Jonathan Harden

I whole heartedly agree, I've already read A man called Ove, Beartown (just number 1) and Britt-Marie was here. All three were wonderful

A copy of My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Frederick Backman which is tied up with a ribbon with a beautiful bow

Lovely to greet the postman and see that @bertsbooks.bsky.social packaging. I opened it to find the first book in my Frederick Backman subscription so beautifully packaged

From an @thestorygraph.com recommendation, I just started The Door-to-Door Bookstore by Carsten Henn

I went to collect a reservation from my lovely local provincial library: "Hi, I've got a reservation to collect" and the librarian/staff member paid me possibly the greatest complement I could ever hope for "Oh yes, when unusual and interesting books come in I always know they are for you"

I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place

Some days (like today) I like to not dismiss the Monzo notification that I bought a book (usually from bookshop.org) so I can keep feeling the small burst of joy knowing a book is going to arrive. Even though I know this one is on back order and will take multiple weeks, it's still making me happy.

No

Heard a lad earlier talking about ‘Belgian whistles’

“A basic website costs 10k or 25k upwards if you want all the Belgian whistles”

BELGIAN WHISTLES

Hey there, the video you shared is private

I wanted to read Cogwheels by Akutagawa, so I bought "The Essential Akutagawa", sadly among the 22 short stories in it is not Cogwheels, I needed instead to buy "Essential Akutagawa". Ah what a silly mistake. However my lovely library has "Rashomon and 17 other short stories" so I've ordered that in

Either The Music of the Primes by Marcus du Sautoy or The Code Book by Simon Singh. I loved both, and they both convey complex problems with brilliance to the reader while keeping an engaging style going throughout

Bose open-sources its SoundTouch home theater smart speakers ahead of end-of-life If companies insist on bricking gadgets, this is a better way to do it.

Please other companies also do this

Thinking about this more, it's clear the GitHub cli is not designed for humans to interact with GitHub projects, and I feel I should just give up trying to interact with them as a human

It's possible I am missing a quicker way, but the documentation is purely api docs for graphql without examples of connecting things together.

I can't believe I'm saying this, but github projects makes me miss Jira :( 3/3

...to create a gh issue and add custom project field values you need to parse the non-json output of gh issue create to look for the issue ID, then:

do graphql lookups to get:
The project ID
The issue ID
The field ID
The field value ID

then finally a graphql mutation to set it

... 2/3

Having used github projects for a while I am firmly in the camp of "it sucks", largely because driving it via cli is an absolute nightmare requiring you to do tons of graphql api queries manually. The CLI is absolutely bobbins for interacting with github projects. ... 1/3

The cover of Live from Golgotha: The Gospel According to Gore Vidal

I'm reading Live at Golgotha: The Gospel according to Gore Vidal.

I'm about 25% through, it's tough going, but I'm also enjoying it. I think the Story Graph reading challenge is helping to keep me at it :)

Can’t kick it wide right if you aren’t kicking.

This Motherless Land

Here One Moment

The Wall

We Solve Murders

Before we get properly into the swing of the New Year, let's take a look at the bestselling books of 2025 in our shop in Swindon...

We had a lovely visit from Nikki May, helping This Motherless Land to 20th place, plus The Wall in 18th was Pedro's favourite book of the year.

The Andromeda galaxy

Rather pleased with this image of Andromeda, it took 4.5 hours and 1000 stacked images to get, but I'm really happy with it

...I still think it's a good book, but perhaps a Pratchett novel isn't the kind of book I get the most from reading these days.

Next book up is probably a much more serious science fiction book recommended by a friend whose opinion in books I value greatly 2/2

Finished reading Interesting Times today. While I enjoyed it, I didn't feel compelled to keep reading, and it didn't scratch the same parts of my brain as things I've read more recently...1/2

...Anyway there is a new independent bookshop opening soonish in my little provincial town and I'm both delighted, and sure this won't be a problem at all, no siree! 2/2

Went into a bookshop today thinking "there won't be anything I want to buy", I immediately saw a beautiful edition of a Murakami short story I haven't read. Eventually left with that and three more books. I truly love the ability to browse for things I might never have bought otherwise...1/2

I _get_ what you are trying to say, but you're supposed to be a professional institution, this kind of comment/joke is ok from a close friend, but it's highly out of order from you

Yo @monzo.com, putting in a Monzo wrapped that my wife is "The Donkey to your shrek" is a bit bloomin much, you're my bank, not a close friend, this is totally inappropriate

...Seems like a bad idea for any future owners of this house.

Why do I feel obligated to do something to protect it! It's not like I'm the one choosing to leave a fragile thing unprotected by default. 2/2

Finally cancelled virgin media. Given they do not provide an ONT inside the property, and given they want the router back (fair enough, and it's also useless for any other service anyway), that means there will be an uncapped, unprotected fibre just hanging out of the wall...1/2

New video · Sunday, Dec 7 🎬 Tap to view!

Oh and a little link to a video of it counting up to the correct answer for my puzzle input!
photos.app.goo.gl/vAL18z86DBjk...

And a photo of the answer on display photos.app.goo.gl/UJwcZs16TTzV...

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advent-of-code-2025/day1/atari at main · jfharden/advent-of-code-2025 Advent of Code 2025 answers. Contribute to jfharden/advent-of-code-2025 development by creating an account on GitHub.

I'd also like to display the number horizontally, currently I'm doing it vertically, doing it horizontal will teach me some "sprite" switching tricks.

For the interested:

github.com/jfharden/adv...

Tomorrow! Real hardware!

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