Started reading Rivers of London based on recommendations, but from the start I could hear the narrator as Millie Bobby Brown, and given that the only woman in the story so far has been described as an object of desire, I'm going to ignore that Millie is now called "Peter".

Oh no, just stumbled across a photo from July 2010 where I'm standing in front of a carefully stacked pile of Introducing HTML5 books hiding my modesty whilst I stand butt naked with a "cheeky" pose. I remember with fondness making business cards with that on one side, and the other "Can't unsee" 😂

Throw back Tuesday (…that's not it, is it?). 20 years ago in August I published this and watched it climb the "top" stories (back when I cared). I remember being in our old flat, and being on the IRC with Resig and few others and feeling part of an exciting budding jQuery community.

Here's my (quite long) post about what happened to JS Bin last week. It's more anecdotal than technical (though there's some useful tips in there, certainly for Future Me): remysharp.com/2026/02/02/j...

Here's my (quite long) post about what happened to JS Bin last week. It's more anecdotal than technical (though there's some useful tips in there, certainly for Future Me): remysharp.com/2026/02/02/j...

Finished the 3,410 word blog post about jsbin being down. I'm super sure you're all going to read every stupid word I wrote. Publishing tomorrow. It starts with: "I was asked: what went wrong? Fucking, everything."

I've been slowly restoring access to our old iPhoto collection from 2001 to 2018 (600GB - only up to 2006 so far), but good lord, skimming over old photos of me in my mid/late-20s is horrifying. WHY IS MY FACE ALWAYS LIKE THAT?!

For years I've been paying a Google business subscription for 2 people (by years, I mean over a decade) - and it turns out we had 4TB of storage (not using) and full "pro" Gemini, also not using. Cripes I'm good at leaking money like the Titanic. I didn't see it creeping up in price to £28 month 🤦

@markboulton.co.uk (not sure Brian's here or not) - I have someone on github ask what the licence is for the font that was generated for the WWW30 project - I wasn't actually sure… github.com/remy/nexus/i...

Oh no 🙁 (also, terrible URL): www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja... /via Jan

I bought two 8TB HDD (two downsides: the sounds - like a gurgling tap and the power consumption, didn't realise - so using scheduled shutdown), but in RAID 1 - I'm now paranoid that it's not enough storage! I've got 700gb of "old photos" and a google takeout of 600gb *zipped* takeout…

It was TLS 1.3 that was the final hurdle. Cripes that was hard to spot. jsbin survives another day.

I have accidentally done a Dry January (which…written down reads as something else entirely). Anyway, it was by accident. I don't really prescribe to mass group things like this, but I'm just slack and forgot to drink. After the jsbin debacle, I'm very much looking forward to breaking it next week.

A hackathon for vibecoders

Apple is real quick to remove tracking apps warning people ICE is around but still hasn’t removed CSAM app X. Just in case you need more evidence that Big Tech fully supports this regime.

jsbin: I might actually be out of the woods. It's nearly midnight and I'm getting increasingly older by the second. I'm worried I'm celebrating too early, but I think sensible thing to do is get rest, check in the morning. If successful: write it up.

My blog's traffic. I find it *really* hard to believe this is real traffic and not either: a service that's gone utterly wrong, or mass scraping of content. And then (in white) jsbin's network traffic - explains the firefighting battle I'm losing. Explanations in the alt text.

If anyone is wondering about jsbin, here's the current status: github.com/jsbin/jsbin/...

Reading a very brief headline about Sex Matters, and how they're against "trans ideology", a term, for what I can gather, is used almost exclusively by anti-trans entities (also know as "fucking ugly human beings, right down to their core"). I'm always lost for words with these evil fucks.

Anyone here using immich (for an alternative to Google photos)? I'm trying to get suggestions for the machine and in particular, the type of drives, to run it on. I've got at least 1.5TB of images (plus would need a backup strategy)

Fixing a Gameboy cart. It's never a simple task! (But a fun one instead)

Watched 28 Years: Bone Temple (after watching part 1 last night!). Both were good. Makes me want to watch 28 days later again too. Part 1 probably more jumps, part 2 has more brain engagement.

This weekend is our family watching the Traitor's finalle and watching the 2nd part of Wicked (which I couldn't manage to sort out for the cinema). A *lot* of TV…

Definitely find it weird that neverssl.com now redirects to an SSL host (a site I would use to test both captive portals, but also if my connection is good - since service workers tend to trick me!). I'm sure I've got one of my own servers somewhere that I could host my own for proper sanity check.

I really don't think I'm comfortable with web sites that are majority vibe coded. I think should live squarely in personal tools and prototypes, but once you offer a sign in system, people will use it. If the effort to create the tool is minimal, how much effort will they spend supporting it?

Yay. Just fell UP the stairs like a chump. Now doing old man with ice pack on his leg, and doing a Peter Griffin www.youtube.com/watch?v=ix1J...

Completely removed comments from my blog. This makes me super sad - partly because of all the exchanges we've had there (okay, not *you*, but other lovely people, yes, you're still lovely, narcissist). I guess you can rely 100% on services getting swallowed into the void. Adios comment,io 🧊🚢🔥

I haven’t had a chance to do too much digging but maybe this env var exists and you can do an if switch in your zshrc [[ "$TERM_PROGRAM" == "vscode" ]] code.visualstudio.com/docs/termina...

Anyone know if it's possible to use a different (zsh) prompt (as in, how it's formatted), when the terminal is openned from inside of VS Code when compared to a vanilla terminal?

@mikehall314.bsky.social wondering if you ever covered this in @skepticswithak.org - www.thehum.info

I seem to be stuck in Network Purgatory - with no VPN, my desktop does ~80Mbps, through a VPN I get 500Mbps. My phone, on the same network, no VPN, gets 1.1Tbps. Something's caping my desktop, but I can't find what 😩

Games I've bought and never played (because I imagine I've got time but in reality I don't…and I'm tired): Last Campfire It Takes Two Eastward Ibb & Obb Metroid Prime (remastered) Pokémon Legends: Arceus Luigi's Mansion 3 This bums me out 🤦

Home Assistant buddies: does anyone have a good android theme that works in light mode/theme but doesn't hide the time? github.com/home-assista...

Created and pushed my first PR to the Home Assistant project. Though, it's a single line and fixes a teeny tiny UI bug in dark mode.

Making my 222 file pull request a draft. Not looking forward to review those files … (massive eslint change plus upgrading deps and fixing all the things so that it can run like nothing changed)

I swear this is the last time I buy the wrong thing from amazon (I've really managed to get my amazon'ing right down in recent years). But fuck me, I searched for "18500 battery holder" and I didn't realise that it just slipped in results for 18650 battery holder. Totally. Different. Size.

This should break your heart, make you want to smash things and shout at our utterly disgusting leaders who allow this to happen.

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1. AI is coming for everyone's jobs because AGI is right around the corner. 2. AI can't handle a checkout flow so every e-commerce site needs to add a special API just for AI to use. These two things can't both be true. If 1 is true, why waste time on 2? searchengineland.com/google-unive...

Really short list of things that I learnt/realised recently that let me delete bytes (web stuff): remysharp.com/2026/01/13/b...

Weekend full of Neil Diamond songs, and to my shock, this was me: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VozE... - genuinely 🤦

How to get all the RSS feeds from @bell.bz's query. I've put the actual code in the alt text. There's one part of me that says that's accessible, whilst my gut says a screenreader announcing all this code is fairly useless (but then it can be copied?).

The little (hacked) handheld always surprises me. It holds its charge especially well - I've not charged it in 6 months and still boots (which I don't tend to expect from modern hardware).

Just an aging JavaScript developer attempting to learn things (I'm learning, whether I'm succeeding is entirely a flip of a coin, that's super glued to the floor)

Love me some Home Assistant, but I've never had any success, at all, with Music Assistant. On paper it is the perfect product, but my experience is horrible. Often I can't even play the song, then if I skip, it tries to play multiple songs at the same time (as if zipped together) 😔. One day…

Very much enjoyed Song Sung Blue. Properly pulls at the heart strings too.

Me: `tsx script.ts` because apparently tsx just works. TSX: node:internal/modules/run_main:122 triggerUncaughtException( ^ Error: Transform failed with 2 errors: blah blah blah name: 'TransformError' } Me: deno, please just run this and save me from typescript. Deno: 🦕💪 Win.

VS Code added some kind of weird autocomplete to the terminal panel and it's been constantly getting in my way. Only today did it piss me off enough for me to finally work out how to boot it out of my way.

Who do I know that's going to @beyondtellerrand.com Dusseldorf? Only because I'm shy AF (yes…) and I prefer to be a Klingon if possible.

TIL the Logi+ MX mouse (thing whatever it's called), allows me to use the horizontal scroller as a button too. I didn't know it was touch sensitive. I've got it set to "touch hold" to toggle the zoom on a window.