Google Maps should require a passport number before allowing you to use the word 'authentic' in a restaurant review.

Why do I need a PhD in Google to use anything they make

If Zendesk's emails became undeliverable, perhaps they would actually deal with the spam problem.

> the team designed a field experiment with a custom-made bat accelerator machine this is the sort of scientific research I can get behind www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2026/ja...

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trying to use dynamically typed languages again

The free pens from 123<whatever>.nl are such great marketing. They seem inescapable anywhere in the Netherlands.

Feel like I'm going crazy here. Didn't the government just spend a bunch of political capital passing an unpopular, overreaching Online Safety Act so that they could censor the internet? And now X is deliberately mass producing abuse content and they are going to do... nothing?

I am extremely confused as to why the UK government and police are saying Grok’s mass-scale CSAM generation is an issue for Ofcom. This isn’t about X failing to moderate CSAM, which is an Online Safety Act issue. It is about the company and its technology being actively involved in its generation.

Just three weeks ago I went to a jazz gig at the beautiful Vondelkerk. Now it's been destroyed by careless idiots with fireworks. Infuriating.

I recently wrote some thoughts on wrapping Rust libraries for Wasm plus a couple patterns that I use to make wasm-bindgen feel a bit more manageable. No silver bullets here but maybe some sensible defaults (fight me in the comments 😛) notes.brooklynzelenka.com/Blog/Notes-o...

I'm not sure that listing the feature 'direct access to emergency exit' sends quite the right message here.

Help, I keep crashing my car into this large and avoidable concrete obstacle

Dan Kaszeta FRHistS@dankaszeta.bsky.social · 12mo ago

"The pro-vehicular manslaughter community voices it's concerns"

Solving unimportant problems with poorly-supported browser APIs. https://www.rossng.eu/posts/2025-08-09-where-should-i-aim/

I couldn't find a nice way to detect AprilTags on my phone. Here's a little web app to solve that. www.rossng.eu/apriltag-mob... (details: www.rossng.eu/posts/2025-0...)

My guide to the CEFR levels of language proficiency

Users don't understand what LLMs can and can't do. We should probably do something about that. www.rossng.eu/posts/2025-0...

It's so easy to navigate cities now that most have simple contactless payments for public transport. Meanwhile, Paris:

Very impressed with DJI service: 45 EUR total (incl. labour, postage) to repair a damaged gimbal. With sub-week turnaround.

Law of physics: corporate entities are incapable of writing any text containing the phrase 'we are increasing the price'

Build your own learning tools: a small thought about how programming computers lets you take matters into your own hands. https://www.rossng.eu/posts/2025-04-27-build-your-own-learning-tools/

There's something immensely satisfying about putting the washing machine on at exactly the right time.

Shameful. I can't see how they can continue to be a party to the ECHR after this. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/14/hungary-poised-to-adopt-constitutional-amendment-to-ban-lgbtq-gatherings

Back when I was living in Bristol it was barely conceivable that one day through traffic might be removed from Park Street. And, on top of that, real segregated cycling facilities through the Triangle! Drivers nearly killed or injured me many, many times on […] [Original post on indieweb.social]

SQLite does TEXT COMPARISONS on my datetimes?!

As a non-American it is increasingly difficult to have a normal feed on this app

They've built a new two lane(!) road to access one electricity pylon. Of course the cycle lane gives up entirely to accommodate this and cyclists have to give way to the any vehicle that might be using it to carry out maintenance on this pylon

Being able to use Rust in the browser is great, but it comes with some sharp corners. One such corner is passing arrays of Rust objects into Rust code. In this post I look at some options and the tradeoffs that come with each. www.rossng.eu/posts/2025-0...

the pin!-ning will continue until compilation succeeds

Recently I learned of the view that appeasement was necessary for Allied victory in WWII. Why? It was the only way to build enough public support to respond to the eventual invasion of Poland. We are in the same bind today. Do we increase defence spending and consequently cede politics at home […]

Scratching my own itch. Sometimes I just want to display a single block colour on the whole screen. https://www.rossng.eu/posts/2025-02-10-tinted-stream/ https://tinted.stream/