We are fundraising to secure a vital section of the River Meon - please donate if you can 🙏💚 www.hiwwt.org.uk/meon

Updated climate indicators graphics, now including 2025 ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...

Not sure if it's just me but LinkedIn seems to have a new influx of bots (all "website designer" with similar style profile pics) who want to connect with me from half way around the world 🤖

Leadership: "AI is so good it writes almost all our code" Status dashboard:

Like a latter-day Dr. Frankenstein, I have revived my Eruptions blog from beyond the grave. My hope is that it doesn't wreak havoc, but instead returns me to writing about volcanoes regularly. You should check it out! eruptions.site/2026/01/28/w...

Currently on the easel. Thankful for a job that keeps me on the search for the most beautiful, moving sights I can find in nature. It’s too easy to forget we live in a world of wonders.

Everyone should read this: www.gov.uk/government/p...

The best way of describing someone who’s all talk and no action that I’ve ever heard in the UK, by far, is “they’re all wardrobe and no Narnia.” * read on for fun ways of saying “all talk and no action” in other languages (a thread)

discovered a pretty critical coding error in The Human Body where sometimes the way to feel better when you feel too bad to work out is to work out. this is suboptimal for user experience of The Human Body

Run report: a fine end to the day in Hampshire. 9km, 8C. #ukweather

I do hope everyone in tech is subscribed to @quinnypig.com "I construct the MIME message manually. It's fine. Everything is fine. We're fine. We're all fine here, now, thank you. How are you?" 😂 www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/i-hope-...

Honestly this works for everything “I want to trap hungry 19c ghosts in jars to help us with historical research” ✅ “Please read our holiday card; we got a hungry ghost to write it this year” ❌

GitHub Copilot is down, looks like I'll have to go back to using my old fashioned brain today www.githubstatus.com/incidents/1l...

Winchester with its best winter coat on this morning -7C #ukweather

Who is it at @metoffice.gov.uk that thinks this is useful? 3 different categories of warning for essentially the same weather and 4 overlapping warning areas 🙄❄️

Got a few quid spare? You could do some good here...

Unfortunately for me, this does not sound fun 😕

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Today is winter solstice ❄️ A perfect day to align with Earth’s rhythms and find peace in winter’s beauty. 📸: Ian Brierley

Absolutely shocking. We're offering an overall award of £10k for information that leads to a conviction in these cases. We need to make raptor persecution a thing of the past.

This little gem is tucked away in the release notes for VS Code 1.107 🙌 On macOS you can now navigate between editors using 3-finger swipe gesture with the trackpad. Enable this with the workbench.editor.swipeToNavigate setting.

The group plans to launch a social network under the name "Twitter.new," possibly as early as late next year.

Lots of great suggestions already (thank you!) but so far my favourite is Let the Bodies Hit the Floor vs Teletubbies...

Has a look at my feed - ***dooooooom*** - turns off and goes for a walk in the sunshine

Spec driven development + agentic AI to generate code seems like a good idea on the surface, but what does it leave for me to do? Gather requirements, write specs, press some buttons, review the AI's code, perform manual testing. Writing my own code was the fun part...

It is [0] days since I trashed a live database 😱 (but also: yay for working backups)

This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu

Looking forward to this - it's a real improvement on having to match arrays by index

As a pedestrian and rider I feel this one almost every day 😭

Silicon Valley, 1990s: Free and open access to all the world’s knowledge will usher a new utopian age of information! Silicon Valley, 2025:

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Slack has changed to hide "inactive" channels and apps by default. Some kind of announcement would have been nice, I thought I was going mad. It makes it pretty hard to reactivate a conversation when it's not there any more...

The majority of Britons think important places for nature should have stronger protections. Only 2% think protections should be weakened... yet that’s where ministers keep pushing.

Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

Birds but they get spookier each time. 🎃👻 Enter if you dare...🚪

something pretty galling when the National Gallery gets two individual gifts of £150 million each to build one gallery as the Northumberland Wildlife Trust has to scrabble around for £30 million to buy the Rothbury Estate and restore it to nature 🫠

Ride report - legs would prefer to hibernate, weather deciding that “largely dry” doesn’t mean it can’t rain for some of it #ukweather #ukmtb

There is a moment at this time of year when the word ‘apricity’ really comes into view. For those who don’t know it, it was recorded only once, in 1623, before slipping out of view. Apricity is the warmth of the sun on a chilly day.

... not to mention, AWS themselves has UK data centers! Using US infra means data subject to US regulations + government access. Kind of problematic for something like tax record, PII etc

A brief review of my waterproof gear after 45 minutes commuting in heavy rain: Berghaus Stormcloud jacket ✅ (and *such* a good hood), Rab Downpour trousers ✅, Merrell Moab Speed 2 gore-tex boots - left ✅ & right ❌ - time to dry my socks off #loveukweather

Artist: Ninj https://b3ta.com/board/11422013 From the 'Ruin A Bond Poster' challenge https://b3ta.com/challenge/ruinabondposter/popular/ #RuinABondPoster

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every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

Run report: full english breakfast not the best fuel for running but the South Downs making up for it

And a nice writeup of the story here: www.science.org/content/arti...

"There are currently one to two Starlink satellites falling back to Earth every day ... Soon, McDowell told us, there will be up to 5 satellite reentries per day." 😳

Just remembered Microsoft Visual Source Safe and how terrible it was at actually keeping your source safe #codinginthe90s

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