We're good to go! #ebc25

🆕 blog! “Drunk CSS” A decade ago, I was writing about how you should test your user interface on drunk people. It was a semi-serious idea. Some of your users will be drunk when using your app or website. If it is easy for them to use, then it should be easy for sober people to use. Of course […]

Ending-Man. "The world's most popular computer video game system" Really? Please back this up with stats #ebc25 #retrogaming

👍#EBC25 social 19:00 - 04:00 with open bar 👎 My talk is the first one the morning after

While my @NetBSD colleagues were doing the important job of debating the best way to take advantage of a buffet, I prepared for #eurobsdcon2025 by going for a trail run through the beautiful woodlands at Maksimir Park armed only with a low-res GIF of an #orienteering map

Going to #eurobsdcon2025 and as a big #Beatles fan I'm pleased to say, "Move over once, move over twice. C'mon baby don't be cold as ice. I'm travelling on the ..."

With all this talk of paracetamol and #tylenol I'm curious about how a branded version is so pervasive in the US for what is a cheap generic drug in the UK and what that means for healthcare costs. How much is a pack of 16x 500mg tablets of Tylenol in the US? In the UK, we pay less than 40p in […]

Yay, #trains. 27th September 2025 marks 200 years since Locomotion Number 1 ran on the Stockton and Darlington railway. If you can get this, see why 4ft 8½ inches is used across the world […]

If you are UK resident and care about #caskale, sign the petition to get a Parliament debate asking the UK Government to give cask beer UNESCO status, under the Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage. https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/716686

As suspected, the leak between the cylinders was due to a gasket leak between 2 & 3

"A request was also made to remove the condition that prevented anyone taking part in axe throwing from being allowed to drink alcohol, and to remove the condition that prevented them from using beer in the beer pong games." […]

Bit of a homecoming gig at Fitzwilliam College, #cambridge for my ceilidh band today. Nearly exactly 35 years ago, we started the band and soon after played in the very same room. Two of the original members are on the stage and another's been in it for 32 years

Before the MapRun #orienteering prize-giving the other day, there was a fun exercise to draw some GPS art with one mandatory location to visit besides the start/finish. Here's what I drew by guesswork. Bonus points to #cambridge residents who know where this is

I found #ebay! Apparently it's just outside Doncaster and the small print says "It Is What It Is"

I got a lovely drinking vessel for winning the summer MapRun #orienteering league in and around #Cambridge. If you'd like to try out this sort of thing (smartphone orienteering at your own convenience) take a look at https://MapRun.uk/ to find courses in […] [Original post on justfollow.me.uk]

The office politics of picking the right coffee so that you don't quite finish off the milk thus avoiding going to the shops to replace it. See also, avoiding entirely filling the bin

I don't really get the point of all this baby "gender reveal" stuff. It's one of life's purest surprises. We purposefully avoided finding out and asked not to be told during scans. Having said that, I was sure we were having a boy and when my daughter came out, my first thought was "Oh no, now […]

Going from #cambridge to #norwich today for the British Sprint #orienteering Championships and we're staying overnight. The hotel is booked through booking.com and it's very keen to upsell flights "from £1449". So I clicked through and they are recommending I drive to Heathrow (further than […]

It's almost time for a weekend of East Anglia-based #orienteering fun! https://www.britishsprintchamps.org.uk/page/SprintsWeekend_home

Night #orienteering FTW at the White Rose Weekend in Dalby Forest, North Yorkshire

Alive and brewing: the 10 best, most overlooked, British breweries https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2025/08/alive-and-brewing-the-10-best-most-overlooked-british-breweries/ Roger Protz identifies 10 of the best British beer makers that are somewhat off the radar and reveals why each one […]

"If you would like to be environmentally friendly", don't wrap your single-use plastic glasses in single-use plastic film

I can't work out which is the most redundant word here, they all seem wrong

@the_etrain Looks from my time-line that you are naming and shaming the culprit

I wonder how many non-UK dwellers would know why the cat café in Chatham is called Mrs Slocombes

Taking the daughter on the little steam train through the woods. Lived in #Cambridge since 1990 and I've not known about this until seeing it on @cambridgediary.bsky.social

Proud of my daughter: "Where's a good place I can upload photos from my various projects where I know they're safe and I can't get locked out or lose access?". This is a 20-year old iPhone user brought up on Google Classroom/Drive, etc. So I run my own servers across various datacentres, do I go […]

My first time stripping a cylinder head down

Oh great, now there's a bat in the bedroom and it's going absolutely bananas. #sweetdreams

Faggots! #badpicsoffood

I don't understand this scary new TV programming

Yes, I have voted in the #cambridge Chancellor election

The wife has gone down the pub. Time for Fray Bentos pie (best before Nov 2024) and out of date Jersey Royals. #manfood

At recent weekend #orienteering events there were bottles of water at the finish because of the heat. Today's race in Lincoln was sponsored by Walkers, so there were boxes of crisps instead. Not quite as thirst-quenching

According to my #garmin, I'm not in peak condition for the #orienteering race in Lincoln today

Having a bit of an #orienteering jolly this weekend in the #campervan. Staying in #lincoln ready for the city race tomorrow after running in #nottingham earlier. The 12 final controls on a 1:2000 map was novel

Threw out the Oximiser which has always been flimsy and the last straw was when the bike's battery was flat when I needed it. Oximiser, as a device to maintain a battery's charge when not in use, you had one job... Hopefully the new gadget will be better […] [Original post on justfollow.me.uk]

Yes, this is headline news in #cambridge https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/local-news/lurid-pink-penis-painting-appears-32025420

I'm immensely proud of the West Anglian Orienteering Club (WAOC) junior squad for winning the national inter-club junior #orienteering final yesterday. As club chairman, I have to pay tribute to the current captain, junior captain and coaches, but this has been a long time in the making, so all […]

Starting our #camra minibus tour of rural pubs at the Shelford Feast beer festival #realale

Just purchased Tomb Raider I-III Remastered for my daughter's #Switch2. As I understand it, the virtual game card mechanism will allow me to play it on her original #Switch when she goes back to university. We can still play the original PS1 version on our […] [Original post on justfollow.me.uk]

Delighted to report that my talk on Building products with @netbsd has been accepted for @EuroBSDCon #netbsd #runbsd #eurobsdcon2025

[F1 the movie and 4dx (possible spoilers)] Went to see F1 the movie at a Cineworld 4dx yesterday and it was a horrible experience. It actively ruined watching the film and was a complete gimmick. As for the film, interesting, but weak on credible story-line. The attempts at showing the sport […]

I am mildly curious why my wheelie bin has a sound level rating. 99dB SPL is pretty loud

#TIL that my grandad (who died 6 years before I was born) worked as a senior clerk at Scunthorpe steelworks until he was 50, but then decided to follow his wife's career by going to hairdressing college and setting up a salon. He became a respected expert on hair-dying.

Anyone else have @signalapp anxiety? You enthuse about its benefits and openness, lack of AI, etc. and generally sell the dream. Then the target installs it, sets up a profile and you finally get to see how many of their contacts already use Signal. Will it be 1, 10, 100?

I don't think I'll be doing much on the Internet here in rural France

#TIL that Wetherspoons do a cheese and broccoli pizza that is only available at airports

Is there anything that says "I'm going on holiday" more than sitting in an airport Wetherspoons at 11am with your last pint of #realale

Retro games night. Parappa the Rapper 2 on PS2 #retrogame