"I git morge the featue without looking at the code ..."

The AI bubble popping and triggering a financial crash is now the best timeline we can hope for because all the others are some horrific version of this

Nothing has ever been evenly distributed - 2 billion don’t have clean drinking water and 3.6 billion don’t have access to safe sanitation. Let’s address that before worrying about whether they’re using LLMs. www.worldvision.org/clean-water-...

Government doing it's best Sideshow Bob stepping on rakes impression by yet again announcing a controversial policy where people can sign a petition that already exists petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...

OpenClaw (which was Moltbot, which was ClawdBot, all in the course of a week) is the new `sudo curl | bash`

"Are you compliant with the NCSC guidelines on post-quantum cryptography?" NCSC: "By 2028 create an initial migration plan and complete migration by 2035" Why am I even being asked this question? 🫠

If I were Anthropic I'd add a clause to the T&Cs about terminating Claude Code accounts for bringing them into disrepute when you publish slop like this CloudFlare blog 🫠

This is obviously a play on the Trump post but what I don't get is why they think the 'Nihilist Penguin' meme appeals to the London electorate? Or for that matter even know what it is.

OpenAI should ask Unity how their plans for per-install licensing fees went down with developers

hey folks, i’m a rails / ruby dev with a bit over 10 years of experience professionally and i was just hit with my second layoff. looking for a new role would love to chat! #rails #ruby.

TIL that AWS despite being asked back in November 2021, they still haven't signed the binary for session-manager-plugin meaning that after 1st September installing from brew won't work 😭 github.com/aws/session-...

Ugh, someone appears to be cloning the Rails issues - just got a burst of emails for an issue from 2011 😭 (ignored the repo now but getting spammed as a default seems bad) github.com/Sandgarden-D...

This is reminding me of when Sainsbury's supermarket chain in the UK ran an advertising campaign called "Feed a family for £50 per week" and the example meals plan they'd worked out would eventually starve the family to death.

Those of you merging Claude Code PRs without looking - are you going to accept responsibility when something goes wrong? Or are you going to pass the buck like the Chief Constable here?

The @iwf.org.uk posting on X today about the dangers of AI generated abuse content and getting 80 views there whilst not posting here shows the idiocy of the government's policy - no one is listening to you there

Irrespective of the merits of the scheme will someone get the architect some new cycling clip art because the examples here are incredibly bad 😂

It's been a bit of a challenge trying to model this system, which is ostensibly digital but in reality a bunch of PDFs/Word docs. We've tried to put in structure and the feedback was "it's all a bit clicky". Turns out the officers just want to copy/paste text from previous decision documents.

Interesting that Fizzy doesn't seem to follow this pattern though there's some references to it in the commit history. Wonder why that was? Perhaps the intention make the source available made them adopt a more traditional Rails pattern? dev.37signals.com/the-rails-de...

15 hour working week? More likely to be people postponing retirement after their savings cratered when the AI bubble burst - having to work low paid care jobs as AI has replaced them at their office jobs. www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

Pretty sure I have a small glass fragment in my foot but the sharp pain once or twice day is more bearable than the thought of trying to navigate A&E at the hospital - I mean, it'll come out eventually right?

Saw a post that the new self-hosted runner charge on GitHub Actions is going to cost them around $1000 per year for just one product team 😬 (That does seem a lot but I think it includes smoke tests that run every 15minutes)

That's Charlie Nunn, CEO of Lloyds Bank who took home £5.6m last year who appears to be hopelessly out of his depth.

I assume the person who wrote this wasn't including hospital porters and cleaners in "skilled frontline workers" yet they're every bit as vital to a functioning NHS as nurses and doctors.

I've always tended to avoid using the vcr gem, preferring to use webmock directly as it's easy to abuse it to record everything. However it comes into its own when recording embedding generation for pgvector based searches - no-one wants to mock vectors with 1024 dimensions 😅

This is just another in a long line of AI slop vulnerability reports on open source projects but it really does start to feel like we're being exploited to provide free training data 🫠 github.com/basecamp/fiz...

A quick check of archive.org shows the obr.uk website has been running on WordPress and using the Download Monitor plugin since 2017 - this has probably been well-known to some people for years. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Reading about the safe_sleep.sh bug on GHA and went to look at the runner code and basically it's in a code freeze. I guess a some point we're going to have to redo all our CI setups again 😭 github.com/actions/runner

Except they don't say how it was published early 🙄 A quick glance at the OBR website shows they use WordPress and a plugin 'Download Monitor'. They obviously scheduled the publication for the correct time in WP but didn't realise the actual file was unprotected www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

One of benefits of doing food shopping online is you can track the amount of inflation over time - today’s exorbitant rise is Cadbury’s Dairy Milk multi-pack. In November 2021 it was £2.50 for 10 x 29.3g bars, today it was £3.20 for 7 x 27.2g bars - effectively a doubling of the price per gram 🤯

The government is delusional if it thinks these companies are going to build them 1.5m homes before 2029 - they'll be asking to make houses out of sticks and straw next. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

For the life of me I can't understand why GitHub hasn't got an option to retry the job here and instead I'm forced to click through to the job details page and do it there

Obviously in honour of the World Series, the Rails Core team throws a curveball and releases 7.0.10, 7.1.6 and 7.2.3, which everyone else assumed were only getting security fixes and broke a bunch of checks in the ruby-advisory-db 😂 github.com/rubysec/ruby...

My bet is that HMRC knew these errors would happen but went ahead anyway because of the potential savings. Even at a 5% error rate you'll save tens of millions if not more, and it's not like they'll be worried about their reputation. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Always great to see an abuse contact in the RIPE database for tens of thousands of ip addresses be undeliverable 🙄

Is there anything more kafkaesque that the UK train ticket pricing - cheapest advance tickets for a journey tomorrow are £126 but by splitting at Rugby and Milton Keynes I can use off-peak returns for only £50 total and still have some flexibility that I don't with advance tickets 🤯

Given that it's taken more than 6 months to sort out a simple fuck-up by my ex-accountant about not filling the HICBC and pension contribution tax relief correctly on my SA where it basically cancels each other out I'm sure this will be fine and not cause case loads to rise exponentially.

Ruby Central dropped the ball here on securing the root account and effectively lost control of it for 11 days - however, that's nothing compared to changing the root password. If an ex-employee did that to me I'd be calling the police.

Looks like I've got to do some WordPress in the near future - will be good to get a break from all the drama 😅

Got an uptime alert for petition.parliament.uk - seems like there was a glitch in the european internet for a few minutes at 10:15 UTC 🤔

Monitoring petition.parliament.uk because of everything and noticed a large number of constant cache invalidations in the Ruby VM stats. Turns out that the the Loofah gem used by Rails calls Kernel.extend by way of Nokogiri's decorator feature fives times for every sanitize call 😭

It's ridiculous that I have to spend 10-15 minutes buying 4 separate tickets to travel from Coventry to London for a total of £73.60 whereas buying a single ticket costs £178. Even a non-refundable advance ticket is £95, whereas the separate tickets I've bought are either anytime or off-peak.

Learnt today that whilst you can get cover for one hour but the police insurance check only works by date. The driver who hit me took cover out for a short period during the day but it had expired by the time of the crash - seems like a massive loophole in the system 🙄 bsky.app/profile/pixe...

A warehouse development has started near me and despite their planning permission saying they should drive in forwards here they are just reversing in with no care for the other traffic - just a 'might is right' attitude.

Local newspaper posts AI slop from a PCSO's neighbourhood alert that contains AI slop generated from the local newspaper's original reporting in 2020 but has been misidentified as 2025 by ChatGPT. The usefulness of the internet as an information source is dissolving day-by-day with this nonsense.

There's a special place in hell reserved for those companies allowing 07XXX numbers to be used for sales calls in the UK. Also if you're a direct marketing operation, calling people in the UK on their mobiles when it's a bank holiday weekend isn't going to win you many orders.

Finally got a chance to take the bike up on to the moor proper this holiday

Dependabot updating jbuilder, rails from 6.1 to 8, dotenv-rails, activerecord-postgis-adapter, slim, and rgeo-proj4 is probably the most optimistic auto-generated pull request ever 😂 (only 39 out of 586 examples failing - is that good or bad 🤔)

But if this petition were acted upon it’d prove petitioning does do something 🤔 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

"you can't be creative if you use GenAI" is giving me "you can't be creative if you use a computer" vibes from the 90s - it's a tool, how you use it is whether its creative or not.

I'd ask everyone to bear in mind this is a Reach PLC website who's whole business model is now just clickbait - they're also running a story titled "Exact message you'll receive on UK phones during Armageddon alarm test" for the next nationwide test of the GOV.UK Alert on September 7th.