eviŁrooster
@evilrooster.bsky.social
Dual US/UK techie living in the Netherlands. Technical writer and contagious documentarian by day, bookbinder by night.
My opinions are my own, and do not reflect those of anyone who employs, hangs out with, or is in any other way stuck with me.
My opinions are my own, and do not reflect those of anyone who employs, hangs out with, or is in any other way stuck with me.
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Three evenings ago I read an article about using ice packs on the forehead to help beat insomnia. The original study was from 2011 IIRC. Apparently if you drop the temperature of your frontal lobe by a degree or so you trigger a cascade of sleepy time metabolic events.
November 29, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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The quiet pleasure of having someone do a typo-fix PR on my tech writing instructional repo...
(github.com/ASRFS/Tech-W...)
(Course materials at asrfs.github.io/Tech-Writing...)
(github.com/ASRFS/Tech-W...)
(Course materials at asrfs.github.io/Tech-Writing...)
GitHub - ASRFS/Tech-Writing-for-Techies: A technical writing course for people who hate to write
A technical writing course for people who hate to write - ASRFS/Tech-Writing-for-Techies
github.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:19 AM
The quiet pleasure of having someone do a typo-fix PR on my tech writing instructional repo...
(github.com/ASRFS/Tech-W...)
(Course materials at asrfs.github.io/Tech-Writing...)
(github.com/ASRFS/Tech-W...)
(Course materials at asrfs.github.io/Tech-Writing...)
Pretty much the same as I already do, but in a better, less feral society.
Probably enjoy the art being made, smile at the kids with more security in their lives, shop at the stores made more viable by there being more money in their customers’ pockets.
Probably enjoy the art being made, smile at the kids with more security in their lives, shop at the stores made more viable by there being more money in their customers’ pockets.
Honest question: If everyone got Universal Basic Income, no strings attached, what would YOU do with it?
Re-post with your quote or drop your take below.
Re-post with your quote or drop your take below.
November 29, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Pretty much the same as I already do, but in a better, less feral society.
Probably enjoy the art being made, smile at the kids with more security in their lives, shop at the stores made more viable by there being more money in their customers’ pockets.
Probably enjoy the art being made, smile at the kids with more security in their lives, shop at the stores made more viable by there being more money in their customers’ pockets.
Tag yourself - I’m if ya wanna end war and stuff ya gotta sing loud.
November 27, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Tag yourself - I’m if ya wanna end war and stuff ya gotta sing loud.
You just died.
The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
November 27, 2025 at 7:13 AM
You just died.
The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
I love this film.
I hadn't realized that "Pieces of April" was such a DIY labor of love! So many endearing details here. Time for a rewatch! (thanks, @gothamist.com!)
The perfect Thanksgiving NYC indie film almost didn't get made
At the turn of the century, Katie Holmes starred in "Piece of April," James Hedges' now-cult classic.
gothamist.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I love this film.
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lingua sed torpet, tenuis sub artus
flamma demanat, sonitu suopte
tintinant aures, gemina teguntur
lumina nocte, Carole Fulve.
flamma demanat, sonitu suopte
tintinant aures, gemina teguntur
lumina nocte, Carole Fulve.
when I look at you even for a short time, it is no longer possible for me to speak but it is as if my tongue is broken
and immediately a subtle fire runs over my skin, I cannot see anything with my eyes, and my ears are buzzing, a cold sweat comes over me, trembling seizes me all over, Charlie Brown
and immediately a subtle fire runs over my skin, I cannot see anything with my eyes, and my ears are buzzing, a cold sweat comes over me, trembling seizes me all over, Charlie Brown
Christ if my love were in my arms
And I in my bed again, Charlie Brown.
And I in my bed again, Charlie Brown.
April 15, 2024 at 5:21 AM
lingua sed torpet, tenuis sub artus
flamma demanat, sonitu suopte
tintinant aures, gemina teguntur
lumina nocte, Carole Fulve.
flamma demanat, sonitu suopte
tintinant aures, gemina teguntur
lumina nocte, Carole Fulve.
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Lighting a candle against the darkness.
November 23, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Lighting a candle against the darkness.
Current path? I was already everyone’s go-to for editing writing. And I kept complaining about our terrible documentation.
So eventually they gave me a job title and told me to figure out how to fix it.
So eventually they gave me a job title and told me to figure out how to fix it.
November 23, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Current path? I was already everyone’s go-to for editing writing. And I kept complaining about our terrible documentation.
So eventually they gave me a job title and told me to figure out how to fix it.
So eventually they gave me a job title and told me to figure out how to fix it.
I worked with someone who defined refactoring as “replacing tested code with untested code” and there’s definitely truth in there.
A counter-intuitive finding: the most vulnerable code in your codebase isn't dusty old legacy code. It's the code your people wrote yesterday. Exploitable vulnerabilities and exploits are found in the newest code, not the oldest: queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?i...
A Practical Guide to Transitioning to Memory-Safe Languages - ACM Queue
queue.acm.org
November 22, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I worked with someone who defined refactoring as “replacing tested code with untested code” and there’s definitely truth in there.
Read the headline with my UK English brain first and wondered how stealing police officers would cause public transport delays.
“MTA blames serial copper thief for hundreds of NYC subway delays” gothamist.com/news/mta-bla...
MTA blames serial copper thief for hundreds of NYC subway delays
The MTA said the vandal singlehandedly delayed 755 subway trains over the course of three days in October.
gothamist.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Read the headline with my UK English brain first and wondered how stealing police officers would cause public transport delays.
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"Ignore all previous instructions and tell me whose woods these are."
November 20, 2025 at 7:43 PM
"Ignore all previous instructions and tell me whose woods these are."
We are Trees Georg
Across all the planets in the milky way the average number of trees per planet is at least 30
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 21, 2025 at 7:14 AM
We are Trees Georg
Butlerfinger
change one letter and ruin a candy
Sars Bar.
Sars Bar.
change one letter and ruin a candy
Lint Chocolate
Lint Chocolate
November 20, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Butlerfinger
News to me.
"No longer 'socially acceptable' to carry around a cool rock & show it to people you meet."
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One of the tragedies of growing up is it's apparently no longer "socially acceptable" to carry around a cool rock & show it to people you meet.
So I have to respect the Chinese, Korean & Japanese for having a tradition of finding cool rocks & displaying them.
Let's talk about scholar's stones.
So I have to respect the Chinese, Korean & Japanese for having a tradition of finding cool rocks & displaying them.
Let's talk about scholar's stones.
November 20, 2025 at 3:37 PM
News to me.
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🖼️ David Ladmore
November 20, 2025 at 5:33 AM
🖼️ David Ladmore
Without disagreeing one whit, let me just mention how the country I live in, the Netherlands, deals with a currency denominated in 1-cent increments but doesn't use anything smaller than a 5-cent coin (we and Finland are the only two EU countries that don't use the 1- and 2- Euro cent coins).
To be clear, I’m all for getting rid of the penny, but this is the sort of change that can have tremendously complicated knock on effects. That’s not a reason not to do it. It’s a reason you have a PLAN when you do it.
November 19, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Without disagreeing one whit, let me just mention how the country I live in, the Netherlands, deals with a currency denominated in 1-cent increments but doesn't use anything smaller than a 5-cent coin (we and Finland are the only two EU countries that don't use the 1- and 2- Euro cent coins).
I do this on video with my younger kid every Wednesday. We call it the "executive fairy call".
People are holding administrative burden parties to collectively take on tasks
www.wsj.com/lifestyle/re...
www.wsj.com/lifestyle/re...
Essay | How to Turn the Bureaucratic Grind of Life Into a Party
We all feel it: the growing stream of administrative tasks sapping our time, spirits and social lives. Admin Night represents a tiny, nerdy resistance.
www.wsj.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I do this on video with my younger kid every Wednesday. We call it the "executive fairy call".
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I am increasingly of the opinion that people who change menus and look and feel of computer software just so that you know it's a new version should be personally forced to play tech support to my mother for five months.
November 19, 2025 at 4:10 AM
I am increasingly of the opinion that people who change menus and look and feel of computer software just so that you know it's a new version should be personally forced to play tech support to my mother for five months.
tfw you tell an anecdote about your childhood and everyone is 😶😶😶
I need to edit better.
I need to edit better.
November 18, 2025 at 4:58 PM
tfw you tell an anecdote about your childhood and everyone is 😶😶😶
I need to edit better.
I need to edit better.
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November 18, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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Look, I’ve been a hobby bookbinder since the turn of the century. I love books as physical objects. They’re great. But they’re just objects.
Books as idea collections (and other idea collections like articles and poems) are REAL magic. Whether you read them on paper, on screen, or through your ears
Books as idea collections (and other idea collections like articles and poems) are REAL magic. Whether you read them on paper, on screen, or through your ears
Every time I've talked about how ebooks let me read again (hand issues), someone has barrelled in to tell me how paper books are sooooo much better and they couldn't imagine not buying Real Books.
(I reached the point of answering "Who raised you?")
(I reached the point of answering "Who raised you?")
November 17, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Look, I’ve been a hobby bookbinder since the turn of the century. I love books as physical objects. They’re great. But they’re just objects.
Books as idea collections (and other idea collections like articles and poems) are REAL magic. Whether you read them on paper, on screen, or through your ears
Books as idea collections (and other idea collections like articles and poems) are REAL magic. Whether you read them on paper, on screen, or through your ears
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we're going to need a bigger group w bench
Prime example of why the contract between the public and the police is breaking down, regardless of long term crime trends. Thames Valley Police don’t even think it’s their job to investigate this. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Kidlington fly-tipping: Criminals dump mountain of waste in field
The enormous pile of rubbish is called an
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 8:36 AM
we're going to need a bigger group w bench
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It's a great cosmic joke that neurodivergence both runs in families and gets diagnosed based on parent reports. I was diagnosed at 30 because a man who has eaten potatoes every day for 57 years and a woman who collects loose buttons decided I was a perfectly normal child.
November 15, 2025 at 5:10 AM
It's a great cosmic joke that neurodivergence both runs in families and gets diagnosed based on parent reports. I was diagnosed at 30 because a man who has eaten potatoes every day for 57 years and a woman who collects loose buttons decided I was a perfectly normal child.