I once wrote some PHP code that looked like this:
// 
I put my thang down, flip it, and reverse it
return array_flip(array_intersect(array_flip($allTests), $chosenTestKeys));
A few months later, I came back to this code, and noticed my comment had been changed.
// I put my thing down, flip it, and reverse it
I looked at git blame to see who had mangled my comment. His git commit message was "Fix intermittent failing test", as if my comment somehow had something to do with an intermittently failing test.
This was eight years ago. I never got a chance to change my comment back. To this day, I can't hear a song by Missy Elliott and not be annoyed at the other dev who messed up my comment.
Dan Jones shared a month ago
Substack’s “Nazi problem” won’t go away after push notification apology
Substack may be legitimizing neo-Nazis as "thought leaders," researcher warns.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/substacks-nazi-problem-wont-go-away-after-push-notification-apology/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
Dan Jones shared a month ago
“Israel has deliberately starved the people of Gaza. It couldn’t have done it without the west’s help. The current hand-wringing by Keir Starmer and other western politicians is empty bluster. They knew what was happening all along.” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/30/israel-starvation-gaza-keir-starmer-west
Dan Jones shared a month ago
Brains are so fucking weird! Oh no, the electricity inside my head made too much of one goo and not enough of another, and now I'm depressed. Fucking ridiculous!
Dan Jones shared a month ago
If you want to multiply two numbers together, a quick way to do it is to roll a few d10s and use their digits as the answer.
It's fast and very easy, but there is a little skill in knowing how many dice to use. Right now it sometimes hallucinates the wrong answer but dice tech is improving all the time so it's only going to get better from here on.
Dan Jones shared a month ago
Mount Fuji seen from the International Space Station.
Credit: NASA Johnson
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A snow-capped stratovolcano surrounded by green fields.
Dan Jones shared a month ago
Onsdag!
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Photo of a metal napkin dispenser. Caption: Convenient napkin dispenser lets you grab either a handful of 60 napkins or tear off a small corner of one. The choice isn't yours.
-Allo. La police!
-Oui.
-Des voleurs' m'ont attaqué.
-Combien de voleurs?
-Sept.
-Tu dis?
-Je dis sept.
-Dix-sept?
-Mais non; sans dix; sept!
-Cent dix-sept?
-Mais non, sept sans dix.
-Comment, sept cent dix?
-Mais non, sept, sans dix; sept!
-C'est trop. Sept cent dix-sept voleurs.
-Non! Non! Je dis: sept, sans dix, sept.
-Oh-là-là! Dix-sept cent dix-sept voleurs! Au revoir.
I posted this four years ago, but it's even more relevant now.
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Parody of a Garbage Pail Kids card. The Garbage Pail Kids logo is at the top. Along the bottom is the character name: Donald Dump. The character is Donald Trump as a toddler. He's sitting on a golden toilet while wearing a blue business suit, his pants down at his ankles. On the floor is a briefcase with dollar bills spilling out of it onto the floor. On the back of the toilet is a spray can which says "Hair Spray". On the left side of the wall, partially out of view, is the Mona Lisa with a label on top saying "Fired". On the ride side of the wall is a painting of New York City overlooking "Dump Plaza". Donald is pulling some toilet paper off the roll, but the toilet paper is actually the Constitution of the United States.
Dan Jones shared a month agoSubstack sent a push alert promoting a Nazi blog. “Substack is primarily funded by Andreessen Horowitz, a firm whose founders have pushed extreme far right rhetoric.” There was *an actual swastika* in the push alert! https://www.patreon.com/posts/substack-sent-135263203
Me: looks for a watchband on Amazon for a very specific smartwatch.
Me: Finds one I like and purchases it.
Amazon: (the next day by email) Since you like watchbands, here's some deals on a bunch of other watchbands for completely different watches.
Me: 
Advanced CAPTCHAs
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A typical CAPTCHA image where you select items from the image. The caption says "Select all squares with pipes. If there are none, click skip". The squares are filled with with the pipe from René Magritte's "The Treachery of Images"
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A typical CAPTCHA image where you select items from the image. The caption says "Select all squares with the ship of Thesus. If there are none, click Skip." The squares are filled with a painting of the Ship of Thesus. Technically, the painting is acutally Argo, by Konstantinos Volnakis, but close enough for the joke.
Dan Jones shared a month agoSeason 4 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is going to feature an episode where all the characters are Muppetized (with puppets created by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop). I love this show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Az-cm8gmKSM
Dan Jones shared a month agoTIL the etymology of boycott. “When Boycott set about evicting 11 tenants, the locals had had enough. The Mayo branch of the Irish Land League urged Boycott’s employees to withdraw their labor and began a campaign of isolation against Boycott.”
https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/irish-invented-boycott
https://gizmodo.com/sdcc-2025-star-trek-khan-trailer-george-takei-tim-russ-2000635047
Tim Russ and George Takei coming back as Tuvok and Sulu!
I can't wait!
I still have a Twitter account. I don't post there anymore, but I haven't deleted it yet, because I have years of posts on there, and, although I have them backed up, I want to still be able to see them. I'm just not ready yet to delete my account.
Anyway, sometimes I'll follow a link to Twitter, and I'll have notifications waiting for me. Invariably, I have a notification for a post from Elon Musk. I've never followed him, and have never commented on any of his posts. But, Twitter is still trying to force his posts on me. I even click the "See less often" button in my notifications whenever they add one of his posts there, but there's always one in my notifications every time I go to the site.
Today, I finally just decided to block him. I bet I'll still get notifications for him, though.
Remember four years ago when we were all talking about UFOs that the Pentagon finally admitted they'd been tracking for years?
Good times. Simpler times.
Me: Hey Google, what time is it?
Smart speaker: It's 7:20 AM.
Me: Thank you.
"Smart speaker": Sure. Thank You by Dido playing on YouTube Music.
Me:
Dan Jones shared a month ago
🚏 🏃🏽♂️️ 👭🧑🏿🦽🧑🦽
Dan Jones shared a month ago
"I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better"
-found on Bluesky