Colin

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• #1 fan of Amanda (npub1cz3…g6lw) 🤷‍♀️ and Haskell 🐶
• My barista calls me Colon, Carling, Paulin…

Me: https://colin-gourlay.com

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2026-04-15 07:29:45 GMT

I’m trying to re-learn how to type on a split keyboard. I’m an actual baby again. It’s very apparent how much I set myself back by never learning how to touch type
https://www.zsa.io/voyager

2026-03-16 02:21:22 GMT

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used to be one of the most fun ways to spend an hour on the weekend

2026-03-10 02:49:10 GMT

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if it wasn’t for Pokopia releasing I’d be straight into playthrough 2

2026-02-07 09:40:58 GMT

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2026-02-07 05:06:55 GMT

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yup. Happened 3 times in a row (checked both in-app browser and going through a restarted app). I’m not on mastodon.social, in case that’s an issue

2026-02-07 03:41:37 GMT

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thanks for building this. I had a problem with sign in. After logging into my instance, the browser window stayed open on the website timeline and didn’t redirect back to the app

2026-01-08 02:42:37 GMT

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💜

2025-12-31 04:34:03 GMT

If we did this, Last Week Tonight would have half the run-time, but still be as good
https://infosec.exchange/@Em0nM4stodon/115809902713339831

2025-12-30 12:29:10 GMT

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2025-12-29 01:46:29 GMT

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this sounds like the best project

2025-12-26 03:51:34 GMT

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those taters look goooood! Merry Christmas to you both 🎄

2025-12-24 08:38:48 GMT

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we had our Christmas Day today with the family. Hope yours is wonderful when it comes

2025-12-22 03:41:20 GMT

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he also has the same arc of becoming more confident but still as inept I hope you’re enjoying Slow Horses! We discovered it last month and binged the whole thing

2025-12-21 22:23:30 GMT

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perfect casting

2025-12-19 01:06:48 GMT

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💜

2025-12-17 22:33:12 GMT

Amanda says she’s having an existential crisis, after coming to the realisation that our dog has never laughed.

2025-12-15 23:30:21 GMT

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sorry Potch

2025-12-15 22:15:41 GMT

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the price of general stability!

2025-12-15 04:17:14 GMT

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RSS readers struggling with that title 😂
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2025-12-13 23:53:31 GMT

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gz!

2025-12-11 22:31:32 GMT

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4h audiobook? Sold! Thanks for the recommendation

2025-12-09 06:46:13 GMT

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none of us are safe from this one

2025-12-08 14:15:57 GMT

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2025-12-08 09:41:36 GMT

Mommy the people who steal books are mad at the other people who steal books

2025-12-08 09:11:17 GMT

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I love when someone new finds A Confederacy of Dunces! I read it after a recommendation by the comedian Billy Connolly. One of my favourites

2025-12-07 08:22:00 GMT

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what in the white-washing is this nonsense?!?

2025-12-02 01:37:32 GMT

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I grabbed one for the current year after your recommendation and we were not disappointed

2025-12-01 04:36:38 GMT

You show me someone who thinks something isn’t that much of a problem, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t affected by that problem

2025-11-30 23:28:36 GMT

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I mean, folks originally experienced things out of order in the 80s/90s, so it’s not critical. It’s more to help with understanding the greater “legend” than avoiding spoilers

2025-11-30 13:22:04 GMT

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I strongly recommend you grab the DQIII remake and switch over to it. It’s chronologically the first of those three games

2025-11-26 14:01:15 GMT

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honestly, what a nanny state we live in.
(you’re cool)

2025-11-23 05:52:53 GMT

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We’re patient folk! I was just struggling with an ancient build on a hotel smart TV a few hours ago, and it reminded me how much progress there has been 😅

2025-11-22 23:07:26 GMT

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is this the thing where you couldn’t move up/down the left nav when coming from some category rows? Drove me nuts

2025-11-22 03:05:11 GMT

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most folks are only interested in minds for the bicycles these days

2025-11-22 03:00:30 GMT

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Nurses aren’t professionals, but theologists are. Riiiight.

2025-11-22 01:19:50 GMT

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giving no artistic thought to lighting/shaders now that all the thinking can be offloaded to Unreal Engine 5

2025-11-21 05:53:08 GMT

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hahahahhahahha

2025-11-20 15:24:38 GMT

Look, I’m not usually one to toot my own horn, but I just caught 4 flies in around a minute, and escorted all of the off the property.

2025-11-19 01:24:48 GMT

They’re good zines. https://social.jvns.ca/@b0rk/115571664216486442

2025-11-18 09:55:02 GMT

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https://bne.social/@colingourlay/115302030230385165

2025-11-14 15:12:18 GMT

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Mariiiiinaaaaa

2025-11-11 04:27:13 GMT

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suuuuper excited for this, and also relating to the feeling of finally finding elegant, effective bug fixes that have eluded me for a long time. Congrats!

2025-11-08 03:57:05 GMT

When I tilt my iPhone, the light subtly rotates around the edges of the Liquid Glass app icons, which really immerses me in the pitch black room I’m in

2025-11-05 08:42:04 GMT

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I still remember customising a simple confetti JS library to use the same coloured diamonds, then we never used it because of the uncertain result 😆

2025-11-02 08:28:44 GMT

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Thanks!

2025-11-01 22:11:43 GMT

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yeah this is totally a “see how unreasonable they are” play

2025-10-27 21:43:09 GMT

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I’d been running separate phones and MP3 players up until that point, and was excited to have one device that did both in 2007/8. Wild how quickly everything changed in the next year.

2025-10-27 17:19:44 GMT

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2025-10-27 16:38:48 GMT

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iOS Safari 26 UI

2025-10-27 09:59:02 GMT

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I love that he made some vague post later about ‘the haters’ and was too chickenshit to link to this

2025-10-23 10:47:12 GMT

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I remember following a GDQuest tutorial for exactly this a few years back. They’re written too, which is rare in a world where everyone does video tutorials

2025-10-17 04:38:44 GMT

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NO FUCKING WAY

2025-10-16 21:39:25 GMT

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oooooooh. I may as well give it a shot. Thanks!

2025-10-16 08:58:21 GMT

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I’m far too new to the game to be a bingo player, but I gotta say, I’m intrigued

2025-10-16 01:41:42 GMT

Thanks @npub187d…eh70 for sending me a copy of the Internet Phone Book. The Netscape sticker was a lovely addition ☺️
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2025-10-15 07:30:29 GMT

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you try to be semantically correct …

2025-10-13 06:53:34 GMT

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OMG this happened to us in our new place!! Thank you for broadcasting this knowledge instead of hoarding it like I did

2025-10-12 07:30:46 GMT

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I like the name!

2025-10-12 04:54:27 GMT

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makes sense. Should I be happy they’re dragging their heels on the advanced Siri? Time will tell!

2025-10-12 03:33:28 GMT

Has anyone come across reasoned a “Liquid Glass is good, actually” take yet? Keen to read their thoughts, because it seems pretty clear-cut at this stage that the whole thing is a disaster

2025-10-09 23:39:22 GMT

Don’t talk to me or my 39 technology partners ever again

2025-10-07 03:50:36 GMT

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World Wide Web Gavin Belson Signature Consortium

2025-10-07 01:06:16 GMT

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it really isn’t. I don’t have a single box where the glue hasn’t come away entirely

2025-10-06 19:15:44 GMT

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whoa. I’ve not seen a Virgin White Label box in nearly 30 years. I still have my Toonstruck jewel case, but never kept the box. Thanks for sharing!

2025-10-04 01:35:24 GMT

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and to you Gar!

2025-10-03 15:01:29 GMT

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condolences from us 💜

2025-10-03 11:33:12 GMT

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2025-10-02 01:42:37 GMT

Still loving Apple’s dedication to astigmatism awareness, by making everyone who uses their products think they have one.

2025-10-02 00:52:39 GMT

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I hope it goes without saying that I’m thankful for many of the features added in that post. The Safari team are doing amazing work, considering they have both hands tied behind their back. They should feel proud of the advancements they’ve made in the past few years, considering how anti-web their employer is. My real frustration is with lack of care Apple showed by hastily and inconsiderately stuffing a half-baked design system into something as important as a web browser

2025-10-02 00:35:58 GMT

They say, while introducing a variety of impactful Safari UI changes you can’t detect #iOS26
https://webkit.org/blog/17333/webkit-features-in-safari-26-0/
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2025-10-01 11:56:14 GMT

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we’re a wee bit sidetracked by the need to (hopefully temporarily) adapt to layout viewport bugs introduced by 26.0 (partially fixed by 26.1), and visual viewports that differ based on Tab layout settings (Compact/Bottom/Top) when the virtual keyboard is present, but the new Home Screen default behaviour is sooooooo welcome. I’m really looking forward to depending on it, instead of reaching for native apps that are essentially webview wrappers💜

2025-09-30 03:48:31 GMT

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aw, I have to read it now. I’d been successfully dodging (what I expect to be) DHH posturing for a few years…

2025-09-28 08:31:09 GMT

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there’s a MobileMe in that chain too!

2025-09-28 07:42:24 GMT

OMG WHY IS THE 2PX WIDE VOLUME BAR MADE OF LIQUID GLASS!?!?
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2025-09-26 15:56:53 GMT

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wild that a design system that’s supposed to get out of the way of your content, gets in the way so much. Legit the first time I’ve ever been motivated to open a bug ticket: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=299583
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2025-09-26 08:52:46 GMT

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it would be for me if Silent Hill day wasn’t yesterday. Have fun!

2025-09-24 08:58:39 GMT

@npub1cz3…g6lw painted Haskell the other day 😍
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2025-09-18 10:41:05 GMT

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so cool!!

2025-09-17 10:59:26 GMT

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I started a paid account off-the-bat, but tonight I’m finally gonna clear all the free quests 🎉

2025-09-15 23:10:58 GMT

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that’s the way you do it

2025-09-15 00:11:43 GMT

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still checks out

2025-09-15 00:06:34 GMT

I don’t think we get to say “first world problems” as a joke any more

2025-09-14 13:04:28 GMT

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(Gz, by the way)

2025-09-14 13:03:53 GMT

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I’ve been convinced to play by some coworkers this past month, and I’m absolutely loving it. How this passed me by in my youth, I’ll never know

2025-09-14 12:43:09 GMT

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these are so good!!

2025-09-11 09:47:19 GMT

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we’re looking after our nieces for the evening, but they’ll be picked up sooooooooon!

2025-09-10 15:47:02 GMT

Uh, she's a brick house
She's mighty, mighty
Just lettin' it all hang out
#iPhoneAir
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2025-09-09 10:38:55 GMT

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she’s definitely channeling Disney princess 🤣

2025-09-09 10:24:14 GMT

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gah! I just gave my last green pearl to Tish

2025-09-09 10:01:13 GMT

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are there any hints about what we’ll need yet?

2025-09-09 08:42:30 GMT

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I just scraped in this weekend too! That elusive eel!!!

2025-09-05 15:31:48 GMT

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👋

2025-09-03 04:42:00 GMT

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perfect! 😍

2025-09-03 04:17:43 GMT

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I find you need to couple it with a doubling of `border-radius` values to get a similar balance in existing design sysyems, so just slapping it behind a `@ supports` isn’t enough :(

2025-08-31 13:00:41 GMT

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nice keyboard too!!

2025-08-29 15:12:27 GMT

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aw no! Sorry I didn’t see. We’ll be back on Sunday

2025-08-27 15:07:28 GMT

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with (partial(dom)) {
// crimes
}

2025-08-27 13:45:07 GMT

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Added! I'm "Collypops"

2025-08-26 08:49:55 GMT

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I was looking for exactly this! I’ve been getting my on a very old Surface Book for the past few nights after not being able to get past the black screen on my Mac. Thank you!

2025-08-23 10:58:22 GMT

Took longer than I’d hoped, but I got there
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