duckduckgo has a bunch of cute custom duck logos that show when you search for various video games characters. I found a bunch so far.

Just seen an ad for a 76 year long contract (!)

Software developers are amongst those with the lowest divorce rates (19%) whilst massage therapists are one of the highest (48%) according to data from the American Community Survey. Make of that what you will. flowingdata.com/2026/05/07/d...

Tonights family entertainment: Jet Li in "The One (2001)"

Good luck to offspring 1 who has their first GCSE exam this morning!

This 18 year old t-shirt, from Google Developer Day 2008 in London is older than my teenage offspring. Logos for: Android SDK - First demo in the EU (!) Google Gears - Browser plugin to use desktop features Google App Engine - Run your app on Googles infrastructure Google Maps API for Flash (!)

It's like Google specific thought "How can we make the chromebook less appealing?" googlebook.google

How do you manage email lists to prevent spam signups? Do you use a service to clean them up? Feel like all of my signups are spam these days. How on earth do spammers get round double-opt in?

So Intel have "reached a preliminary agreement" with Apple to make some of the chips that make their devices. Will be interesting to see exactly which ones since their M series chips have enjoyed so much success of late. www.wsj.com/tech/apple-i...

Amazon Prime "Air" - a great way to get paper, pens and rubber gloves delivered 🤷‍♂️: www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

Just saw a open contract for an "AI Enigneer". Presume it involves automating their job ads.

Fondly remembering voteforpolicies.org.uk - a great site that encouraged voting for polices alone, rather than party colours. Was always fun to see my breakdown!

Nothing quite beats the smell of petrichor 🌨️

Does anyone know if it will be possible to use Stripes new managed payments with @ghost.org? Seems like it would be a good fit.

288 New products and features announced at Stripe Sessions 2026. 🤯 stripe.com/blog/everyth...

You can use data to show anything, especially when you get to choose the source. Here's Labour and Plaid showing me with simple voting intention charts how they're the only party that can beat Reform in my local area for the Senedd next week.

There's nothing quite like the prospect of a child's bus not turning up to wake you up in the morning.

Github copilots move to usage-based billing isn't going to affect me all that much. To date I've only ever used it as glorified autocomplete in projects. We're going to see this across the board with AI tooling where it's costs have been absorbed by providers thus far. github.blog/news-insight...

You know you're old when the tshirt brand you put on for the day no longer has any references on the internet.

"Speed without judgement is a liability" www.forbes.com/sites/jasonw...

Can anyone recommend a decent API provider for financial data that preferably doesn't cost the earth? Been looking for one that gives etf data but no luck so far.

Just got a contract offer addressed to "Wootten" for a job as a Lead Dev in Newcastle, Wales. Good work recruiter.

@frame.work just announced the Framework 13 Pro Laptop! Lots to like: 20 hour battery Intel Core Ultra 3 LPCAMM2 memory Touchscreen Display Haptic touchpad CNC aluminum chassis frame.work/laptop13pro

Last year, I invested my company cash instead of using a savings account. Made my company twice as much. I wrote a bit about how you can do it here: www.ianwootten.co.uk/2026/04/20/i...

New (to me) album Friday: "Four Tet - There is Love in You" on an old skool physical cd.

Straight out of a Black Mirror episode. vimeo.com/1175409291

Amazon are basically bricking my current Kindle Paperwhite. From next month I won't be able to download any books onto it. Does anyone have a suggestion for ereaders that aren't Bezos based? www.wired.com/story/amazon...

Everyone is getting in on the act.

Would you trust agents to manage your investments? Public recently announced the ability to go from prompt to an agent auto trading on your behalf: public.com/ai-agents

Honestly, maybe my age but I've never worked from a coffee shop. Seems wrong to do it for an entire day. Fair play to this owner: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

The 26/27 tax year just started and a new £20k ISA allowance for UK investors. If you'd used your full allowance at the start of April each year and invested in ACWI over the last decade, you'd have a total of £382k and be £37k better off than someone who waited til the last minute each year.

Just seen a a GenAI video for a contractor's services on their website. If you're looking for work I really can't see that as leaving a great first impression to any client.

Excited to see what @frame.work is cooking up later this month: frame.work/gb/en/nextgen

Are we going to end up with more microservices because LLMs favour them? ben.page/microservices

Pasg Hapus! 🐣

Handy tip: uv supports relative dependency cooldown using --exclude-newer, meaning you can protect yourself from supply chain exploits in more recent packages. docs.astral.sh/uv/reference...

Just a reminder I'm on the lookout for contract opportunities. If you or anyone you know has a need for a developer with a wealth of experience across the entire application stack who knows how to take an idea from zero to deployed then please get in touch. Shares are appreciated! niftydigits.com

Feels like we're living through Team America World Police.

Bought my 8GB Raspberry Pi 5 back in Sept 23 for £79. Today that same Pi is £168! 😬

Pinch, punch - No returns.

Oof, it's windy out!

It's my birthday, so I got myself a present. 🎁

One of the core concerns I've heard from fellow devs about adopting Next.js is vendor lock-in, so this is welcome news: nextjs.org/blog/nextjs-...

Pydantic has so many use cases. I love that you can write a single model that can be used both for retrieving structured data and insertion into a db using sqlmodel.

Bloody hell, that's quite the TACO

This comment on a @bashbunni.dev video made me lol.

Wow. Our future looks bleak. www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3At...

Hey, everyone can live forever now by saving themselves in a SOUL.md

Just watched "Skandal!" on Netflix which is a fun watch if you like stories about dodgy fintechs getting their dues.