I know it's not the biggest news of the day, but I just spotted this... One of Keir Starmer's last acts in Govt is this: Laying legislation that will legalise 'plug-in solar' (aka balcony solar) panels in Britain It means plug-in solar panels do not (legally) have to be wired in by an electrician.

Timeline - SI 2026/848 - Plugs and Sockets etc. (Safety) Regulations 1994 and Electricity Safety, Quality and Continuity Regulations 2002 (Amendment) Regulations 2026 - Statutory Instruments - UK Parl...

Timeline for Plugs and Sockets etc. (Safety) Regulations 1994 and Electricity Safety, Quality and Continuity Regulations 2002 (Amendment) Regulations 2026

statutoryinstruments.parliament.uk

I wrote about the fascinating curvy walls of the UK and how to simulate them in blender!

Do Wavy Walls Really Use Fewer Bricks? I Tested It in Blender

Do crinkle crankle walls actually save bricks? Geometry nodes, rigid body sims, and some answers.

blog.tymscar.com

Alexa is bugged in a way I can’t even come up with an explanation for. Like, I know time zones are hard and all, but this doesn’t even cross time zones.

The new Ferrari looks super cool. There, I said it. It's just a shame it's like 20x too expensive.

So today is one of those "hardwire a weird PCI card's fan directly to your motherboard headers to control the fan speed" type of days.

It's quite neat that you can see when the 3D printer starts heating up, when it does the calibration, and when the actual printing happens, all using a power meter.

Changed the OLED used by my air quality monitor after 4.5 years

What do you think this outputs on a modern shell?

I noticed this thing with people (support or just day-to-day people you talk with) where if you ask two questions, they never ever answer both of them. And it's not queued either. Sometimes they answer the first one, sometimes the second one. Why does almost everyone do this?

Wonder when the first IP over Thunderbolt switch is coming out and who is going to make it. Regardless, it will probably cost an arm and a leg.

Gaussian Catting superspl.at/view?id=10a4...

I tried Gleam for Advent of Code, and I get the hype. AoC was only 12 days this year (24 parts). The easy days were tougher than usual, the hard days were hard but fun. Rust-like compiler errors, pipes everywhere, echo is great, fold_until feels like cheating. blog.tymscar.com/posts/gleama...

I Tried Gleam for Advent of Code, and I Get the Hype

A 12 day Advent of Code year convinced me Gleam is the real deal, thanks to Rust-like errors, great pipes, and surprisingly ergonomic FP.

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I was watching Michael Stevens on the Within Reason podcast and around hour 1 minute 14, Michael says: "Who decided the C# means Azure?". I know this one!! Microsoft did!

I still don't know what to write this years advent of code in. I'm torn between Roc, Gleam, and some Lisp

Is @openvibe.social broken for anyone else? Hasn’t worked for the past few days.

Hey @b0rk.jvns.ca, I was reading your lovely blog post about BGP again, and you linked bgpview.io in it, but: > BGPView will shut down on 26 November 2025. Thank you for using the service. For comparable BGP lookup and analysis, we recommend BGP.Tools. Might be worth changing URLs to that?

The fact that nVidia makes 2x more revenue from networking (Mellanox) than from gaming (<10%) is kind of crazy.

I know it doesn't matter, but the fact that Xcode shows the phone colour in the menu bar is the cutest thing ever. We need more whimsical things like this in tech!

New internet, who dis?

I love how YouTube thinks @matt.godbolt.org is Matt Damon

Somehow I just recently found out about @Open Collective . It lets you contribute to opensource tools you use in a very transparent fashion. It was really hard to pick only ten, but I think this is a good start for me! I wish @blender3d.bsky.social was on the list!

AGI has been achieved internally

I wish @github.com would have a visual diff for images where they overlap and show the difference that way. They support 2-up, swipe, and onion skin, but for small differences, none of those help at all a glance.

My homelab has better uptime (more 9s) than AWS. Sure, it’s only during the past 24 hours, but that’s something!

So I am debugging a weird networking issue that happens when I stream only Parsec or Sunshine, but not both at the same time. How's your weekend?

i wrote about atproto and why it matters

Open Social — overreacted

The protocol is the API.

overreacted.io

The Nix Repl is goated. That’s it. That’s the tweet.

So Sonnet 4.5 is a downgrade when it comes to making buckets in Blender, even with the new screenshot viewer feature.

The iPhone 17 pro max sim slot is identical to the 15 pro max one, except the bottom bit is inverted. So you can’t interchange them, but you can plug one into the other 90% of the way.

Broke 10k multi-core score on geekbench on my phone!