If you’ve ever logged data to an SD card or saved files on a #microcontroller, you've probably used FatFs without realizing it. As I'm working on a port for it, I'm reminded what a great embedded #OpenSource project looks like. 👇 shawnhymel.com/3113/an-ode-... #embedded #programming #Arduino

High numbers of people checking when is Bin Day - who'd have thought it?! 🙄 @basingstokegov.bsky.social

Absolutely! Christmas Day is the *first* day of Christmas. See also: Easter...

The Italian Job (1969) - a prophetic lesson in #cybersecurity * A brownout attack * Malicious software upload * Denial of Service

There seems to be several UK TV programmes about dog rescues, but none about #cat rescues ? This can't be right!

Remembering the late Meg and Gimli #CatsOfChristmasPast

Happy Christmas, everyone!

Why do they keep calling this a sinkhole? It's not a sinkhole - just a straightforward embankment collapse. #ClickBait @channel4news.bsky.social

Michael Sheen is just. An exemplary human being in so many ways

Product placement... #MerryCatmas #BombaySapphire

A gentle reminder if you've received an invoice from a Freelancer/Self employed person which is due before Christmas. Be a love, and pay it today.

This doesn't just affect scientists. The administrative burden for businesses applying for government funding can severely impact - or even negate - the value of the funding.

#Sunrise #Trees #Silhouette

"Man farts whilst at sea" ? 🤔

Yes, @bsky.app what *is* up? Why have you logged me out of the app? And, despite being logged out of the app, how do I still have app notifications?? (website login not affected) #UXFail @support.bsky.team

I don't really post anymore, but I would like to carry on writing books at some point in the future. Hate to be annoying, but any chance you could retweet so old twitter followers can find me if they want to? Going to delete my twitter, or at least abandon it on lock and let it die a slow death.

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ChatGPT? We didn't even have Google!

I remember the days when a CD-ROM drive would come with the drivers on a CD ... 🤦‍♂️

Oh for crying out loud, @bsky.app - don't force date of birth entry on a spinner! 🙄 This is a ridiculous #UXFail - nobody wants to scroll back through all those years! 😡 @support.bsky.team

Nerd humor coming your way 😂

And it was the same picture that we'd seen the previous year. And the year before that. And ... (because the same calendar was re-used year after year)

Don’t think much of the Amazon Black Friday sales. I ordered The Two Ronnies on DVD but instead I got four Kindles

Copying your mate's homework leaves you with shallower knowledge than doing your own homework. Who knew? 🙄

@andrewhaglington.bsky.social one for your Wheal Betsy collection... #Dartmoor #WhealBetsy #Mine #EngineHouse

Gerald Ratner is alive and well and working at Campbell's...

*tapping sign*

Why do coffee machines always have such terrible #UX ? #UXFail

Yeah, that's exactly how a microphone works. 🙄 #Linkedin #AIslop

We visited #Spitbank fort years ago (90s?). IIRC, it had just been bought buy a guy with grand plans to do it up, and he was opening it to the public to raise a bit of cash. It seems that it is now abandoned. www.spitbankfort.co.uk #Solent #SolentForts

Oh dear - that doesn't sound good. 😮

I defy this!

Frost yesterday morning; snowing now.

Morning, all.

But then these are still the standard UK road signs for level crossings

Ah, yes: the miners strike; the rolling power cuts; etc. Such fun! 🙄

I'm getting reports that a firm is cold calling people "offering grants for renewables and quoting that MARTIN LEWIS had encouraged people to engage with the company." The call is UTTER BOLLOCKS! This is not true. Don't trust them. Politely disengage and don't speak to them.

I remember the days when a mobile phone was the size of a medium handbag! @mobilephonemuseum.com bsky.app/profile/scie... Hard to believe that something I once worked on is now a museum piece!

It is, surely, utter madness that (almost?) every council in the UK has standardised on exactly the same container (the wheelie bin) for waste/recycling, but *all* of them choose completely different colours to identify them?! 🙄🤦‍♂️

Main picture: my Grandad with an anti-aircraft battery somewhere in England, early years of WW2. Inset: my Dad & uncles in their National Service uniforms