The 'German' answer to this question is so, so accurate. german.millermanschool.com

Well, there's one for the photo library. It'll be handy, this.

Let's not pretend that networking events are socials. They aren't. They are ghastly business events with alcohol. All the misery of meeting people you don't want to plus the insult of them being raucously drunk. The inventor should be deeply ashamed of themselves.

This website is the best thing ever. youraislopbores.me

Oh my god Lmao youraislopbores.me

All I know is that kindness is not one of them

One of my local bus routes used to advertise "up to every five minutes or better" which I can only interpret as the interval between buses being greater than, equal to, or less than 5 minutes.

I feel like @ericof.com and the rest of the Plone community is responsible for this

Attending BETT at the ExCeL last week involved hearing a lot about AI, as you would expect. Coincidentally, just about the only shop without huge queues was an unstaffed "Just Walk Out technology by Amazon" stall, that uses 'AI' to detect purchases.

BREAKING: something that happened last week, but I just got around to reading

Looking at renewing my Yorkshire Cricket Club membership for another year, and I spot that they now offer lifetime memberships. "Well, that's an interesting idea", I think. I wonder when I would break even. Assuming 4% inflation, I would be 70.

Was in Edinburgh for the weekend. This morning I tried to get a square and egg roll, but they gave me link and egg. Disaster.

Watching the Kaiser Chiefs at Temple Newsam on Saturday, and they start being very Leeds United. Something tells me that for most of the attendees, something amazing is happening. Great concert, I just don't know my trophies and my strikers.

I finally got around to trying gandalf.lackera.ai and it was a real fun way to kill an hour (even if one tricke solved many step)

The latest depressing experience with vibe coding.. A really fun little self-contained project, a treat for myself around the less technical tasks. Anyway, some more junior engineers have some free time, and offer to help. Their first suggestion, outsource it all to Gemini.

The only time I remember seeing a 4 order-of-magnitude speedup was early in my career, when one engineer (who guarded his code like a dragon's horde) told another "you won't get more than a few milliseconds out of that, I've microoptimised it".

I'm not at all sure about this Only Connect answer. Shouldn't it be: Sunday Tue 27th Dec Mon 26th Dec When Christmas day falls on a Sunday, the Christmas Day bank holiday is substituted for the Tuesday but the Boxing Day bank holiday remains on the Monday.

Have been accused of "having dropsy" after dropping a knife twice in one day.

Happy Club Mate day to me

Bluesky is a great way to add comments to your blog or site. I've made a web component to make that easy to do. Load the script, then use the <bluesky-comments> tag. Looks great by default, but is super-customisable with CSS vars and parts. Lazy loads, zero frameworks github.com/ascorbic/blu...

Hexpansion idea for @emfcamp.bsky.social 26

How on earth is anyone meant to resist chocolate oranges for less than a quid?