Thomas

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Screenshot of the Google Fonts preview website which uses several paragraphs from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights for the preview text.
Screenshot: “Your 2026 word, prosperous”
View of fireworks over a harbour with some high-rise apartment buildings in the foreground. There are some people on balconies silhouetted by the fireworks.
Photo of a mangrove plain at low tide. In the foreground is a Grey Mangrove grown in the teardrop shape of an airfoil.
A very 90s looking physical retail box for VisualSmalltalk Enterprise edition which supports Windows 95 and NT from the company ParkPlace Digitalk
"Everywhere I Go, I See His Face" meme template from 2019 film Spider-Man: Far From Home in which character Peter Parker (Spider-Man) reminisces about character Tony Stark (Iron-Man) upon looking at his graffiti. Except the graffiti is replaced with pfp of the prolific Vite ecosystem contributor @antfu
Two books. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs on the left with its serious visual identity, and The Little Schemer on the right with a cover illustration reminiscent of a children’s book.
The classic Microsoft text on software construction, “Code Complete 2” by Steve McConnell
Netscape: Eich started work at Netscape Communications Corporation in April 1995. He originally joined intending to put Scheme "in the browser", (5l but his Netscape managers insisted that the language's syntax resemble that of Java. As a result, Eich devised a language that had much of the functionality of Scheme, the object- orientation of Self, and the syntax of Java. He completed the first version in ten days in order to accommodate the Navigator 2.0 Beta release schedule. 51[61 At first the language was called Mocha, but it was renamed LiveScript in September 1995 and finally - in a joint announcement with Sun Microsystems - it was named JavaScript in December 17181 Simultaneously, he designed the first SpiderMonkey engine, to execute the new language in the Navigator browser.
Screenshot of densely written documentation text, the value of the text is not important but follows: "All of these procedures start a new operating system process and create a bidirectional port which allows communication with that process on its standard input and standard output. The direction: setting will default to the value input for the procedures open-input-process, call-with-input-process and with-input-from-process, to the value output for the procedures open-output-process, call-with-output-process and with-output-to-process, and to the value input-output for the procedure open-process. If the direction: setting is input, the output-port side is closed. If the direction: setting is output, the input-port side is closed. The procedures open-process, open-input-process and open-output-process return the port that is created. The procedures call-with-input-process and call-with-output-process call the procedure proc with the port as single argument, and then return the value(s) of this call after closing the port and waiting for the process to terminate. The procedures with-input-from-process and with-output-to-process dynamically bind the current input-port and current output-port respectively to the port created for the duration of a call to the procedure thunk with no argument. The value(s) of the call to thunk are returned after closing the port and waiting for the process to terminate."
Photo of a split “corne” keyboard mounted on MagSafe phone stands positioned semi-vertically
A slice of sourdough bread which has a significant hole in it from an air bubble during baking
A lush green forested area with many overhanging branches. In the foreground is bedrock and a slow moving stream with old carved stone blocks on each bank showing this is a somewhat urban environment.
Vertical photo of a shopping cart covered in rust and detritus from being in the sea wrapped in keep out tape against a footpath.
An image representation of a tree with a depth of four that has 9 nodes, which has obviously just been flipped as an image in photoshop
Video of Thomas inline skating slowly in shorts and t-shirt on a large paved area under a bridge in the daytime.
Screenshot from Apple Health app showing Sleep stats, and the summary "This year, you're averaging more time asleep than you did last year." 2025: 8hr 27min. 2024 6hr 30min.
A screenshot of a tweet from account @ctrlcreep: If God didn't want me to use the em dash, why did he enshrine it in nature? In the horizon line-the lightning-harrowed bough — the canyon's pink striation-the pupil of the goat 12:07 PM • Jul 3, 2024 • 7071K Views
A photo of a part of a desk, looking down at a keyboard with the bottom of a monitor behind. The main feature is a split keyboard with each side in stands, and in between each site is a blue ceramic coffee cup. These are resting on a black desk mat, and there is a warm desk light cropped in the top left of the image.
A screen grab of the 1992 LucasArts point and click game Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis showing a scene with Indy in the desert at a dig site, with a user interface panel including an inventory of items and action buttons.
A screenshot of a wikihow instructional illustration about self bondage showing someone tied to a pole. It reads: Step 3 - How to Tie Yourself up With Rope Consider binding yourself in several places.
Lying on a desk is a ruled notebook, a printed course packet from Berkeley CS 61A (2010), the Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs textbook and some pens, lit by a warm desk lamp out of frame.
A photo of a woman sitting cross-legged in front of of a large decorated Christmas tree with lights on adding decoration to the lower branches.
Apple health app Steps card showing “39 steps”
A slide from Benedict Evans annual tech trends presentation, this year titled: "AI and Everything Else". The slide shows a bar chart of adoption of "robotaxi" trips in California, with a key including Tesla, Cruise, and Waymo. While Tesla has a chip in the chart key, it is notably absent from the bar chart content, clearly a dig at the companies repeated failure to launch its robotaxi offering for many years.
Landscape photo of a gorge in the Blue Mountains region in NSW Australia with a high sun, cliffside in shadow and blue skies with distant clouds
Quote from The Lucky Country (D. Horne, 1964): Australia is a lucky country run mainly by second rate people who share its luck. It lives on other people's ideas, and, although its ordinary people are adaptable, most of its leaders (in all fields) so lack curiosity about the events that surround them that they are often taken by surprise.
A film still of Marlon Brando as he ad libs a lengthy monologue as the character Colonel Walter Kurtz in Apocalypse Now
Top down photo of a diy 'corne' split keyboard with blank white keys lying on a desk with an open notebook pen and eyeglasses.
A canonical tweet from @Horse_ebooks posted 28 Jun 2012 "Everything happens so much"
Screenshot of a Steam game store listing showing Overwhelmingly Negative (628)
A photograph (not an AI generated image) of the authors actual desk in a dark warmly lit room with a widescreen monitor displaying a code editor. At the desk is a mid-century chair. Recessed to the left is a reading nook with some open shelves and a table lamp
A portrait fashion photograph of the torso of a female model partially obscured by a pale pink scarf in motion. The model is waring a black top, and leaning back and her lips and eyes are just visible and still while the scarf is fluttering and liquid. The background is black. The photograph is placed on a white frame.
Daytime photo with Sydney harbour bridge and a cruise ship in the background and an out of focus can of beer in the foreground
A keeb.io store listing for a sold out custom aluminium case split iris keyboard in dusty pink with pastel keys
Tweet by@keithwhor: “it would be truly impressive if we could bring manufacturing back to America at unprecedented scale via robotics & ai. re-invent the middle class as gigafactory robotics engineers & maintenance personnel. it's possible to imagine a new age of innovation & self-sufficiency.”
Screenshot of a 6th grade math learning path showing completion of exponents of decimals and powers of fractions modules
A black and white studio fashion photo of a pale woman posing in stark light with movement blurring her facial features
The book Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs Second Edition by Abelson, Sussman and Sussman held up in front of of a house plant.
an indie band playing electric guitars and singing on a small nightclub stage