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Anyone else in the UK sitting in a dark room, windows covered, lights on, and fans blowing, trying to block out the unrelenting sun, and get some work done? Just me?

The Prodigy released Firestarter 30 years ago. Keith Flint snarled the vocals. Flint is used to start fires. It has taken me way too long to see that particularly link.

Bluesky launched in February 2023 as an invite-only platform. As of June 2026, we have 45 million users. For reference, that's almost the population of Argentina. Thank you for being here with us 💙 Here’s to the next 45 million accounts.

When reading a detailed piece of content for a complex topic, something that's quite long, how do you prefer to consume it? One big long page, or broken up into chunks? I'm not convinced the article format is working, especially with the #multitenancy stuff I'm writing.

🔌 Coming very very soon to Oh Dear: a new ports check. 👀 You say which ports should be open, and we'll check those 💪 We'll also check if all other ports are closed

Busy weekend for motorsport fans, especially here in the UK. Sunday sees three rounds of the BTCC at Snetterton, the Indy 500, and the F1 Canadian Grand Prix. #BTCC #Indy500 #F1

Twitch peeps, there's a new social network in town to help you reach more potential viewers! It'll automatically post when you're live, let you share clips, and post your schedule natively! That website is called Chattr, and the link is on my profile! #twitch

I'm thinking Christian Rasmussen will win the upcoming #Indy500 race. No other reason than 'it feels right'. What'ya think @elizablackstock.bsky.social ?

Your birthday is now closer to the discovery of penicillin than to today. More reminders of mortality at profmusgrave.github.io/anotherday

Today we're introducing the new Obsidian Community site, the new developer dashboard, and a roadmap of things to come. The future of Obsidian plugins: obsidian.md/blog/future-...

when you need books more than you need a view

A 20-second time penalty for Charles Leclerc for leaving the track several times on the last lap after damaging his Ferrari! Drops him from 6th to 8th, below Lewis Hamilton and Franco Colapinto.

I keep going back to mid 2010's Drum n Bass. I don't know why but there's something there that hits hard. Urbandawn,Fred V & Graphix, S.P.Y, Icicle, Etherwood, Logistics etc.

F1 is back! F1 IS BACK!!

I agree, even though I've no idea what Twitch is all about 😉

I'm at Donington for the British Touring Car Championship and can't help but be impressed with the mowing. Great work by the Donington Grounds Team.

New Substack on something I've been thinking a lot about:

Today's weather: Sleet, snow, hail. Its Snailing.

I'm spending some time fully documenting the changes in Laravel version 13, 13.1 and 13.1.1 as a proof of concept. Ultimately, I'd like to provide detailed information about what is actually happened for each version. #laravel #opensource

If you're a Laravel open source maintainer, this might be useful to you: cmorrell.com/laravel-matrix It's a tool that lets you generate Github Action test matrices based on the Laravel/PHP versions you want to support. /cc @freek.bsky.social 😂

So, Claude, and Gemini, both suggest I present clasinc symptoms of someone with ADHD. This surprised me. Not sure what the next step is. Do I bother with getting an official diagnosis (pretty difficult at 53 on NHS) or just read up on it and act accordingly? (No interest in medicating for it)

#F1 should take a leaf out of #Indycar’s book and experiment a little.  If the cancelled race issue happened for Indycar they’d do something like have a non-championship race somewhere with a $1 million prize for the winning driver and team.

If your work requires long periods of focus, and you like music to help you concentrate and block out everything else, then I can highly recommend headphones and Rob Jenkins Ambient Dub techno... So so good.

@anthropic.com U gonna post summat or what?

Merge it. Taylor demos the full SDLC of 2026: Nightwatch catching an error, AI fixing it and opening a PR, Cloud creating a preview environment, OpenClaw calling to ask if he wants to merge the PR. No code touched. Fully self-healing app.

#neovim Development News The 0.12 version will add a built-in `:lsp` command to interactively enable, disable, restart, and stop LSP clients. PR: - github.com/neovim/neovi...

Obsidian 1.12.5 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members for desktop and mobile with a few fixes for Obsidian CLI and copy/pasting across apps.

Installed Zorin Linux tonight. Very impressive Ubuntu based Linux distro. zorin.com/os/

Claude code is down and now I have to think for myself.

More than 100 participants; two prize pools for multi- and single threaded solutions; performance already pushed to sub-3 seconds. The 100M-row challenge is doing great! FYI: if you're with a company that wants to pitch in to biggen the prize pool, feel free to let me know :)

Can’t remember the last time something useful came to the Laravel world that wasn’t tinged by AI. All I see is that BobBotAI has been replaced by CashewPT 3.6, which has been acquired by OpenZeldarAI, which is outdated anyway, and everyones now using ReleasedLastWeekAI with YAFEditor v0.221.

Decided to wear this T-shirt this morning, then got the sad news that Simon Harris has passed away. Had a few chats with Simon online, thoroughly nice bloke, always had time for a chat. Another legend of British 'street' culture gone. #RIP

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

AI is a total game changer when it comes to software development. If you're not using it you are going to be left behind.

Today's thoughts: why don't operating systems have a built in dictionary? Why does each app need to download it's own? Ditto for geographic databases.

One problem with this 'vibe coding' malarkey is that I can't have music on when dictating to my AI prompt. I just accidentally asked Claude code: "add a docker container for MySQL right about now the funk soul brother to this project's docker-compose file"

Fire And Ice : Blood Of The New Gestapo

This is Sunday morning music, right?

Today's Rave Tune Of The Day: Express Yourself - The Family Foundation / Francshene. Such a great voice!

I'm going to be bold here and predict that Williams F1 will win a race this year. @f1subreddit.bsky.social @f1tv.bsky.social @williamsdb.com

Why is everyone mentioning 2016? That was last week to us GenXers.

It's one of those I-did-wordle-and-then-looked-the-word-up-in-the-dictionary days.

Binged season 3 of "From" today and wow! It's getting better and better.

We had some snow last night. #UKSnow #StormGoretti

2026 marks 30 years since I built my first website. The first site was built in HTML, had framesets, table layouts, and used the <marquee> element. Hosted on AOL's 'Pages'. The web has come a long long way since then. #WebDevelopment

I went into the Christmas break with ideas for a couple of new projects I wanted to try. I spent exactly 30 minutes on a computer the whole time and didn't event attempt the projects. On the plus side I feel refreshed and ready for 2026.

Goodbye MTV! End of an era.

This new @wearedelasoul.com album 'Cabin In The Sky' is something special. I don't think I've listened to a new album on repeat this much for years.