I was 30 before I'd had my fifth prime minister. My 12 year old will shortly see her seventh.

Over the weekend somebody opened 25 PRs on one of my projects. They are AI-assisted (which is allowed), but the ones I've looked at seem good quality and useful. But how am I supposed to review 25 PRs well? That's days of work, even with AI assistance on my end. What policy could prevent this?

What a dream team

This is such a good post. It makes me want to go and sit in a mixed broadleaf woodland (which, tbf I usually want to do).

Preparing my submission for @vuefes.bsky.social, which is very high stakes for me because it's one that I really want to go to

Never been happier to lose a bet

The odds on Reform UK winning the Makerfield by-election seem absurdly generous right now. A tenner would win you £90 on Betfair, which would be enough to drink yourself into oblivion if the worst should happen.

Hey, look, a silly post from the @bsky.app account that absolutely nobody could get super irrationally angry about! right?

A had to stifle my laughter, having six(!) people turn up from the parish and county councils bearing clipboards and hi-vis to complain about a fence, clearly raring for an argument, and seeing them visibly deflate when I was super friendly and helpful and immediately agreed to their requests.

Amazing quote in the FT from a Makerfield voter. Supports the far right, but *still* wants Burnham to win. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Neil Houlsby and Amanda Askell simultaneously turn their keys and the lift begins to slowly descend towards the vault, deep below Anthropic Zurich.

The media really seems to be missing the significance of the Fable ban. The FT is the only major news outlet that I've looked at this morning that gives it any kind of prominence.

Astro is the official sponsor of Club Deportivo de Astronautas

YESSSSS!!!!!!

Wait, what the fuck? Yes, it's *that* Steve Hilton. For Americans: this is like if you suddenly heard that David Axelrod had gone full Marxist and was favourite to become Mayor of London.

It's all happening on X, the everything app

Anyone else getting a For You feed that's mostly not changing, with lots of stuff hanging around after refreshing?

Can we replace all CAPTCHAs with letter counting?

That's a new one

Cirrus monetisation strategy

Be careful out there. I just saw an American talking about British food.

IKEA.com is Astro on Cloudflare

Something I've been meaning to build for a while. Conformance testing for your PDS. Includes read-only, read/write and OAuth tests. Checks against specs as well as reference implementation where the spec is unclear. check.cirrus.earth

I was wondering why I wasn't able to detach quotes and found that Bluesky is checking for the exact wording of an error message to see if a threadgate record is missing. Surely there has to be a better way of doing this?

ffs can we not make GLP-1s a culture war thing

It's elderflower and antihistamine day!

Web serial....so you know what this means, Bluesky? We can now use Firefox to flash our Xteink firmware!

its just like me fr 🥹

huge if true

My 12 year old: I've done my hair like this because I want to look like a thesbian Me: it's pronounced 'thespian' 12yo: no, I don't mean thespian. I mean I want to look like a 'theatre lesbian'

I regret to report that there are lots of potential Shaft jokes in current news headlines

We're trying an experiment. Come and join in if you're interested.

This is the most enthusiastic test failure of my life

I should add that while EmDash does use TanStack Router in its admin, the dependencies are pinned so EmDash sites should not be affected.

Good postmortem on the @tanstack.com supply-chain attack. The key part (which should be called out loudly): never run install on untrusted code inside a `pull_request_target` workflow. tanstack.com/blog/npm-sup...

Are there any atproto services that maintain an index of which PDSs hold records of a particular lexicon? This seems like the kind of thing @bad-example.com would have

We use OpenCode at work, and while it's great in many ways, I can't stand its TUI. I really hope this works.

This is the one silver lining of the disgusting deal: it's confirmation that Grok has failed. Colossus should be destroyed and Anthropic should be ashamed of what they've done, but it's better to have Claude running there than Mechahitler.

me: posts long thread about datacenters and how most of them aren't that awful for their environment, with the noted exception of xAI's Memphis datacenter which Musk created specifically to be as horrible as possible anthropic: you know what, we'll just use that one! remember, we're the good guys!

My current job is the first time I've worked for a public company which issued RSUs, so I'd never previous experienced the rollercoaster of seeing the value of a good chunk of my total comp swing up and down by double digit percentages over a period of days.

Big. I wonder if we'll see this from some of the other labs too now.

Now with DRAFT LEXICONS!!!

only the pure function shall see the light of god

Cirrus (my single-user PDS than runs in a Cloudflare Worker) now supports granular OAuth scopes and permission sets. github.com/ascorbic/cir...

Which atproto services are using auth scopes and permissions sets?

Today I'm launching astro.jobs! It's an unofficial job board for the @astro.build ecosystem. If you're looking for a job or if you have open positions related to Astro, check it out!

4th of May to you!

Them, foolish gen z: the X-files makes the 90s look cool Me, wisely: let me tell you about a town called Srebrenica...