The future! #nottingham

Popped the tumble dryer on to get some cool air into the house

Yep it's hot outside. If you're in Great Britain and want to know what the generation mix of the electricity you're trying to cool the house with is right now, I made a @grafana.bsky.social dashboard for that: play.grafana.org/d/siw7lpj/uk...

Final day darn sarf.

Couldn’t take any pictures as nowhere to stop and I was driving but you can get a great view of several European cargo A340-600s at Bournemouth Airport right now. Sadly not going anywhere and up for sale. I’ve likely flown on most of them as most are ex Virgin. cc @transatlanticalison.com

From today’s walks. Over and under.

Had coffee at a place that also offers clothing design and printing.

Considering downsizing 😂

Today’s rare (in the UK) car spot. JDM right hand drive model.

I spent a little while updating my @grafana.bsky.social and Redis plane tracker project to point the aircraft icons in the right direction. Next I want to use separate icons for wide and narrow bodies and a special icon for quad jets.

We're raffling an Escort! We've chosen to support AKT this time, a charity offering assistance to LGBTQ+ young people who sadly often fall into homelessness. 10% will go to this charity. Buy tickets here: raffall.com/424625/enter...

Gave the Yeti a pre service check over and fluids. Reminded of the stupid AdBlue filler location on these cars too. At 72k miles I expect it to need some brake pads and probably a shock absorber tomorrow.

I woke up to 50+ MFA emails from Bluesky as it seems someone was trying to login as me on 10 min intervals overnight. I’ve changed the password now.

It’s pay day next week and after another frustrating trip using the iPad Pro as the main device I was going to sell it and order a MacBook Neo. So of course they raised the price ☹️

Bad picture but here’s tonight’s first leg as seen from the lounge (not allowed closer to the glass). Old livery Etihad 777-300 - same one that brought me here. HAN-AUH.

Just bought 400 plastic drinking straws for £0.69 in Vietnam. Because that was the real eco problem right?

Starting a journey soon that will (in its second leg) finally see me fly on the 787-10, meaning I will have tried all 3 lengths. This will be with Etihad, one day I might complete all 3 lengths on the same carrier as United have 10s and I already flew their 8 and 9.

Hoàn Kiếm Lake Hanoi. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho%C3%A...

Ceramic mural road Hanoi. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanoi_C...

Train Street Hanoi. Sadly no train during our time there. 🚂

Suzuki Carry are everywhere here in Vietnam too doing all the work.

Another fun Vinfast VF3. These seem really popular here in Vietnam.

Train. Hanoi, Vietnam.

Breakfast, Hanoi.

I saw this demo’ed in Barcelona. Lots of fun.

These little electric cars seem popular in Vietnam. This one has OZ wheels and Brembo front calipers. You can’t go wrong with this sort of boxy design. There’s a small boxy van I really like too.

The first in our overhauled controller board set up. A new Raspberry Pi Pico board coming soon. Features easy connectivity with the Pico. Low cost. Easy to add OLED screens and controller outputs. #raspberrypi #robotics

Evening view. It’s not raining tonight so got out for a walk in the cooler evening - long walk in the daytime today was really hot!

Something for everyone.

Today’s breakfast plane spotting. 777 cargo for @transatlanticalison.com - you can just about see the old livery Etihad 773 that brought me here in the background.

Bus wanker… Sat at the back upstairs with the hard kids. It’s pretty nice up there.

Ay-up mi-ducks

keep it civil

The property manager’s maintenance guy came and fitted a cellar stairwell hand rail today so we’re all good now nothing to worry about.

Anyone else working from home have issues with people deciding they can do what they want regarding appointments you've made with them because their time matters more than yours & they assume you're usually home = you're never doing anything. Sent tradie away for being 1 3/4hrs early already today.

Getting charged for some weird shoulder massage and the whole process taking more than 10 minutes is why I’ve started to do it myself with clippers. Covid tipped me over and I have never gone back.

Played crazy golf in Birmingham today. I won a free extra round so have to go back sometime later this year and use it :)

Anyone else think this headline format that the BBC uses a lot is junk? The lorry didn't crash at the same time as the roads were closed, nor because they were closed. What's wrong with "Lorry crashes causing closure of nearby roads" or similar? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Heavens above! Here comes the alluring cat, slaughterer of spiders. Hallelujah!.

I had some dull admin to do (car insurance renewal shopping) so stuck this on and am reminded it's great (also don't use Spotify!). tidal.com/album/128180...

It's meetup week! The May Melbourne MicroPython Meetup is this Wednesday (27 May). All experience levels welcome — from first-timers to seasoned embedded devs. Come along in-person or join in online. https://luma.com/0nvp5qmp Would love to see you there!

If only there were some sort of Union countries could be part of 🙄https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr5plpm3g2ro

Kidical Mass Nottingham is coming back on Sunday 28th June 2026! Big group cycle ride! Everyone welcome. #cycling #bicycle #cycle #nottingham #kidicalmass #kidicalmassnottingham

#Eurovision United Kingdom

it's good to talk

🫳 #GrafanaCON 2026 talks are available on demand! Just in time for some weekend viewing. Don't miss talks like: • GrafanaCON 2026 Keynote • New #OpenTelemetry engine • k6 2.0 • Planet-scale dashboards at Google And more that won't fit in this post: grafana.com/events/grafa...

Maker pal @LOOKMUMNOCMPUTR is currently in Vienna representing the UK in the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest - so we wrote a blog post about why we think he's great 📷 blog.pimoroni.com/look-mum-no-...