"Built For Developers" = "Built For Me, and you are wrong".

Just wait until Andy Burnham realises he isn't the media's darling, he's a token the establishment can beat Labour with, they'll turn on him too. Tokens get burnt.

Nobody told me being in your 30s is just collecting jars of various sizes... Love a good Kilner jar...

I always wrap symbols in square brackets when writing Go doc comments. Most IDEs can use them to jump around source, and a previous job had a neat documentation generator that used them across multiple languages. But that probably helps LLMs, so I should stop... 😅

Decided to customize my ZSH with a custom theme. - environment name, coloured for local, non-prod and prod. - put prompt on a new line, including the time. - colour prompt green/red based on exit status. - git branch name, colouredr green/yellow based on changes. (github.com/jamescun/dot...)

Unless the UK rolls out an internet allowlist (something only North Korea has), a social media ban is entirely unworkable. Kids will find workarounds. New networks will sprout up, and 10 more when you shut one done. More nanny state and identity hoovering shite.

Just HTML, CSS and Forms; living in the moment, no JavaScript in sight.

Idea: An IDE for Platform engineers tailored to writing YAML... 😷

Fun Fact: there have been four leaders of the Labour Party called James, and James Callaghan isn't one of them. James Keir Hardie, James Ramsay MacDonald, James Harold Wilson and James Gordon Brown. James Callaghan's first name is Leonard.

Where did all the wizards go, and where are all the mods? Where's the illicit software keys, the fight the risings costs? Isn't there a fresh torrent, with a fiery seed? Late at night, I toss and I turn and I dream of what I need...

Do we have opinions on open source licenses? i.e. i usually just release my personal stuff with MIT/BSD

Google bought YouTube twenty years ago and it's search STILL sucks.

That's insane. I pugged a microcontroller (an ESP32-S3) into my computer, was able to programme it from my browser, and now I can dick about with ESPHome over the network. 🤯

Why is Malcolm Offord (Reform's Scottish Leader) wearing an empty badge on a lanyard?

If you use #golang and Firefox, I've just discovered you can create custom search engines, so I can quickly jump to package documentation, i.e. > @go codeberg.org/miekg/dns

> The Easy Answers #3: The Productivity Puzzle slowpolitics.substack.com/p/the-easy-a...

Find me on codeberg.org/jamescun

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

I really should have implemented that white paper I wrote about WebAuthN, OAuth2 and zero-knowledge proofs for online identity verification... We somehow missed the Online Safety Act coming...

Interesting #golang package for working with filesystems, started using it for testing instead of `io/fs/fstest`. github.com/spf13/afero

Do you want Metric or American?

I might have to dust off hasthegovernmentcollapsedyet.co.uk again... I can't remember where it is even hosted 😅

Be gay, do crime. Become ungovernable.

Feels clunky and bloats the repo, but started vendoring #golang modules again. While there is pinning, proxying etc; seeing a diff when upgrading modules and their dependencies is incredibly valuable, given recent supply chain shenanigans. Might experiment with making the vendor dir a submodule.

I'm going to start a political party focused on energy policy. Nobody is taking is seriously, and it's one half of the cost of living crisis and the climate crisis. Pretty sure we could lure over Ed Miliband. Who wants to join?

English/German holidaymakers need to discover nobody else in the world cares about their towels or sun loungers. If you're not there, we'll just move your towel and sit where we want. The most that has ever happened to me is being tutted at.

Do we know anybody at Apple? Can we get a “Taken All” button on this notification?

I don't approve of it, but it's better than some street tag...

I hate the emdash thing being used to spot AI… That’s how I actually write! 😂 No idea why.

Hmm... Apple and Microsoft announce they are deprecating TLS 1.1 on their online services within days of each other, I wonder if there is something we don't know about yet coming... 🤔

I don't see the point in marathons. It's the distance someone ran between Marathon and Athens before literally dying.

I don't agree with political violence, but if people keep making attempts on your life, perhaps reconsider what you are doing. Maybe you're hurting people to the point where they have nothing left to lose.

For anybody who remembers NDISwrapper, how's your back holding up? 🧓

Ooh 5-pack Buldak Carbonara for £4. Don't mind if I do!

Kemi Badenoch could shit her own pants, and she'd call for Keir Starmer to resign over it.

Kemi Badenoch: "Imagine a company where the boss makes a mistake, yet you get sacked." Ehhh... Kemi, think that one through a little bit more... 😂

Going to try out Jamie for a while. Enough people already call me it without asking 😂

Bees seem to have taken to one of the bird boxes instead of the bee bricks. Fair enough.

Being at the GP reminds you all the shit people forgot in the pandemic. Full volume loudspeaker calls, full volume videos, coughing and spluttering without a mask…

This hotel has Sky in all the rooms. I've never seen that before. Not complaining, as I don't have Sky, and I've found a channel that only plays Air Crash Investigations.

I must be coming down with something. Genuinly had the thought "Maybe XML would be better suited for this configuration file than JSON/YAML".

Farage wants the UK to join US/Israel in the war with Iran? Sure, him and his children can go first. Seriously man, get off the Trump bandwaggon, he's not going to fuck you.

Ehh... what is this on Wikipedia no context?

Iran has been "weeks away" from developing nuclear weapons for decades. More likey, Iran was "weeks away" from acquiring the Epstein files...

I don't think it is problematic to question why electoral communications need to be in any language other than English? Why are there citizens with the right to vote who cannot speak the language?

I'd been meaning to try out Gitea instead of GitHub for personal repos anyway before the whole Trump vs Europe nonsense. Pretty easy to set up, but pretty disappointed about what I'd consider insecure defaults (i.e. the Explore page not requiring auth).

A bit more painful, but I've setup a self-hosted Vaultwarden backend for Bitwarden to replace 1Password. Once I've got automated backups of that working/validated, I'll migrate everything over.

So I've migrated all my personal stuff to European equivalents. Domains, DDoS protection, servers, email.

I've finished migrating all my domains to a European registrar... now for the scary one, email... 😱 I have my own catch-all domain, so all going well, it should be seamless.

Between my railcard and delay repay, this train will cost 1/3 of the ticket price. (It should be this price anyway, but that is a different problem)