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.

That feeling when you've spent ages removing use of 'unsafe-inline' from the Content-Security-Policy header and then the client gives you a Google Tag Manager script that requires 'unsafe-eval' 😭

HMRC told me to wait 72 hours after making some changes to my account before trying to claim a refund online again - I can only think their servers are in a gravity well like the water planet in Interstellar 👨‍🚀

@coventrycc.bsky.social according to the permit on the one.network website, National Grid are meant to provide an alternative route but as you can see they haven't done so. They could've diverted people onto Momus Boulevard at the entry/exit points close by but there is no signage for that.

Our Cyber Essentials Plus is due for renewal and an enhanced check required by IAMSE this year is admin access being restricted to 2-3 people for a company our size. This means devs running as a standard user and entering a password for temporary elevated privileges isn't allowed.

Just getting misty eyed for the 2000s when you could build a Rails CMS with Action Pack page caching and not have to worry about all this bullshit because every thing was in app.css/js and you were serving static HTML in effect 🥹

Another day, plan for redundancies at a post-92 UK university. Please sign this petition to challenge the egregious cuts proposed by University of Leicester. We are witnessing the dismantling of UKHE. It has to stop. chng.it/HBSXrqMs5J @leicesterucu.bsky.social @uniteucu.bsky.social

Anyone would think I was inter-railing for a month round Europe and not just a day trip to London 😂

I just had to write 15 lines of JavaScript that uses the MutationObserver API to be notified when one library adds a class to an element so that I can reach into the shadow DOM of custom element to click a button. Just to make it even worse I had to wrap the button click in a setTimeout. 😭

Naming products after years is an idea that just won’t die 😂 Illustrator 88 Windows 95 Office 2010 macOS 26 Please make it stop

This is fine - just Google classifying domain verification emails from Amazon Route 53 as dangerous. Domain was suspended because I hadn't replied to the first email. 😭 (TBF to Google it is very spammy with a link to www.verify-whois.com )

Whenever someone berates me for not wearing a cycling helmet I always ask them if they're wearing a helmet round the house

After a long period of silence the driver's insurance company came back and said they were uninsured because they brought the insurance later that day after the accident. The thing that confuses me is their insurance is via brokers only, so what broker was open after 8pm on a Saturday? 🤔

At university we had an 'appropriate technology' module as part of our design course which included making a makeshift stove out of an old oil drum. We worked out that frying an egg looked a lot more impressive than trying to boil one and required a fraction of the heat - got an A+ on that module 😂

Weird framing in this article that it's somehow Tony Blair's fault for not ensuring the PO owned the code to Horizon that they have to pay to continue running it. 1) It cost money to run even your own code 2) Fujitsu didn't own all the parts of Horizon anyway www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Magical moment as a pair of Red Kites came hunting in the field outside the window of my study. Not going to be many more moments like this as they're building an 18m high warehouse for me to look at instead 😭 panattoni.co.uk/our-properti...

Very sunny out on the bike this morning but the fields look more like July than May - so little moisture in the ground

TIL about the "Backend for Frontend" pattern and immediately thought of this @tenderlove.dev classic 😂

The more I use them, the more I feel that Action Text and Active Storage sit uncomfortably with the philosophy of Rails and the push for hosting on regular VPS and using sqlite in production. "the Basecamp framework" is a jibe made about Rails and I think it sticks somewhat for these libraries.

UK IT #contracting — how’s it looking? I run a Discord for UK contractors. Everyone asks the same question, no one has data. Help me fix that. If you’ve contracted in the past year, fill the survey. I'll be sharing the results and insights in public. forms.gle/qXsUAczBLh94...

A Rails integration for this called AyeVar::TheEngine is just begging to be made 😂 (reference for non-UK GenX crowd: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivor_th...)

Avanti spent £350m on new trains and this is how they’ve decided to tell people what coach is what 😂

A bug with custom polymorphic urls in mounted engines spoilt a demo for our current project at work this week - turns out I could've fixed this back in 2017 😭 (it's still not fixed so I guess I should fix it now) github.com/rails/rails/...

OpenAI has got more heads than Worzel Gummidge at this point

Not sure what's going on with this recently updated advisory - the CVE is from 2014, logstash doesn't exist as gem and logstash-event doesn't use the affected code in the Elastic blog post github.com/advisories/G...

That’s not right 😭

Appears that the police never even bothered to open an investigation into my hit and run as they've told my insurer they have no record of the incident. Managed to send me a bill for the recovery of the car though. 🙄

Brits to Americans learning about bond yields this morning

We tried putting all the @unboxed.co website contents into GitHub using middleman and deploying to Netlify and the non-devs hated it. If it doesn't work for a development agency with a few hundred pages it's going to be a disaster for a government department with 55,000 pages.

Every UK exporter thinking... what if we moved our HQ here? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsyl...

Used DeepSeek as a starting point to write a cover letter for amending my tax return for last year and it signs off with: "Thank you for your assistance. I look forward to your confirmation once the amendment has been processed." Which is just horrendously passive aggressive for a British person 😂