User Interface Wrapped

• You spent 23 hours using an analogue stick to drag a cursor around various AAA game menus
• You accidentally clicked the wrong button because an element loaded in above it and pushed it down suddenly 58 times
• Your password manager autofilled your username into the wrong field 126 times
• You clicked "remind me later" on a dialogue box you'd rather never be reminded of 96 times
• You made 6,834 minor typos that were caught by autocorrect
• You made 532 typos that were caused by autocorrect, including 56 "duck off"s and 22 "go to he'll"s
• You checked the "remember me" box 87 times, and it actually worked 21% of the time
• You only ruined a mailing list thread by clicking "reply" instead of "reply all" once - but you'll be thinking about it for the rest of the year
• You spent 3 hours typing search queries into an alphabetical on-screen keyboard with a TV remote

going to go back in time and kill whoever decided that a “good” story should start off relatively light and then get darker and more harrowing over time. this cultural expectation right here is the bane of my existence

The Drugs Used by the Ancient Greeks and Romans

https://www.openculture.com/2021/11/the-drugs-used-by-the-ancient-greeks-and-romans.html

there should be a plural of “y’all” for referring to more than one plural system

Concept: The Thing, but the thing is actually really chill.

This transport freighter discovered that one of their crewmembers had been duplicated while cutting through an asteroid belt to save time on an important job. There was a bunch of paranoia for a bit, but then it turned out that an actually-dangerous alien had latched onto the ship, and right when it tried to attack the crew, the thing went all tooth tornado on it and then curled up like a chitinous kitten and went to sleep, so now it's just the crew pet.

Now, months later, everyone on the crew has got it down to a science telling if one of their friends is actually Mimi being a silly creature, and can suss out within two sentences of conversation if a person is real. The sole exception would be the crew stoner, who is always saying such wacky stuff it's impossible to tell whether or not they're real or not. Until a rat skitters by and they suddenly turn into a blob of teeth and go in for a snack. The crew regularly buys cases of synthmeat pet treats to keep Mimi fed and happy when the ship is at a deficit of rats and similar vermin.

After multiple Fediverse successes, I have put together an article that not only tells you that "git exclude" exists, but also how and when to use it.

Enjoy it now on my blog!

https://marijkeluttekes.dev/blog/articles/2025/09/03/git-exclude-a-handy-feature-you-might-not-know-about/

#git #webDev #programming

❌ Writing a promo post

✅ Just dropping the link to my mega sale: https://itch.io/s/158296/40-pixel-fonts-for-40-dollars-thats-it-thats-the-sale

To be an elf is to find your distances of time. To be an elf is to live several shorter life spans. I have learned this to be true, but there is something more. To be an elf is to be alive, to experience the joy of the moment within the context of long-term desires. There must be more than distant hopes to sustain the joy of life.

Seize the moment and seize the day.
Revel in the joy and fight all the harder against despair.

— Drizzt Do'Urden

(from "The Two Swords" by R. A. Salvatore)

Okay, new rule: Every non-person fedizen must add in their bio/pronouns if they accept being referred to using you or not.

#nonPerson #therian #beepboop

PHP

did… Pepsi change their logo back to the old one? but… what about the golden ratio?? the Parthenon?? the Earth’s magnetic fields?? Lemon Demon worked so hard on that logo!

im gonna b real i Never understood the beach hype . How the fuck does anyone have fun on the beach . Its uncomfortably hot . you have to be almost naked around a bunch of randomsm . theres fucking SAND EVERYWHERE . THE WATER IS SHITTY AND SALTY AND GROSS . THERES NOTHING TO DO . IT SUCKS

One of the neat things about the IBM Selectric typewriter is that it has interchangeable "typeballs" for different fonts/languages. And now someone figured out how to 3D print custom ones, so now you can type on a Selectric in Comic Sans. https://www.printables.com/model/441233-comic-sans-typeball-for-the-ibm-selectric-typewrit

"Xenia vs Tux" you are a fool Tux is the little plush Xenia keeps around that comes to life when shes sleeping

If you have *any* love for #FPS games, you must, must, must play Ashes 2063, easily one of the best FPSes ever made, and yet it's a #DOOM mod. It's just been added to #GoG so it's easier than ever to install and run! https://www.gog.com/en/game/ashes_2063

#retrogaming #gaming