The news nobody was expecting: I've tagged a new major version of FediFetcher: https://github.com/nanos/FediFetcher/releases/tag/v8.0.0 This is a major rewrite of FediFetcher into a proper package, which should hopefully allow me to address the remaining outstanding issues. There are few […]

Is anyone able to reach @staff@treehouse.systems? Their webfinger server is broken: IIf I access https://treehouse.systems/.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:staff@treehouse.systems I get a TLS certificate for gitea.treehouse.systems. This breaks their federation on the fediverse. I've […]

My kid has released another tool that he's written for himself: Ovi is a lightweight local model server that delivers an ollama‑style developer experience, built natively on Intel’s OpenVINO runtime for efficient CPU and GPU inference: https://github.com/nathanael-thms/ovi. Check out the docs […]

Just want to voice my re-appreciation for message queues. Easy to take them for granted, but they just saved my uptime bacon! 12 hour outage on the app servers because of provider issues, but revenue critical paths are all served on the edge (Cloudflare Workers), with messages pushed directly […]

OMG. My wife made granola this morning and it’s so so yummy 🤤

The fix.

Just a reminder that the costs of hosting is spiraling so if you love the fediverse, please consider supporting your instance if you can afford to do so and your instance accepts support. And my sincere thanks to the infosec donors that make our part of the fediverse possible. :blobheartcat:

Today I had to interrupt a meeting to call 999 as some stupid teenagers gad set the bushes in the park next to my house on fire. I don’t get how you can be so stupid to do this in this kinda weather! Astonishingly it took the fire engine almost more than 20 min to turn up, despite the fire […]

Today, I’m letting you know that toot.community will close permanently on **28 October 2026**. This decision is final, and the server won’t be handed over to anyone else. When I started running toot.community, I really enjoyed it. Over time, it became more stressful and less rewarding. Every […]

Does any #mastoAdmin have documentation for Mastodon's OIDC integration? I know it can be enabled using environment variables, but is there a full list somewhere of all the options? I can't find anything in the docs. I am particularly interested in whether it's possible to 1) disable […]

I've given my blog a bit of a re-skin. It's quite subtle, but I think it's smarter and more modern. What do you think?

I am curious how the new Laravel package-skeleton compares to Spatie’s? I’ve not dug into either at this time, it I have used the spatie https://github.com/laravel/package-skeleton https://github.com/spatie/package-skeleton-laravel There appears to be some code cross over? #php #laravel

GitHub - laravel/package-skeleton: Skeleton for Laravel packages

Skeleton for Laravel packages. Contribute to laravel/package-skeleton development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

Huh. Just had a coast guard and an air ambulance helicopters fly overhead. Not a good sign, especially this far away from the coast 😞

You know you've messed up when notoriously sycophantic Claude tells you: > “the raw material is all here, it's just badly undersold”

Since my wife is mad about the World Cup, and I desperately wanted to try and change the subject slightly I was researching the history of sports. As the crowning end point of my research I present a photo of the British football team for the 1908 Olympics […] [Original post on mstdn.thms.uk]

woha. I'm glad I didn't get a trillion dollar bill this morning… https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/17/amazon-web-services-customers-trillion-dollar-bills-global-glitch

Amazon Web Services customers receive bills for up to $1.5tn after global glitch

One UK man whose bill is usually less than £1 says he ‘almost had a heart attack’ when he saw £5.8bn invoice

theguardian.com

😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 Liz having the self awarenss of a lettuce!

#php hot take: I don’t like the pipe operator. It looks great in carefully curated code sample, but in almost every actual production use case I find it much harder to read than the alternatives.

The impact of the World Cup semi final as measured by the PING on my home internet connection - clearly the whole street was watching!

TIL about `SQL SECURITY DEFINER`. Talk about a footgun … #SQL #MySQL

RE: https://mastodon.social/@quicheindustries/116918456229212087 Hm. I love Quiche! I use it daily. But I must say I'm feeling conflicted about this: On the one hand I don't like that AI is being shoved into our throats left, right, and centre. And I don't like AI overviews. (I also happen to […]

Huh. Kernel patch leading to segfault in #PHP was not how I wanted to start my week …

#ukpol #binface #binface4clacton

If you were wondering why English heatwaves are so mad: These are the indoors temperatures in my kid's bedrooms over the last 24 hours. Consistently 25C+. Even when I opened the window early this morning around 6 (you can see that dip) it barely hit 25C […] [Original post on mstdn.thms.uk]

RE: https://toot.wales/@jaz/116884858629849547 A a tete à bin lid would be amazing!

jaz :twt: :wales_flag: ⁂@jaz.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 4w ago

Interviewer: Why would you want to stand to be the MP for Clacton? @CountBinface : Why not? (Dead air/deathly silence for way too long.) Interviewer: That's a good question. Time for some real #Bindependence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAXT5xf9ot4 #MakeEveryVoteCount #BringBackCeefax

Haha, the hypocrisy! https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/07/08/china-ditch-older-claude-versions-with-backdoor-code/5268371

China tells devs to ditch Claude Code over 'backdoor code' fears

National vulnerability database claims monitoring mechanism can forward Chinese users' data to remote servers

theregister.com

The tough choice soon to face the people of Clacton. I know who’d get my vote! In all seriousness, Count Binface voting Farage would be amazing - and give ‘Putting the trash out' a whole new meaning 😂.

I spent a lot of time redesigning and improving the new https://fediverse.info it would mean a lot to me if you boost this, and spread awareness of this powerful onboarding resource ❤️

My goodness what is it with the mosquitos this year? I think I’ve had more bites these last two days than all of last year combined. They are relentless!

My homeland now contains around 17 services that I host for myself and family - not counting reverse proxies and similar helpers that exist solely to ‘support the operation’. #selfhost #selfhosting #HomeLab