Happy March! (We like to get in early)
New monthly challenge released for our game: www.secondguessing.net
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Happy March! (We like to get in early)
New monthly challenge released for our game: www.secondguessing.net
@thisisgelb.bsky.social Hey, I'm trying to email you but getting "550 5.1.1 The email account that you tried to reach does not exist." errors?
"The v4 tape in the Unix history repo" from Diomidis Spinellis at #FOSDEM
Fun to see "Hello World" written on a 50 year old operating system. unixv4.dev
And UNIX used to have a Spider Interface? Why did we scrap that?!
Happy February! (Coming soon, depending on your time zone)
We just released the monthly challenge for our game Second Guessing, give it a try: www.secondguessing.net
#SecondGuessing
(Game now with TypeScript behind the scenes to help ensure everything works correctly)
I added a bunch of stuff to virtuallyattend.teacaketech.scot/fosdem/2026/ today to make it easier to use - if you are interested in remote streaming sessions tomorrow check it out!
That's day 1 of #FOSDEM remote viewing wrapping up.
Thanks again to the speakers & volunteers who stream things so well and keep things to good time, makes it easy to hop round between rooms and talks.
"PyInfra: Because Your Infrastructure Deserves Real Code in Python, Not YAML Soup" at #FOSDEM
I've never seen so many Rowan Atkinson images in a talk.
I feel like it should have come with a quiz round of what film/tv each was afterwards.
Good talk too, I'll have another look at PyInfra.
So wait, CodeBerg/Forgejo supports sha256 git hash format but GitHub doesn't?
So if you have a repo you want to put online but don't want anyone to put on GitHub you should use sha256?
#FOSDEM #Git
Well that is the first set of features and bug fixes (whoops) deployed while listening to opening keynote. Now to settle down to learn about the future of git.
#FOSDEM
Morning, it's #FOSDEM weekend. I'll be watching along virtually.
I made a schedule viewer that lets you browse in any time zone: virtuallyattend.teacaketech.scot/fosdem/2026/
I'll be updating that and bug fixing over the weekend too I'm sure 🙂
Let me know if you use it & what you think of it!
A large group of people, including children, on bikes of all sizes cycle through a green space. The text reads: Pedal on Parliament - Save the date: 30th May 2026, 11.30am - #PoP26 - Meadows to Holyrood on closed roads, for a cycle-friendly Scotland
We’re back - Save the Date! In 2026 we Pedal on Parliament for a cycle-friendly Scotland, on Sat 30th May at 11.30am - Middle Meadow Walk to Holyrood, Edinburgh on closed roads.
#ThisMachineFightsClimateChange #pop26
Last night we talked at a virtual tech event about our relaunch - thanks to the attendees for a great discussion afterwards.
We've written up our talk here: blog.opentechcalendar.co.uk/2026/01/23/t...
Happy to hear feedback from people!
You missed the name at the top of the screenshot
@foundationsofthedigitalstate.com Email on www.teacaketech.scot/contact/ - happy to chat!
Just converted a site to my own static site builder and again found it really useful that the builder checked the output after it had built it. In this case, checking no internal links were broken highlighted a few errors.
We test / lint our code with automated tools, why not our static sites too?
Something I've thought for years - so I'm annoyed at past me that I'm still having issues here - is when you're making a thing, take and save lots of screenshots of it. Cos later, the thing won't be accessible any more but you'll want the screenshots for something.
Finally getting my talk ready for Wed: www.teacaketech.scot/our-virtual-...
Tried to find where I can recycle bike inner tubes & found a website that lists places. First 2 places near me have closed permanently & there's no way for me to easily report that to the site.
Community data projects are hard - reposting blog I wrote years ago: www.teacaketech.scot/blogs/2020-0...
Released a new version of my static site generator I use on a lot of projects. Now has better versioning of assets (Images, CSS, JS, etc) to support in-browser caching: docs.staticpipes.teacaketech.scot/stable/
Right now I'm doing some learning, some of my own projects and also looking around for freelance / contract / whatever soon. A WIP website for all this is at www.teacaketech.scot - I'll do a proper "looking for work" post with that soon (feedback welcome).
re Last repost, reminded me I haven't said this news here yet:
I've just left the worker's co-op I've been at for almost 8 years; thanks to everyone there who made it a great place to work and for all the interesting projects to work on.
The number one thing I've been hearing from people in tech lately is, basically, "How the hell am I supposed to work in this industry anymore?" Though most folks are kind of afraid to say it out loud. So I wrote about how to think about it: www.anildash.com/2026/01/05/a...
Having a look at Rust out of curiosity #rustlang
Reading the book: doc.rust-lang.org/book/
Just did the first advent of code puzzle in Rust #adventofcode
But just seen recommendation for rustlings.rust-lang.org which looks interesting too.
Happy New Year!
We've just released a new monthly challenge for our game, #SecondGuessing
We're proud of this one - our play tester's first comment was "woooooooow this is a bastard of a level i love it".
www.secondguessing.net
New art in this level, again by the great @patchworkbear.bsky.social
Today I threw together a web tool for people who want to attend FOSDEM virtually - the official site doesn't let you browse in your local timezone, which always seemed odd.
So here's my first go: virtuallyattend.teacaketech.scot/fosdem/2026/
Comments welcome!
@histoftech.bsky.social Thank you! 🙂
@histoftech.bsky.social Hello, hope you're doing well! I'm trying to get a project started and it seems like something you might approve of? Any chance of a boost if so? bsky.app/profile/open...
Load testing done with vegeta ( github.com/tsenart/vegeta )
Yesterday in Christmas: Made the Christmas Tiramisu.
Yesterday in tech: Boosting Django/Apache VM server.
Add mod_cache to Apache & cache-control/vary headers to Django & Apache's static files.
Load testing shows server handles multiples more simultaneous traffic than before.
Users browsers now cache assets, for snappy page loads as move around site.
Setting up prometheus.io for server, app and website monitoring today.
Nice to see it progressing - when I first set it up if you wanted basic auth / SSL you had to proxy traffic throught something, now there are options built in: ruan.dev/blog/2021/10...