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Engineering leader based in Leeds, UK. Opinions my own, when I have any. He/Him πŸ”— https://cmbuckley.co.uk

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Choice of words is poor here, but β€œclear sign” = positive indication of materials on board, not β€œall clear”. Hence why they searched the ship

09.03.2026 14:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Code Mode: give agents an entire API in 1,000 tokens Today we are introducing a new MCP server for the entire Cloudflare API β€” from DNS and Zero Trust to Workers and R2 β€” that uses Code Mode.

The Cloudflare API has over 2,500 endpoints. Exposing each one as an MCP tool would consume over 2 million tokens. With Code Mode, we collapsed all of it into two tools and roughly 1,000 tokens of context. https://cfl.re/3OoiLz7

20.02.2026 14:05 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Scene from Grey’s Anatomy, season 3 episode 21, β€œDesire”. The subtitles read β€œthere’s always gonna be a fish in a man’s penis, Chief.”

Scene from Grey’s Anatomy, season 3 episode 21, β€œDesire”. The subtitles read β€œthere’s always gonna be a fish in a man’s penis, Chief.”

Words to live by

18.01.2026 22:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Making SVGs Dark Mode & Reading Mode Friendly It’s not easy to include SVGs in a page in a way that survives all rendering contexts.

Spent more time than I’d planned faffing with SVGs to cater for dark mode and reading mode. Still not happy with the end result or whether I’ve missed something from an #accessibility perspective.

cmbuckley.co.uk/blog/2026/01...

12.01.2026 14:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Because they don’t fancy their boss

02.01.2026 22:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Almost worth signing in to the other place to see the responses to this one.

28.12.2025 17:34 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I’m So Sick of Stuff... From M&S sausage roll garlands to subscription traps - how capitalism turned us into obedient little lemmings.

I’m so sick of stuff...

Buying it, subscribing to it, replacing it, convincing ourselves it’ll spark joy

Social media trained us like obedient Labradors: sit, scroll, consume

And now we’re obedient little little lemmings

Read my rant here...

open.substack.com/pub/marinapu...

12.12.2025 21:35 πŸ‘ 241 πŸ” 29 πŸ’¬ 24 πŸ“Œ 1

Putting the "website down detector" on Cloudflare is roughly equivalent to putting the diesel backup generators in an easily flooded basement.

05.12.2025 09:11 πŸ‘ 399 πŸ” 37 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 3
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He said "Amen" straight into the drop

Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible

20.11.2025 16:22 πŸ‘ 6113 πŸ” 1870 πŸ’¬ 197 πŸ“Œ 1282

Take it one step further:

details[open] summary:before {
transform: …
}

jsfiddle.net/cmbuckley/y6...

19.11.2025 00:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Was woken up with wisdom tooth pain during the night. Only realised in the morning that it was at 2:30. It finally happened, the joke became a reality

20.10.2025 09:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Unicode Consortium scrambles to create seahorse emoji to prevent runaway AI consumption

19.10.2025 10:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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This isn’t the first time it’s happened to her:

14.10.2025 22:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Great move this. SSO is not an enterprise feature!

28.09.2025 17:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

13.09.2025 21:24 πŸ‘ 8955 πŸ” 4041 πŸ’¬ 174 πŸ“Œ 362

Good news!

bsky.app/profile/bsky...

08.09.2025 23:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

That’s not a selfie

06.09.2025 10:21 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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dotfiles/files/gitconfig at main Β· cmbuckley/dotfiles There’s no place like ~. Contribute to cmbuckley/dotfiles development by creating an account on GitHub.

My colours here: github.com/cmbuckley/do...

29.08.2025 19:46 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Terminal screenshot of a git show for a commit titled β€œFix stupid typo”. The change is shown using diff-highlight, which has highlighted the changed words. There are changes to meta tag image paths in demo/index.html, replacing /assets/og-image.png with /Obs.js/demo/assets/og-image.png.

Terminal screenshot of a git show for a commit titled β€œFix stupid typo”. The change is shown using diff-highlight, which has highlighted the changed words. There are changes to meta tag image paths in demo/index.html, replacing /assets/og-image.png with /Obs.js/demo/assets/og-image.png.

Worth adding that git ships with a helper called diff-highlight that you can use with a few tweaks to gitconfig: github.com/git/git/tree...

29.08.2025 19:25 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Rather a dumb reason not to use a road for its intended purpose, no?

27.08.2025 09:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Are you confusing a slip road with a hard shoulder?

27.08.2025 06:39 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Just got ID’d at the shop. Whilst I should take the compliment, it was for ibuprofen for a bad back; should that not be ID enough?

23.08.2025 11:30 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Online Safety Act is Forcing Brits to Hand Over Personal Data to 'Unregulated' Overseas Corporations With Questionable Privacy Records The age verification services used by social media platforms include a company funded by a Trump-supporting billionaire and a firm set up by former Israeli intelligence officers

πŸ”΄Online Safety Act is Forcing Brits to Hand Over Their Data to β€˜Unregulated’ Overseas Corporations With Questionable Privacy Records

Age verification firms used by social media platforms include company tied to a Trump-supporting billionaire and a firm set up by former Israeli intelligence ...

12.08.2025 07:52 πŸ‘ 99 πŸ” 63 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 3
Quote from Blackadder: β€œOh, well, in that case, sir, I hope you will not object if I also offer the doctor my most enthusiastic contrafibularities.”

Quote from Blackadder: β€œOh, well, in that case, sir, I hope you will not object if I also offer the doctor my most enthusiastic contrafibularities.”

07.08.2025 06:21 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

My first thought: why does a ticket machine need a 60GB hard drive

My second one: bet it’s actually difficult to get anything smaller these days!

06.08.2025 07:40 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So that’s where those Doctor Who serials went

26.07.2025 19:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
iOS notification for an American Express card charge for Bluesky age verification. The amount is Β£0.05 and the description is β€œKids Web Services”.

iOS notification for an American Express card charge for Bluesky age verification. The amount is Β£0.05 and the description is β€œKids Web Services”.

Age verification needs to come up with a better name

25.07.2025 05:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Better off with the soundtrack to Lock Stock than the Champions League theme

17.07.2025 11:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’d say it’s a good job you can’t see my face, because when I was younger I pulled a funny face, the wind changed direction and now it’s stuck like that.

24.06.2025 10:58 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Golden shaded British shorthair cat, lying at top of stairs with tongue out and claws bared on one paw

Golden shaded British shorthair cat, lying at top of stairs with tongue out and claws bared on one paw

β€œYou shall not pass”

17.06.2025 10:12 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0