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Nothing says confidence in your product like giving users the option to hide the fact they bought your product.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/2/23816924/twitter-x-blue-subscribers-hide-blue-check-option

Since launching on the Epic store a couple of months ago, Feud has had something like 28,000 new players. That feels significant!

A graph showing monthly sales for Feud on the Epic Store.

Sleepy angel baby compilation

My cat, Rye, asleep on a sofa. Rye asleep on a sofa, again. Rye is still asleep. Rye asleep once more.

I’m at day four of going cold turkey on Sertraline (ran out, pharmacy being slow) and lemme tell ya I am having nil craic with these withdrawal symptoms

Really enjoying all the ‘astronomers baffled’ content the last couple days

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/07/this-white-dwarf-star-has-two-faces

I kind of wish I cared about sports so I could read Defector all the time.

https://defector.com/burning-down-the-house

In ’the naming of cats’, T.S. Eliot posits that every cat has a secret name known only to themselves. I have determined that my cat’s secret name is ‘piss goblin’

Oh cool thanks Slack I cannot possibly see this ever being used for anything bad

Screenshot of Slack saying you can now forward DMs

I always get a kick out of explaining to people how #golang’s magical, mildly terrifying timestamp formatting works.

Thinking of writing a GitHub bot to replace me at work that just comments “could you please split this up” on every PR.