Jim Webber

Every so often, Nils gets it right. In a country trying to encourage electrification, block tariffs are counterproductive. www.theguardian.com/business/nil...

Boston friends! Neo4j is hosting a great even for pharma and life sciences folks this week! Sign up here: events.neo4j.com/graphtalklif...

I would really have loved to see this, I hope it tours. www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/o...

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Early Doctor Who episode, once thought to be lost, recently discovered.

How about you take a haircut on your profits and pay for your pollution instead lads?

This is correct: the economy isn’t overheating, so interest rate rises are a double punishment for normal people.

Excellent cover of an excellent song from an excellent band by an excellent band.

Previous me: Excessive insolation is a good thing! Current me: can we move further north?

Research job hiring! Novel database query language runtime systems at Neo4j (London office). Check out: www.linkedin.com/posts/jtc36_...

Aura Graph Analytics is on-demand, session-based graph compute: pay-per-minute, isolated from your live database, and able to read graphs from any data source. What AGA is, when to reach for it, and how to drive sessions from any #Neo4j driver. 1-hour course! https://bit.ly/4qqgRNi

No, nuclear, gas, wind and solar power are not all equally affected by heatwaves. @carbonbrief.org - as so often - has this useful overview: www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-ho...

This is all quite reasonable and technocratic. The UK’s remainers were reasonable and technocratic. They also lost because these arguments do not work with most people. “Leave means leave” is so much more powerful and easy to amplify. It also requires little thought.

Well worth a read.

“Mom” is commonplace in the West Midlands.

Research by the UK’s National Innovation Centre for Data shows that graphs can significantly outperform vector-only LLM systems in accuracy and cost. @itpro.com writes: www.itpro.com/business/dat...

But ReNeWAbles aRE InTERMittEnt!!!

Lenny Henry

While the press rabidly hallucinates about left-wing terrorists, and governments proscribe anti-fascist movements, today we simply remember the victims of Utøya.

Jonathan Cauldwell breaks down how enemy sprites work in ZX Spectrum games - from the simple back-and-forth patrols in Jet Set Willy to complex attack wave patterns. Pure Z80 assembly, beautifully explained. chuntey.wordpress.com

Last night I finished watching the first season of Star City. It's brilliant, anxiety-inducing, horrifying, uplifting, dark and a raft of other emotions. The cast is amazing, and Anna Maxwell Martin's character is stone cold terrifying. Looking forward, I think, to Season 2.

Last time ENG-ARG played this match, the score was counted in thousands of deaths. A poor way to celebrate a win from a consistently unpleasant set of men.

Some crackers and some clangers in here, but at least no C3PO or R2D2: www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Anyone got any opinions on 4G/5G home internet in an area where the signal is very weak (can't make phone calls indoors). I need backup internet and I don't really want to buy Starlink.

Correct your priors: Private money is going after clean energy, governments are using public money to prop up fossil fuels "About 59% of all money spent on the fossil fuel system came from taxpayers in 2015. By 2025, that climbed to 68% and spiked at 78% in 2022." www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

#FashTag www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

UK Labour watching this and then siding with Fox news, 100%.

The ZX Spectrum manual had a chapter on binary arithmetic. It explained AND, OR, and NOT to children who had not yet learned long division. Some of those children went on to design processors. The rest went into estate agency. Both groups blame the Spectrum.

Did you know there's a REST API serving every ZX Spectrum magazine review ever published? ZXSR has the full text of reviews from Crash, Your Sinclair, Sinclair User and more - all searchable by game ID. An incredible community preservation effort. http://www.zxspectrumreviews.co.uk/

Serena Butler is going to kick your ass, Claude.

Oh no! Clean air.

Of course unions look out for their members but it defies belief that they chose *this week* to lobby for more North Sea oil drilling. They should be lobbying for super-generous retraining terms.

Grid are expensive because they are built at scale. By all means have both, but understand that distributed solar is not a replacement for the grid, simply an optimisation. FWIW 50% of my electricity still comes (overnight) from the grid and that will increase as I move more load to heat-pumps.

Solid piece of empirical research out of NIC-D today. Turns out graphs > vectors for building agentic systems, and sometimes raw LLMs > vectors (interesting). Graphs make agents both cheaper and better which is quite an unusual result. Read more: neo4j.com/whitepapers/...

Virtual graphs sourced from relational databases: this is what a great team and I have been working on @neo4j.com the last months. For me, it’s kind of full circle: #SQL, #Cypher and now SQL again behind the scenes. A journey way over a decade for me personally. neo4j.com/blog/graph-d...

Lovely to be back in the garden city.

I've been stewing on high-throughput, everyone's-a-writer, all-the-shards-all-the-time transactions-for-graph data since around 2012. The RIOT protocol is, I think, a good step in the right direction: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

We launched a new product, bringing graphs where there were only tables. Solves for those times when you just can’t migrate to a graph database because of reasons. neo4j.com/blog/graph-d...

So the actual grandson of British Fascist Oswald Mosley runs Palantir in the UK and Europe. This is the corniest timeline.

This but for number of years in the computing industry on LinkedIn bios.

This is exactly the kind of content I'm here for.

Sigh, no they wouldn't. This is called "impact bias."

The Centre for Computing History in Cambridge sells officially licensed prints of John Harris's stunning sci-fi illustrations from Sinclair manuals - the ZX Spectrum floating city, the ZX81 cover, and the Microdrive manual art. Beautiful on any wall. computinghistory.org.uk

Howay the toon.