A final sad farewell to my last three broken Psion 3a’s. Psionara, one might say!

What strange alchemy is this? Water, from the sky?!

This just arrived by email in reply to an email I sent to a hotel. I have *SO* many questions! [though mainly related to SMTP routing, admittedly!] Hi Andy, May we have your email address please? If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us. Warmest Regards, Customer Relations

Words fail me...

"You’ve successfully verified that you are an adult." - Bluesky Social Team Phew - that was a close call, ROFL!

Four, count them, four grocers’ apostrophe’s ! I can hardly bear to sit here!

My pet goose grew too fat to squeeze through his #Omlet chicken house door. So I hacked two of them together and NTP-synched the time clocks (and added a 3D printed rain guard) :)

It has emerged that Chris de Burgh was due to play this year's Isle of Wight festival, but he apparently cancelled following a contractual dispute with Red Funnel Ferries :/

We've all been there... (if you live on the Isle of Wight, anyway) Can't help thinking there should be a space.

🎶If you’re going to Isle of Wigh-i-t, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair!🎶 Not sure if this is for the festival, or a wedding @redfunnelferry.bsky.social ?!

I don’t make a habit of taking photos of, or posting online, toilet signs, but look at the drop shadow on this one! I can feel a whole range of trompe l’oeil signage coming on…

Ohhh, THAT's how you use a door wedge! 😂 Wincing at the thought of the pressure that's putting on those poor old hinges!

Pinch and a punch for the first of the month... and time to rearrange the tiles... ;)

I don't think #BT are over here yet from the other place, but I see their SMS parsing regex script hasn't improved in the era of LLMs and NLU chatbots! This is the same advanced text parser that only responds to "ADVISOR" (in all caps), if you need to get a person to phone you. <face palm>

lol, I was just looking at the onboard catering web site for my train to Newcastle for #ThinkingDigital, and it says “we use optional cookies”. Nomnom, I’ll have some of those !

I thought my #Pi5 deserved a decent case … so now it’s got one. Thanks to @pimoroni.com !

Parliament being recalled to discuss The Scunthorpe Problem ?!

Last time I touched a canister of C4, I was on a US Army range in Virginia, and there was a car (briefly) involved... but that's *definitely* another story ;). Today they were just handing them out at Waterloo station! Looks just as dangerous, though - I think I'll resist the urge to open it.

@cheerlights.bsky.social green

I know one swallow doesn’t make a summer, and all that, but today was the first green shoots of… negative electricity bills :) That means @octopus.energy paid me today! #solarPV

@epcostello.com hey, Ed!

Katie Adler showing her true colours there on BBC News! Clear support for Le Pen

I don't know how excited you get about Voluntary Carbon Markets, carbon credits, and that kind of thing, but, actually, there's some cool tech behind them... quellia.pt/en/quellia-l...

@cheerlights.bsky.social green

Does Bsky do that thing that Twitter did, where you have to dot-at accounts when the tweet starts with the account name, so it’s not treated as a reply?

. @redfunnelferry.bsky.social once again proving that you can’t run a two boat service with only two boats. What a shambles, again.

Smiley sunny faces on the weather machine - that’s what we like to see :) Good for the PV! @pavsmith.bsky.social

Lovely stuff.

#JeremyBowen looks absolutely frozen! #BBCnews

Can’t help thinking this is some kind of elaborate allegory for current world events :/

First-World problems: the API token has expired on my PV inverter, so the funky display of battery level I built has stopped working!

@egglestn.bsky.social Hello :)

I’m sorry, “[email protected]” I just don’t believe you are from #RoyalMail, sorting out delivery of a parcel for me.

Looks like it’s a day of two halves! #RainsComin. / @pavsmith.bsky.social

Super cool that #HMRC automatically picks up P60 and P11D data from employer now. TaxReturn.done() :)

@robeeshepherd.bsky.social you only just now followed me! ;)

The grand finale of #makeradvent is here! Today I hack a ZX Spectrum to output composite video and for it to be powered via USB C! Many thanks to everyone for watching, it has been a fun series. https://youtu.be/kFnX31GR3uI Happy Holidays!

Well, it's ONE of the things we've been doing, but a very fun one. I hope folks will take the opportunity to explore more about Qiskit -and- 3D printing through this! #qiskit

Announcing what we've been doing this Summer at IBM: a 3D- printed model of the #IBM #Quantum System Two, with a built-in #RaspberryPi running #qiskit quantum software. Major kudos to @ericjenney.bsky.social and @janlahmann.bsky.social :) Still in beta, but... github.com/JanLahmann/R...

If you're in the Hampshire area, I'll be talking about Mayflower Autonomous Ship at the Hampshire AI Launch Event on 28-Jan... be there or be the quadrilateral of your choice! Tix here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hampshire-...

I found a good use for the astonishingly small (1” square) WaveShare ESP32 matrix device from @thepihut.bsky.social . Showing a visual % cloud cover forecast for a specific place/time (for… reasons). Updates every 15 mins with data from #TheWeatherCompany. /@pavsmith.bsky.social

@richardosman1.bsky.social you missed a golden opportunity to say “Jane Fondue workout” at the end of #HoG last night!

Remember, #cheerlights is not just for Christmas but now it's December, you should be digging out your Neopixels skeeting colours :) Rosy Red please

Here's a thought experiment as a Gist. In this "JSON-CS (Compact Schema)" draft I ran the chainsaw through JSON Schema and cut most of the complexity out and then added a few useful and sorely missing features including i18n, numerical units, and large numbers. gist.github.com/clemensv/a48...

Don’t forget your barcode! My perfectly scannable #parkrun t-shirts are getting popular! Well, 2 so far, lol! DM me if you’d like to join the new fashion!

#cheerlights red

#cheerlights green

wow, just catching up with following back all the people who have followed me. I'll see if I can pay more attention to this one, then, as well as Masto. Hmm - two social networks has never worked at all well for me :/

I enjoyed listening to overcast.fm/+ABFINY2ssjw last night: @andysc.bsky.social and @clemens.vasters.com discussing the history & evolution of messaging (with a brief nod towards streaming and #Kafka). Always a pleasure to listen to these two pioneers in this space!

@nothans.bsky.social <waves> :)