Our jokes, much like our hacked breadmakers, are on fire.

Nobody does a clipsreel like BBC Sport.

Also: @pimoroni.com - any chance of an Atom feed for learn.pimoroni.com? Some great content there now (waves at @biglesp.bsky.social), but too easy to miss.

Ooh, lovely sound-reactive Pico jellyfish project for #EMFCamp, by @pimoroni.com shipmates: learn.pimoroni.com/article/buil... Awesome. Looking forward to EMF when the kids are a bit older.

“Good morning. Do you want to know the football result?” “Go for it.” “England one, three to Mexico.” “Ah, shit.” “What do you mean?” “Well, that’s it then.” “?? England won. Three-two Mexico.” “That is *not* how you quote a football score.”

This is brilliantly written. Bravo! nesbitt.io/2026/06/26/i... (Assuming, of course, that it’s not a real report accidentally transferred with `scp —future`)

Housegawp: www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/8...

Watching Rivals, finally. Spotted a DigiBeta deck in the back of shot. Ruined for me now.

Claude: This timeout issue we’ve been chasing… Me: yeah? Claude: you’ve taught PHP, right? Me: yeah, we still use it for some… Claude: Whatever. You’ll never guess what the bug is. Me: Oh no. Claude: Yep. Me: No! It’s not one of _those_! Claude: it’s one of those. Me: Nooooo! empty(0) == true. FFS

As a special treat, I get to go to the supermarket for the weekly shop _with_ my kids! Happy Father’s Day.

"Hmm… I wonder what a node-based audio engine would feel like if it was driven by sensor outputs from a loose network of Micro:Bits?" [an hour passes, during which I bake a cake] "Thanks, Claude." (wasn't quite that simple, but… almost)

Alternative: crossover with Celebrity Traitors. Everyone’s playing a part, in the grammar of the show the murders are real, but one of them is playing The Doctor.

“There are literal cheers for unified window radii.” — @reckless.bsky.social

The Dragons' Den dragons haven't a clue what a good invention is. They even turned down my talking measuring jug. That speaks volumes.

From the late 90s to the mid 10s there was a sofabed in Stoke Newington that was occupied constantly by a rotating roster of MacBook-wielding freeloaders. We all watched a kid called Tycho grow up. He was cool. His band just dropped a single. It's great, & he's still cool. youtu.be/Hazbekrofsc?...

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m... There’s an obvious use case of confession-as-a-service, where Claude watches what you’re doing and tallies indulgences. Pay through your Anthropic account, they take a cut, pass the rest to the Vatican.

This looks to me to be full of excellent advice. Universities differ, so this perspective from multiple admissions tutors is valuable. Thanks for doing the legwork, Joe!

Oof.

Been doing some image-to-text analysis recently, with proprietary datasets I’m not allowed to upload to a cloud service. So, running local models. In most cases I’m finding a 7b-parameter model is adequate. While I can run a 32b model on my hardware, the execution time difference isn’t worth it.

All these breathless newspaper articles about how ‘the Spitfire’ ‘could return to production,’ and (a) they all seem to have the same wording. So: regurgitated press release, huh? Also (b) not a single reporter thought to ask what engine they had in mind? That’s… that’s just a little important, no?

Fun fact: I used to be able to judge the refresh rate of CRTs by humming while looking at them, and judging the beat frequency between the refresh ripple and my vibrating eyeball. Got quite good at it; was an occasionally useful skill in TV studios. And yes, 75Hz+ FTW.

For a moment there, I feared my Swedish bookshelves weren’t going to fit in my Swedish estate car. This was disquieting. Turns out they do fit, if one foregoes space for one’s Swedish wife. Luckily, my wife is Welsh.

Such mixed feelings about this. Moof! 512pixels.net/2026/05/clar...

This is fascinating. Do read the notes at the link.

Important nuances here which I suspect will be absent from much of the commentary we'll see in coming hours/days/weeks.

Me, several years ago: “PlatformIO looks complicated, I’ll stick with the Arduino IDE.” Me, today: “I’m an idiot.”

Played Cora Quest with the kids + guests this afternoon. Took flippin’ ages, but we had a blast. www.coraquest.com

An irregular reminder that if you're near Whitley Bay on 6th or 7th of June then you can get to join in an attempt to make the world's largest aperiodic* tiling on the beach beachspectres.com (* it's a maths thing, check out the link or look at the picture and imagine that across a big beach)

Best thread I’ve read on this - read til the end.

Sometimes you find yourself saying things as a parent and think, “How am I this wise? Where did that come from?” Bandit. You’re just channeling Bandit.

Is it a sign of age that I just got excited by a new antihistamine on the shelves of Sainsbury’s?

“How’s the autocategorisation working out?” “Close enough.”

Taco Wednesday, huh? I’ll take it.

For me, #CITV died 22 years ago, when a ~£20m production slate was axed - for the previous few years I’d been responsible for about 5% of that spend. But still, this hits hard: www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

1/7 I’m a Green Party councillor for City Ward #Sheffield. It’s a densely populated urban ward. I’m going to talk about digital advertising screens, which doesn’t sound exciting, but please bear with me. I want to explain why I spend time objecting to so many of these. Since 2023, I’ve …

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

This is why they used Newtons in For All Mankind.

Lots of changes at work - colleagues of ten+ years moving on, that sort of thing. Freakish start time. So this week I’ve been refactoring the way I (mis)use @things.app.

Is Trump being pranked? He thinks he’s talking to the Iranians, but it’s actually, I don’t know, The Onion. Or Dude Perfect. Or Claude doing a bad accent. Something like that?

Heretic! (But also: yes, this.)

Trying to get Arduino IDE2 installed on Ubuntu 25.something. Tried Flatpack, Appimage and tarball. None of them can access USB ports. What am I missing?

Just for fun, let me tell you about somebody you've probably never heard of, but who was once one of the most famous people in England, a national hero, a disgraced fraudster, and an astonishingly accomplished piratical maniac. He led quite a life. (1/53)

This will be ace. Or ridiculous. Probably both. Yay!

I saw this in its Barbican stage. Just gorgeous, magical, as these photos show. Highly recommend.

We’re going to see a lot of this from a range of institutions, I think.

Read this, then check the author’s credentials.

Tonight, my wife is dinohacking. Her triceratops is now very clearly a psittacosaurus. Apparently this isn’t enough, and she intends to add an authentic cloaca.

First of the month. Time for the deluge of emails from all my smart devices telling me how they’ve performed over the last month. The self-congratulatory little shits.

Stanton Bikes, what on earth are you thinking? I'm dismayed to see a Brit brand putting the e-bike category at risk by irresponsibly using & selling highly overpowered kits - filming their use on public roads & down countryside paths at speed. Call it out. www.cyclingelectric.com/news/stanton...