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Why do I need a PhD in Google to use anything they make
If Zendesk's emails became undeliverable, perhaps they would actually deal with the spam problem.
> the team designed a field experiment with a custom-made bat accelerator machine
this is the sort of scientific research I can get behind
www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2026/ja...
trying to use dynamically typed languages again
Also goodwill-generating since I can always find at least one when I need a pen.
Two pens from 123inkt.nl. Yellow clicky ballpoints bearing the various domains through which the company operates.
The free pens from 123<whatever>.nl are such great marketing. They seem inescapable anywhere in the Netherlands.
Feel like I'm going crazy here. Didn't the government just spend a bunch of political capital passing an unpopular, overreaching Online Safety Act so that they could censor the internet?
And now X is deliberately mass producing abuse content and they are going to do... nothing?
I am extremely confused as to why the UK government and police are saying Grok’s mass-scale CSAM generation is an issue for Ofcom.
This isn’t about X failing to moderate CSAM, which is an Online Safety Act issue. It is about the company and its technology being actively involved in its generation.
Jazz musicians performing in the Vondelkerk in Amsterdam.
Just three weeks ago I went to a jazz gig at the beautiful Vondelkerk.
Now it's been destroyed by careless idiots with fireworks. Infuriating.
I recently wrote some thoughts on wrapping Rust libraries for Wasm plus a couple patterns that I use to make wasm-bindgen feel a bit more manageable. No silver bullets here but maybe some sensible defaults (fight me in the comments 😛) notes.brooklynzelenka.com/Blog/Notes-o...
Do you think employees do this because it's useful in some way? Or because CloudKitchens' business model basically centres around deceiving consumers, and this is a good way to avoid backlash?
Seat selector on the AJet website, advertising emergency exit row seats as having 'Direct access to emergency exit'
I'm not sure that listing the feature 'direct access to emergency exit' sends quite the right message here.
Help, I keep crashing my car into this large and avoidable concrete obstacle
A screenshot of the 'Where Should I Aim?' web application for analysing the best place to throw a dart depending on the distribution of your throws.
Solving unimportant problems with poorly-supported browser APIs.
https://www.rossng.eu/posts/2025-08-09-where-should-i-aim/
Screenshot of the AprilTag Detector app, showing a sample uploaded photo.
I couldn't find a nice way to detect AprilTags on my phone. Here's a little web app to solve that.
www.rossng.eu/apriltag-mob...
(details: www.rossng.eu/posts/2025-0...)
A table with three columns. The latter two columns are titled 'how it's described' and 'how it feels'. The rows: A1 - basic phrases - awful A2 - simple communication - terrible B1 - everyday conversation - barely coherent B2 - independent discussion - tolerable C1 - complex expression - decent C2 - native fluency - unattainable
My guide to the CEFR levels of language proficiency
Users don't understand what LLMs can and can't do. We should probably do something about that.
www.rossng.eu/posts/2025-0...
The title of a page on the Ile-de-France Mobilités website, claiming that the ticket system is easy.
The matrix describing which pass supports which type of ticket, which is almost comically complex.
It's so easy to navigate cities now that most have simple contactless payments for public transport.
Meanwhile, Paris:
Very impressed with DJI service: 45 EUR total (incl. labour, postage) to repair a damaged gimbal. With sub-week turnaround.
Dear Audible member, We're updating the price of your Premium Plus membership
Law of physics: corporate entities are incapable of writing any text containing the phrase 'we are increasing the price'
Build your own learning tools: a small thought about how programming computers lets you take matters into your own hands.
https://www.rossng.eu/posts/2025-04-27-build-your-own-learning-tools/
A screenshot from the Frank Energie app, showing electricity prices by hour throughout today. Prices are significantly cheaper in the middle of the day.
There's something immensely satisfying about putting the washing machine on at exactly the right time.
Shameful. I can't see how they can continue to be a party to the ECHR after this.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/14/hungary-poised-to-adopt-constitutional-amendment-to-ban-lgbtq-gatherings
A schematic of the proposed road changes to the Triangle in Bristol, including a segregated two-way cycle path and the narrowing of roads.
Back when I was living in Bristol it was barely conceivable that one day through traffic might be removed from Park Street. And, on top of that, real segregated cycling facilities through the Triangle!
Drivers nearly killed or injured me many, many times on […]
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SQLite does TEXT COMPARISONS on my datetimes?!
A long list of US politics-related muted words
As a non-American it is increasingly difficult to have a normal feed on this app
Bidirectional cycle lane gives up for a side road
They've built a new two lane(!) road to access one electricity pylon. Of course the cycle lane gives up entirely to accommodate this and cyclists have to give way to the any vehicle that might be using it to carry out maintenance on this pylon
Being able to use Rust in the browser is great, but it comes with some sharp corners. One such corner is passing arrays of Rust objects into Rust code.
In this post I look at some options and the tradeoffs that come with each.
www.rossng.eu/posts/2025-0...
the pin!-ning will continue until compilation succeeds
Recently I learned of the view that appeasement was necessary for Allied victory in WWII. Why? It was the only way to build enough public support to respond to the eventual invasion of Poland.
We are in the same bind today. Do we increase defence spending and consequently cede politics at home […]
