Nat Torkington
gnat.bsky.social
Nat Torkington
@gnat.bsky.social
Beloved banjo player of the people. Co-owner and CTO of an apparel ERP company. In former lives: open source, Perl, O'Reilly Media, new technology. Bereavement is sadder and weirder than you can imagine.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:20 PM
You misspelled 118. Hope this helps!
November 20, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Amazed nobody has used it for political killings yet in this polarised age.

Shit, there's a novel. Senator blown away, shooter arrested, it's a Telegram-using 13yo behind three resellers of a contract kill.
November 20, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Catchy phrase, it might take off :)

You're wise to dodge the descent into container management hell. Our decision ended up the same -- better a monolith you can chip away at than a plague of microservices breeding and falling out between themselves.
November 17, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Wow, no small ask. Are you keeping monolith (he says, assuming) or splitting into microservices/modules as you do so?
November 17, 2025 at 4:57 AM
(Sorry for the dump: [Discover] tab showed me this, so we don't know each other. Both members of a shitty club nobody wanted to join.)
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Daylight creeps back into your days. There's only been one book about grief that rang true ("I'm Not Ok, You're Not Ok, and That's Ok") and it was all "society doesn't know how to deal with it". Yup, there's no roadmap for it. So don't let people weird you out as you figure your way through it.
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 AM
As a friend said: it never gets "better", things become different because they can't return to what they were, but adjust to a new normal with less them. I don't think we're at the point where we can actually *enjoy* much of life, but we're not being actively oppressed? So yay?
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 AM
I found it hard because it was sad for him in a different way than it was sad for me. It was like I imagine having a limb torn off to be: searing unending awfulness every hour of the day. I was shamed & grateful for the 15 seconds between waking up and remembering he was gone and the mire returned.
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 AM
(we lost our son almost three years ago, he opted out) I never liked the "stuck" frame. We spent six months in relentless agony from the loss, and I only feel like a rarely-disturbed normalcy is peeking through the clouds now most days.
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 AM
WOOOO! NZ just got EVEN BETTER! 😍
November 5, 2025 at 7:59 AM