"Scompi, chaps and pizz!" I mispronounce, deliberately; putting myself off the meal I'm making.

I know Amazon has many problematic aspects... But their customer support is *amazing*. They really do value "happy customer" above all else.

I’m a simple soul and I just don’t gettit 🤔 I have to give my NI number to every employer I’ve had before I receive my contract to work for them ~ the Govt can track all of us that way. If dodgy employers aren’t getting this from their workers, what will make them ask for a digital ID card?

Just made a big show of trimming the hedge by the car, in the hope it won't freak out next time I drive past it. 🚘🤖 "I have slammed on the emergency brakes to save my precious paintwork from those soft compliant leaves. Be thankful I do not eject you!"⚡

I told the Reverend he made me proud to be a Christian.

LLMs have no concept of "fact", just (highly complex) word ordering...

I'm not a bike guy but crikey, if I were...

Do not punish the behaviour you want to see.

Too long since I made any truly whimsical software, so last night I added Apple Touch Bar support to the Mac version of the BeebEm BBC Micro Emulator to give important missing function keys f0-f9 in iconic red-orange, a copy key in somewhat less iconic olive-brown and, a Break key in desiato black.

"I should get back to that colour code I was messing with" <checks last change date> Over a year ago. 😳

Evergreen.

I'm tickled by this conference hall ceiling (presumably) whose lighting seems to be modelled on a bad FSI dither...

This frontispiece in my book just made me laugh a lot. Is this Buddhist reincarnation, or some other form of afterlife?

Wasm 3.0 is already here! <stares in horror at 64b addressing which is actually 34b addressing 😼>

Why is it orange, they won't sell you an orange one. Polestars are only available in various shades of drizzle. It's almost like they think it'll look better in pictures! 😳 Carwow didn't seem to notice: www.carwow.co.uk/polestar/new...

At one point in my life (long ago) I was responsible for the Motorola corporate 68k assembler. By the time they got to the 68030 the addressing modes were insane. Instructions could be 22 bytes long.

[me, a journalist who spends all day every day on a social media app where the discovery algorithm is personally controlled by its owner, captain birdseye] you know, a lot of people are talking about fish fingers, we should probably cover that

@givvygavvygoo.bsky.social @rougol.bsky.social Apologies, something has come up, so can't make it this evening.

RISC OS users: I’ve just updated MetaSprite to work around a SpriteExtend bug concerning mouse pointer sprite palettes.

Note to self: Rename SSID to "Turn Wi-Fi off"

Hat tip @clownf1st.bsky.social

We’ve been living through 72 nonstop hours of this exact tweet

I feel like there are a bunch of people whose instinctive line is "calm down, you're being hysterical" and who are struggling to adapt to the possibility that there is in fact a wolf

Sound the trumpets! Whilst cycling if you wish!

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

Merry Mince-Pies-in-the-Supermarket Day to those who celebrate.

Presumably Laura will turn out to be the android who's there to make sure the billionaires get their alien DNA. archive.ph/ajXtA

After years of "make everything monochrome" I note that Android 16 has suddenly decided that colour helps communication. 😲 I wonder how long this fashion cycle will last at Google? Every generation rejects the norms of the previous generation. Bless their rebellious little cotton socks. 🙄

Fascinating accuracy test of 6502 emulators... in the form of official Nintendo NES emulations. (Including the one that accidentally implements the R65C19's JSR instead of 6502's! Oops 🤪)

Church choirs are not what I thought... archive.ph/2025.09.11-1...

You join us live from Danny Dyer’s birthday drinks.

🤣 Fucking magic. Thanks for that. ... and as HRH the Queen Mum used to say when signing off (seems oddly apropos again these days) ... "Tinkety tonk old fruit & down with the Nazis"

Bah beep. [best I can do with standard parts]

Just a little something I'm working on. This is RLE encoded for fast playback, but I'm sure I can compress the samples better to fit more in memory / SWRAM.

i took mum in the boat today - I can still hear the screams.

A solar farm that could have powered “all the households in Witney” has been refused permission by West Oxfordshire District Council. Councillors were concerned about the risk of fire, one drawing parallels to the 1966 Aberfan disaster: “Until someone can guarantee it is safe, I can’t support it.”

Hallelujah! No more 📌 posts! Note that they're sorted by date you clicked the save button, NOT by the post's date. A choice would have been good.

Discworld QOTD, from Guards! Guards!

US versus UK fire hydrants – a visual study in Lego. No further questions at this time. Send the PhD to the usual address.

What a staggering waste... a 1999 Skyline with 8,700 miles on the clock! I did 160,000 miles in my Skylines while this one was fading into irrelevance in a collector's garage. $300K they want for it (in the US)! I wouldn't give them £30K. It's 2025 you know. A museum piece and it's never lived.

Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.

@givvygavvygoo.bsky.social Sorry,no DMs, can you ask that again?

Just fucking use HTML buff.ly/AEEVhEn <- the language of the Web is HTML. Not Javascript. The best website is one with no JS at all. Let's make this a movement.

Nominative Determinism.

BeebEm 4.20 is now available. Lots of new features and bug fixes, including: * FSD format disk images * Teletext adapter emulation * Disk and tape image icons * Tape and serial port emulation * Full screen mode bug fixes * Saved state files And lots more... Download here: www.mkw.me.uk/beebem/

BuT EvS aRe ToO eXpEnSiVe

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

A note about the misnamed, misused, misdesigned and misimplemented RISC OS “Message_WindowClosed”. This is one for “Programmers are bad at interface design” 101: