848d0055.jpeg
https://assets.bne.social/media_attachments/files/115/986/456/683/084/386/original/725fe03c62170504.jpeg

2026-01-23 09:15:09 UTC

Doesn’t @npub1cz3…g6lw have the cutest setup?
https://assets.bne.social/media_attachments/files/115/943/650/491/480/447/original/eab2476d3c3e67a7.jpeg

2026-01-16 07:41:48 UTC

I just watched a move trailer, and the opening 5 seconds were:
*action shot*
*action shot*
*action shot*
THE TRAILER STARTS NOW
This is what TikTok, etc. have done to us. We need trailers for our trailers, begging for 1-2 minutes of attention. Wild.

2026-01-08 02:42:37 UTC

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💜

2025-12-31 04:34:03 UTC

If we did this, Last Week Tonight would have half the run-time, but still be as good
https://infosec.exchange/@Em0nM4stodon/115809902713339831

2025-12-30 12:29:10 UTC

https://assets.bne.social/media_attachments/files/115/808/517/964/660/680/original/46f8271b88e3782e.jpeg

2025-12-29 01:46:29 UTC

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this sounds like the best project

2025-12-26 03:51:34 UTC

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those taters look goooood! Merry Christmas to you both 🎄

2025-12-24 08:38:48 UTC

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we had our Christmas Day today with the family. Hope yours is wonderful when it comes

2025-12-22 03:41:20 UTC

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he also has the same arc of becoming more confident but still as inept I hope you’re enjoying Slow Horses! We discovered it last month and binged the whole thing

2025-12-21 22:23:30 UTC

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perfect casting

2025-12-19 01:06:48 UTC

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💜

2025-12-17 22:33:12 UTC

Amanda says she’s having an existential crisis, after coming to the realisation that our dog has never laughed.

2025-12-15 23:30:21 UTC

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sorry Potch

2025-12-15 22:15:41 UTC

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the price of general stability!

2025-12-15 04:17:14 UTC

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RSS readers struggling with that title 😂
https://assets.bne.social/media_attachments/files/115/721/648/887/694/701/original/95e6f0b5c6af7d5f.jpeg

2025-12-13 23:53:31 UTC

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gz!

2025-12-11 22:31:32 UTC

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4h audiobook? Sold! Thanks for the recommendation

2025-12-09 06:46:13 UTC

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none of us are safe from this one

2025-12-08 14:15:57 UTC

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https://assets.bne.social/media_attachments/files/115/684/366/810/465/300/original/0754cfa8db871ecf.mp4

2025-12-08 09:41:36 UTC

Mommy the people who steal books are mad at the other people who steal books

2025-12-08 09:11:17 UTC

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I love when someone new finds A Confederacy of Dunces! I read it after a recommendation by the comedian Billy Connolly. One of my favourites

2025-12-07 08:22:00 UTC

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what in the white-washing is this nonsense?!?

2025-12-02 01:37:32 UTC

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I grabbed one for the current year after your recommendation and we were not disappointed

2025-12-01 04:36:38 UTC

You show me someone who thinks something isn’t that much of a problem, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t affected by that problem

2025-11-30 23:28:36 UTC

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I mean, folks originally experienced things out of order in the 80s/90s, so it’s not critical. It’s more to help with understanding the greater “legend” than avoiding spoilers

2025-11-30 13:22:04 UTC

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I strongly recommend you grab the DQIII remake and switch over to it. It’s chronologically the first of those three games

2025-11-26 14:01:15 UTC

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honestly, what a nanny state we live in.
(you’re cool)

2025-11-23 05:52:53 UTC

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We’re patient folk! I was just struggling with an ancient build on a hotel smart TV a few hours ago, and it reminded me how much progress there has been 😅

2025-11-22 23:07:26 UTC

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is this the thing where you couldn’t move up/down the left nav when coming from some category rows? Drove me nuts

2025-11-22 03:05:11 UTC

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most folks are only interested in minds for the bicycles these days

2025-11-22 03:00:30 UTC

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Nurses aren’t professionals, but theologists are. Riiiight.

2025-11-22 01:19:50 UTC

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giving no artistic thought to lighting/shaders now that all the thinking can be offloaded to Unreal Engine 5

2025-11-21 05:53:08 UTC

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hahahahhahahha

2025-11-20 15:24:38 UTC

Look, I’m not usually one to toot my own horn, but I just caught 4 flies in around a minute, and escorted all of the off the property.

2025-11-19 01:24:48 UTC

They’re good zines. https://social.jvns.ca/@b0rk/115571664216486442

2025-11-18 09:55:02 UTC

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https://bne.social/@colingourlay/115302030230385165

2025-11-14 15:12:18 UTC

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Mariiiiinaaaaa

2025-11-11 04:27:13 UTC

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suuuuper excited for this, and also relating to the feeling of finally finding elegant, effective bug fixes that have eluded me for a long time. Congrats!

2025-11-08 03:57:05 UTC

When I tilt my iPhone, the light subtly rotates around the edges of the Liquid Glass app icons, which really immerses me in the pitch black room I’m in

2025-11-05 08:42:04 UTC

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I still remember customising a simple confetti JS library to use the same coloured diamonds, then we never used it because of the uncertain result 😆

2025-11-02 08:28:44 UTC

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Thanks!

2025-11-01 22:11:43 UTC

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yeah this is totally a “see how unreasonable they are” play

2025-10-27 21:43:09 UTC

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I’d been running separate phones and MP3 players up until that point, and was excited to have one device that did both in 2007/8. Wild how quickly everything changed in the next year.

2025-10-27 17:19:44 UTC

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https://assets.bne.social/media_attachments/files/115/447/272/340/227/668/original/cea231558d946c38.jpeg

2025-10-27 16:38:48 UTC

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iOS Safari 26 UI

2025-10-27 09:59:02 UTC

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I love that he made some vague post later about ‘the haters’ and was too chickenshit to link to this

2025-10-23 10:47:12 UTC

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I remember following a GDQuest tutorial for exactly this a few years back. They’re written too, which is rare in a world where everyone does video tutorials

2025-10-17 04:38:44 UTC

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NO FUCKING WAY