Timo Tijhof

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Dutch expat in London. Principal Engineer at Wikimedia Foundation, QUnit project lead @qunit, jQuery Infra Team @jquery, W3C Web Perf WG. Avatar: I look up […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://fosstodon.org/@krinkle, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

Man announces he will quit drinking by 2050 A Sydney man has set an ambitious target to phase out his alcohol consumption within the next 29 years, as part of an impressive plan to improve his health. The program will see Greg Taylor, 73, continue to drink as normal for the foreseeable future, before reducing consumption in 2049 when he turns 101. He has assured friends it will not affect his drinking plans in the short or medium term. Taylor said it was important not to rush the switch to non-alcoholic beverages. “It’s not realistic to transition to zero alcohol overnight. This requires a steady, phased approach where nothing changes for at least two decades,” he said, adding that he may need to make additional investments in beer consumption in the short term, to make sure no night out is worse off. Taylor will also be able to bring forward drinking credits earned from the days he hasn’t drunk over the past forty years, meaning the actual end date for consumption may actually be 2060. To assist with the transition, Taylor has bought a second beer fridge which he describes as the ‘capture and storage’ method.
Jonathan Horst holding a random floppy disk with my screen name, Krinkle, hand written on it. Screengrab from the latest episode.
Wikipedia pageview stats in the last 90 days for the linked article about Peasholm Park in North Yorkshire. 10-40 most days, but nearly 100 yesterday. I bet it's gonna go a lot higher.
Piccadilly platform at Acton Town station. Closed off with an orange rope. The new rolling is standing there with doors shut. A few engineers in orange vests are standing besides the train and in the train.
Map of London with directions to Samsung Kings Cross. Nearby there's a "UNIQCLO" store, labelled as such, which an eagle-eyed MediaWiki developer may mistake for the "UNIQ" token we use in wikitext parsing, that has a nasty habit of showing up on Wikipedia and Wikivoyage maps.
Photo of a roll of QUnit stickers, various jQuery "Keep calm and call on()" stickers, and Wikipedia and MediaWiki logo stickers.
BuiltWith 1M peaked at 78% in December 2023. Top 1M, 78%. Top 100K, 68%. Top 10K, 65%. Top 1000, 56%.
"You piece of shit, you bastard, you piece of garbage. Why hasn't Query 4.0 been released after more than two years? Is your mother having a difficult delivery? fuck." This was written as one long sentence in an email to info at jquery dot com, dated December 2025. Screenshot taken in the Fastmail app.
Airplane seat back. A black screen shows the prompt: "Turn on screen" - "Yes" - "No"
Distribution by musical key. 9% in C-major. 2% in C-minor. 7% in D-major. 2% in D-minor. 3% in E-major. 4% in E-minor. 8% in G-major. 3% in G-major.
Midi keyboard presented on a clear white table top, played by a hand with maroon nail polish, there's a cup of coffee on the side featuring a nail instead of a spoon — a nine inch nail to be exact.
Long press on link card in Ivory.
An article on the Eastern Min Chinese Wikipedia at cdo.wikipedia.org, viewed in Firefox, with a mobile user agent string applied. A banner is inserted at hte top, with words in English, rendered in a very large font, saying "View this page in Wikipedia's mobile site".
Wikipedia web requests by curl user agent from HTTP requests to wikimedia.org, wikipedia.org, and other Wikimedia Foundation projects on 2025-08-26. Ranging from curl/7.4.x (oldest) to curl/8.15.x (newest). Exact numbers in linked TSV files.
Drop-down menu on United.com checkout for telephone country prefix. The first option is G.E.O. plus 9 9 5. Followed by several other countries starting with G or D, in no apparent order. I guess no countries start with A, B, or C? * GEO +995 * DEU +49 * GHA +233 * GIB +350 * GRC +30 * GRL +299 * GRD +1473 * GLP +590
Official Wordpress.org Make Core blog in NetNewsWire with huge emoji images.
Two cups of Buldak Spicy Ramen, steaming hot, ready to eat. A screen with Season 14 Snake in South Korea Episode 4, plays in the background.
Crawl-to-refer request ratio. Ratio of HTML requests by a crawler, to HTML requests by browsers referred by the crawler's website. Google: 9 crawls to 1 pageview. Baidu: 1 to 1. Microsoft Bing: 40 to 1. Perplexity: 202 to 1. OpenAI: 1600 to 1. Anthropic: 70,000 to 1. Figure from Cloudflare blogpost.
Email from npmjs.com. Hi, krinkle! Thank you for enabling two-factor authentication on your account. On July 7, 2025, your account will be enrolled for mandatory 2FA as you are a maintainer of high impact package: exit-x. High impact packages are packages with more than 1 million weekly downloads or over 500 dependents. You will not be able to disable 2FA on your account as long as you are a maintainer of a high-impact package.
Demo of iOS 26 at WWDC 2025, where someone's thumb presses the Ivory app to open it.
Daily satirical cartoon from a Dutch newspaper. In this one, the characters wear headsets and speak to a TV camera.
Nazim in a lecture room with his slides and a green chalkboard at University Libre Brussels.
Eric presenting in a lecture room at University Libre Brussels, next to his slides and a green chalkboard.
Alexander presenting on stage at the Fosdem Web Perf track in a lecture room at University Libre Brussels, next to a his slides and a green chalkboard.
Andy on stage in a class room, next to his slides and a green chalkboard, at University Libre Brussels.
Robert wearing a clown wig, gesturing hands and looking serious, in front of a chalkboard and projector screen in a class room at University Libre Brussels at the web performance track at Fosdem 2025.
Slide 1 of 22: * Nokia. Confidential. Dated 10th of January, 2007. * Apple has agreed with Cisco on using the iPhone name, details not known. Slide 2 of 22: * User interface has been a big strength for Nokia. Consumer research indicates this is in decline. Urgent action needed to prevent further erosion of this position. * Expect Apple to launch lower-price point models soon. Hit for market position will come if Apple makes "mini” version of iPhone. Slide 4 of 22: * iPhone is not a super feature pack. No 3G nor HSDPA. Only a 2MB camera. Apple changes specs frequently though, no room for complacency.
Checkout form when purchasing the Carbon Copy Cloner app. A giant bright-green "View Help" button sits next to the input fields for card number and card expiration date. The button is 3 times larger than any input field, and clearly outgrew its layout position. The button pops out and even goes over top of nearby text and input fields.