🎂It's our birthday! We've just turned 14, and we're having a sale! 💰Save up to 40% on 1,449 products in our store. Including 25% off Picade, 35% off LiPo Amigo Pro, and 25% all of our Badgeware boards. 📅But, be quick! The birthday sale ends on August 5 11:59PM BST. blog.pimoroni.com/its-our-birt...

It's our birthday — Save up to 40%!

Pimoroni began back in 2012 with the aim of selling laser cut acrylic cases for the Raspberry Pi. Yes, in 2012 our Pibow cases were our first and only product. Fast forward to 2026, and we're now 14 ...

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Join me at the #Nottingham Data Science & AI meetup on August 6th at @nottinghamtrentuni.bsky.social city campus. I'll be showing how you can catch The Traitors using @grafana.bsky.social, Google Sheets and SQL... www.meetup.com/nottingham-a...

Nottingham DS&AI Meetup, Thu, Aug 6, 2026, 6:00 PM | Meetup

18:00 - *Doors Open* 18:15 - *Talk starts* 20:30 - *Closing Time* This month's talk is: **Tracking Down Traitors with Grafana SQL Expressions** By Simon Prickett Or "How

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There’s a sale on at @pimoroni.com so of course the shipping ship brings more GFX Pack kits that I use for #micropython workshops. Not pictured but also bought on sale: USB cables and loot boxes to complete the kits.

Gain confidence in your code and agents by using the gcx CLI tool and the Grafana MCP server, both of which are now generally available! Read more: https://bit.ly/3Tp8mFP Watch a demo: https://bit.ly/4fyOg3i Learn more about AI in Grafana Cloud: grafana.ai

This weekend I actually saw an Amiga 3000 in person for the first time since the 1990s. Always wanted one of these, still do! @gammitin.bsky.social

Passed by a pub that has a meat raffle whilst out and about this weekend! 😳 Ramsgate.

Zoom in and look at the absolute concentration / focus from the one we call chicken dinner cat as he’s seen something in next door’s garden. Not my cat but he’s here a lot.

I'll be speaking at the @grafana.bsky.social and Friends Mumbai virtual meetup on Friday 24th July at 5pm IST. Come along and learn about querying Google Sheets and other data with SQL to build a Traitors TV show dashboard! www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx5f...

Did you miss Eurovision back in May, or just want to relive the excitement of the night and listen to the songs? Check out my new @grafana.bsky.social dashboard using Google Sheets, SQL Expressions & tabbed layouts to get to the bottom of how it all went down: play.grafana.org/d/eurovision...

📺 #GrafanaEverywhere... even your favorite reality TV show! @simonprickett.dev built a Grafana dashboard to track The Traitors UK S4 using SQL expressions and a Google Sheet — joining vote data across sources.

Tracking “The Traitors” TV show with SQL expressions in Grafana

How I turned a reality TV obsession into a hands-on tour of SQL expressions in Grafana: joining data across sources, storytelling with…

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I'm speaking about tracking down Traitors (from the TV show) with SQL, Google Sheets and @grafana.bsky.social at Nottingham Data Science & AI meetup on August 6th. Join us on @nottinghamtrentuni.bsky.social 's city campus for this in person event. www.meetup.com/nottingham-a...

Nottingham DS&AI Meetup, Thu, Aug 6, 2026, 6:00 PM | Meetup

18:00 - *Doors Open* 18:15 - *Talk starts* 20:30 - *Closing Time* This month's talk is: **Tracking Down Traitors with Grafana SQL Expressions** By Simon Prickett Or "How

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Well I’ve spent the whole of #NorEng drawing the three English lions on a tote bag, time well spent even if we don’t win

The future! #nottingham

Popped the tumble dryer on to get some cool air into the house

Yep it's hot outside. If you're in Great Britain and want to know what the generation mix of the electricity you're trying to cool the house with is right now, I made a @grafana.bsky.social dashboard for that: play.grafana.org/d/siw7lpj/uk...

Final day darn sarf.

Couldn’t take any pictures as nowhere to stop and I was driving but you can get a great view of several European cargo A340-600s at Bournemouth Airport right now. Sadly not going anywhere and up for sale. I’ve likely flown on most of them as most are ex Virgin. cc @transatlanticalison.com

From today’s walks. Over and under.

Had coffee at a place that also offers clothing design and printing.

Considering downsizing 😂

Today’s rare (in the UK) car spot. JDM right hand drive model.

I spent a little while updating my @grafana.bsky.social and Redis plane tracker project to point the aircraft icons in the right direction. Next I want to use separate icons for wide and narrow bodies and a special icon for quad jets.

We're raffling an Escort! We've chosen to support AKT this time, a charity offering assistance to LGBTQ+ young people who sadly often fall into homelessness. 10% will go to this charity. Buy tickets here: raffall.com/424625/enter...

Gave the Yeti a pre service check over and fluids. Reminded of the stupid AdBlue filler location on these cars too. At 72k miles I expect it to need some brake pads and probably a shock absorber tomorrow.

I woke up to 50+ MFA emails from Bluesky as it seems someone was trying to login as me on 10 min intervals overnight. I’ve changed the password now.

It’s pay day next week and after another frustrating trip using the iPad Pro as the main device I was going to sell it and order a MacBook Neo. So of course they raised the price ☹️

Bad picture but here’s tonight’s first leg as seen from the lounge (not allowed closer to the glass). Old livery Etihad 777-300 - same one that brought me here. HAN-AUH.