@dylanbeatt.ie - Dylan Beattie

28 Apr 2026 11:23 +0000

Slack says it's time for "Spring cleaning". I am in FORTY SEVEN different Slack workspaces. I can sign out of them, but cannot actually leave without "contacting an administrator". I have absolutely no idea who the administrator is for most of them. Can I have a way to "spring clean" those? Please?

27 Apr 2026 18:37 +0000

Six years ago today, the world was at a standstill. Airports, bars, restaurants, offices closed. Entire cities in lockdown. A strange, scary time. That day, I walked to the top of Horniman Hill and saw the most apocalyptic sky I have ever seen in London. It honestly felt like the end of the world.

27 Apr 2026 18:37 +0000

27 Apr 2026 13:56 +0000

Since October, travelling in or out of the Schengen zone with a UK passport has involved standing in a huge queue next to several dozen shiny new e-gate kiosks that have not yet been installed or connected and at this point I’m pretty sure that they’re just dummy units put there to fuck with us.

26 Apr 2026 15:23 +0000

I’d invent Bowler Coaster. It’s a cross between crazy golf and ten pin bowling. Each hole is a lane; you gotta roll a regulation bowling ball (10 - 16lb) through a windmill, round the loop-the-loop, into the laughing clown’s mouth, and so on. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

24 Apr 2026 12:08 +0000

OK, here’s an idea… Potemkin Day. A day where every shop, leisure centre, park &c. fixes all the broken shit that was installed by Head Office and never maintained. Imagine a Currys PC World with a smartphone on every display stand. A McDonalds where the milkshake machine works. You get the idea.

24 Apr 2026 08:50 +0000

On the side of the basements it says “Unter Unter Unter”

21 Apr 2026 08:18 +0000

In France there is a wise old badger who lives in a bin under the Palace of Versailles. When humans invent a new thing like an iPad, somebody from the Académie Française taps three times on the bin and Père Blaireau comes out and looks at the new thing and tells them whether iPad is a boy or a girl.

21 Apr 2026 08:09 +0000

Incidentally, this feature appeared in an overnight Windows update which also added two new Copilot integrations to Windows which I did not want, ask for or have the choice to decline. I'm so tired. So very, very tired. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

21 Apr 2026 07:52 +0000

Microsoft: "We are adding Copilot AI to all our products, and if that means building datacenters that will consume more power than a small city, that's the price we all have to pay." Also Microsoft: "Whoa there skippy! Showing SECONDS in your system tray clock uses more power! You sure about this?"

20 Apr 2026 11:09 +0000

Conway's Law strikes again. This time it's me having to copy and paste a Customer ID and a Support PIN from one box to a different box ON THE SAME WEB PAGE because the person on the other end of the support chat can't see the same things I can see when I'm logged in to their support portal.

20 Apr 2026 10:16 +0000

A lucid dreaming app called Krueger, anybody? [contains quote post or other embedded content]

19 Apr 2026 10:18 +0000

I am heartened to see this post now has more likes than CSS classes. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

18 Apr 2026 10:24 +0000

Good morning from the tag on a typical Squarespace website and its one hundred and forty eight classes, which is obviously a completely normal and sensible way to build good websites that work very well and are unlikely to cause any problems for generations of future maintenance engineers. 🤡

16 Apr 2026 17:59 +0000

You know the kind of man whose identity is defined by proximity to their idea of an "alpha male"? Since they're spending a significant amount of time and effort trying to be the "beta male" in that context, it seems completely logical to me that what they're doing should be known as "betamaxxing".

16 Apr 2026 17:41 +0000

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16 Apr 2026 14:14 +0000

Nice to see Bluesky finally admitting that we're living in the forbidden timeline. Things make a lot more sense now.

15 Apr 2026 07:58 +0000

I have to say, that's quite the wall of names for something that's been out less than a week. It's encouraging to see so many people showing their support for what we're trying to do here. Want to join us? Head over to usewhatworks.org and sign the manifesto. [contains quote post or other embedded content]