Off out on my bike. Let's see if I can remember how this thing works

Please enjoy this splendid live blog of a local road closure https://www.westerntelegraph.co.uk/news/26112616.a487-st-davids-croesgoch-closed-ways/

You'd never guess, but I have done a bit of gardening

Tawny owl squawking away outside the backdoor

There's a lot of talk about the addictive qualities of social media apps, but why is nobody talking about the effect solar panel monitoring apps have on middle-aged men?

You can find all my videos on my blog, including today's video: Implementing gunzip from scratch in Rust Jez and Andy get together for crazy programming hijinks, trying to figure out from scratch how gzip compressions works, starting by making a valid minimal gzipped file, then trying to unzip […]

The stage at Nordic.js in Farstaladet, 🇸🇪, 2014 My talk proposed that we should stop using semantic versioning and specify libraries with test suites. I think it's an interesting idea, but wouldn't that have been a far better talk if I'd manifested that idea in code? 🤔

Been singing this for the last week or so. Had to be careful not to inadvertently vocalise in meetings. https://youtu.be/glr878X82PE?si=agPwp5JjCYasIw5n

ST:TNG s01e16 - During a mission to negotiate for the release of hostages, Dr Beverly Crusher yet again shows a very relaxed attitude to any kind of doctor-patient confidentiality.

I've just read that Angela Rayner comes from the "broad left", and I thought we'd left that kind of language behind in old film noir where it belongs

Get 'em while you still can, kids! https://www.shop.parliament.uk/products/keir-starmer-prime-minister-toby-jug

My office coworker just being straight-up trolled

Love to work with non-atomic databases 😕

My boy did a thing! UItimate Bar End Friction Shifter by Harry H #BikeTooter https://www.printables.com/model/1170914-uitimate-bar-end-friction-shifter

Dave Langford, of Ansible fame, describing a piece of software he wrote in the 80s - One day for Chris’s amusement I fudged up an IBM PC-DOS program called Drivel that spewed out endless Extruded Fantasy Product titles. A Scroll of Steel, Gemhunter of Giantfalcon, Eye of Starnymph, The Bluebull […]

Jez returns for programming language chat! https://video.infosec.exchange/w/ddh8hoaL2qJj4hvXgS9RUm Veteran super-coder @jezhiggins is back, and claims he has "finished" implementing Cell, Andy's toy language, in Rust. Jez and Andy basically gossip a bit, about code type stuff. #video #coding

"Only New York City, boasting the premier subway system in the US, approaches world-class standards, but still has fewer transit vehicles, proportionally, than Tehran." https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/06/american-cities-cars-public-transportation

"... prompt your agent to build something new ..."

They don't make tourist attractions like this any more.

A little project I've been working on is ready for light testing: https://codeberg.org/andybalaam/changelog-builder Changelog Builder makes a changelog for you from snippets in separate text files. It reimplements parts of the awesome towncrier Python app, but it's built in Rust so may be […]

Just recorded for 3 hours with @jezhiggins . We had a whale of a time. We'll see whether any coherent video comes out of it...

Watching an old episode of ST:TNG and, of course, the plot is driven by someone getting the space-horn.

Been making bhajis, lads

Ah but did the LLM try to take away Dawkins' little jar of honey, though?

Stood up to close the blind at exactly the right time to watch ten pippistrelles emerging from the barn roost 🦇 🦇 🦇 🦇 🦇 🦇 🦇 🦇 🦇 🦇

When I planned this trip, I had no idea of the significance of the date. But all of Porto was gearing up for a party, and I made a point of finding out why. The history of Portugal in the 20th century does not make for happy reading, even if you’re just […] [Original post on cupoftea.social]

Just watched a goldfinch collecting cobwebs from the barn eaves

Natalie's away for the weekend, but I am voluntarily in the veg garden and, you know what, it's alright

Out the front, looking for bats again. Nothing so far, but there's a couple of owls skreetch and skrotching up the lane.

Just killed a database Haven't done that for maybe a couple of decades.

Look, I'm not saying it's the only programming book you need, but it's a contender

I'm sitting outside waiting to see if I can any bats. A couple of nights ago, there were one or two out on the other side of the house, but this evening I'm trying to see if they're using the roost we put when we rebuilt the roof.

Right then...

"I just want to read a fucking article" Think Natalie is running out of patience with polytunnel influencers

Or, you know, you could read the menu?

Because of course they're in favour of people being killed on the roads.

Had a Reform leaflet in the post. "Put Welsh People First" is fourth on their list of things to do 🤔

So proud of my boy right now

Open the fucking Strait you crazy bastards

Looks like we're eating leaves for the foreseeable

Dear passengers welcome in the European SEV, my name is Maartje and I am your Bus Manager. To your right you see a giant Blahaj.

Looks like we're eating leaves for the foreseeable

Because I'm the kind of coach who leads by example, I got the most fines in the hockey club so far this season 👍

@theaardvark Possibly relevant to one of your many interests... https://pca.st/episode/08d6633a-2dbd-4c9d-96d0-346dfb65abb3

Really hoping we don't have to find out who the American Stanislav Petrovs are. https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/apr/06/iran-war-live-updates-trump-hormuz-oil-netanyahu-israel

Out walking the dogs on the cliff path, and just met my first family in inappropriate footwear of the season

What if they had a World Cup and nobody came...? https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/ce8lzj0rprpo