Mike

@mstefan.bsky.social

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Grumpy old man who writes code. Believer in science, objective reality and human rights. The Earth is an oblate spheroid. Emojis in Unicode are a blight.

A completely insane rant someone paid to have shoveled onto people's feeds on X. You really don't want to read this unless you hate yourself.
Release notes for Notepad++ I received a lot of feedback regarding the previous release, v8.7.8, titled “We are with Ukraine”. While some expressed gratitude, the majority consisted of ridicule and insults. I sincerely apologize for any discomfort or anger the last version may have caused. As a gesture of my sincere apologies, the latest release, v8.7.9, continues to show support for Ukraine.
An automotive factory in the 1960s
A graph on April 3, 2025 showing the market over the past 5 days, with everything in the red. The DOW down almost 4%, the NASDAQ down almost 6%.
A Tesla Cybertruck covered with images of the "Doge" (Shiba Inu dog) meme.
The dildo of consequences rarely arrives lubed.
We're doomed
A clip of the dystopian movie "Soylent Green" (1973) with Charlton Heston saying "Soylent Green is made out of people".
The dildo of consequences rarely arrives lubed.
Siri being asked what month it is and responding with "Sorry, I don't understand."
A message box title "Choose Better" which reads "The website you have connected to uses a version of TLS which vulnerable to exploitation."
A poster that says "everyone is welcome here" with hands help up, drawn in several different skin tones. A teacher was ordered to take it down from her classroom because the sentiment was "her opinion" and not endorsed by her school.
An ad explaining the benefits of breathing air. Complete with a young woman who looks like she's taken her first deep breath in weeks.
Bottles of "Boost Oxygen", for when you really feel like breathing.
An apple pie for thsoe who celebrate Pi day.
A DEC PDP-8
A futuristic walkable city with a modern design and green spaces.
An ad on X talking about how a guy supposedly turned $12K into $15M buying a cryptocurrency named "FARTCOIN".
The About dialog for Notepad++ showing the icon in the colors of the Ukrainian flag and the text "We are with Ukraine".
A man holding a bottle of "snake oil"
Ontario, California
A scene from Firefly's "The Train Job", showing the Serenity hovering near a train.
A picture of a man leaping out a highrise window with the caption "Whenever God closes a door, he opens a window. And then throws you out."
An old cigarette ad for Philip Morris which reads "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure!"
Internet Explorer with 16 toolbars.
A screenshot which shows browser favorites in a folder named "Apocalypse" which has links to track coronavirus outbreaks, earthquakes, fires, hurricans, power outages and Project 2025 progress.
This is an example of the program created by Theo using r1-llama-70b on Groq (not Grok) to generate working code.
A video of output from Grok 3 attempting to code a simulation of a ball inside a rotating hexagon. Created by Theo at https://t3.gg/ as part of his stream exploring the new Grok model.
A rather rotund leopard sitting in the sun, enjoying himself after dining on a buffet of voters who were sure that bad things would only happen to the people they don't like.
"Trust no one, wear a mask". Based on the X Files TV show.
The Super Chief, a famous train from the 1940s and 50s. Because who doesn't like cool old trains?
A display of an nholy abomination of forks, one with six tines, and another that looks like three forks fused together, for a total of twelve tines.
A bottle of champagne being poured into two glasses
A group of women wearing red cloaks and white bonnets as in The Handmaid's Tale
Mr. Cold Miser
the attention algorithm for transformer neural networks
the holodeck in Star Trek
a screenshot of Baldur's Gate, the original
Two bottles, one red that reads "health energy potion" and one blue that reads "mana energy potion"; these were energy drinks which were sold years ago, I'm not sure they're still made
A post by Trump on his Truth Social platform on 2/6/2025: The Gaza Strip would be turned over to the United States by Israel at the conclusion of fighting. The Palestinians, people like Chuck Schumer, would have already been resettled in far safer and more beautiful communities, with new and modern homes, in the region. They would actually have a chance to be happy, safe, and free. The U.S., working with great development teams from all over the World, would slowly and carefully begin the construction of what would become one of the greatest and most spectacular developments of its kind on Earth. No soldiers by the U.S. would be needed! Stability for the region would reign!!!
I don't always test my code but when I do, I do it in production
an eggplant
become ungovernable
a part of the signup form where you declare citizenship, showing the checkbox "American (bless you)"
the Maslow pyramid which shows breathing, coffee, bacon, shelter, sleep and more coffee as foundational needs for all people
DEC VT100 terminal
a quantum mirror in the TV show Stargate SG-1 which allowed people to travel between different alternate realities
box shot of the SoftRAM scamware, reads "double your memory"
someone's sidepiece, or maybe just a couch
an ugly red baseball cap
screenshot of the Nvidia control panel and power management mode setting
registry setting to disable copilot without using gpedit which isn't available on Windows Home
A dialog showing that you need to enable connected experiences if you want to use Copilot
Bart saying "This is the worst day of my life" and Homer responding with "The worst day of your life ... so far."
not sure how to describe this, other than the text "prepare your anus!"
Could folks just let Phil have 66.6K followers for a while? No, they had to go and ruin the fun by following this rather fantastic scientist.
Dark Age of Camelot, the OG realm-vs-realm MMO. Mid4Life!
A map of the active fires in southern California
A post on X from a senator pointing out that one of Trump's executive orders halts funding for Biden's infrastructure law
Maldives beach