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kev, 54 minutes ago to random

I read a post from Robb Knight recently about his computing origin story. It was an interesting post, so I thought I'd add my own computing history to the mix.

https://kevquirk.com/my-computing-history

kate, 21 hours ago to random

Glen Sligachan, Skye:

kate, 2 days ago to random

Just passed my favourite road sign 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Clare, 3 days ago to random

“Oh you’ve got a lot of friends” my wife said looking at an app on my phone.

It’s the one that lists all my plants.

I’m actually very lonely.

But I do own plants.

kate, 4 days ago to random

Just found out that the Irish subsidiary of Automattic (the owners of WordPress) is called Aut O’Mattic

kate, 6 days ago to random

In the middle of the south Devon coastal town of Paignton, surrounded by modern housing, sits the 600-year-old Kirkham House:

kate, 7 days ago to random

British transphobia has now reached the stage of coercing young people into detransitioning using the threat of referrals to social services if they access treatment through private providers. The Good Law Project is crowdfunding for a possible legal challenge: https://goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/nhs-cyp-guidance/

kate, 8 days ago to random

Today I’m updating https://grid.iamkate.com to use Elexon’s new API, as they’re switching off the current BMRS API at the end of the month. The new API is just as inconsistent as the old one, but in entirely new ways.

kate, 9 days ago to random

I’m pretty sure the pavement was wide enough for that man to pass me without brushing his hand across my bottom

kate, 9 days ago (edited 9 days ago) to random

Bristol came so close to having the first Green majority on a upper-tier English council.

Edit: Here’s what the results imply for the Bristol Central constituency in the upcoming general election: https://iamkate.com/data/bristol-central/

kate, 10 days ago to random

The Guardian’s latest attack on trans healthcare is ostensibly targeting DIY hormones, but this chilling paragraph makes it clear it’s only a matter of time until they demand a complete ban on hormone therapy:

kate, 10 days ago to random

I’ve voted in every election since 2001 (today it’s for the Police And Crime Commissioner), and since @Clare moved down in 2008 I always take a photo at the polling station:

kate, 11 days ago to random

If you’re designing a programming language, please consider allowing hyphens in identifiers. Hyphen-separated text (kebab-case) is more readable than camelCase, and doesn’t require use of the shift key like camelCase and snake_case. There’s no ambiguity with subtraction if you require spaces around binary operators (which every style guide I’ve ever used requires anyway).

rooster, 13 days ago to random

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kate, 13 days ago to random

With local elections being held in England on 2nd May, here’s a summary of the results of all the by-elections since last year’s local elections — see https://iamkate.com/data/by-elections-2023-2024/ for full details:

kate, 14 days ago to random

On 7th June 2020 anti-racism protestors tore down a statue of slave-trader Edward Colston and threw it into Bristol harbour. The statue that once looked down on the people of Bristol now lies, graffiti-covered and surrounded by placards from the protest, in the M Shed museum. I found the exhibition to be a moving reminder of that brief period when it seemed Britain might finally start to acknowledge and address the legacy of its history of racism.

A placard reading “Colston must fall”
Various placards, including one reading “BLM means gay + trans Black lives matter”
Various placards, including one reading “The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house”

kate, 14 days ago to random

There’s a stuffed kakapo in the natural history section of almost every British museum I’ve visited — no wonder they’re critically endangered

rooster, 17 days ago to random

I sleep better at night knowing that when the internet fully goes to shit and becomes useless, librarians will be waiting for us with open arms