Dylan Beattie

@dylanbeatt.ie

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coder • speaker • musician • MS MVP • creator of @codewithrockstar.com • founder of @linebreakers.band • organiser of @ldnug.org • fun stuff: dylanbeattie.net • work stuff: ursatile.com • he/him • 🥔

A fruit bat hanging upside down enjoying a snack on some bananas
Seating plan of the O2 arena showing Muse tickets on sale for £202.35
A wall covered in post it notes.
A display of vintage technology.
A man in a hat standing in a big open atrium that looks like it was built with cubic beziers and border-radius.
A packet in a supermarket freezer. It reads: MCENNEDY AMERICAN WAY DÉLI POCKET BURGER It is unclear what the food inside actually is.
The ending screen of Test Drive II: The Duel. 16-Color EGA graphics of a guy leaning against a Porsche 959 getting arrested by a blonde female police officer.
AI Overview: There are 2 'g's in the word "goggle" (g-o-g-g-l-e)
Two Bluesky posts separated by "View full thread". The first is about the price of a Viennetta. The second is about the etymology of the fictional Weyland-Yutani corporation from the Alien movie franchise.
A parody title card for a Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode entitled “Watch The Irishman Suffer”
Imagine a bad waxwork museum. Imagine a bad waxwork museum that had tried to reuse a waxwork of Cindy Crawford as the lead singer from Hanson who for some inexplicable reason is wearing a fetish vest.
A conference agenda, with breaks denoted using the HTML <br> tag.
MOBY-DICK; OR: THE WHALE. HERMAN MELVILLE NEW YORK: HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS LONDON: RICHARD BENTLEY. 1851
A Warhammer Chaos Warrior with the text CHAOS WITH ED MILIBAND
“Fuck Bitbucket though, easily among the worst buckets ever made by mankind including the ones used to catch your head after being decapitated by a guillotine.”
Azure Restaurant & Bar
two ergonomic diagrams of a chair/desk workstation setup. the one on the left is labelled HOME. It is normal and comfortable. The one on the right features a person sitting on a very low stool working on an impractically high table with their arms contorted into someplace very uncomfortable.
A screenshot of Slack's "Spring cleaning" feature, telling me to sweep up my sidebar, reorganise my essentials, and quiet the noise.
another apocalyptic sunset. look, if you can't see the photo, I'm sorry, but honestly, it's kind of a "just like every other sunset you've ever ever not seen only this one's scary as all fuck and I can't really explain why in the alt text"
a blazing sun in a blood red sky. buildings loom like ghosts in the haze. it looks like something out of apocalypse now.
A series of grey cargo sheds at the airport with the word Uber prominently painted on each.
Get more from every file AI actions in File Explorer let you stay in your flow while making use of AI to take advantage of editing tools or Copilot functionality, without needing to open your file. WHY THE FUCK AM I WRITING THIS? MACHINES CAN READ NOW. STOP PUTTING AI SLOP IN MY OPERATING SYSTEM AND INSTEAD USE IT TO GENERATE ALT TEXT FOR IMAGES YOU AWFUL AWFUL AWFUL BASTARDS.
A screenshot of the Windows 11 Control Panel, with an arrow highlighting the new setting which enables showing seconds in the system track clock.
A screenshot showing the same customer details in the background web page, and in a pasted message in a chat session in the foreground of the same web page.
It's a screenshot of some HTML source code. It starts like this, but I can't put the whole thing here because Bluesky only allows 2000 characters of ALT text. <body id="collection-6193b5f4318251055941e884" class="tweak-blog-alternating-side-by-side-width-full tweak-blog-alternating-side-by-side-image-aspect-ratio-11-square tweak-blog-alternating-side-by-side-text-alignment-left tweak-blog-alternating-side-by-side-read-more-style-show tweak-blog-alternating-side-by-side-image-text-alignment-middle tweak-blog-alternating-side-by-side-delimiter-bullet tweak-blog-alternating-side-by-side-meta-position-top tweak-blog-alternating-side-by-side-primary-meta-categories tweak-blog-alternating-side-by-side-secondary-meta-date tweak-blog-alternating-side-by-side-excerpt-show image-block-poster-text-alignment-center image-block-card-content-position-center image-block-card-text-alignment-left image-block-overlap-content-position-center image-block-overlap-text-alignment-left image-block-collage-content-position-center image-block-collage-text-alignment-left image-block-stack-text-alignment-left form-field-style-solid form-field-shape-square form-field-border-all form-field-checkbox-type-icon form-field-checkbox-fill-solid form-field-checkbox-color-inverted form-field-checkbox-shape-square form-field-checkbox-layout-stack form-field-radio-type-icon form-field-radio-fill-solid form-field-radio-color-normal form-field-radio-shape-pill form-field-radio-layout-stack form-field-survey-fill-solid form-field-survey-color-normal form-field-survey-shape-pill form-field-hover-focus-outline form-submit-button-style-label tweak-global-animations-enabled tweak-global-animations-complexity-level-detailed tweak-global-animations-animation-style-fade tweak-global-animations-animation-type-fade tweak-global-animations-animation-curve-ease tweak-blog-masonry-width-full tweak-blog-masonry-text-alignment-left tweak-blog-masonry-primary-meta-categories tweak-blog-masonry-secondary-meta-date ...
A screenshot of the list of signatories from the usewhatworks.org home page: Chris 'Woody' Woodruff, Fractional Architect Dylan Beattie, Software Development Consultant at Ursatile Steve 'Ardalis' Smith, Software Architect Adam Wright, Software Engineer Todd H. Gardner, CEO and Founder at TrackJS Lotte Pitcher, Developer Relations at Umbraco Abdul Rahman, Software Architect Pete Buckney Sebastian Nilsson, Renaissance Engineer Chase Aucoin, CTO at Highwater Labs Adele Carpenter, Software Engineer Glenn F. Henriksen, CTO at Justify Chris Ayers, Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft Nico Vermeir, Cloud Solution Architect Stacy Cashmore, Tech Explorer DevOps Hannes Lowette, Principal Consultant at Axxes Mattias Karlsson, Partner & Sr. Architect at WCOMAB Tom Grobbe, Software Engineer Arthur Doler, Senior Software Engineer Udi Dahan Poornima Nayar, Software Engineer Martijn Vriesman Ted Neward
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The Boys is back in town, for its fifth and final season. There’s too much to recap in full for those who have not yet had the pleasure of the satirical superhero show created by Eric Kripke from the comic books written by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson. Or who have not yet been horrified by the gory splatterfest (courtesy of all kinds of body fluids) of the preceding 32 episodes, which have seen orifices and appendages put to extraordinary use, and some of which have rightly entered what we will very carefully spell as the annals of TV history.
A cartoon car going through an airport metal detector.
The timezone selector menu in Google Calendar. You can't search it. You have to scroll through the entire list of all the timezones to pick the one you want.
The cover of Enigma’s third album. It defies description. Three seated human figures face away from the camera, their sepia-tinted bodies overlaid with cogs, gears, weird drawings of bits of old radios.
A list of very, very old iOS apps dating back to 2009. Facebook, mini piano, a Ferrari game, Echofon, and more.
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A street sign reading “New map coming soon”
A beardy man in a silly hat standing in front of about a million tons of brutalist 1960s concrete architecture.
A Gary Larson “Far Side” cartoon. An anthropomorphised fork, spoon and knife. The fork is playing the piano, the spoon and knife sit at a table playing cards. The caption reads “In the early days, living in their squalid apartment, all three shared dreams of success. In the end, however, Bob the Spoon and Ernie the Fork wound up in an old silverware drawer, and only Mack went on to fame and fortune.”
A snippet of Google Maps showing Crystal Palace park with "The Crystal Palace: Temporarily closed" highlighted.
The list of models available in VS Code Copilot. It is a long list. GPT-41, GPT-4o, GPT-5 mini, Grok Code Fast 1, Raptor mini (Preview), Claude Haiku 4.5, Claude Opus 4.5, Claude Opus 4.6, Claude Sonnet 4, Claude Sonnet 4.5, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Gemini 3 Flash (Preview), Gemini 3 Pro (Preview), GPT-5, GPT-5-Codex (Preview), GPT-5.1, GPT-5.1-Codex, GPT-5.1-Codex-Max, and a link to "Manage Models..."
Two rail tickets. Both are "Super Off-Peak Single" Both are valid on selected off-peak services by the route and Train Operator shown. Both are valid for 1 day only. One is £45.00. The other is £48.00
A photomontage of me with a bunch of iconic movie characters, against a backdrop of the Hollywood Hills with the famous sign edited to say FOREST HILL.
A stage microphone encased in protective foam packaging inside a polycarbonate hard case.
A Windows 11 alert notification dialog box. Copilot 365 Enterprise A thing happened and your files are all gone and also your house is on fire and all your Frank Zappa LPs are Coldplay now A single button reads "Well, Fuck a Duck"
A Windows 11 alert notification dialog box. Copilot 365 Enterprise A thing happened and your files are all gone and also your house is on fire and all your Frank Zappa LPs are Coldplay now A single button reads "FML"
A Windows 11 alert notification dialog box. Copilot 365 Enterprise A thing happened and your files are all gone and also your house is on fire and all your Frank Zappa LPs are Coldplay now A single button reads "Oh shit"
A Windows 11 alert notification dialog box. Copilot 365 Enterprise A thing happened and your files are all gone and also your house is on fire and all your Frank Zappa LPs are Coldplay now A single button reads "Oh"
a high-speed video montage of a man arranging conference name badges in a picture frame.
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A “whale” that looks like a person cosplaying a dogfish on an episode of Doctor Who
A photograph of a church with a glowing screen above the church door.
The final score screen from a game of iOS Scrabble, showing the CPU player with a score of 676 points and the human player with a total of 27 points.
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