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Few things have more profoundly impacted my sense of British identity than finding out that Werther’s Originals are German

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I don't want self-driving cars. I don't want humanoid robots. I don’t want AI in every app I use. I want clean water. I want a stable climate. I want a habitable planet.

“I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood….we fear the visibility …

Love this for us

I reached out to the author of this viral Reddit post thinking there might be a story in it. He sent me an employee badge that Gemini flagged as being AI-generated and supporting documents that I suspect were also generated by AI. Be careful out there folks! https://www.reddit.com/r/confession/comments/1q1mzej/im_a_developer_for_a_major_food_delivery_app_the/

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CW: self-harm/suicide topic This is my semicolon tattoo. I’ve been sober from self-harm/ideation/attempts for about 8 years now. It’s been a hard road but I’m still here. And I’m glad you are too.

Evergreen post: surprise, surprise, my decision to use git submodules came back to bite me

the kids, they know how to name libraries. https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1q0maft/introduction_ffmpreg_a_complete_rewrite_of_ffmpeg/

I had a Tesco delivery this afternoon, the driver said, " I've got a couple of substitutions for you, here's your rosemary and haddock". I said, "this is neither the thyme or the plaice".

Many happy returns to everyone who has, for security purposes, given 1st January as their birthday when registering for online services.

Cookin'.

Someone asked me what the plan for the blog was, and tbh there’s not much of a plan at this point. I just have a lot of pent up thoughts and feelings about package management that I kind of expected other people to write about over the past few years and no-one did… so I’m just brain dumping.

Happy Winterval. I hope you’re all enjoying your war on Christmas.

Blue isn't my color but it arrived just in time to showcase my nerd status to my family for Christmas.

What you need to know about local model tooling and the steps for setting one up yourself

if you find yourself editing a dependabot.yml file, stop right now and forget about it and use the open source renovatebot instead. it's so. much. better. https://github.com/renovatebot/renovate

something like renovate would go a long way

I don't like boxing but today is a great day to be a fan of assholes getting their shit rocked on live TV

I feel like I'm going to get a lot of use out of this Pluribus screencap

In arguing about Macaulay Culkin's wrong opinion with @theladyfiasco, I have talked myself into the position that "Die Hard" is *more* of a Christmas movie than "Home Alone."

I’ve been following what Justin Searls has been doing with his blog for some time. He’s been leaning into the “POSSE” (Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere) philosophy more and more. In practice, this looks like building your own version of a single-serving social network on your own site and exposing RSS/Atom feeds to other services to consume. Justin recently released POSSE Party which makes this easier by cross-posting to various social networks. I’ve complained for a while about (anti)social networking so I’m always up for new ways to use social networking less.

I have been gainfully unemployed for exactly one year. Spending today exploring the north of New Zealand, then after Xmas seeing friends in Melbourne, finishing the year on a beach in Thailand. I wonder what 2026 will bring? A bit of FOSDEM for certain and we've got Interrail tickets booked. But *work*? Hmmm… we'll see!

New video on updating container images with Renovate. The demo uses the Renovate GitHub Action but pairs it with Octo-STS so you don't need to create a PAT. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0hWRMtdUyI

20,000 issues on GitHub https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/12/16/20000-issues-on-github/ #curl

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blur the hands as a bit, no one will ever know

pastrami fries, bitch

I’ve started using the term HTML tools to refer to HTML applications that I’ve been building which combine HTML, JavaScript, and CSS in a single file and use them to …

Code review heuristics for reviewing AI-generated code.

Just got to present at AI Dev Days! What a cool event, I've seen a few of the other presentations now leading up to mine and it has been such a great learning opportunity 😄

Attached: 1 image me blowing dust off my unposted lifenotes from nearly a year ago

introducing .🥺, the world’s first bottom-level domain

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you’re very popular on linkedin (DEROGATORY)

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This week, Ruby on Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson and WordPress founding developer Matt Mullenweg started fighting about what "open source" means. I've spent twenty years working on open …

It has been a busy year 👀

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Who has made this 🤣

I stumbled onto webrings and, for a moment, accidentally fell back into the OG internet

Stumbled across webrings this weekend; it was a little nostalgia trip into the weird, human-scale web I used to love <3 https://darylcecile.net/notes/rediscovering-the-internet

Checking out sidetrail and sharing some wisdom that may be helpful to you 👀 https://sidetrail.app/@brittanyellich.com/trail/3m7db273dmc2u

bout to taste that Grussy