Henry Coles

I have a scene featuring a hack not unlike this in my first novel, only the computer and the music are both much older.

YouTube video by Joe Lynch Boards of Canada "Olson" on a 1959 PDP-1 Computer

Boards of Canada's Olson (1989) playing on the last functioning PDP-1 computer from 1959.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wubk...

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 10009:
Beware of people who give writing advice for a living, rather than writing books for a living. And beware of people telling you about *the publishing business* who don't currently work in the publishing business.

GitHub - hcoles/voices: Fast, in-process text to speech for Java Fast, in-process text to speech for Java. Contribute to hcoles/voices development by creating an account on GitHub.

Had a busy evening hacking on my text to speech library. Voice models are now available as maven dependencies, so "python style" runtime downloading is no longer mandatory

Might call it v1.0.0 and stop breaking the api once I've updated the homograph dictionary

github.com/hcoles/voices

#java #tts

Currently fixing a bug that's been hiding in plain sight for about 14 years.

Waiting to hear back to confirm, but the arcmutate spring plugin may have just uncovered a large number of bugs in one of our customer's codebases due to the misuse of security/validation annotations.

#java #areyousureyourcodeisworking

Tried to use onbuy.com to buy something of non trivial value. Wouldn't use them again.

Order cancelled by seller after 2 weeks because "out of stock" with no way to leave a review for the seller.

No money lost, but clearly a platform that's happy to have its customers messed around.

A poster announcing Dyslexia Awareness Week 2025, and showing two books by Alastair Chisholm – REEK and BLITZERS, both published by Barrington Stoke.

It's #DyslexiaAwarenessWeek this week in Scotland (next week England). @barringtonstoke.bsky.social publish incredible, dyslexia-friendly, accessible books for all and I'm delighted to be on their list.

For 20% discount use code DAW20 here 👉 collins.co.uk/pages/barrin... (ends 12/10)

#KidLitUk

I was up early this morning making inadvisable last minute changes, but at 9am I hit send on my structural edit.

I am now celebrating by going to work.

#ukkidlit

GitHub - hcoles/voices: Fast, in-process text to speech for Java Fast, in-process text to speech for Java. Contribute to hcoles/voices development by creating an account on GitHub.

There's still a bit of work to do, but I've just pushed out a release of my text to speech library with a new phonemizer and initial support for non-english languages.

github.com/hcoles/voices

#java

So to recap:

🟣Farage made Gill Welsh UKIP leader

🟣Gill left UKIP 2 days after Farage and has admitted to his first count of Russian bribery THE SAME DAY

💎Gill joined Brexit party and re-elected to Brexit Party during the bribes period

💎Gill made Welsh Reform UK leader

11/14

Gain confidence in your code with mutation testing Hi, I’m Simone, a Chapter Lead at ING and I’m responsible for the application gateway for all payments done via the Mobile Banking app…

My very first contribution on the ING Tech Blog! I’m excited to share my experience with mutation testing and how it’s vital to strengthen your test suite to gain code quality and resilience.

Test smart. Test strong. Trust your code.

medium.com/ing-blog/gai...

Reform UK's ex-Wales leader Nathan Gill admits pro-Russia bribery Nathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament.

How is this not front page news?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

GitHub - hcoles/voices: Fast, in-process text to speech for Java Fast, in-process text to speech for Java. Contribute to hcoles/voices development by creating an account on GitHub.

It's a day old, but my little text to speech library has already had it's first bug report, fix and release.

github.com/hcoles/voices

#java

It's a shame there are no tools that detect this sort of thing without setting the planet on fire.

GitHub - hcoles/voices: Fast, in-process text to speech for Java Fast, in-process text to speech for Java. Contribute to hcoles/voices development by creating an account on GitHub.

I'm meant to be editing a novel, so instead I've written a text to speech system.

github.com/hcoles/voices

#java #procrastination

This reason this isn't wrapped up as something PIT reports is that is probably doesn't mean what people think it does.

Tests that didn't kill anything might be great tests, they just weren't run because a different test was used to successfully challenge the mutant first.

2/2

Sort of. You can get a record of all killing tests (from the xml output or good old csv).

Any test that isn't listed never failed.

1/2

We have precious few hours on this earth, so must spend them well.

Like this.

Mutation Testing in Quarkus: Go Beyond Code Coverage

Learn how to expose weak tests, strengthen your assertions, and build enterprise-grade confidence with PIT in Java applications.

www.the-main-thread.com/p/mutation-t...

The Apache Groovy™ programming language Concise, readable and expressive syntax, easy to learn for Java developers, flexible typing makes it more friendly for Python programmers or data scientists

Is anyone out there still using groovy-lang.org?

Feels like it rather dropped off a cliff (apart from defining gradle builds).

Is there a community out there that I'm just not aware of?

#java

That's a gorgeous cover. Who's the artist?

Just checked back on the dodgy agent who's offer I rejected two years ago.

To my immense surprise, there are still no announcements on their website about the middle grade deals with Big 5 publishers that they'd secured but "couldn't talk about yet".

Writers, be careful out there.

Here's our latest pyramid scheme.

Have you tried deleting the document and all backups and starting again from scratch?

Just made our first sale in Japan, which is nice.

Our no marketing, no advertising model continues to work surprising well.

#java

"Don't be scared to put yourself out there" - the words of the amazing #UV26 Honorary Chair @louiestowell.bsky.social

Take her advice before it's too late - competition closes this coming Monday.

undiscoveredvoices.com

@scbwi.bsky.social @scbwiireland.bsky.social

Record turnable covered in dirt with head missing from tone arm.

Record turnable looking a bit cleaner than the first shot, mounted on a nice beech wood base, with a 3d printed head on the tone arm.

Since record bluesky seems to be finding this post, here's the turntable, a Dual 1209 made somewhere between 1969 and 1972, before and after I did a bit of work on it.

Just replaced the battery powered pre-amp on my eldest's vintage record player, with a Pioneer amp from the 90s.

Had to route their CD player through it too, and my goodness, everything sounds so clear now.

Didn't realise an amp could make such a difference.

Proof copy arrived in the post and I’m so excited that I ignored my inner cringe and recorded a video!

It’s really happening.

Proper dream come true stuff going on here.

Wild!

Thank you so much @rocktheboatnews @oneworldpublications

Cover art: @adamscarvalho