evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

You Say The Sweetest Things*
Caveat Frog

The people who warned us that the internet would rot our brains have had their brains rotted by the internet.

Probably getting laid off today or next tuesday, in case anyone is looking for a low latency Java developer with 20+ years in the fintech space. Solid distributed performance analysis bonafides, as well as k8s bottleneck clearing.

I once got a trading platform from 700mics median to 39 mics median in a prod environment during a multimillion dollar hardware migration. Amusingly that is probably why I will find there are no seats available for me in the next few weeks. Nothing scares establishment more than someone who understands how the machines work when they do not.

Anyway, keep me in mind, willing to move, but remote is pretty dang efficient. I like efficient.

#getfedihired #java #performance

"We are sorry but we can't allow you to have finished software because you might actually enjoy this idea"

I quite fancy not being sad or angry or frightened or anxious for a bit. We should give that a go. I reckon it would be really good.

Thanks @bagder for the autographed sticker!

Over the years I've been hearing from folks that it's hard to remember which zines you've bought

So we built a new library website where you can see & download all your zines!

https://library.wizardzines.com/

We're recruiting for a new Security Architect role in BBC InfoSec:

**Location**: Remote (within UK)
**Salary range**: £75-85k + solid pension & benefits
**Type**: Permanent
**Closing date**: 2026-02-16

"The BBC reaches over half a billion people online every week. By joining this team you will help keep these systems secure. You’ll regularly collaborate with critical BBC product teams such as iPlayer, Sounds and News..."

It's a great team to work with (I do regularly)

https://careers.bbc.co.uk/job/Senior-Information-Security-Architect/27382-en_GB/

thinking about how there's a true solution to the trolley problem and union workers were the ones to point it out

Some Big Fuckin' Gears from inside the SS Great Britain's engine room. Taken this weekend, on our 10th anniversary trip out 💖

Now a print on my website

https://jaunty.art/product/theoretical-physicists-werner-heisenberg/

Now a print on my website:

https://jaunty.art/product/theoretical-physicists-niels-bohr/

Downtown Boulder had protests on every corner of multiple streets. Like every direction you looked there were crowds of people with signs crossing every street. So it wasn't the two blocks of 200 people like here, it was more like the feeling that every pedestrian was protesting.

Not everyone can afford a smartphone. Stop making it the primary, and sometimes the only, interface for day to day services. It's like when companies move their customer facing information onto Discord. It's shit. Fucking stop it.

For, reasons, I find myself looking up serpulids on Wikipedia and look at this beauty.
The name Christmas tree worm doesn't really do it justice. Not for the first time I wonder if I should have pursued marine biology as a specialism...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpulidae#/media/File%3ASpirobranchus_giganteus_(Red_and_white_christmas_tree_worm).jpg

Remember that time I ended up in court with Elon Musk after he bet me the cave diver was a pedo?

Anyway, here’s Elon begging Jeffrey Epstein for crazy parties on his private island, several years after Epstein was convicted of sex trafficking girls.

Think Outside Of The Box* Caveat Frog

MAGA can be so dumb. There are claims that Alex Pretti kicked and spit at an ICE vehicle 11 days earlier. MAGA thinks that vindicates ICE.

1: Even if he had done that the day he was shot, it still isn't grounds to shoot him.

2: The men who shot Pretti couldn't have known about this, so it's irrelevant.

3 (this one's the kicker): If ICE agents were aware of the prior infraction and killed him as a result, then his death is not just 2nd-degree murder but 1st-degree PREMEDITATED murder!

421) Coldbot. Chills your drinks by means of a wormhole leading to the darkness of the intergalactic void where, undisturbed by gravity and radiation, your beverage stays at a frosty 3 Kelvin. Absolutely no need for ice! #SmallRobotsRemastered