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@murph.recumbent.co.uk

Programmer, accidental endurance athlete, lover of science fiction, real ales, F#, and random other things. Husband, parent, not as young as I once was!

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At university we had a lecturer go
"it follows that..." can't remember if he actually said "trivial" but that was definitely implied.

One objection, six chalkboards, and forty minutes later...

03.03.2026 08:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Announcing ReFS Boot for Windows Server Insiders | Microsoft Community Hub We’re excited to announce that Resilient File System (ReFS) boot support is now available for Windows Server Insiders in Insider Preview builds. For the...

PLEASE RP: Announcing ReFS Boot for Windows Server Insiders!
techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/Windows...

27.02.2026 23:02 πŸ‘ 38 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2

Except it's not.

Impressive would be doing it from the language spec, the Backus-Naur and not a lot else.

27.02.2026 18:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I would go the other way, make them remove soccer given that it's basically irrelevant to the global game and free up a lot of medals / athlete spaces for things for which the Olympics are, or should be (like Squash), the pinnacle

27.02.2026 17:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Petition: Require all think tanks to disclose their donors, funding, and media spending Research bodies and representation of specialist interests is important when making policy. However, think tanks go beyond merely brainstorming ideas and presenting data and arguments. They can push s...

Gonna post it again...

Please give it some exposure. It might not result in anything even if it got 100K signatures, but if it doesn't get any it definitely won't and we're seeing more and more evidence rather than conjecture around these murky, opaque orgs.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...

16.02.2026 18:11 πŸ‘ 145 πŸ” 130 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 9

Which...? He said having what is potentially a pleated blind problem.

And also an ongoing automation mess

21.02.2026 08:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Depends on what your need is for a server, you can usually get staggeringly capable used/refurbished kit for sane prices - but you need some who is not me to tell you who are reputable vendors in this space

19.02.2026 12:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The ADHD ability to make hard stuff look easy so people think you're being ridiculous when you struggle with easy stuff is my favorite part.

17.02.2026 20:07 πŸ‘ 247 πŸ” 54 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0

Another piece of my youth...

13.02.2026 09:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

They made me redundant (it worked out) and I still want one...

13.02.2026 06:11 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Just a bit 🀬

12.02.2026 09:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I am given to understand that there are good experiences to be had with Uno, Avalonia, MAUI... but those are all dotnet which seems to upset people 😟

06.02.2026 17:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The whole ingress story is something of a challenge to those of us who have "look after a cluster" as an inherited questionable choice.

Finally wrapped my head around ingresses and... congrats you should be using something else πŸ˜–

But mine are ALBs so I'm probably good for a while yet!

30.01.2026 09:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A redhaired woman in a blue uniform lurks in an alleyway, holding a ball of magical lightning in her hands. On the street outside, a hovering armored vehicle moves closer, escorted by armored aliens who have not spotted her ambush.

A redhaired woman in a blue uniform lurks in an alleyway, holding a ball of magical lightning in her hands. On the street outside, a hovering armored vehicle moves closer, escorted by armored aliens who have not spotted her ambush.

Happy book day to me!

The theocratic once-masters of the alien half of Chimera's people have taken the system by storm. Mars has a plan to liberate them, but it will take time.

Time the Chimerans may not have.
Time Mage-Captain Roslyn Chambers isn't prepared to wait...

mybook.to/SM18Shadow

22.01.2026 16:54 πŸ‘ 40 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 7

Managing to refrain from shaving this very hairy yak instead of actually progressing demos for my presentation next week.

No, the two are not unrelated - but as it turns out I don't actually need to shave the yak for the presentation so... yay me?

22.01.2026 18:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Trial and error?: The impact of restricting jury trials on court demand | Institute for Government The government’s reforms will unlock only relatively modest reductions in demand.

NEW REPORT: the gov’s proposals for judge-only trials will deliver only marginal savings and distract from the real route out of this crisis: reversing recent falls in court productivity.

22.01.2026 07:41 πŸ‘ 152 πŸ” 80 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 6

In another round of IaC is hard and Kubernetes is not for the faint of heart (and overkill for the systems in question), I got my regular reminder to _read the error message_ (no, *all* of the error message).

I now have a cross dependency I could live without 😒 and that is bound to bite me again

14.01.2026 17:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

In using dev tools I am not a fan of magic naming of things - I fully get the need to avoid naming collisions but I am not entirely "trusting" - and finding things becomes way more interesting (especially when one does something wrong).

That said, I've just hit a collision problem and... maybe...?

14.01.2026 11:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm a long way from being able to lean heavily on AI, but having copilot magically suggest F# types (correctly) here for the json opened over there is definitely a win

09.01.2026 18:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is the thing I clearly need to progress to... I have more work than I can do, and I think some ability to express what I want.

The challenge is getting from here to there

08.01.2026 19:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Wait... what... that is awesome (I have an exceedingly specific use case of watching six nations rugby, with @christine.recumbent.co.uk, in the pub, during a beer festival...)

06.01.2026 15:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

That's... not great 😟

Moveable furniture will be (moved), that area will be impassable between that and luggage when busy. Those chairs won't be comfortable for an extended stay...

I think I understand the intent, and yes it needs a refurb, just not convinced by the plan as visualised

06.01.2026 08:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It's actually worse, it used to be a hub where you could open things to do actual work, and now... it's just not πŸ˜–

05.01.2026 19:10 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

There's a thing I've found where more established collections of stacks end up with what are in effect circular dependencies... foundational pieces tend toward interesting?

01.01.2026 09:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ok, here we go again (UTC version)...

01.01.2026 00:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The nost interesting one is can you still get to where you are from a cold start... though an ability to get rid of everything confidently is also definitely not guaranteed

31.12.2025 23:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Missing, presumed fed...?

27.12.2025 14:30 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Today's lesson in read the error message was a result of fixing a breaking change with a typo in the git tag the depended on...

If it says "already exists" then the next step is to acknowledge that and work out why...

24.12.2025 16:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is such bollocks. You can do both. Agrivoltaics use *raised* solar on fields and contribute to *increased* yields, better moisture retention and shade for grazing livestock. There's absolutely no need to make this an either/or.

22.12.2025 16:46 πŸ‘ 77 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

Windows has a set of folders where it expects you to put documents, pictures, music & other common files that it treats as special folders linked to your Windows user account; in fact there are dozens of special folders the Windows shell uses with shortcuts for access. what if you want to move them?

18.12.2025 22:56 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0