I miss drizzle. I miss my cardigan I miss a warm coffee with a blanket and a good book.
Joe Hart
@joehart.bsky.social
Currently making web stuff at the incident company. Previously: BBC, LEGO, Monzo and more. joehart.co.uk https://pride-flag.dev/
Wrote about our experiences at @incident.io of migrating our codebase to routing most DB queries to the read replica and some useful patterns that came out of it, including LSN checking! incident.io/blog/dont-ad...
Don't add a read replica until you've read this | Blog | incident.io
Our learnings from implementing a product-wide read replica migrations, including some useful patterns for routing queries to replica and primary
incident.io
Managed to have a play with Godot 4 this weekend, as a longtime Unity user it felt so nice to use. Definitely gonna remake some of my old performance games in it and try and use it going forward.
this has fully replaced wisprflow for me now and runs totally locally, its awesome
GitHub - matthartman/ghost-pepper: 100% private on-device voice models for speech-to-text and meeting transcription on macOS
100% private on-device voice models for speech-to-text and meeting transcription on macOS - matthartman/ghost-pepper
github.com
Apple: this new AI is totally safe and private Also Apple: this is not launching in the eu… for some other reason….
It has taken so long to find. But a cross platform book reader with OPDS and kobo sync server integration: AND its open source ❤️
Readest — Free Open-Source EPUB & PDF Reader for All Platforms
Readest is a free, open-source ebook reader for EPUB and PDF. Read across macOS, Windows, Linux, Android, iOS, and Web with highlights, notes, split-screen reading, TTS, and cloud sync.
readest.com
Thoroughly enjoying this playlist with a coffee while reviewing PRs. Led Zeppelin, but just all the chill stuff.
Led Zeppelin: Chill on Apple Music
Playlist · 23 Songs
music.apple.com
I just feel like a tree sidebar and a big list of code diffs isn't the most optimal way to review code changes. I don't know what the answer is, but it ain't this.
I don't really know why, but this new verse translation of Gilgamesh by Simon Armitage has launched in the US before the UK. but I picked it up in Seattle and its great so far app.thestorygraph.com/books/365282...
Gilgamesh: A New Verse Translation by Simon Armitage
A propulsive and lyrical version of ancient Mesopotamia’s greatest adventure–tale, by the bestsel...
app.thestorygraph.com
New Blog Post, from a recent work trip to Washington State I got the change to wander around some wonderful Seattle Bookshops www.joehart.co.uk/blogs/2026-0...
Seattle in Five Bookshops
After a company offsite in Washington State I stole a couple of days in Seattle, ranking the city by its bookshops.
joehart.co.uk
Such an itch to replay Assassins Greek Odyssey. Really want some Ancient Greek game fun.
I know everyone's talking bout RAM going up in price, but HDDs too. Last 12TB drive I bought for my NAS in August 2025 was £230. The same size drive from same manufacturer is now £350
I shall be pronouncing this Veet Eeet. vite.dev/blog/announc...
Vite 8.0 is out!
Vite 8 Release Announcement
vite.dev
Website all switched over to bunny.net and a new blog post about two scifi books I read recently to celebrate. www.joehart.co.uk/blogs/book-t...
Book Thoughts: Pandora's Star & Judas Unchained by Peter F Hamilton
joehart.co.uk
Fascinating byproduct of trying to move my personal site to bunny.net from vercel is all the emoji are rendering wrong
Emily Wilson's Iliad translation is so fucking good. Like maddeningly good. It FEELS like an epic poem, not an old dusty story of study.
Second year in a row missing #stateofthebrowser . Last year Dom and I made a sword. This year I am FRANTICALLY prepping an 8 hour DnD session for tomorrow. Excited to keep up with the highlights on social.
I find myself longing for a like “reading” platform. That is Storygraph + readwise reader + audiobook server + notes/highlight aggregator + epub hosting and syncing.
My mac mini network mount has failed for the last time. Gonna move the remaining containers over to my thinkstation linux box this weekend. I am putting this out into the universe and search results: Do not use a mac mini as a home server if you’re mounting data from a NAS. It’s not worth the faff.
Trying to blog more and think and write more about the books I read among other things. Please enjoy thoughts on big gay Shakespeare https://www.joehart.co.uk/blogs/book-thoughts-straight-acting-will-tosh/
Trying to blog more and think and write more about the books I read among other things. Please enjoy thoughts on big gay Shakespeare https://www.joehart.co.uk/blogs/book-thoughts-straight-acting-will-tosh/
Third times a charm testing Mastodon cross syndication for notes https://www.joehart.co.uk/notes/
Testing second time to see if the Mastodon syndicating is working and the backlinking github actions 👀 https://www.joehart.co.uk/notes/
Testing posting notes from my personal site here, to bluesky and mastadon 👀 https://www.joehart.co.uk/notes/ https://www.joehart.co.uk/notes/2026-02-14-45d445a3db93/