Dylan Beattie
@dylanbeatt.ie
coder • speaker • musician • MS MVP • creator of @codewithrockstar.com • founder of @linebreakers.band • organiser of @ldnug.org • fun stuff: dylanbeattie.net • work stuff: ursatile.com • he/him • 🥔
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🎉 Please join us in congratulating Irina Dominte (Scurtu) @irina.codes on being elected to the .NET Foundation Board of Directors! We look forward to your leadership and impact in the .NET community. 💫 #dotnetfoundation
October 27, 2025 at 2:16 PM
🎉 Please join us in congratulating Irina Dominte (Scurtu) @irina.codes on being elected to the .NET Foundation Board of Directors! We look forward to your leadership and impact in the .NET community. 💫 #dotnetfoundation
Even the people who wrote Microsoft Office have no clue what these options actually do. They just pick one at random and hope nobody asks about it.
October 26, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Even the people who wrote Microsoft Office have no clue what these options actually do. They just pick one at random and hope nobody asks about it.
To paraphrase Edsger Dijkstra, “the question of whether a language model can develop psychosis is no more interesting than the question of whether a cigarette can get cancer.”
October 16, 2025 at 8:54 PM
To paraphrase Edsger Dijkstra, “the question of whether a language model can develop psychosis is no more interesting than the question of whether a cigarette can get cancer.”
BTW, that's an affiliate link, I get a small percentage of the proceeds from each ticket sold, and anything we make from that goes towards the Friday night party fund.
You want music? Fireworks? Clowns? Trained monkeys serving drinks? A dancing panda in a tutu? BUY TICKETS and it might just happen!
You want music? Fireworks? Clowns? Trained monkeys serving drinks? A dancing panda in a tutu? BUY TICKETS and it might just happen!
BuildStuff is back in Vilnius this December! It's one of the best conferences around, I'll be there explaining how algorithms work, and on Friday night we're throwing a big after-party with @linebreakers.band.
You can get 15% off tickets with this link: www.buildstuff.events/9646612
See you there!
You can get 15% off tickets with this link: www.buildstuff.events/9646612
See you there!
Build Stuff 2025 Tickets – Secure Your Spot at the Software Conference
Get your Build Stuff 2025 tickets now! Join top software engineers, architects, and tech visionaries in Vilnius, Lithuania (Dec 3-5, 2025) for hands-on workshops, cutting-edge talks, and game-changing...
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October 13, 2025 at 11:09 AM
BTW, that's an affiliate link, I get a small percentage of the proceeds from each ticket sold, and anything we make from that goes towards the Friday night party fund.
You want music? Fireworks? Clowns? Trained monkeys serving drinks? A dancing panda in a tutu? BUY TICKETS and it might just happen!
You want music? Fireworks? Clowns? Trained monkeys serving drinks? A dancing panda in a tutu? BUY TICKETS and it might just happen!
BuildStuff is back in Vilnius this December! It's one of the best conferences around, I'll be there explaining how algorithms work, and on Friday night we're throwing a big after-party with @linebreakers.band.
You can get 15% off tickets with this link: www.buildstuff.events/9646612
See you there!
You can get 15% off tickets with this link: www.buildstuff.events/9646612
See you there!
Build Stuff 2025 Tickets – Secure Your Spot at the Software Conference
Get your Build Stuff 2025 tickets now! Join top software engineers, architects, and tech visionaries in Vilnius, Lithuania (Dec 3-5, 2025) for hands-on workshops, cutting-edge talks, and game-changing...
www.buildstuff.events
October 13, 2025 at 11:06 AM
BuildStuff is back in Vilnius this December! It's one of the best conferences around, I'll be there explaining how algorithms work, and on Friday night we're throwing a big after-party with @linebreakers.band.
You can get 15% off tickets with this link: www.buildstuff.events/9646612
See you there!
You can get 15% off tickets with this link: www.buildstuff.events/9646612
See you there!
Today in “things which are really clever and also really stupid”… streaming The Rookie on Disney+, on a plane, via 300Mbit inflight internet. Working beautifully. Then it suddenly stops, because the plane has travelled from a part of the world where that show is available to a part where it is not.
October 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Today in “things which are really clever and also really stupid”… streaming The Rookie on Disney+, on a plane, via 300Mbit inflight internet. Working beautifully. Then it suddenly stops, because the plane has travelled from a part of the world where that show is available to a part where it is not.
My flight has WiFi. I am posting to BlueSky from the, ah, blue sky.
It’s working remarkably well. I’m impressed.
It’s working remarkably well. I’m impressed.
October 10, 2025 at 1:36 PM
My flight has WiFi. I am posting to BlueSky from the, ah, blue sky.
It’s working remarkably well. I’m impressed.
It’s working remarkably well. I’m impressed.
There it is, folks: buying AI images makes less sense than paying a pub for a pint of piss.
(@yooper.cc, Bluesky, 2025)
(@yooper.cc, Bluesky, 2025)
The piss actually makes more sense, because maybe the issue is quantity and production capacity, you can only make so much piss per hour (pph.) But with AI, you can get access to the pph you need for free or cheaper than the stock photos probably.
October 9, 2025 at 6:15 PM
There it is, folks: buying AI images makes less sense than paying a pub for a pint of piss.
(@yooper.cc, Bluesky, 2025)
(@yooper.cc, Bluesky, 2025)
Listing AI-generated images for sale on stock photo libraries makes about as much sense as a bar deciding to offer pints of human piss for sale.
Like, even if you want that, even if that's genuinely the thing you want, why on earth would you pay good money for it when you could just make your own?
Like, even if you want that, even if that's genuinely the thing you want, why on earth would you pay good money for it when you could just make your own?
October 9, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Listing AI-generated images for sale on stock photo libraries makes about as much sense as a bar deciding to offer pints of human piss for sale.
Like, even if you want that, even if that's genuinely the thing you want, why on earth would you pay good money for it when you could just make your own?
Like, even if you want that, even if that's genuinely the thing you want, why on earth would you pay good money for it when you could just make your own?
Hello darkness my old friend…
Yep, I’m on a bus before sunrise for the first time since last winter. Off to Latvia for a bit to talk about open source. And squirrels. 🐿️
Yep, I’m on a bus before sunrise for the first time since last winter. Off to Latvia for a bit to talk about open source. And squirrels. 🐿️
October 8, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Hello darkness my old friend…
Yep, I’m on a bus before sunrise for the first time since last winter. Off to Latvia for a bit to talk about open source. And squirrels. 🐿️
Yep, I’m on a bus before sunrise for the first time since last winter. Off to Latvia for a bit to talk about open source. And squirrels. 🐿️
I can’t quite explain why, but it is absolutely hilarious to me that a clinic is promoting vaccination using a balloon.
October 6, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I can’t quite explain why, but it is absolutely hilarious to me that a clinic is promoting vaccination using a balloon.
Mad props to whichever local scally risked life, limb and imprisonment to spray paint the word “CHEESE” on the side of a train.
October 4, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Mad props to whichever local scally risked life, limb and imprisonment to spray paint the word “CHEESE” on the side of a train.
I'm in Dordrecht for @fronteers.bsky.social Dark Mode conf tomorrow, and they left a little gift pack of speaker goodies in my hotel room including this, and I think it's absolutely delightful. ❤️
October 2, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I'm in Dordrecht for @fronteers.bsky.social Dark Mode conf tomorrow, and they left a little gift pack of speaker goodies in my hotel room including this, and I think it's absolutely delightful. ❤️
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Join @dylanbeatt.ie and 90+ other amazing speakers at NDC London in January 🇬🇧 Early Bird ticket sale ends this Friday, 3 Oct. Secure your discounted tickets now -> ndclondon.com #ndclondon
October 2, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Join @dylanbeatt.ie and 90+ other amazing speakers at NDC London in January 🇬🇧 Early Bird ticket sale ends this Friday, 3 Oct. Secure your discounted tickets now -> ndclondon.com #ndclondon
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32 Chunk winning Fat Bear Week causes debate between me and @dylanbeatt.ie #856wasrobbed
October 1, 2025 at 12:38 PM
32 Chunk winning Fat Bear Week causes debate between me and @dylanbeatt.ie #856wasrobbed
Towards the end of the 19th century Germany briefly experimented with decimal time. It was ultimately unsuccessful, but you can still see occasional relics of it in Germany’s larger cities, such as the famous “Pegel Köln” decimal clock which still stands on the banks of the Rhine in central Cologne.
September 28, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Towards the end of the 19th century Germany briefly experimented with decimal time. It was ultimately unsuccessful, but you can still see occasional relics of it in Germany’s larger cities, such as the famous “Pegel Köln” decimal clock which still stands on the banks of the Rhine in central Cologne.
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Important: there is a pub in Holborn where a cat wears a ruff. His name is The General
September 21, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Important: there is a pub in Holborn where a cat wears a ruff. His name is The General
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As one of the world’s oldest parliamentary democracies, we might have to accept that we can’t take our country back, and if we do, they’ll just give us vouchers.
September 22, 2025 at 10:08 AM
As one of the world’s oldest parliamentary democracies, we might have to accept that we can’t take our country back, and if we do, they’ll just give us vouchers.
Last year I lost my entire tomato crop to blight. Never again. I have created the perfect organism; a gene-spliced salad-colossus that can survive fire, frost, disease, even the vacuum of deep space…
I give you…
THE TOMARDIGRADE!
I give you…
THE TOMARDIGRADE!
September 22, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Last year I lost my entire tomato crop to blight. Never again. I have created the perfect organism; a gene-spliced salad-colossus that can survive fire, frost, disease, even the vacuum of deep space…
I give you…
THE TOMARDIGRADE!
I give you…
THE TOMARDIGRADE!
You think there was ever a dude whose father's family was Nordic but whose mother was half-English, half-Spanish and they named the kid after mum's two grandfathers and so he ends up being called John-Juan Johansson?
September 21, 2025 at 1:54 PM
You think there was ever a dude whose father's family was Nordic but whose mother was half-English, half-Spanish and they named the kid after mum's two grandfathers and so he ends up being called John-Juan Johansson?
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Somehow you've reminded me of a friend who managed to set a hard disc as write-only, by setting a certain flag in a certain sector.
Unfortunately, he forgot which sector, so he couldn't change it back to recover his stuff :-)
Unfortunately, he forgot which sector, so he couldn't change it back to recover his stuff :-)
September 19, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Somehow you've reminded me of a friend who managed to set a hard disc as write-only, by setting a certain flag in a certain sector.
Unfortunately, he forgot which sector, so he couldn't change it back to recover his stuff :-)
Unfortunately, he forgot which sector, so he couldn't change it back to recover his stuff :-)
Microsoft Visual Studio
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No
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No
September 19, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Microsoft Visual Studio
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No
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No
I have filed this announcement right next to "White Star Line announces Hindenburg-Chernobyl nuclear zeppelin"
September 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
I have filed this announcement right next to "White Star Line announces Hindenburg-Chernobyl nuclear zeppelin"
I run a couple of "vanilla JS" workshops. JavaScript with no frameworks, just native language features and browser APIs. Last week I a vanilla-as-in-flavour distributor emailed me asking if I wanted to be a reseller.
Do you think "Vanilla JS: Now With Actual Vanilla!" would be a good selling point?
Do you think "Vanilla JS: Now With Actual Vanilla!" would be a good selling point?
September 19, 2025 at 11:23 AM
I run a couple of "vanilla JS" workshops. JavaScript with no frameworks, just native language features and browser APIs. Last week I a vanilla-as-in-flavour distributor emailed me asking if I wanted to be a reseller.
Do you think "Vanilla JS: Now With Actual Vanilla!" would be a good selling point?
Do you think "Vanilla JS: Now With Actual Vanilla!" would be a good selling point?
In awe of this absolute UX bobby-dazzler from the folks at Design My Night: in order to make a booking enquiry, I have to confirm that I have read a document I have not seen, and cannot see yet, which they will send me as part of the booking process...
I wonder how long that'd stand up in in court.
I wonder how long that'd stand up in in court.
September 16, 2025 at 12:58 PM
In awe of this absolute UX bobby-dazzler from the folks at Design My Night: in order to make a booking enquiry, I have to confirm that I have read a document I have not seen, and cannot see yet, which they will send me as part of the booking process...
I wonder how long that'd stand up in in court.
I wonder how long that'd stand up in in court.