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Played a demo of Iron Nets Heavy Turret Simulator. Bloomin awesome, store.steampowered.com/app/4300500/... Feel of papers please, but you're an artillery gunner operator, you have a big map and have to triangulate the position of your targets...1/2

IRON NEST: Heavy Turret Simulator Demo on Steam

IRON NEST is a brutal dieselpunk heavy-artillery game where you dominate the battlefield through a colossal war machine. Take map measurements based on the received coordinates, strain the hydraulics,...

store.steampowered.com

People really sit in a room with the big light on? Even my wife does it, I really don't know how people can cope with it, it's like oppressive painful blinding light.

Want to use a high quality HTML design system? frontend.design-system.service.gov.uk/using-govuk-...

Using GOV.UK Frontend without GOV.UK branding

frontend.design-system.service.gov.uk

Just finished The Tide Child trilogy by @rjbarker.bsky.social (book 1: app.thestorygraph.com/books/a87dfe...) I think this might be the best thing I've ever read. RJs style deeply resonates with me, his focus on the characters, how so much affects them, and how they cope engaged and moved me. ❤️

The Bone Ships by R.J. Barker

A brilliantly imagined saga of honor, glory, and warfare, The Bone Ships is the epic launch of a ...

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Last Call! The SNES2NEO will be discontinued at the end of the month. If you are still interested in one, now is the time to order. SNES2NEO allows you to use SNES controllers on the #NeoGeo. Give this a like and repost! retrofrog.net/products/sne...

SNES2Neo - Ultra Low Latency SNES controller adapter for your Neo Geo

April 2026 - New version! Same great ultra low latency (sub 1ms) adapter, just with a few improvements:  All new injection molded DB15 connector. Now it's even better fitting in your Neo Geo. Adapter ...

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I just finished one of the most incredible books I've ever had the pleasure of reading. In Praise of Shadows by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, an essay on finding beauty in literal shadow and darkness, of how appreciation of darkness was being lost in 1930s Japan. app.thestorygraph.com/books/2ed310...

In Praise of Shadows by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

A fully illustrated, beautifully produced edition of Junichiro Tanizaki's wise and evocative ess...

app.thestorygraph.com

One of the best antidotes to life being horrendously stressful and shite is just to sit outside in the evening with a chilled beverage of your choice and listen to a blackbird singing and singing and singing. It is genuinely balm for the soul.

Everyone shut up I finally got a video of Jyn doing her cartoon snoring thing

@qntm.org Just finished There is No Antimemetics Division (thanks to @octothorpecast.bsky.social for talking about it), I absolutely loved it and the ■■■■■■■■■■■ ideas. The use of the redacted ■■■■■ was amazing. I wonder if it cost significantly more in ink to print than a similar book 😁 Thank you ❤️

My new keyboard arriived on Monday and all week it's felt like being very drunk and trying to type, to the point I'm using a typing teacher website to attempt to actually get confident and proficient with it. It's very geared around the classic 10 finger touch typing method... 1/2

Ugh the Saba parking operator are absolutely taking the piss. I bought pre-booked parking from them, and then on exit from the car park (within the time limit of my pre-paid parking) they charged me again more than double what they charged me before. 1/2

My band are playing a gig THIS FRIDAY! We don't play very often so DON'T MISS IT. We have songs about public transport, Livejournal, the Texas Chainsaw Massacre and many more www.eventim-light.com/uk/a/63ea2a0...

Used my lunch to go to my lovely local bookshop to pick up a book I ordered, the only snag in the plan....I forgot they don't open until 2pm on Fridays. Doh! What a silly sausage

There's lots of important messaging in this new guidance from GDS / DSIT on AI, open code and vulnerability risk. In particular: "Private repositories can create a false sense of security" and "Openness can surface issues earlier" www.gov.uk/guidance/ai-...

AI, open code and vulnerability risk in the public sector

Guidance for safely publishing source code in the open, and reducing the risk of AI-accelerated vulnerability discovery.

gov.uk

Graphs I'd like to see - number 73. A measure of team productivity over Slacks downtime / availability

I broke my keyboard, looking for a new one and I know the fashion is for half size keyboards, but I really like the numpad and arrow keys. Thankfully there's a solution! My new half size keyboard with all my favourite keys!

I received the latest book in my Frederik Backman subscription today from @bertsbooks.bsky.social, this month it was And Every Morning The Way Home Gets Longer and Longer. I read it tonight, it's so heartbreaking, incredibly moving, and about as touching as any writing could ever be. Truly wonderful

Oh yes! I loved Reply All and didn't know about this, I do now and I already love it

Alex Goldman@agoldman.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Hi! I am Alex goldman and I used to host Reply All. Currently I host a show called Hyperfixed. We are completely independent and supported by listeners, so I would love if you would become a member or at least listen! Hyperfixedpod.com/join

CSS is DOOMed! I've build DOOM in CSS and every wall, floor, barrel, and imp is a div, positioned in 3D space using CSS transforms. cssdoom.wtf Try it out! But... not every browser can handle it. This is taking the browser to its limit. Chrome has some issues. Safari too. Bugs will be filed.

cssDOOM

DOOM rendered entirely in CSS. Every wall, floor, barrel, and imp is a div, positioned in 3D space using CSS transforms.

cssdoom.wtf

Just finished Us Against You by Fredrik Backman, the latest in my Backman subscription from @bertsbooks.bsky.social. What an incredible book, I think even better than Beartown. As well as the moving story, the style really stands out from his other books and gives them a distinct Beartown feel.

#Manchester - want to learn about SQL Expressions in @grafana.bsky.social and be part of our first ever Manchester Meetup? We also have a talk about Beyla and Open Telmetry. Thursday at Autotrader Hawkshaw St. We'll have food and swag. www.meetup.com/grafana-frie...

Grafana & Friends Manchester Inaugural Event: SQL + OpenTelemetry eBPF, Thu, Mar 19, 2026, 6:00 PM | Meetup

🗒️ **Details** Join us for an observability-focused meetup hosted at **Autotrader** **Manchester!** This event is an opportunity to dive deep into advanced Grafana feature

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Reading a Fantasy novel for the first time in many years. I've generally been of the opinion "I don't like Fantasy", so far it's holding true, but I'm only 20 pages in. If I get to 100 still feeling this way I should allow myself to stop reading it and move on

I've been watching Stargate SG-1 on sky, unfortunately it isn't on there anymore, probably because it's just gone onto @netflix.com , but the Netflix version is awful, loads of stuttering in sideways motion, like a terrible conversion up to 60fps. Feels unwatchable

I saw a microbiologist today... They were much bigger than I expected...

I'm thinking of giving up on a book I'm reading, and I wonder on @thestorygraph.com if giving up and marking as "Did not finish", or if finishing (for real of course, actually read the rest) and giving it a 2 star review would better steer the recommendations away from this type of book.

What's everyone reading this weekend?

Delivery of in stock books from Blackwell's (I had tried bookshop.org and all my usual indies first and no one else had it) is so unbelievably slow, 10 days since I ordered it, and this is not abnormal. 7 days until dispatch notification, but Whistl didn't actually get it until day 9.

The @grafana.bsky.social SQL expressions (grafana.com/docs/grafana...) which are in public preview, are absolutely amazing. It's so much more powerful than using the in built transformations (which are still useful, but the SQL Expressions allow you to do things they cannot)

SQL expressions | Grafana documentation

Manipulate and transform data in Grafana using SQL expressions.

grafana.com

sorry to be sentimental but this is the most amazing heartwarming story