Jake Wright

Jake Wright

@jakewright.net

Backend Engineer at Monzo & part-time YouTuber he/him 🏳️‍🌈

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Jake Wright
@jakewright.net

Is it normal for walking shoes to have absolutely NO GRIP on metal surfaces? Just nearly fell in The Gap because these things turn into ice skates ⛸️

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Jake Wright
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I've only really tested this in an Android simulator though so you'll have to let me know if it works. PWAs aren't very well supported or documented so there was a lot of trial and error.

Jake Wright
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Implementation-wise, it's written in Go. There's no frontend framework. The server sends HTML to your browser (the way God intended). JavaScript is minimal—I think under 50 KB gzipped—and most of that is actually just the list of stations so the search drop-down works client-side.

Jake Wright
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I must emphasise that it's not a journey planner, i.e., it only does direct trains, not changes. And it only looks 30 mins ahead. The use case is when you're near/at a station and many trains go to your destination (particularly useful at busy stations like Waterloo and Clapham Junction).

Jake Wright
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It's a "progressive web app" which means you should be able to add it to your home screen and it'll sort of behave like a real app. Android users, if you accept cookies & refresh, an install button should appear on the home page. iOS doesn't support that so it just gives you instructions.

Jake Wright
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I think it’s really important to understand that LLMs cannot, themselves, take over the world, inflict pain, or cause catastrophic damage. It is the people using them. It’s men. It’s always men.

Jake Wright
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TIL that double-sided DVDs exist. I don’t think I’ve ever come across one. 📀

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Some very early DVD releases, circa 1997, did not have the complete movie on one side. A Time to Kill and Se7en are examples ones that you had to flip. The data capacity of DVDs increased somewhat as the format developed and most movies then could fit on one side.

Jake Wright
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Incidentally, I’m looking at the packaging and realising the plural is “pains au chocolat” and not “pain au chocolats”

Jake Wright
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A few months ago Apple stopped releasing iOS 18 updates for devices that support iOS 26. But I knew if I waited it out they’d be forced to issue security updates eventually. 😼 Be warned though that this update re-enables automatic updates!

Jake Wright
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Those network-controlled PDUs are expensive. Is there any reason why I shouldn't just buy a bunch of cheap IKEA smart plugs and do this?

Jake Wright
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MIDI 1.0 is the gold standard for protocols. Introduced in 1983, still fit for purpose 43 years later. You can take a synth or a drum machine from the 80s, connect it to a brand new keyboard or controller, and it’ll just work. 👏

Jake Wright
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I have long believed that tech companies tend to over-hire. I expect we’ll continue to see redundancies and layoffs attributed to “AI” but these will either be (a) due to misplaced confidence in the abilities of AI, or (b) because the company had too many employees in the first place.

Jake Wright
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Tried out some other text editors (want simple, lightweight, not IDEs) including Zed and Nova. Both buggy. Sublime Text—after nearly 20 years—still seems like the most solid & reliable option. 💪

Jake Wright
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> “Ask me anything about your Uber account (powered by AI)” > asks most basic question > can’t answer, tells me to use the non-AI UI

Jake Wright
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I watched Up for the first time on Saturday. For what is otherwise quite a lighthearted and silly film, the backstory goes way too hard my god I still haven’t emotionally recovered. 🥺😭