Behold! Long hot water bottle!

There goes another local shoe. #fox

Cursed bug of the day: Opening $HOME as a folder in our browser-based version of VScode creates a new state file with a UUID for a name every minute, until things start timing out because listing folder full of state files takes too long.

I forget who put me onto it, but https://immichkiosk.app/ is a great way to turn an old tablet into a digital photo frame.

A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages James Iry; Thursday, May 7, 2009 1801 - Joseph Marie Jacquard uses punch cards to instruct a loom to weave "hello, world" into a tapestry. Redditers of the time are not impressed due to the lack of tail call recursion […]

My neighbour has had a letter from an old resident, asking if anyone remembers them. If nothing else, it feels like a fun thing to do #epsom #stoneleigh #kt17

I've been playing boardgames with friends. I don't think I've ever eaten so many cheese footballs.

There was talk of remaking a classic 70's album without John McVie. But it was just bassless Rumours.

Day status

Been a while since I met friends in town.

When you're still learning the trumpet. #dadjokes

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Doctors in China have used lab-grown insulin-producing cells to treat a woman with type 1 diabetes. The cells were made from her own tissue, reprogrammed into stem cells, and then grown into tiny clusters that release insulin. A year after the transplant, her blood sugar remains normal without […]

Apparently I shouldn't describe the way the dog is sleeping as like "unsettling taxidermy".

If you have a phobia of lifts, don't worry - there are steps you can take.

People talk about Home Assistant being a pile of janky crap, but today I was realising that the VM I'm running it on has outlasted several IoT companies. That's a hell of a lot more than can be said for proprietary systems where all the horror is hidden behind an API.

Pretty amazed that I successfully flashed a thing by having a pi pico emulate a serial cable, then sort of holding wires in place.

A rare interview with the creators of the always-funny, always-brilliant, and *usually*-sexy—or occasionally anti-sexy—OGLAF! Cooper has kept a low profile over the years, but is legitimately one of the very best artists in comics today. Read OGLAF if you're old enough to drive!

Wondering if a loaf of banana bread counts as my "five a day".

I've spent five minutes reconfiguring my browsers so that they render every site using the same very readable font (Atkinson Hyperlegible from the Braille Institute - https://www.brailleinstitute.org/freefont/) and it's amazing how much better my middle-aged person's eyes seem to find it. #font

Unexpectedly pizza! Now I just need a nice pint of stout to really write off the afternoon.

A mate sent me these computer Scout badges. Based on the QR code, I suspect they may not be based on an official Scouts badge.

Noodle is looking very elegant this morning #dogs

Two young mathematicians just broke a 330-year-old geometry riddle. Jakob Steininger, 30, and Sergey Yurkevich, 29, friends since maths-Olympiad days, have discovered the first known shape that can’t pass through a copy of itself, overturning a belief dating back to Prince Rupert’s 17th-century […]

Somehow, "learn how to mess with Homebrew builds" ended up being something I did years after I stopped using a Mac.

Tiny chip restores reading vision for people with macular degeneration. A pinhead-sized retinal implant paired with camera glasses helped over 80% of trial participants across five countries with age-related macular degeneration regain central vision. Patients improved by about 25 letters (five […]

I've had a bit of a project to move my "important" messages to something I can use cross platform. This week, I've got enough of it there that any DM via imessage/signal/whatapp reaches whatever device I want. It's so _freeing_. I really love not needing to know where "my phone" is - I can use […]

Siblings #dogs

PSA: Harp covers look like giant oven mitts. 🪉

Why won’t people talk about slow ghosts? Because they’re the last taboo.

They asked me if I had any specific criticisms of the Ghost Train. I said nothing leapt out at me.

I just got a timeout from the PSF's donation page. Wonder if that might be a sign there's a couple of other people who also don't want them to be out of pocket for taking a principled stance ?

I spent most of today watching the Darling Buds of May, and it was exactly what I needed. Uncomplicated people having a lovely time, while all very much loving each-other.

It's amazing how capitalism motivates people. For example, without the relentless worsening of things to extract more profit, I'd never have bothered building a media server. And if it weren't for all the ramming of AI into stuff, I'd not have got around to learning about <thing>-matrix bridges […]

Roo reaction [description: kangaroo checking out a Halloween display is scared by the cackling skeleton -- you can see the roo running away far down the street] #kangaroo #roo #animal #halloween #humor #humour

You will certainly regret 16Ω

Soon: a night of music the proper way - where the band and venue are both small enough you meet the drummer selling merch. #oldgitpunk

Good morning

from a recent hike, SOOOO MANY diverse things in the fungal family, so I'll probably be doling them out for awhile 😅 first batch, for #FungiFriday #fungi #mushrooms #mushroom #mushtodon #Mosstodon #lichensubscribe #naturephotography #insects #insect #forest #forestfriday

Was surprised how good the customer service @sas got from https://pingwe.com/ was. Activating didn't go perfectly, so they dropped into a whatsapp chat - and offered a call to walk her through things in case of difficulty. Feels pretty solid for a cheap, one-off travel SIM.

"2 cloves of garlic", what the actual fuck? This recipe thinks I'm doing homeopathy.

My wife Karen took much better Before and After photos

🦉 PSA - with earthstream.social disappearing I almost lost Owls in Towels, but they are reconstituted at @owlsintowels Recommend #fediadmins / #mastoadmins purge the earthstream.social domain, no self-destruct was sent as far as I can tell. https://fedi.wrm.sr/instance/earthstream.social

Too derpy to understand gravity. #dog #dogs #dogstodon #dogsofmastodon #humor #humour

Good morning. Heading into the week like

Presented without context.

I think I just passed where Trump plans to dump the bodies.

Another good sign about the state of tech is, I've started mirroring github repos to my own forgejo instance if I want to look at more than one file. Somehow, doing the mirror to a tiny VM is still faster than using upstream to flick casually through a repo.

Normal brain: I use the same password everywhere: Big brain: I use a password manager. Galaxy brain: All my self-hosted things have SSO.