Jim Liddell

Husband. Father. Maker. Gamer. Movie-er. Principal Software Engineer at Desana, ex BBC. He/him.

[Jim Liddell @liddellj]

@gsc1 will you be showing Alien Romulus at the IMAX?

[Harry Roberts @csswizardry]

Just went to a cafe for breakfast. Their menus are brass, laser-etched QR codes bonded to the tables. And they all point to…

[Lost Glasgow @LostGlasgow]

Edinburgh/Glasgow

[Jared Palmer @jaredpalmer]

debugger console.log

[Scott Hanselman 🌮 @shanselman]

Here’s the thing folks. I’ve been coding 32 years. When something like this happens it’s an organizational failure. Yes, some human wrote a bad line. Someone can “git blame” and point to a human and it’s awful. But it’s the testing, the Cl/CD, the A/B testing, the metered rollouts, an oh shit button to roll it back, the code coverage, the static analysis tools, the code reviews, the organizational health, and on and on. It’s always one line of code but it’s NEVER one person. Implying inclusion policies caused a bug is simplistic, reductive, and racist. Engineering is a team sport. Inclusion makes for good teams. Good engineering practices makes for good software. Engineering practices failed to find a bug multiple times, regardless of the seniority of the human who checked that code in. Solving the larger system thinking SDLC matters more than the null pointer check. This isn’t a “git gud C++ is hard” issue and it damn well isn’t an DEI one.

[Jim Liddell @liddellj]

@jjowensdev “It’s exceptional”?

[Ian McEwan @mozi78]

Unbridled horror!!!!!

[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

This is Kabosu. She's the shiba inu whose face became the internationally recognized Doge meme after a photoshoot went viral in 2010. Kabosu passed peacefully today, May 24, at 18, after a long battle with liver disease and leukemia.

Kabosu (which means Pumpkin in Japanese, so named for her round face), was rescued from a puppy mill shutdown and adopted from a shelter in 2008. She lived in Sakura, Japan, with her humans and three feline siblings. Her mom, a kindergarten teacher, first posted the picture of Kabosu with the wide eyes and daintily crossed paws in February 2010. The pup's pic made the rounds on Reddit and Tumblr, before the meme-ified version with colorful "Doge speak" captions began taking over. (such fame, wow.) Kabosu eventually became the face of the cryptocurrency Dogecoin in 2013, which, while created as a joke, reached an $88.8 billion market cap at its peak in May 2021. On Nov. 2, 2023, meme legends celebrated the inaugural Doge Day and unveiled a statue commemorating her. Many in the Doge movement use DOGE as an acronym for "Do Only Good Everyday."

"I think Kabo-chan was the happiest dog in the world," her human wrote in a farewell post on the blog she maintained for Kabosu and her adventures. "And I was the happiest owner." A celebration of her life will be held Sunday, May 26, from 1-4pm at Flower Kaori in Kotsu no Mori, in Narita City.

For her lasting legacy on internet culture, the legend Kabosu receives our highest honor, a 15/10

[Jonathan Abourbih @jonzo1]

Absolutely mortified I wore these in public. To Morrisons no less.

[Jim Liddell @liddellj]

@jjowensdev GitHub pages is good for this. Free hosting if you’re happy for the underlying repo to be public.

[Adam Sharp @AdamCSharp]

Better names for existing things, number 1…

DISCO CHICKEN

[Katie Pennick @KatiePennick]

POV: you’re a wheelchair user and the staff haven’t turned up with a ramp, so you’re trapped on an empty train.

The emergency alarm is out of my reach so I have to rely on my shouting skills.

How would you feel if there was a risk of this happening every time you use the train?

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

My dude has absolutely brought this deer home before.

[Haztecamarera @Haztecamarera]

Glasgow Willy Wonka Experience in Animal Crossing: New Horizons

a thread

[putasinghonit @putasinghonit]

The Simpsons did it again🫣🫢

[Yuhki Demers @yuhkidemers]

5 months ago Patrick Harpin walked into @wbpictures @DCofficial and pitched a 𝘉𝘢𝘵𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘉𝘦𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘥 Animated Feature.

Before we pitched, they warned us "there is absolutely no way we can do a 𝘉𝘦𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘥 movie", but they loved our enthusiasm. We pitched the outline for the entire film, and what started as a 'never' turned into a 'maybe'.

In the time since, we've been pitching our way up the company hoping to get to @jamesgunn. But for now, here's a taste of what we've been cooking.

LIKE & SHARE 𝗶𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗲𝗲 𝗮 𝘉𝘢𝘵𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘉𝘦𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝗔𝗻𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗙𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 🦇 #𝗯𝗮𝘁𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗯𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱

From Writer/Director Patrick Harpin (𝘔𝘺 𝘋𝘢𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘺 𝘏𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳)
& Production Designer/Producer Yuhki Demers (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, 𝘚𝘱𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘳-𝘔𝘢𝘯: 𝘈𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘱𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘳-𝘝𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦)

#batmanbeyond #dc #dcuniverse #dcu #warnerbros #dccomics #batman #beyond #brucewayne #terrymcginnis #dcanimation #dcofficial #batmantheanimatedseries #comicbookmovienews #glenmurakami #brucetimm #inque #spiderverse

[The Hallions @thehallions]

Lots of our links in one place; get out album REBEL REVOLT RESIST, out everywhere digitally NOW https://t.co/8gxJLw3fJ4 #hallions #music #punk #rock #garage #Linktree

[Jim Liddell @liddellj]

@jonzo1 Very sorry to hear this - take care ❤️