Played a demo of Iron Nets Heavy Turret Simulator. Bloomin awesome, store.steampowered.com/app/4300500/... Feel of papers please, but you're an artillery gunner operator, you have a big map and have to triangulate the position of your targets...1/2

People really sit in a room with the big light on? Even my wife does it, I really don't know how people can cope with it, it's like oppressive painful blinding light.

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Just finished The Tide Child trilogy by @rjbarker.bsky.social (book 1: app.thestorygraph.com/books/a87dfe...) I think this might be the best thing I've ever read. RJs style deeply resonates with me, his focus on the characters, how so much affects them, and how they cope engaged and moved me. ❤️

Last Call! The SNES2NEO will be discontinued at the end of the month. If you are still interested in one, now is the time to order. SNES2NEO allows you to use SNES controllers on the #NeoGeo. Give this a like and repost! retrofrog.net/products/sne...

I just finished one of the most incredible books I've ever had the pleasure of reading. In Praise of Shadows by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, an essay on finding beauty in literal shadow and darkness, of how appreciation of darkness was being lost in 1930s Japan. app.thestorygraph.com/books/2ed310...

One of the best antidotes to life being horrendously stressful and shite is just to sit outside in the evening with a chilled beverage of your choice and listen to a blackbird singing and singing and singing. It is genuinely balm for the soul.

Everyone shut up I finally got a video of Jyn doing her cartoon snoring thing

@qntm.org Just finished There is No Antimemetics Division (thanks to @octothorpecast.bsky.social for talking about it), I absolutely loved it and the ■■■■■■■■■■■ ideas. The use of the redacted ■■■■■ was amazing. I wonder if it cost significantly more in ink to print than a similar book 😁 Thank you ❤️

My new keyboard arriived on Monday and all week it's felt like being very drunk and trying to type, to the point I'm using a typing teacher website to attempt to actually get confident and proficient with it. It's very geared around the classic 10 finger touch typing method... 1/2

Ugh the Saba parking operator are absolutely taking the piss. I bought pre-booked parking from them, and then on exit from the car park (within the time limit of my pre-paid parking) they charged me again more than double what they charged me before. 1/2

My band are playing a gig THIS FRIDAY! We don't play very often so DON'T MISS IT. We have songs about public transport, Livejournal, the Texas Chainsaw Massacre and many more www.eventim-light.com/uk/a/63ea2a0...

Used my lunch to go to my lovely local bookshop to pick up a book I ordered, the only snag in the plan....I forgot they don't open until 2pm on Fridays. Doh! What a silly sausage

There's lots of important messaging in this new guidance from GDS / DSIT on AI, open code and vulnerability risk. In particular: "Private repositories can create a false sense of security" and "Openness can surface issues earlier" www.gov.uk/guidance/ai-...

Graphs I'd like to see - number 73. A measure of team productivity over Slacks downtime / availability

I broke my keyboard, looking for a new one and I know the fashion is for half size keyboards, but I really like the numpad and arrow keys. Thankfully there's a solution! My new half size keyboard with all my favourite keys!

I received the latest book in my Frederik Backman subscription today from @bertsbooks.bsky.social, this month it was And Every Morning The Way Home Gets Longer and Longer. I read it tonight, it's so heartbreaking, incredibly moving, and about as touching as any writing could ever be. Truly wonderful

Oh yes! I loved Reply All and didn't know about this, I do now and I already love it

CSS is DOOMed! I've build DOOM in CSS and every wall, floor, barrel, and imp is a div, positioned in 3D space using CSS transforms. cssdoom.wtf Try it out! But... not every browser can handle it. This is taking the browser to its limit. Chrome has some issues. Safari too. Bugs will be filed.

Just finished Us Against You by Fredrik Backman, the latest in my Backman subscription from @bertsbooks.bsky.social. What an incredible book, I think even better than Beartown. As well as the moving story, the style really stands out from his other books and gives them a distinct Beartown feel.

#Manchester - want to learn about SQL Expressions in @grafana.bsky.social and be part of our first ever Manchester Meetup? We also have a talk about Beyla and Open Telmetry. Thursday at Autotrader Hawkshaw St. We'll have food and swag. www.meetup.com/grafana-frie...

Reading a Fantasy novel for the first time in many years. I've generally been of the opinion "I don't like Fantasy", so far it's holding true, but I'm only 20 pages in. If I get to 100 still feeling this way I should allow myself to stop reading it and move on

I've been watching Stargate SG-1 on sky, unfortunately it isn't on there anymore, probably because it's just gone onto @netflix.com , but the Netflix version is awful, loads of stuttering in sideways motion, like a terrible conversion up to 60fps. Feels unwatchable

I saw a microbiologist today... They were much bigger than I expected...

I'm thinking of giving up on a book I'm reading, and I wonder on @thestorygraph.com if giving up and marking as "Did not finish", or if finishing (for real of course, actually read the rest) and giving it a 2 star review would better steer the recommendations away from this type of book.

What's everyone reading this weekend?

Delivery of in stock books from Blackwell's (I had tried bookshop.org and all my usual indies first and no one else had it) is so unbelievably slow, 10 days since I ordered it, and this is not abnormal. 7 days until dispatch notification, but Whistl didn't actually get it until day 9.

The @grafana.bsky.social SQL expressions (grafana.com/docs/grafana...) which are in public preview, are absolutely amazing. It's so much more powerful than using the in built transformations (which are still useful, but the SQL Expressions allow you to do things they cannot)

sorry to be sentimental but this is the most amazing heartwarming story

Lovely to greet the postman and see that @bertsbooks.bsky.social packaging. I opened it to find the first book in my Frederick Backman subscription so beautifully packaged

I went to collect a reservation from my lovely local provincial library: "Hi, I've got a reservation to collect" and the librarian/staff member paid me possibly the greatest complement I could ever hope for "Oh yes, when unusual and interesting books come in I always know they are for you"

I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place

Some days (like today) I like to not dismiss the Monzo notification that I bought a book (usually from bookshop.org) so I can keep feeling the small burst of joy knowing a book is going to arrive. Even though I know this one is on back order and will take multiple weeks, it's still making me happy.

Heard a lad earlier talking about ‘Belgian whistles’ “A basic website costs 10k or 25k upwards if you want all the Belgian whistles” BELGIAN WHISTLES

I wanted to read Cogwheels by Akutagawa, so I bought "The Essential Akutagawa", sadly among the 22 short stories in it is not Cogwheels, I needed instead to buy "Essential Akutagawa". Ah what a silly mistake. However my lovely library has "Rashomon and 17 other short stories" so I've ordered that in

Please other companies also do this

Having used github projects for a while I am firmly in the camp of "it sucks", largely because driving it via cli is an absolute nightmare requiring you to do tons of graphql api queries manually. The CLI is absolutely bobbins for interacting with github projects. ... 1/3

Can’t kick it wide right if you aren’t kicking.

Before we get properly into the swing of the New Year, let's take a look at the bestselling books of 2025 in our shop in Swindon... We had a lovely visit from Nikki May, helping This Motherless Land to 20th place, plus The Wall in 18th was Pedro's favourite book of the year.

Rather pleased with this image of Andromeda, it took 4.5 hours and 1000 stacked images to get, but I'm really happy with it

Finished reading Interesting Times today. While I enjoyed it, I didn't feel compelled to keep reading, and it didn't scratch the same parts of my brain as things I've read more recently...1/2

Went into a bookshop today thinking "there won't be anything I want to buy", I immediately saw a beautiful edition of a Murakami short story I haven't read. Eventually left with that and three more books. I truly love the ability to browse for things I might never have bought otherwise...1/2

Yo @monzo.com, putting in a Monzo wrapped that my wife is "The Donkey to your shrek" is a bit bloomin much, you're my bank, not a close friend, this is totally inappropriate

Finally cancelled virgin media. Given they do not provide an ONT inside the property, and given they want the router back (fair enough, and it's also useless for any other service anyway), that means there will be an uncapped, unprotected fibre just hanging out of the wall...1/2

YES! Day 1 of advent of code solved on the atari 2600! It's only processing 1 line per frame so it takes ~81 seconds to complete, but I have tons and tons and TONS of scanlines to play with, so I can have a little refactor and be able to process multiple lines per frame. ... 1/3

Ever had to sign up for a website (yes had to, I don't get to choose my employers pensions provider) and be forced to create a username which has complexity requirements!!! Must be 8 characters, with uppercase, lowercase, numbers, NO special symbols. Password is similar. Also pasting disabled.

Step 1: Sign up for a FREE library card at your local library today. Step 2: Enter a world of possibilities. Step 3: Share some of the library joy that is sure to come.

The special live episode of ER (Abmush s04e01) on Amazon Prime Video has a totally messed up aspect ratio. Spent a total of about 30 minutes discussing with Amazon and they can't do anything, it's up to the content owner apparently. Pretty frustrating a video service can't fix bad encoding.

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