♬♬ ♪♪ "Put another dime in the parking meter" ♪♪ ♬♬ Q: What do you get if you cross a baby pink parking meter with a Pi Zero 2? A: www.theregister.com/2026/01/16/p...

CAPTCHAs can be frustrating, ridiculous, nonsensical. Rarely are they something worth sharing. This, however, is CAPTCHA perfection. bit.ly/3YI8Ar8

December was a surprisingly busy month at Isotoma HQ, but we did find time to chat about... - AI vending machine - HTML knowledge of yore - Stunning oak tree time lapse - Spotify stats and archive isotoma.com/the-stack/re...

DATA CENTRES IN SPAAAAAAAAAAAACE! Pretty sure Miss Piggy would not approve. taranis.ie/datacenters-...

Gemini vs. ChatGPT Sit back and enjoy (it gets feisty!) www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/co...

Patting yourself on the back for remembering to put out the recycling? We applaud you. Celebrate even the small wins. Just maybe don't read this article. Future leader. Right there. www.sciencealert.com/14-year-old-...

Much of the UK saw the first flurry of snow in November. The chilly month also saw French speed skater Timothy Loubineaud break a world record, completing 5000 metres in just over six minutes. Meanwhile at Isotoma HQ, we cranked up the radiators and chatted about... isotoma.com/the-stack/re...

If, for whatever reason, you're not able to be at one with nature, then this is a nifty alternative. Be at 60 seconds with nature... (although we have to admit, some are definitely more inspiring than others!) oneminutepark.tv

Talk to the hand. Or maybe don't.... (cancels 'Z the Mentalist' Isotoma Christmas party booking) www.theregister.com/2025/11/21/m...

French 'National treasure', La Pascaline, pulled from auction as historical significance recognised. Mathematician Blaise Pascal invented the calculating machine in 1642. Thought to be one of only eight remaining, the lot was expected to fetch £1.8mn. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

October saw life imitate art, as crooks acted out the straight-to-TV movie Mystère au Louvre. At Isotoma HQ, we guarded our Crown Jewels and chatted about... - Minecraft ChatGPT AI model - Evil bunny - 'Friend' ad campaign - A-Z of hacker laws - The Amazon dilemma isotoma.com/the-stack/re...

Maybe we've been spending too much time with our friends at Cheshire, but sign us up for Team Fridge.

With Halloween and Bonfire Night ticked off the list, is it OK to start thinking about the next biggie?... We won't say the word until next month, but this highly amusing thread will certainly get you in the spirit: bsky.app/profile/rica...

Happy 34th Birthday HTML tags! On October 29, 1991, the internet pioneer, Tim Berners-Lee, published a document entitled HTML Tags. #WebDesignHistory

Do the math(s)! This new immersive museum is right up our street. Bookmarked for the next client meeting in London 😊 mathsworld.com

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms). It’s also concerning. 1/

Isotoma's co-founder and CTO, Doug Winter, warns against getting blinded by glitz - urging us to focus on fundamentals. Learn why your software project is about much more than software... isotoma.com/the-stack/be...

This is a great read. About a young man discovering his tech-tribe back in the 90's. www.gyford.com/phil/writing...

If you're a fan of Prime's X-Ray feature (the cast info shown when you pause) and a music lover, then you'll want to know about Spotify's latest move... tinyurl.com/y86tvdpc

Some little piggies go to market. Some little piggies stay at home. Andy Theyers helps us work out if the little piggies are buying roast beef - or going "Wee wee wee" all the way home. isotoma.com/the-stack/st...

Remember kids. A website is for life, not just for Christmas

Last month Max Verstappen secured the fastest F1 lap. And Isotoma talked about... - Status of Titanic's swimming pool - Risks of outsourcing cybersecurity functions - Unlocking the history of our homes - Pathetic motorways - Best place in Britain for quality of life isotoma.com/the-stack/se...

Just as Jaguar Land Rover resumes production line activity, it looks like Japanese drinkers may be the next to suffer. www.theregister.com/2025/09/29/a...

We love a challenge. IWSR brought us a can / bottle / barrel shaped one and we drank it up! As a global leader in market analysis for the alcohol industry, IWSR needed a user-friendly application fast enough and scalable enough to cope with dauntingly varied data sets. isotoma.com/our-work/iwsr/

Isotoma recently signed up to an EV salary sacrifice scheme, so we're always interested in new developments in the market. Kerb chargers sound like a great idea, but is it really a 'game changer' if a parking space outside your house can't be guaranteed? www.bbc.com/news/article...

Are you and your LLM friend on a one-way ticket to Lazy Town? Never one to shy away from a chinwag, Andy Theyers had a chat with his bot and the results were interesting... isotoma.com/the-stack/ma...

We all dodged a bullet https://xeiaso.net/notes/2025/we-dodged-a-bullet/

First there was phishing, then quishing; now we need to be on the look out for splitting and nesting. Beware, the once helpful QR code has gone rogue. www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/hackers...

Ever wondered what kind of life your 13th century self would have lived? Ponder no more. Now you can use The National Archives currency converter to work out how many squirrel skins your peasants wage would afford you. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/currency-con...

Last month at Isotoma HQ we battened down the hatches, watched The World Humanoid Robot Games and chatted about... - AI cheatsheet - Are we evolving into anteaters? - Trump's internet 'kill switch' - Unknown origin of Elara Voss - Margaux Blanchard's media trickery isotoma.com/the-stack/au...

The wait is almost over. Python: The Documentary premieres today. Will you be watching it?... Watch the trailer here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqBq...

We love a stat at Isotoma HQ. We also love animals. So the annual London Zoo weigh-in is a true delight. Polly the giant Galapagos tortoise stole the show earlier with a scale wobble. Join the live feed here for the latest action: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cz...

Loving the em/en dash discourse. Work with Isotoma, we've been caring about this stuff for *decades*. Yes, there is a typographic *and semantic* distinction between en dash, em dash, hyphen, and minus sign. Come fight us if you think different!

Bids at the ready. Some absolute corkers in this WHSmith archive auction. timed.chorleys.com/auctions/937... What would you like the hammer to close on?

Last month's Isotoma water cooler chat: - The Jock-Nerd / Prep-Goth test - A love for owls via subliminal learning - Wheels fall off transport company thanks to weak password - Self-driving fleet of Lego trains - Lawsuit reveals service desk gave out passwords isotoma.com/the-stack/ju...

Great from @ftrain.bsky.social as always: "AI is [...] a technology that promises to bring order, perhaps “total” order [...]. But everything around it is incredibly messy, the absolute opposite of what the tech industry says it is like"

Do you need a friend? Question is, does anyone need a friend like this? friend.com

This is fascinating, and well worth a read right through. We're yet to come to a clear picture of the impact of AI tools ourselves - perhaps we should be asking the question more formally?

The month of June was England's warmest since records began in 1884. The world also experienced the largest data breach in history. At Isotoma HQ, we wished our aircon was as efficient as our cyber security, and distracted ourselves with these Slack channel stories: isotoma.com/the-stack/ju...

The vet med team at University of Glasgow will be presenting a paper about our curriculum mapping tool, Sofia, at the 2025 Veterinary Education Symposium next month. Great to see stories of Sofia out in the wild! virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/74477/...

Remember the heady days of 2024? A time before the words 'vibe' and 'coding' were used together. #vibecoding - Love it. Bring on the vibe! - Loathe it. it's the new DIY. - Or just plain meh. This too shall pass. How does the term make you feel?...

On reading @mikebutcher.bsky.social 's post announcing he was parting ways with TechCrunch Doug and Andy couldn't help but give out a little sigh. Was it the loss of the society pages of Web2.0? No. It reminded them both that back in 2008 Mike and TechCrunch called them "Internet veterans".

Last month 166 million viewers watched Austria win the Eurovision Song Contest, with a tune about love. At the same time Microsoft announced that their love affair with Skype was over. Our one true love is software development, but we also quite like these stories: isotoma.com/the-stack/ma...

Co-op, M&S and Harrods are the latest high profile companies to suffer cyber attacks. Ian Stuart, CEO of HSBC UK, comments on the increased severity and frequency, stating that it is now a case of when, not if, businesses will be targeted: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Why do we do comprehensive threat modelling? For exactly this reason... www.theregister.com/2025/05/14/r...

We've had Horrible Histories and Horrible Science. Now The Economist brings you Horrible IT Projects. Or more accurately, why so many go so horribly wrong. www.economist.com/business/202...

April saw the passing of Pope Francis, Trump's tariff war, celebrity space exploration, and biotech boffins reanimating dire wolves. At Isotoma HQ, with full gravity and no office wolves to contend with, our Slack channel featured: isotoma.com/the-stack/ap...

Has the warmer weather inspired you to start a holiday reading list? Well, if you're more of a 'paper' than 'paperback' person then @terriblesoftware.org has just the thing: The 7 Most Influential Papers in Computer Science History terriblesoftware.org/2025/01/22/t...

Timesheets are generally regarded as a necessary evil. It's a while since we first shared our thoughts on the dastardly time-tally, but the sentiment still holds true. Do you accurately allocate or wing it? isotoma.com/the-stack/ti...

March saw Charli XCX dominate the Brit Awards. The Anora love story was triumphant at the 97th Academy Awards. And the 'Best Ever Accidental Group Chat Addition' award was handed to the US government. Meanwhile at Isotoma HQ we were chatting about: isotoma.com/the-stack/ma...