Ryan
@ryantk.uk
Software Engineer. Enjoys the occasional Lumbago Lemonade. Never AI. Shefflesfield
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Good morning! Fuck ice!
January 24, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Good morning! Fuck ice!
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Blue sky to forever,
The green grass blows in the wind, dancing
It would be much better a sight with you, with me,
If you hadn't met me, I'd be fine on my own, baby,
I never felt so lonely, then you came along 🎶
📺: Silent Hill 3, Team Silent, 2003
The green grass blows in the wind, dancing
It would be much better a sight with you, with me,
If you hadn't met me, I'd be fine on my own, baby,
I never felt so lonely, then you came along 🎶
📺: Silent Hill 3, Team Silent, 2003
January 23, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Blue sky to forever,
The green grass blows in the wind, dancing
It would be much better a sight with you, with me,
If you hadn't met me, I'd be fine on my own, baby,
I never felt so lonely, then you came along 🎶
📺: Silent Hill 3, Team Silent, 2003
The green grass blows in the wind, dancing
It would be much better a sight with you, with me,
If you hadn't met me, I'd be fine on my own, baby,
I never felt so lonely, then you came along 🎶
📺: Silent Hill 3, Team Silent, 2003
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Minneapolis is MinnMax's home and it's being torn apart by ICE agents with no regard for our rights. ICE is harassing/abducting people of color on a daily basis.
Please donate to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota to help provide free legal representation to those in need. bit.ly/minnmaxgives
Please donate to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota to help provide free legal representation to those in need. bit.ly/minnmaxgives
January 21, 2026 at 8:52 PM
Minneapolis is MinnMax's home and it's being torn apart by ICE agents with no regard for our rights. ICE is harassing/abducting people of color on a daily basis.
Please donate to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota to help provide free legal representation to those in need. bit.ly/minnmaxgives
Please donate to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota to help provide free legal representation to those in need. bit.ly/minnmaxgives
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I can't believe I'm posting this video - but we actually have to have a conversation about the real world implications of America going to war over Greenland.
Let me walk you through it. It doesn't turn out well for us.
Let me walk you through it. It doesn't turn out well for us.
January 11, 2026 at 2:44 AM
I can't believe I'm posting this video - but we actually have to have a conversation about the real world implications of America going to war over Greenland.
Let me walk you through it. It doesn't turn out well for us.
Let me walk you through it. It doesn't turn out well for us.
Light up shoes, but in adult sizes
January 6, 2026 at 8:06 AM
Light up shoes, but in adult sizes
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Call me old fashioned, but I like to generate new ideas using my brain.
December 14, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Call me old fashioned, but I like to generate new ideas using my brain.
It’s insulting and infuriating to have to prove I am a human to a machine.
December 13, 2025 at 10:27 PM
It’s insulting and infuriating to have to prove I am a human to a machine.
I don’t get why people are interested in AI when sticky toffee pudding exists which is far better
October 24, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I don’t get why people are interested in AI when sticky toffee pudding exists which is far better
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This is the cost of casual legitimization of genai. The blood of this kind of suffering is on the hands of everyone who uses it for all the kind of stuff Giger has pointed out. Because you've been told for at least two years now what the cost of it is and to stop doing it.
Fuck me this is bleak.
But please, do continue to use GenAI slop thumbnails for your YouTube videos, or your album art, or your book covers or whatever else. I'll continue to refuse to watch/listen/read any of them, knowing already they're not worth the time & that you're a disappointing lazy hack.
But please, do continue to use GenAI slop thumbnails for your YouTube videos, or your album art, or your book covers or whatever else. I'll continue to refuse to watch/listen/read any of them, knowing already they're not worth the time & that you're a disappointing lazy hack.
September 19, 2025 at 10:29 AM
This is the cost of casual legitimization of genai. The blood of this kind of suffering is on the hands of everyone who uses it for all the kind of stuff Giger has pointed out. Because you've been told for at least two years now what the cost of it is and to stop doing it.
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I actually really don't want my creative work or hobby communities to be full of people who don't like doing the work, it fucks the vibe hard and makes everything unpleasant
August 24, 2025 at 8:45 AM
I actually really don't want my creative work or hobby communities to be full of people who don't like doing the work, it fucks the vibe hard and makes everything unpleasant
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*taps the sign below and then three more times for good measure* Casual use, even if you think it's harmless, normalizes its use and risks the careers, livelihoods, and dreams of artists, writers, and creators.
March 28, 2025 at 1:41 PM
*taps the sign below and then three more times for good measure* Casual use, even if you think it's harmless, normalizes its use and risks the careers, livelihoods, and dreams of artists, writers, and creators.
If you see this post a walker
March 7, 2025 at 10:07 AM
If you see this post a walker
If you see this, post a Walker
March 7, 2025 at 9:56 AM
If you see this, post a Walker
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Deming said, "Inspection is too late. The quality, good or bad, is already in the product."
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February 1, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Deming said, "Inspection is too late. The quality, good or bad, is already in the product."
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Wikipedia is one of the last major bastions of verified information. Which, of course, is why the oligarchs want to destroy it.
You can donate to them here.
donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...
You can donate to them here.
donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...
January 22, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Wikipedia is one of the last major bastions of verified information. Which, of course, is why the oligarchs want to destroy it.
You can donate to them here.
donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...
You can donate to them here.
donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...
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Sick of people calling everything in crypto a Ponzi scheme.
Some crypto projects are pump and dump schemes, while others are pyramid schemes.
Others are just standard issue fraud. Others are just middlemen skimming off the top.
Stop glossing over the diversity in the industry.
Some crypto projects are pump and dump schemes, while others are pyramid schemes.
Others are just standard issue fraud. Others are just middlemen skimming off the top.
Stop glossing over the diversity in the industry.
January 8, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Sick of people calling everything in crypto a Ponzi scheme.
Some crypto projects are pump and dump schemes, while others are pyramid schemes.
Others are just standard issue fraud. Others are just middlemen skimming off the top.
Stop glossing over the diversity in the industry.
Some crypto projects are pump and dump schemes, while others are pyramid schemes.
Others are just standard issue fraud. Others are just middlemen skimming off the top.
Stop glossing over the diversity in the industry.
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The hardest part of working with a "user story" is capturing the user's story.
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January 14, 2025 at 2:53 AM
The hardest part of working with a "user story" is capturing the user's story.
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"Alegre, a barrister specialising in technology and human rights, cited the Post Office scandal “as a reminder of the dangers of putting too much faith in technology without the resources for effective accountability”.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘Mainlined into UK’s veins’: Labour announces huge public rollout of AI
Plans to make UK world leader in AI sector include opening access to NHS and other public data
www.theguardian.com
January 13, 2025 at 7:31 AM
"Alegre, a barrister specialising in technology and human rights, cited the Post Office scandal “as a reminder of the dangers of putting too much faith in technology without the resources for effective accountability”.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Keep AI away from public services for the love of god
January 13, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Keep AI away from public services for the love of god
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“TDD doesn’t create good designs”. I see statements like this frequently. I agree. Programmers create better or worse designs through their design decisions. Their workflow can provide more or less, sooner or later, better or worse feedback. So can the social structure of their team.
December 30, 2024 at 6:39 PM
“TDD doesn’t create good designs”. I see statements like this frequently. I agree. Programmers create better or worse designs through their design decisions. Their workflow can provide more or less, sooner or later, better or worse feedback. So can the social structure of their team.
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Tapping the sign as too many people forget
December 9, 2024 at 7:36 AM
Tapping the sign as too many people forget
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1989 tech that makes today’s gear look boring.
December 11, 2024 at 3:00 PM
1989 tech that makes today’s gear look boring.
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A great take on why planning and org alignment aren't great enablers of velocity, instead they're ways we cope with a lack of velocity. tidyfirst.substack.com/p/slow-deplo... Thanks @kentbeck.bsky.social!
Slow Deployment Causes Meetings
First published 2016.
tidyfirst.substack.com
December 22, 2024 at 7:54 PM
A great take on why planning and org alignment aren't great enablers of velocity, instead they're ways we cope with a lack of velocity. tidyfirst.substack.com/p/slow-deplo... Thanks @kentbeck.bsky.social!