Murph
@murph.recumbent.co.uk
Programmer, accidental endurance athlete, lover of science fiction, real ales, F#, and random other things. Husband, parent, not as young as I once was!
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I should post more... Worthy of mention is that I went for a swim today - the length of Windermere. Smug mode engaged 😁
CALLING LONDONERS 📣 My friend has spent FIVE YEARS developing her play—a queer horror story—and she's hardly sold any tickets. She's travelling down from Leeds and I'm devastated 🥺 The Haunting of Verity Evans, The Hope Theatre, 25th–26th August. I hope you'll join me! Please share if you can't!
And today, in addition to burning AI credits I am learning about the "over-eager junior" problem and why one needs to put effort into the various things that coerce an LLM into creating code that one can live with...
Today I have been learning how to burn through Github Copilot AI credits Interesting...
First time using @floci.io (just for an S3 bucket) - ran via dotnet.testcontainers.org (there's a nuget package for that 😁) and huge levels of "just worked". Not new to running infra locally, but even so the lack of surprises was very welcome.
The galactic war is over. Humanity and their allies have won. What happens now? Peacekeepers of Sol on sale until Friday! Raven's Peace is free! mybook.to/RavensPeace The Peacekeeper Initiative is $0.99 / £0.99 mybook.to/peacekeeperi... Raven's Course is $1.99 / £1.99 mybook.to/ravenscourse
When you can see it's broken, when you know that's potentially problematic, when you know what its supposed to be doing, and when its potentially fragile typescript (which is not particularly high on your list of skills) and there are *so many* other things to fix 😢- that!
Please buy the fabulous Spirit Blade, or indeed any or all of Glynn's other work - good stories, excellent world building, I eagerly await the next (of any series)
Glynn Stewart@glynnstewart.com · 4mo agoI released a book on Thursday and I've already run out of ways to ask people to buy it, lol.
1. Sensibly delete a (long) departed user from service 2. Find that we are still using a token with no expiry associated with that user 3. Set the new token to a relatively short expiry 4. Work out how on earth to use the token again, and add more IaC (mostly cut/paste) to make it easier...
🎙️ Agenda @emilybache.com — Technical Coaching as a Career Yoan Thirion — Outside-In Discovery Bhaskar Bharat Sawant — The Hidden Cost of "Just One More Fix" @raymyers.bsky.social — AI Hates Legacy Code 👥 Open-space sessions if you prefer interactive discussions www.eventbrite.com/e/mendercon-...
MenderCon 2026
A full day virtual event focused on modernizing and improving software systems. From the smallest apps, to the biggest enterprise monoliths.
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Try to remember to celebrate the good days * Parkrun * Friends * Family * Rugby * Beer * Puzza *Sunshine All mushed together into a glorious day
Are you registered to vote? Because it's not just trans rights (though that should be enough on its own). Eradication of trans rights is the leading edge of the eradication of *everyone's* rights. It's just a question of how long.
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Reading (re-read of the whole series) for near future holiday
Glynn Stewart@glynnstewart.com · 6mo agoComing out next week: the fifth book in the House Adamant series, Broken Prince mybook.to/HA5Prince Nikola Adamant has been a rebel leader. Now he is merely a prince, a general, and the person his sister the King trusts with her most complicated problems. Like stellar anomalies and a possible war
This is a failure of imagination There are open models small enough to run on a home computer Simple ones will run on Raspberry Pi You can build cool shit that you own if you want to
PLEASE RP: Announcing ReFS Boot for Windows Server Insiders! techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/Windows...
Announcing ReFS Boot for Windows Server Insiders | Microsoft Community Hub
We’re excited to announce that Resilient File System (ReFS) boot support is now available for Windows Server Insiders in Insider Preview builds. For the...
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Gonna post it again... Please give it some exposure. It might not result in anything even if it got 100K signatures, but if it doesn't get any it definitely won't and we're seeing more and more evidence rather than conjecture around these murky, opaque orgs. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...
Petition: Require all think tanks to disclose their donors, funding, and media spending
Research bodies and representation of specialist interests is important when making policy. However, think tanks go beyond merely brainstorming ideas and presenting data and arguments. They can push s...
petition.parliament.uk
The ADHD ability to make hard stuff look easy so people think you're being ridiculous when you struggle with easy stuff is my favorite part.
Happy book day to me! The theocratic once-masters of the alien half of Chimera's people have taken the system by storm. Mars has a plan to liberate them, but it will take time. Time the Chimerans may not have. Time Mage-Captain Roslyn Chambers isn't prepared to wait... mybook.to/SM18Shadow
Managing to refrain from shaving this very hairy yak instead of actually progressing demos for my presentation next week. No, the two are not unrelated - but as it turns out I don't actually need to shave the yak for the presentation so... yay me?
NEW REPORT: the gov’s proposals for judge-only trials will deliver only marginal savings and distract from the real route out of this crisis: reversing recent falls in court productivity.
Trial and error?: The impact of restricting jury trials on court demand | Institute for Government
The government’s reforms will unlock only relatively modest reductions in demand.
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In another round of IaC is hard and Kubernetes is not for the faint of heart (and overkill for the systems in question), I got my regular reminder to _read the error message_ (no, *all* of the error message). I now have a cross dependency I could live without 😢 and that is bound to bite me again
In using dev tools I am not a fan of magic naming of things - I fully get the need to avoid naming collisions but I am not entirely "trusting" - and finding things becomes way more interesting (especially when one does something wrong). That said, I've just hit a collision problem and... maybe...?
I'm a long way from being able to lean heavily on AI, but having copilot magically suggest F# types (correctly) here for the json opened over there is definitely a win
This is the thing I clearly need to progress to... I have more work than I can do, and I think some ability to express what I want. The challenge is getting from here to there
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)@lizthegrey.com · 9mo agoIn essence a language model changes you from a programmer who writes lines of code, to a programmer that manages the context the model has access to, prunes irrelevant things, adds useful material to context, and writes detailed specifications. If that doesn't sound fun to you, you won't enjoy it.
