One of my favourite talks to have seen in person just got published: youtube.com/watch?v=sIZU... go check out Walter's brilliant presentation!

The attack surface expands considerably when relaying data through a plant pot. And that bird is definitely up to something. arxiv.org/html/2510.07...

The deeper I go with plugin architectures, the more I realise that the Dunning-Kruger graph for linking is actually a sin wave.

I’m very sad to report the passing of Rainer Grimm. I can’t possibly say how great a contribution he made to the C++ community; fortunately, his blog can. www.modernescpp.com/index.php/my...

My kingdom for more monitors

Spent the evening resurrecting my old C++ build system Nozzle (written in Nix, but you define libraries and builds from source files like in Bazel). It works very nicely. Would be interesting to see if I could add support for rust too.

GitHub is moving at 0.964c relative to you. This is why a CI run that GitHub Actions says took 8 minutes actually felt like 30 minutes.

Hey #qec people! Do you like writing software? Do you want a #job? Come join us at #quantinuum! #quantum #quantumcomputing #jobad jobs.eu.lever.co/quantinuum/d...

Very cool talk (about very hot silicon). youtu.be/MkbgZMCTUyU

Hear me out though

Just one more domain bro it's a cool name bro you're gonna have a blog bro and actually post more than once a year bro I promise bro

I don't know what the default Bluesky Discover feed is based on, but it was the worst part about coming to this platform. Just found skyfeed's Discover feed which is based on likes and is far more relevant to me. With that and a huge list of muted words and accounts, bluesky is kind of alright.

I've just invented the words emulatorics and emulatician, and I'm absolutely going to use them for anything emulator related as often as possible.

It is now officially Aran sweater weather. Just thought you should know.

Went to see a one-man (and 10 ironing board) show called The Ironing Board Man tonight. Man meets ironing board, they marry, man loses ironing board, man regains ironing board, they have kids, ironing board gets shot, man seeks revenge. It was hilarious. Looked like a hell of an effort too.

I have a pi cluster microk8s for things like the family photo album, fileshare, etc. But it keeps crashing out and I've basically abandoned it. I think immich is too much for them. Today I had a revelation that I have an old Alienware laptop that I could totally repurpose as a node. Thoughts?

Powys Castle - making the most of a surprisingly beautiful Sunday afternoon after a stormy Saturday.

This is today: rsgb.org/main/coding-... Amateur Radio is a great entrypoint to technology. It teaches electronics, physics, engineering, programming, all in a fun and addictive way. It's a lifelong hobby of collaborative learning. I can't wait to introduce it to my kids when they're old enough.

From now on, whenever anyone asks me what I do for a living, this will be my answer. youtu.be/yGAZHJkinPE

Just glad his name isn't Rob or Roger.

I have spent years actively maintaining a productive environment, with everything "just so" so I can zone out from my physical being and mentally teleport to a realm of code. I cannot express the level to which my new quiet PC fans are messing with my vibe. I feels like I'm at altitude.

Hot chocolate weather is early this year.

My dev rig is still going strong after 8 years, though the only thing that is the same inside the chassis is the motherboard, the CPU (Threadripper 1950x, still 💯), and, until today, the fans. Replaced them with thermalright 140mm fans, cheap as chips. They're so quiet it's insane.

Me before being a parent: this is obviously a dumb rule. Me, a parent of a 4yo and a 1yo: this is obviously a good rule.

ChatGPT on Quantum Error Correction, Eastin-Knill, and some challenges associated with scale. I lol'd.

My spaniel is a dog of little brain but of great nose. She lost her ball in the garden, and she opted for a random walk: darting in every direction until she finds it by chance. She was running around like this for 20 minutes, no luck. I turned the outside lights off. She found it in 2 minutes.

An early September Sunday has no right to be this drab.

Always remember to provide adequate cooling for your CPU

I'm at IEEE Quantum Week. Talk to me about GuppyLang, QIR, and quantum programming languages & compilers in general. #IEEEQuantumWeek

Nobody: Absolutely nobody: Me: Do you have a moment to speak about our lord and saviour Dwarf Metal?

I just don't understand how Apple Music's recommendation algorithm is so bad, considering Apple's reputation for, you know, being pretty good with music.

Just hit escape

If at first you don't succeed, you're not a budgie.

This place really needs a way to mute reposts from various accounts. You know, the ones that post great content about [cool topic you're interested in], but repost [weird topic that you're highly disinterested in] at 50x the rate.

I'm not sure if I'm impressed or disgusted.

I cannot tell you how disappointed I am that this wasn't a printer. I mean, an AI rig is cool, don't get me wrong, but I can get GPU compute easily. What I can't do is get a printer to work.

Took longer than most, but I've hit my limit with Twitter for the time being. Here for some good, solid, hardcore dev content.