I've said it before and I'll say it again: I'll believe that fuel is too expensive when I don't routinely see people parked up in their cars with the engine running.
An occasional reminder: include visits to your status page as part of your monitoring suite. If all of your systems are showing green, but visits spike, then your observability stack is incomplete.
New post on my blog about switching password managers in 2026! It covers: - why your iPhone or iPad, and not your Mac, might be the place to start your switch - the recent controversy in password management and some thoughts on values - and more! rmondello.com/2026/09/07/s...
Switching Password Managers in 2026
Important Note: Although I work at Apple in the password management and app/website authentication spaces, in this post I am speaking only for myself, personally. There is no “news” in this post or any kind of “inside scoop”. Please do share this post, but if I see “Apple’s Ricky Mondello” anywhere, I’ll be sad. My [...]
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Trying to work out how to explain to my 6 year old that her school can't have solar panels and proper insulation because it's been decided that we need to make stuff to kill people instead.
Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3mo agoNew research by Transition Security Project tells the truth that this Government won't. Infrastructure cuts to pay for defence will cost 10,000 jobs. We need proper defence - but we deserve an honest conversation about what really makes this country safe www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Can anyone help me get grid inertia and voltage data for my public energy map? One of the critical missing pieces from the map is how to show more about the why behind what's causing various actions on the grid.
I've written something about Microsoft's apparent stance that not following made up responsible disclosure frameworks is criminal activity. doublepulsar.com/microsofts-s...
Microsoft’s stance on zero day exploits is a dumpster fire of their own making
Nightmare Eclipse vs Microsoft risks turning into a wildfire of corporate protect over cyber defence.
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Situation 1: dev A thinks approach X is correct, dev B thinks Y is the right way. They argue and try to convince each other. Situation 2: dev A thinks approach X is correct, tells the LLM to implement it. There is SO MUCH learning in Situation 1, lost when using LLMs....
The more I travel outside of the UK and speak to other countries’ locals the more I realise how damaging the years of insane small boats media rhetoric has been for the UK. It has been totally over-inflated, portrayed as if we are a tiny island that has been overrun by a huge “invasion”
Did you know about Clear-Site-Data header? 👀 One HTTP header to clear cookies, storage, or cache for your site. Perfect for logout flows. Learn more 👇 developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/...
Happy Earth Day! 🌎 🌍 🌏 To mark this special day, we’re tuning in to Sen, the world’s first continuous 4K video livestream from space. Sen’s cameras are hosted on our Columbus module of the ISS, with data delivered via the Airbus platform. Watch Earth from above, just like an astronaut 📹 Sen
Great Britain threw away 5GW of wind power during Storm Dave & replaced it using gas 🔥 That's one and a half Sizewell C-sized nuclear power stations, or four Dogger Bank A-sized wind farms. Or to put it another way, it's a shit load of power. Why throw it away? Because our straw isn't big enough…
How-To: Real-Time Dashboards with Go and PostgreSQL (Without Polling) #golang medium.com/@josesomojo...
Two papers came out last week that suggest classical asymmetric cryptography might indeed be broken by quantum computers in just a few years. That means we need to ship post-quantum crypto now, with the tools we have: ML-KEM and ML-DSA. I didn't think PQ auth was so urgent until recently.
A Cryptography Engineer’s Perspective on Quantum Computing Timelines
The risk that cryptographically-relevant quantum computers materialize within the next few years is now high enough to be dispositive, unfortunately.
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1/ Why is atmospheric CO₂ accelerating faster than fossil fuel emissions are growing? The answer is buried in the data, and it's more worrying than most people realise. A thread. 🧵👇
I've been unemployed for a few months. I now set myself pretend jobs to prevent the rot setting in. My son thinks this guy is funny, which is a good enough excuse to make something. Any requests?
How long does it take for a barista to earn enough money to buy a cappuccino in their own coffee shop? What does that tell us about different economies and coffee cultures around the world? Work in a coffee shop? We'd love your input! forms.gle/DZFThBdjWi1g...
The Cappuccino Index Survey
Have you ever wondered how long you need to work to be able to buy one cappuccino from the café you work at? We did! We are running this short survey to look at how barista wages compare to actual pr...
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It sounds reasonable when the majority agrees. If eight out of ten people offer the same advice for an architectural decision, we assume it must be the valid choice. But do we ever stop to think where that majority comes from? ...
It's worrying how many don't know the difference between Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment. Continuous Deployment means that software is deployed whenever it's fit to be deployed - on every green build.
www.theguardian.com/environment/... Why does this government not have the balls to stand up to lobbies? Solar, batteries, ASHPs and EV charging points should be mandatory. As should passivehaus standards. Why build homes as you would 50 years ago? When you could actually build for the future?
Ministers may cut green tech mandate from new homes regulations in England
Critics say removing battery installation requirement will reduce amount homebuyers save on energy bills
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New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer. This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!
Possible causes of your problems. It’s a diagram that (sadly) still seems relevant in 2025, so reposting a year and a bit on.
New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation
Hi @honeycomb.io @charity.wtf, I found a problem when using Google Cloud Run and Honeycomb with NodeJS that might be worth to add to your documentation as a pointer to fix the `root span missing`. GCP adds some traces and it breaks the default integration. lynn.zone/blog/opting-...
"Opting Out" of Tracing Headers on Google Cloud Platform
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England's water industry running amok. Govt's reforms can't work. Govt says it will ban unfair dividends. But shareholders can extract returns with share buybacks, interest payments on intragroup loans, artificial management fees and other charges. Must remove profit motive. Nationalise.
Nationalisation is the only way to fix the crisis in the water industry
Despite the damning evidence the government is clinging on to private ownership of water, which has fleeced customers for 36 years.
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