If you're in #London next weekend come to see us at the Resisting Big Tech Empires event on Saturday! Saturday 25th April 11am-6pm, @ South Bank University @pluralistic is headlining (on at 4.30pm) and we (Rebel Tech Alliance) are on at 3pm We'll be going […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Massive love out to @kentbeck . You are an inspiration and so much of what I believe about #programming comes from your work. https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/parkinsons #extremeprogramming #xp

To all my Hungarian friends: Congratulations! Hopefully this will be very good for Hungary, for Europe and the world!🇭🇺 #politics #hungary #elections

Good luck with your election today, Hungary! 🇭🇺 (And please don’t re-elect the fascist. 🙏)

🖥️ What’s new with Winget? Demitrius Nelon (Microsoft) shared major updates at #PSConfEU 2025: ✔ Better config mgmt ✔ DSC v3 support ✔ Offline & enterprise features 🎟️ Early bird 2026 tickets → psconf.eu #PowerShell #Winget #Automation youtu.be/d8swo-XT8Y8?si=VdM...

"Dave" great name for a storm. Don't misunderestimate us :) High winds forecast for Easter weekend - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cql724nlgpvo

Just watched Louis Theroux about the manosphere. How depressed should I be?

I'm swapping my LLM subscriptions from US companies to #mistral. I'm pretty sure that's going to sort out all the current world problems.

Planted the potatoes today.

From Duolingo today I learned the Russian for "jar" sounds like "banka". I find that pleasing :)

Spring is here in the UK. I've packed away my bike front light until autumn. Happy days!

I highly recommend Shenanigrams if you're looking for a new wordy #boardgames . Sneaky crossword grid building.

@FediTips my mental model for deciding what to boost is "Does this post deserve to be seen more widely?". Is that the correct way to think about it?

This year's Chorlton Arts' Festival programme is now live: https://chorltonartsfestival.org 9-17 May c.200 artists, c.180 events at some 50 venues! #communityarts #manchester #whalleyrange

… does anyone have any contacts at #beagleboard? 😉

Just installing Roo code. Anyone got any experiences to share? #programming

Today my co-worker told the LLM copilot to write a failing test before making a code change. I'm so proud. #tdd

Argh! My hydroponic grower is mostly growing greenfly.

Anyone in #leeds I'd recommend taking a look at the new local newspaper from the folks behind #themill in Manchester: https://leeds.ghost.io/welcome-to-leeds-new-paper/?ref=manchestermill.co.uk

Never not thinking about the time a #startup I was working with posted the following on Slack: “Happy #internationalwomensday to Jenna, hopefully next year we’ll have more!” :blobfoxcrylaugh: #womensday #womenintech

Anyone here who does #programming in #python or similar have experience with Siemens PLC Ladder Logic. I've inherited a bunch of projects and I'm looking for best practices for development.

Moth? Moth! Here's the NZ endemic moth, the appropriately named Exquisite Carpet, *Asaphodes adonis*, which I just uploaded to #iNaturalist. It's known only from NZ's South Island.' It's always a treat to find these […] [Original post on mastodon.nz]

Allwyn the robot lawnmower is out for the first time in 2026.

Three years ago I blogged about #nuget serving outdated #curl packages. They then removed the packages I found. I checked nuget again *today* and immediately found a nine year old curl package that is downloaded at the rate of 1,000 times/week from there... with **64** known vulnerabilities […]

Mastodon feature alert! Did you know they've launched a new way to add a Share to Mastodon button to your website? https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/03/a-new-share-button/ We've just added it to our @privacynews stories, if you want to go give it a […] [Original post on mastodon.neat.computer]

#todayilearned laser surveying equipment really doesn't like fog.

I'm arguably getting too old for skiing (and I'm not very good at it), so I'm in pain after three days. Worth it.

Do media moguls have anything to do with ski moguls? Nope, at least not etymologically! SKI BUMPS: From German/Norwegian for "mound." Skiers create them as they carve turns. POWERFUL PEOPLE: From "the Great Mogul" rulers of the Mughal Empire (1526). It eventually […] [Original post on zirk.us]

Africa was the world’s fastest-growing solar market in 2025, defying a global slowdown and reshaping where the momentum in renewable energy is concentrated. Africa' solar installed capacity expanded 17% in 2025, boosted by imports of Chinese-made solar panels. Global solar power capacity rose […]

If you're asking me which immigrants made the greatest contribution to Manchester I'd say it was the Flemish weavers back in the 1300s. It was their skills which first turned a small backwater into a textiles boomtown. But footballers are also welcome. #manchester

#followfriday for (Canadian) data sovereignty: ▪ Cory Doctorow: @pluralistic ▪ Shifting our politicians to the Fediverse: @ElbowsUpforDigitalSovereignty ▪ Electronic Frontier Foundation: @eff

Find of the day: when screen sharing on #msteams to get rid of that annoying bar at the top of the screen, click on it then press CTRL-w #today_i_learned

in 2017 a popular twitter game was to type a partial phrase then see what your phone auto-completes it with. this proved so popular that it is now the only business model in the US.

🇪🇺🚨 TODAY is do or die: Will the EU majority SUPPORT suspicionless mass scanning of your private chats? Every call, every email counts right now! Use this updated message to MEPs: ✍️ 👉 https://fightchatcontrol.eu/#contact-tool #chatcontrol If you care, they will.

Trying out #github copilot cli. Anyone got any tips?

Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY. There was also a 71% drop in air pollution. Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople

Argh. Day wasted due to Microsoft updating the #azure #powershell API and not getting advanced warning to me in a way I would notice. Sigh.

I'm halfway through Mathematica by David Bessis). The premise is that we use intuition for mathematics rather than logic. It is interesting so far, but I'm waiting for the "ah ha!" moment.

It is chilly in #manchester today!

The #fosdem talk from @haubles and myself about Mastodon’s upcoming community governance plans; our vision, mission and values; and updates to the server recommendations, is now available to watch. I was honoured to be asked to co-present this session More to come on all of these topics over […]

Here in the U.K. I know exactly who will win the Gorton and Denton by election. It's whichever of the three parties on the left that stops using the threat of a Reform win as a stick to beat people into voting for them and actually starts campaigning. The people of Gorton and Denton are many […]

Greens name Hannah Spencer as Gorton and Denton by-election pick - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgj5gplpl9o @UKPol Meanwhile extreme far right Yaxley Lennon backs far right "Reform"'s racist candidate.

Anyone with #ski holiday tips for #chamonix particularly around Saint Gervais?

I'm finding it difficult to know how to help my son with his A-levels. His mock-exam results weren't as good as he hoped. #parenting

Thinking the #python community needs a python package manager manager.. Some system that would streamline the installation and versioning the 5 different package managers needed for a typical code base...

Starting out with #syncthing as a way of reducing reliance on US cloud services.

Trying out the fediverse for the first time today. I've been reading a lot about it, now it's time to figure out how it works and build an internet home here. My goal is to figure out how I can bring www.gobikecamping.com into the fediverse and help people who love bike touring own their data […]

🆕 blog! “Installing and Updating Filezilla from a Zip File on Pop_OS / Ubuntu” Notes to myself because I keep forgetting. tl;dr Unzip it into the /opt/ directory. I want to install Filezilla - so I can SFTP files around. Sadly, the Flatpak version is unmaintained and the version in apt is out […]

This bizarre, hurried cut-and-paste Bluesky clone called "W" (wsocial.eu) says it will fill this huge gap in Europe where no social media platforms exist. Meanwhile... https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/fediverse-near-me_828094#3/25.80/29.79

https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/30416#issue-3718116466 This is the saddest news I’ve heard recently: #PyPy is no longer under active development. It is so bad to know that they originally did not intend to go beyond 3.10). #python