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A screen capture of an error messages generated by the GitHub web interface. It says "Changes cannot be loaded. The page is unavailable due to a system error. Try reloading the page, or if the problem persists, contact support."

Is this happening to anybody else? When using the "add suggestion to batch" option in the GitHub code review interface, I see this error. It suggests an issue with a backend service, but everything else about GitHub and the code review interface seems fine... #GitHub #Bug #CodeReview

Rise and silencing of the East End’s pioneering paper “That’s the way to do it!” Toby, a paper named after Punch’s dog bit back at power – until satire, scandal and love brought it to heel

In 1889 a judge called Toby “pestilential” and jailed its editor. But the East End Watch-Dog – a Victorian citizen journalism newspaper – had already done something remarkable: it showed working people *they* could challenge power in print. Read its story ⬇️

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From the dotnet community on Reddit: New Features in .NET 10 and C# 14 Explore this post and more from the dotnet community

.NET 10 introduces file-based apps and it feels like it is going to be very useful. This is Sharp-Script the way I always thought it should work, and it brings C# much closer to being competitive with other modern languages again...
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A screenshot from The Codeless Code, case 163 - Vacation: On first cool day of autumn, a messenger had come to the Temple bearing urgent news. To her puzzlement she found every courtyard vacant, every hallway and common-room empty. Not a soul was to be found. Passing an open doorway, she heard the clattering of keys from within. Inside she found an old scribe staring hard at a monitor. “Where—” began the messenger. “Vacation,” said the scribe without turning around, waving absently in the direction of the rest of the temple. “Not you?” asked the messenger. “I, too,” said the scribe. “But on your screen—” said the messenger. “Yes,” said the scribe. “The ugliest, buggiest, most obstreperous PHP code you will find in the Seventeen Provinces.” “Then why do you labor on it?” asked the messenger. “Because,” smiled the scribe. “It is not the Temple’s code. It is mine.”

In conversation today, I was once again reminded of The Codeless Code, case 163. thecodelesscode.com/case/163

A photo from the Manchester Evening News shows a man in a blue suit lying on the road, drunk, but looking posed. To his right, 2 police officers restrain a person lying on her back on the road. It's general drunk chaos in the background, people standing around, a woman kibbitzing the restraint. How things are laid out look like a bit of a mirror image of the other photo on this post...

Donald Trump stands by a table, looking unstable, disengaged, inept, and a little confused. In the background, several men are holding the body of a colleague who has passed out on the floor. Feels a little familiar when compared to the other photo on this post - a drunken night out from the Manchester Evening News.

Sometimes a thing reminds you of a thing, and all you can do is put them side-by-side.

Not to overshadow this or take the wind out of anyone's sails, but next year we will be celebrating Sandwich Guy's taste of freedom on Nov 6th. 🥖💪
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Parody of Times headline "Did Humans Going to Work Ruin Everything?" Dek: That wasn't enough wet food, I'm STARVING

Look I get publishing a broad spectrum of opinions but I already fed them this morning

UK address data is expensive, hard to access and hard to correct. This holds back businesses and organisations that rely on address data.

One tiny act of rebellion: Go add the addresses near you to OpenStreetMap using MapComplete. The more of us who do it, the more useful it becomes. 🙌 #OpenData

"Unlike most countries, in the UK our address data is not maintained by the government and free. Instead, it’s owned and managed by private companies and public sector bodies, in a complex and costly tangle of intellectual property rights and contracts." -- openaddressfile.uk #OpenData

Guides for films telling you when it's ok to dash to the loo at the cinema without missing something big or exciting or important.

Inventions I had that have been overtaken or made redundant... Repurposing / reusing cash machines to print walking or driving directions. Phones wiped that one out!

Inventions I had that have been overtaken or made redundant... Cooking tapes. The instructions are timed for when you need to do them.

Digital radio but *twist* it's not wildly expensive.

Optional subtitles for TV that explain who people are and what's going on, for viewers with limited attention.

Footballs that find their way home if you kick them over the fence.

Interfaces for white goods that you can understand without poring through the manual. A toaster that can tell how browned your breaded goods are and stop before they burn. Bicycle tyres that tell you if they have a slow puncture. Vegan cheese that's just a little bit chewy and crispy for pizza.

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

Suki and Momo, a tortoise shell and black cat, both about a year old, are curled up together on a blanket on a sofa. Photo is taken from above. They are fricking adorable and you have fallen in love.

We have finished watching Adventure Time and now it is time for an early afternoon nap. Follow me for more mental health and self-care tips.

Great @scalzi.com novel about this.

OH THANK GOODNESS WE WERE ALL SO WORRIED

A screenshot from the BeMyEyes app showing the current statistics. There are just over 920-thousand blind members, and 9.4 million volunteers.

Empathy is alive and well. The @bemyeyes.bsky.social app is a tool for blind people to ask volunteers to describe what they see. Anyone can join. There's a ratio of just over 10:1 volunteers to blind members. #BeMyEyes #CollectiveIntelligence

An audiobook screenshot for Six Conversations We're Scared to Have by Deborah Frances-White. Track 1 of 17. The book is just over 11h long in audio format.

It's spooky season and I'm starting a new book this morning. @dfdubz.bsky.social's "Six Conversations We're Scared to Have". 🎃

Conversational deliberation, at scale I've been leading a software development team at the Centre for Collective Intelligence at Nesta for a couple of years now, and I'm lucky enough to work with some brilliant people. Amongst the things ...

At the Centre for Collective Intelligence at Nesta, we've developed Zeitgeist, a tool to deliver consistent, scalable, seamless, deliberative workshops. We're using it to help our partners figure out what people want and, more importantly, why... 👉 www.linkedin.com/pulse/conver...

Suki, a perfect little tortie cat, lays on a blanket watching a laptop screen. Benjamin Sisko, played by Avery Brooks, is on screen making it perfectly clear to Michael Eddington that he's going to help them find the cloaked missiles heading for Cardassia. She's in love.

She loves the Sisko.

Stop demonising migrants, Keir Starmer Despite denouncing Farage’s views, there’s little difference between the rhetoric of Labour and Reform UK

Stop demonising migrants, Keir Starmer

Despite denouncing Farage’s views, there’s little difference between the rhetoric of Labour and Reform UK | Vov Griffiths
@sussexbylines.co.uk

A painting of Ada Lovelace. She looks composed, and she looking into the painter's eyes (cripes, I almost said camera!) She's got a pale complexion, curly brown hair, brown eyes, and she's wearing some kind of yellow headband / fascinator with a yellow flower on it.

The "End of 10" logo is four squares, arranged in 2 by 2 grid, but slightly displaced as if they're disrupted. Text over the top reads "End of 10" in capital letters. The image is also labelled with a website link: endof10.org

Yesterday was a double celebration! 🎉
Ada Lovelace day 🤝 Demise of Windows 10

Ada was a mathematician and the first programmer. She was writing software before computers existed.

We also celebrated the end of life for Windows 10! Visit endof10.org to give your computer a new lease of life.

Two beautiful little cats sit on a sofa. Left, Momo is a little black cat. Right, Suki is a tortoise shell. Both are looking at the camera.

Left: Momo
Cute, shy, goes out around the house, likes to pat mice on the head, never more than the sound of a crinkling packet of treats away, has a little crush on Betty from next door

Right: Suki
Crossed a 60-mph road today because she thought she might have a try at catching a horse

What if there was an alt-text in EXIF standard?

Momo, our sweet little black cat sits on the front of our "surprisingly affordable" refurbished car looking for all the world like the Jaguar hood ornament.

He earns his keep as a status symbol.