Seb Duggan

I’ve just read this Guardian review, and it is absolutely glorious. Take 5 minutes to read it. You will not regret it.

This a major addition for me! No longer forgetting why I can’t publish in a new browser, and makes it much easier to get someone new set up in the admin. Some great new features recently, I’m finding it hard to keep up with them…

youtu.be/LDHMjO7UbMo?... #TOTP

Thanks to @caimhmc.bsky.social for recommending the books of @brookmyre.bsky.social (of whom I must admit to having been unaware)... Just finished the first Parlabane book (excellent audiobook*) and loved it - next one already queued up! *slight false start as first attempt was abridged version

Maybe it's just me, but when AI experts are still telling us it's important to include things like "Never invent facts, numbers, or sources" for AI, there's an issue with the tool itself.

Cloudflare Data Explorer shows the amount of russian bot traffic has dropped to 49% after Ukraine struck a yandex data center.

It was 90s day at the Barnardos charity shop today - these three CDs for £1 each... I already had the Madonna album as low-quality digital from 25 years ago, but at one pound was worth the upgrade!

It’s a long time ago, so I’m not sure of the exact date, but round about now marks 30 years since I got my first job building websites - a pioneer on the wild frontier of the early web at Future Publishing…

I built a thing (with help from my friend Claude). It's called Blip, and it's a lightweight uptime and performance monitor - because I couldn't find an existing solution that met my requirements. And I've written a blog post about it... sebduggan.uk/posts/2026/b... gitlab.com/sebduggan/blip

And they keep coming. I’m sure unidentified bodies in 60s UK were not referred to as John or Jane Doe 😣 I’m almost minded to write to the publisher. But that does seem a little over-pedantic…

Oh, and apparently they had paramedics too, rather than basic ambulance attendants 😖

Sometimes a book jolts you out of it with a blatant anachronism. Case in point: an arrest being made in 1968 with the full modern police caution, which wasn’t introduced until the 90s. Granted, the author is an American now living in the UK, but a UK editor should have picked up on it…

Yet again, Wordle fails to allow a perfectly good word... 😂

We have reached a major milestone! Read the announcement.

Today’s poem is called ‘Bags’.

Trade xkcd.com/3290/

Now THAT is how you do a product video.

Now playing: Live and Let Die, original soundtrack, on 7.5ips reel-to-reel. An incredibly clean copy (and box) for a 50+ year old tape - and it sounds great! #NowPlaying #MusicSky #ReelToReel

I just sponsored kyoshino (for his outstanding work on @sveltiacms.app). Go Sponsor your open source dependencies! github.com/sponsors/kyo...

Most words become classier when you stick ‘royal’ in front of them but in the case of ‘correspondent’ it has the opposite effect.

It’s the 366th anniversary today of this ridiculous historical shaggy dog story

I can't believe that this obvious front for money-laundering criminal lowlifes has been allowed to open on our High Street. And right next to a barber shop that gets used by young kids, too. Disc race.

‘A delivery was attempted today.’ From the new Private Eye, out now.

In Bristol, supporting The Strsnglers. (The other support act was Wilko Johnson. Definitely got my money’s worth that night…)

Sometimes, the algorithms are good (specifically, for book recommendations). Via @www.joditaylorbooks.com (St Mary's Chronicles), I got to @benaaronovitch.bsky.social (Rivers of London). And from there @caimhmc.bsky.social (Stranger Times, and then Bunny McGarry). All of them highly recommended!

Farage, the money launderer and me: a decade of denial The Reform leader’s relationship with the UK media has enabled him to operate with impunity for years. This past fortnight, that impunity finally appeared to be coming to an end. Carole Cadwalladr, who’s tracked him for a decade, reports on why

Very important statement On the Clacton-by-election To clear up matters for Everyone. Because we are politically neutral It would be wrong for us to Name any candidate who Favours CEEFAX returning And it would be Childish to find a way of Embedding a subliminal message here.

Went to B&Q earlier; employee at the entrance saying "no fans, no air conditioners". Various people inside asking staff for fans and ACs. Yet more wandering around on the phone, "no, they haven't got any..." We're really not cut out for hot weather as a nation...

A lot of people don't realise this but in the UK we have to replace our Prime Minister every two or three years or else the rights revert back to Marvel

Roobarb

Here's an easter egg in the new Lego Batman that I think all of you will REALLY appreciate. It's so good, I had to make a video.

After losing Lawrie two weeks ago, today we said goodbye to our beautiful, brave boy Jethro, who is now chasing swallows on the other side. We knew it was coming, but losing them both so close together hits so hard. Broken doesn't even start to describe how we feel... 💔

Sad news... saw him a few times in and around Bath, and he was always watchable and added a bit of class to anything he did... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“I said it’s good of Nigel Farage to speak out about the murder of Henry Nowak. What did I say Roy?” “You said he’s a cynical piece of shit who’s exploiting a tragedy to spread hatred and division”

Can’t believe it’s a week since we lost little Lawrie… we think he was about 16, and gave us a number of scares, but always bounced back. But this time we couldn’t help him, and x-rays showed lungs riddled with cancer too. 😢 It still feels like it can’t have happened…

@mrjamesob.bsky.social is very well read. I wonder has he seen this new title?

"I said it seems unlikely that Nigel Farage would take £1 million to throw an election then another £5 million to become an MP. What did I say Roy?" "You said he definitely did because the grifting little shit would do anything for cash"

Pay a lot of Danegeld and then get invaded by the Normans?

This prompted me to question the definition of "poem": "a piece of writing that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meanings beyond literal interpretations. It typically employs poetic devices and structures to create emotional and intellectual responses." Hmmm...

I don’t know why this fundamental misunderstanding of numbers riles me so much but it makes me want to fucking scream - it wouldn’t even be a 600% rise you ludicrous dipshit

This is still my go-to game when I fire up my BBC Model B. It’s amazing how the muscle memory is retained after 40 years!

TIL that Charles Dickens first published "A Tale of Two Cities" in two English local newspapers. It was the Bicester Times. It was the Worcester Times.

Only one way to find out...