Paul

I've been off social media for a while now. But sometimes I do feel like I'm lacking a void to scream into. Now I have Bluesky signed in on my Firefox, so maybe I'll voidscream more often again.

I made a thing to see when charging my car is free, and if the price (which changes every 30 minutes) has been steadily increasing over time. (spoiler: not as much as I'd feared). powerprices.co.uk

Petrol price crisis? Tomorrow @octopus.energy will pay me about £5 to fully charge my car! 😆 Their ‘Agile’ tariff changes price every 30mins with demand, sometimes going negative. Hopefully this is genuinely interesting, but here’s my spammy £50 referral link too: share.octopus.energy/ore-dodo-899

Is there a word for the recent phenomenon where us customers get tracking systems that show staff gaming their impossible-to-meet performance targets in real time? Like that notification for a delivery attempt that your doorbell camera somehow completely missed.

We’re steering AI in a different direction — with open source building blocks, community-led datasets, and trustworthy products. Mark Surman on our next era, our double bottom line economic model and our optimism. blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/r...

Apparently my payroll account gets deactivated due to inactivity if I don’t log in to it at least once a month. Who is downloading their (monthly) payslips more than once a month?! 🤪

I went curling yesterday while on a work trip to Toronto. 🥌 It was great fun! I thought it would be like bowling but it’s much more in depth. Surprisingly physical, and now every part of me hurts. (to the point where I’ve been told at home to stop moaning!)

I’ve been vibe coding a thing that I’m really pleased with so far. If you own a stack of domains for side projects you’ll get to one day, you might enjoy this too!

False advertising from Europcar: I booked an EV for a holiday in Spain. Website says "no recharge required" – the collection desk argued I must recharge it before returning it, and finally caved when I showed them the website. I get home, and – surprise surprise – they charged me for recharging. 🤷‍♂️

AI voice cloning scam calls – where scammers can record your voice to make an AI clone of it and then use that to scam your relatives. 👇 Presumably even your outgoing voicemail greeting might be enough for them to use if you don't answer their call. I've just deleted mine. 👀

I took my 8-year-old daughter to the office on 'Take Your Kid To Work Day'. But when we walked in the office she started to cry. As concerned staff gathered round I asked her what was wrong and she said: "Daddy where are all the clowns you said you worked with?"

Help! I’m looking for an expert in neurodiversity (in adults, in the workplace) to come and do a talk and raise awareness. Does anyone know someone who can do this? 🙏

Zoom need to make it so that if your dog or cat is on your lap, they're not blurred as part of the 'blur background' setting. I want to see your dogs and cats!

Stop eating your lunch at your desk. Go and have an actual proper lunch break. Nobody gives a shit that you keep working on your lunch break, least of all your boss. It's not going to get you a promotion, but it is going to burn you out.

Saying somebody “will be missed” is so passive and inauthentic, like there’s a silent “but not by me” at the end. If it was heartfelt it would be “I will miss them” or “many of us will miss them”. Same with saying “my apologies” instead of “I’m sorry”.

We all know that 6 was scared of 7 because 7 8 9... …but 7 was scared 2, 4 6 8 10.

This is my life now. Thanks @anthropic.com 🤦‍♂️

Looks like Starbug broke down in Basingstoke. Thankfully the AA are on hand to recover the ship!

Shout out to everyone writing end-of-year team feedback. The end is in sight. Stay strong 🖤

Stuck in another bugfixing loop with Claude AI 😞 I’m not a coder so I think what it can do is incredible… until it’s not.

Blue Sky? Nostalgic? It's bringing back that 90s vibe with this track, Blue Skies from Longpigs… www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnbC...

First time in a long time tinkling the old ivo… strings I’m not any good, but I enjoy it.