Just had to reboot the car at 50mph 😬 Engine cut out and a dialog came up on the dashboard display saying “Manual restart required” - I just pushed the button and the engine restarted thankfully

Did anyone get Dependabot alerts for crass and websocket-driver gems? Seems like these should've triggered alerts but I have nothing across our whole organisation - not even the alert let alone opening a PR. github.com/faye/websock... github.com/rgrove/crass...

Is Dependabot skipping some security advisories? I've had no alerts for the websocket-driver 0.8.1 release on any of our repos.

Sainsbury's website has been gradually degrading over the past few months to the point now where it's unusable. Basket contents disappear and reappear and it confused the order I was amending with another one that I had to checkout twice - eventually had to cancel the order completely 🤯

I ordered a iPhone 17e upgrade from EE and supposedly there's a problem with the order and it's directed me to a chat on ee-livechat.sprinklr.com with the person asking for a OTP sent to my phone - to which my response was "no way am I sending that to you"

Some people should've stayed in ballet and not got that job in cyber

Is there a bigger lie in Veterinary Science than the word "palatable" on medicine for cats?

Things you don't want to see brought back from the 90s - export controls on maths www.anthropic.com/news/fable-m...

"Cyclists should wear hi-vis so drivers can see them"

The OS has been having problems since this morning according to this and one of our websites is affected but there doesn't appear to be any coverage online? osdatahub.os.uk/support/status

Claude Design is an absolute dumpster fire - it's output is just full of inconsistencies, redundant elements and accessibility issues.

"by whatever means" is people must die to put others off but they don't want to say it out loud because it makes them sound like the monsters they are.

New blog post: GDS weighs in on the NHS's decision to retreat from Open Source https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/gds-weighs-in-on-the-nhss-decision-to-retreat-from-open-source/ Within the UK's Civil Service you occasionally hear the expression "being invited to a meeting without biscuits". It …

Isn't most of the data exfiltrated here going to be under the OGL anyway? What's the point other than DOS or a practice attempt against more valuable targets?

Didn't realise DHH had started working for the BBC

A client of ours has a events calendar with dates in the url of ':year/:month/:day' and AI crawler bots are sending requests with dates hundreds or even thousands of years in the future - are they looking for unpublished events or vulnerabilities? At the point of blocking they were 10% of traffic 🤯

Smoke coming out of the shop on this Avanti train and we’re just told to sit and wait - how hard is it to decide whether it’s bad enough to get off or okay to continue?

Trying to help a non-dev setup Claude Code to use devcontainers in VS Code whilst they're running as a standard user because of Cyber Essentials Plus requirements and it's not finding docker because it's in ~/.docker/bin and that's not in #$PATH 😭

Two unpatched LPEs on all major linux distros before 9.00am on a Friday 🫠

This is my local ward where my mother-in-law has been a Labour councillor for three decades. The thought that this person might replace her at the count later today because they support Reform's concentration camps is making me feel sick.

Made it back in time to vote despite Avanti’s best efforts to stop me - had to travel home via Reading as Euston was closed 😅 #BikesAtPollingStations

AI really turning out to be a monkey's paw shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05...

Same vibe coming from the local council candidates here

Normal person with time machine: "Let's go back and shoot Hitler" Me with time machine: "Let's go back and shoot the person who decided embedding JavaScript in a PDF is a good idea"

I'm hoping this is an oversight but naming your new project the same as the co-op of the people you're in dispute with over ownership of some GitHub repos isn't exactly MINSWAN

People were definitely extolling the virtues of the internet back then (I was one of them!) but I don't remember Martha Lane Fox saying 50% of white collar jobs will be gone in 6-12 months.

One easy trick to prevent yourself having your social media account compromised - don't have friends who would DM you about voting them onto a podcast. (Alternatively, if you really must have such friends make sure you have 2FA enabled)

"The real threat is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing. Not a dramatic collapse. Not Skynet. Just a generation of researchers who can produce results but can't produce understanding." ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...

Just got a GitHub Enterprise email about data residency changes to an archived organisation id that I was never a member of - spidey senses tingling (remembering the trauma from when a Rails update caused a mailshot failure for GHE)

Just going to take a sip of my coffee and check out how one of our projects that uses axios and is deployed to Railway is doing… 🫠

If you're wondering, yes this does mean they can drop one into the centre of London.

Avanti West Coast have sent me an email about upcoming changes to the national refund policy because I bought a flexible ticket in the last six months. Only problem is they've sent an email for every ticket without de-duping email addresses, which with split ticketing is a lot of emails. 😭

D:Ream's "Things can only get better" - not for its use in the 1997 General Election but prior to that I was living in a flat in Southfields during the week and the person downstairs played on repeat every morning 🙉 (I'm convinced it must have been Peter Mandelson)

Doing a rewatch of Stargate SG-1 and in an episode where the team travel back in time to 1969 a hippie make a reference about crossing the border into Canada to avoid the (Vietnam) war and Teal'c goes "What war? The war with Canada?" - which hits very different in 2026 than it did in 1999. 😅

We keep being told that the cost of custom software is trending to zero so why aren't the UK government using Claude Code, etc. to remove the need for Palantir?

At $15-25 per PR I doubt this is solving the OSS PR slop problem 🫠

I see we're at the straight up quote tweeting Tommy Robinson stage now - not even laundering it through a blog post. (The fact that he didn't even realise the video is from Australia and not the UK is 🤯)

'SKILLS.md' should really be called 'SPELLS.md' because it's basically magic incantations for programming

First 25km commute to the train station since November and despite doing 2000km since then on the turbo trainer the cold, wind and 10kg rucksack makes you feel so unfit 😮‍💨

I love to play Russian roulette with software when changing its config 🙈

“It’s not “unethical” to scrape the web in order to create and analyze data-sets. That’s just “a search engine”” Yesterday, 100k hits to mapit.mysociety.org by “Mac” “Chrome” (50k of them 5:30-6am). 72,831 IP addresses. Blocked at 8:20am. It’s not unethical in theory. It is unethical in practice.

A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

This is why OpenAI bought openclaw - they saw the guy who burned through $20 checking whether it was daytime yet and thought "smart lamp!"

Aside from Claude completely hallucinating that Active Record named scopes add a predicate method, I wonder whether over time Ruby codebases will use less and less meta programming since it's difficult for LLMs to include the generated code in the context.

"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? 🫠