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celsius1414··on Job: Head of Stonehenge
Missed opportunity to say they’re ‘looking for a rock star to lead our team!’
celsius1414··on Show HN: Open Terminal – A Bloomberg Style App for Research
0.1s if you note the domain TLD. ;)
celsius1414··on Unix in East Germany (GDR) (1990)
Getting William Gibson flashbacks.
celsius1414··on Nitpicking the shell history scene in 'Tron: Legacy'
I also wouldn’t put it past Flynn to rename ‘root’ to ‘backdoor’ as a joke.
celsius1414··on Nitpicking the shell history scene in 'Tron: Legacy'
Tron 2 for Daft Punk and Michael Sheen chewing scenery.
celsius1414··on Time to talk about my writerdeck
The US version (the DM250US) is now $549, alas. I was looking at these briefly, but can’t justify the expense — might as well get a MacBook Neo if I were in the market.
celsius1414··on I Miss Terry Pratchett
The first paragraph, and the one directly above the one about knowing more about furniture:

> There is a theory, popular among certain very old and very tired philosophers, that all memories take up a kind of furniture in the head. The good ones are armchairs. The painful ones are filing cabinets, usually full. And then there are the memories that are neither: the ones that arrive uninvited, settle in, and start terrorising the other occupants by kicking over the chairs.

celsius1414··on Star Wars: Fall of the Empire by Stern Pinball
LGR just did a video on this table:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=fZtBT7dL3n0

celsius1414··on DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market
They’re throwing something around.
celsius1414··on Moonless Earth Theory
Given climatic effects from the industrial revolution onward (and perhaps with a pro-lunar bias), it would make more sense to get rid of humans to reduce the frequency of catastrophes! ;)
celsius1414··on A Review of Dice that came with The White Castle (2025)
Use minutes if you need a D12 and are playing very slowly. ;)
celsius1414··on HyperCard discovery: Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive (2022)
I suspect that will get you trapped in a Myst linking book if you’re not careful! ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myst

celsius1414··on Windows: Microsoft broke the only thing that mattered
Could be Cook leaving, or could be even sooner:

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/03/apple-alan-dye-joining-...

celsius1414··on How far back in time can you understand English?
Username checks out.
celsius1414··on Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 6.19
So the opposite of a Trojan Horse? A Greek Gateway?
celsius1414··on A word processor from 1990s for Atari ST/TOS is still supported by enthusiasts
tempus-word.de
celsius1414··on Curating a Show on My Ineffable Mother, Ursula K. Le Guin
2026 is the 60th anniversary of Rocannon’s World, the first novel of her Hainish Cycle SF books. I’m rereading all of them over the course of the year to celebrate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hainish_Cycle

She is one of my writer-heroes.

celsius1414··on Apple testing new App Store design that blurs the line between ads and results
Doing your job and doing your job well are two different things, of course. The innovation is going to have to be in how to return to the latter when they’ve lost their way. Or, perhaps more accurately, been led astray by conflicting priorities.

They’ve done it recently with their hardware. Past time for the other side of the house to refocus.

celsius1414··on Dead Internet Theory
On a Mac keyboard, Option-Shift-hyphen gives an em-dash. It’s muscle memory now after decades. For the true connoisseurs, Option-hyphen does an en-dash, mostly used for number ranges (e.g. 2000–2022). On iOS, double-hyphens can auto-correct to em-dashes.

I’ve definitely been reducing my day-to-day use of em-dashes the last year due to the negative AI association, but also because I decided I was overusing them even before that emerged.

This will hopefully give me more energy for campaigns to champion the interrobang (‽) and to reintroduce the letter thorn (Þ) to English.

celsius1414··on How to make a damn website (2024)
Kids these days forgetting what blog is short for! ;)
celsius1414··on Stellantis Is Spamming Owners' Screens with Pop-Up Ads for New Car Discounts
Or the opposite: cooling the interior to a survivable temperature.
celsius1414··on Moss survived outside of the International Space Station for 9 months
If you’ve done so as moss, I salute your ability to use human technology to post!
celsius1414··on Marko – A declarative, HTML‑based language
There’s a Marko Pollo joke, too, but I’m too chicken to say it.
celsius1414··on Media's AI Anthropomorphism Problem
Which reminds me of the other old email sig:

Don’t anthropomorphize computers. They hate that.

celsius1414··on AI note takers are flooding Zoom calls as workers opt to skip meetings
> I suppose they were simply working on their assigned tasks, listening to others in the background. How effective is that - I don't know.

If I’m doing that, I’m taking notes on the meeting. As long as the agenda items are at all relevant.

celsius1414··on Snow - Classic Macintosh emulator
Turning “Reduce Transparency” on in Accessibility > Display will solidify the menubar in both light and dark modes.

I go through phases with transparency off or on.

celsius1414··on What would happen if you tried to land on a gas giant?
Depending on your path to get there, the Jovian system’s radiation might kill you before you hit the atmosphere.

‘Jupiter’s radiation belts – and how to survive them’: https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Techn...

celsius1414··on The hidden cost of AI coding
You likely don’t have a say in the matter, but you should have a junior developer. That’s where senior developers come from.
celsius1414··on Taking Notes with Joplin
I keep thinking about how much feature lists like this could be matched by the Finder/File Explorer and my favorite text editor.
celsius1414··on An Ode to the Game Boy Advance
I’ve had Warside wishlisted on Steam for a year now, as it looks to be just that. And when I looked it up just now to double-check the name, looks like it’s coming out next month! Fingers crossed.
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