Happy New Year! 🎉

Merry Christmas! 🎄⭐

NEW VIDEO: Setting up /dev/push on Hetzner - a really simple open source alternative to the likes of Vercel. Worth paying attention to if you're a Pythonista. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYbX...

Wouldn't it be great if all development problems were framed as bite-sized advent of code style puzzles?

"All I Want For Christmas is ...." www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KvW...

Discovered all the extra campaigns I paid for in this box set back in 2017 expired ages ago as they're tied to a download code. It's weird even physical copies expire these days.

This DeskPi T0 Mini Rack is 30% off at moment in the UK. Well reviewed - great option if you have a small Homelab you want to house. Lots of others on offer too: amzn.to/3Ym06Wh (aff link)

Added a new free tier to despeech.com letting you get a key and try out transcription API for nothing. Upgrade if you like it, forget it if you don't.

Awake to Google Cloud shutting down my account due to invalid payment info. Weird, haven't had problems elsewhere. On logging in it turns out they just wanted me to verify my card with a £0.00 payment. Maybe just ask for that? 🤷

Any framework owners out there want to pitch me suggestions on a distro for my laptop? I've mostly stuck with Ubuntu this far but would be up to try out something more spicy.

Hey - quick reminder I'm looking for new contract work! If you or anyone you know has a need for a developer with a wealth of experience across the entire application stack using Python, JS/TS and Docker then please get in touch. You can read more at niftydigits.com

Nice little vid on Sebastián Ramirez and FastAPI. Thanks to Cult Repo for all the great vids recently for Pythonistas! ❤️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpR8...

Just used claude to pinpoint a fairly gnarly db migration on one of the apps on my servers. Took a while but got a fix deployed that I wouldn't have found working alone.

Just killed my final server over at digitalocean. It's been running there for over 5 years. Now running most stuff on Hetzner.

I'm a simple man. Being able to control my Christmas tree lights from my phone brings me joy.

Cloudflare is down again! Seeing 500's everywhere today.

Sad to hear Micron are killing Crucial to focus on AI. I've used them in most of my PC builds over the years. I can only see RAM getting more expensive in the coming months: arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

i’m setting you free. i’m releasing you from the discourse

tfw you have to file a bug report in your api key provider before fixing the bug in your own code.

All my projects are 30% off for Black Friday. Includes "Side Projects Making $$$+". Use code BF2025. A complete collection detailing every side project making real money posted to Hacker News threads. Learn from those making real money on the side. niftydigits.gumroad.com/l/side-proje...

Happy Advent of Code day! Starting this year there are 12 days of puzzles, ending on December 12th. Thank you @was.tl adventofcode.com

Thank you YouTube algorithm for this mad suggestion: youtu.be/g51bxcY0CP8?...

Fun little penguin game for you from @vole.wtf vole.wtf/penga/

Every store hosted on teemill is having a 10% off and free uk delivery sale at the moment using code TAKE10. Sustainably made 100% organic cotton shirts from lots of great charities and artists. Some favs: nwtshop.org.uk merch.field-studies-council.org royentsoc.shop badger-trust.teemill.com

Well this is awesome - Alastair Roberts made a child friendly synth for his daughter: bitsnpieces.dev/posts/a-synt...

Been doing this for a bunch of setups on hetzner I've hand rolled in the past. Today was for ghost. Now can spin up a working ghost instance on a custom server with two commands.

Flask is the best April fools day gag ever made by a developer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXJw...

Once you need a machine configuration more than once, you should get it into code. Whatever that looks like. Configuring machines via a UI is for n00bs.

Went to go out for a bike ride. Fell off my mtb before I'd even left the street. Now I feel stupid and have very hurty wrists which will be fun for typing this week 😢

Laughing at some mock testimonials I put together for my company ages years ago:

Discovered myself adorning the Rapidweaver site today talking about elements last year....which I've never used 😀

Just a little heads up this weekend that my products are all 30% off with code BF2025. 🙏

I hear lots of talk on using Hetzner and Vercel. Anyone else got other hosting providers they prefer?

Your half-brained business idea probably isn't that bad: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

All my projects are 30% off for Black Friday. Includes "Django daisyUI Starter Kit". Use code BF2025. Preconfigured with a bunch of essentials that will save you hours of work when launching your next big idea! polar.sh/niftydigits/...

All my projects are 30% off for Black Friday. Includes "Side Projects Making $$$+". Use code BF2025. A complete collection detailing every side project making real money posted to Hacker News threads. Learn from those making real money on the side. niftydigits.gumroad.com/l/side-proje...

I've never understood why when writing a article on a ui or theme, you wouldn't at least take a screenshot or public url to show the final result. I don't want to have to npm install a load of stuff only to find out it looks pap.

I love the fact that I built despeech.com as an API before anything else. It meant adding a quickstart was simple and now customers don't need to know how to make HTTP requests to use it.

TIL about Thermify, who use hundreds of @raspberrypi.com compute modules to heat peoples homes and power cloud compute. Currently on trial here in the UK. www.theregister.com/2025/10/03/t...

Family movie time. Kids are finally watching the last two Potter movies. Obligatory DnB before: youtu.be/R_NtokmVAgw?...

Well played dbrand. www.theverge.com/news/819863/...

Oh my, this gem just got surfaced in plexamp: music.ianwootten.co.uk/albums/336

Big bundle of O'Reilly Data Engineering books over at Humble at the moment. www.humblebundle.com/books/data-e...

When your launch doesn't go as planned: www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

Oh my, this looks awesome. Linux gaming in the living room, on your face and in your hand. youtu.be/JhTvaRogQp8?...

Educators! Who's doing Black Friday stuff? I like to collate a list of links for @piccalil.li to make sure everyone gets a boost so if you know what your deals are, wanna let me know in advance? Hit me up: swop.link/andy (we know ours if anyone is doing the same too)

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lol. use uk enlish

Reminder: If you have a pension, you're likely paying for Elon's crazy pay package: www.nytimes.com/shared/comme...