David R. MacIver

New stack

For a little while we've been using Shrinkray (github.com/DRMacIver/shri…) for these purposes, and I'm astonished it's not better known. It seems to improve on the older reducers in every way!

The sheer degree to which the @Ocado website breaks if you've got it open in two different browser windows is really completely baffling. I'd say this is not the way a website should behave in 2025, but I'm not sure there was ever a point at which this was acceptable behaviour.

I think the main secret to understanding git is just realising that it's more afraid of you than you are of it.

having a handful of healthy & satisfying meals that you can cook even when you have near-zero energy is such a life improvement this is both a cooking/skill knowledge thing and a pantry/fridge/freezer management thing

It's not the main reason I play, but one of the things I really enjoy about video games is that they've got such interesting bugs.

Of the two ways you have to solve the problem, have you tried solving it the obviously better way?

“this is a new low” it’s a very old low actually