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Coffee at the cafe may cost around $6.50. But I’m not...

Gallery: Newport Workshops Open Day

On the train heading into the city. It’s like freaking peek hour.

My Coolify instance has been running really slowly over the last few days. I may start looking at alternatives, or maybe go back to using Dokku.

Was trying to launch a PostgreSQL Docker container and was seeing it fail with the following error:

Ooh, this is a nice new feature of Pocket Casts: the web player now includes chapter markers in the scrubber. You can mouse over them to get the chapter name...

It’s apt ed and apk licable to brew something yum occasionally. #package-management-humour 😜

Go iterators don’t have a built in way to send errors back, so I borrowed something from Haskell and made a “maybe” type:

Had a go (heh) at making a Go iterator. It was simpler than I expected, once I got my head around how they work. It’s a push model, the iterator pushes...

Argh! Yeah, frickin’ tram replacement busses. Effin loving the Grand Prix. 👎

Must say the MacBook Neo looks like an interesting offering. I don’t need a laptop — I use a desktop at home — but that may be where the strength of su...

Are the sounds made by reversing EVs designed to be awful? Well, I guess they get my head turning so they must be doing something right. 😏

Really enjoying Inkwell, @manton ’s RSS reader. Using it on the phone has been pretty good. Adjusting to the riv...

Here’s a pitch for the maintainers of Homebrew: make brew update and brew upgrade aliases of the same command, then add <cod...

Well mark this one off your bucket list: appearing in a tourist’s YouTube video recommended to you by the algorithm. 😄

Devlog: 3rd March 2026

Ooh, the barge is back. This time it’s car themed, probably because of the F1.

Oof! As a non-American, it’s sometimes a little hard to listen to Ben Thompson.

I do wonder if some of the patterns we’ve been using in software engineering, like multi-repo micro-service architecture, is actually a determent to ag...

How is it that people making screenshot mark-up apps still don’t understand that the blend mode for highlights should be multiply, not mix with alpha. ...

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