Alexis Richardson

Peter Mandelson, a man being comprehensively disowned by the British prime minister, as I write this, is just one of many who have, consciously or not, exposed their countries and others to great potential danger. /11.

Vibe Coding In this groundbreaking book, industry veterans Steve Yegge (Google, Amazon, Sourcegraph) and WSJ bestselling author Gene Kim (The Phoenix Project and The DevOps Handbook) reveal how vibe coding is tra...

I've started reading Vibe Coding by Gene Kim and Steve Yegge, despite @simonwillison.net 's insistence that they're misusing the term :)
I'm planning to read a chapter a day and I'll post a quick review of each on this thread.

Dr manhatan from watchmen sitting on a rock

It's 1998. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.

It's 2001. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.

It's 2025. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.

It's 2026. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.

Entente cordiale taken too far

French embassy only serving water and juice to attendees until the evening's speeches are over, a misunderstanding of what Brits look for in a drinks reception of such proportions that I can only assume the declaration of war will come overnight

these vikings look ready for laser combat

I am just gonna say it, these guys are completely emasculated by the knowledge that they have been out-organized by a group that is significantly made up of women, and all the bullshit call of duty nonsense is cope for their wounded egos bsky.app/profile/jeet...

The Conservative Party has defected to Reform.

"Hoplite"

A small painted perfume bottle in the shape of a helmeted head saying "Oooh!"

Please be briefly cheered up by this perfume bottle (Greek; c. 600BCE) from the Burrell Collection.

Kafkaesque?

One year ago today. Anyone have an update?

Big fan of that place

Beloved '70s BBC sci-fi series from Daleks creator confirmed for reboot with Doctor Who director This is not a drill!

Please don’t fuck it up. Please don’t fuck it up. Please don’t fuck it up. Please don’t fuck it up. Please don’t fuck it up. Please don’t fuck it up. Please don’t fuck it up. Please don’t fuck it up.

www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/bl...

Two grinning young men stand in front of a sign for New Hope Church. They have removed the letter "s" from the message underneath the church sign so that it reads "god says homosexuality is in" rather than "god says homosexuality is sin".

We're all having a tough day what with the leader of the free world being batshit insane so I'm breaking out my favourite pic to give us a little moment of joy.

Devs have had it too good. We need ops-first tools. And operational loops that don't require coding new programmatic artefacts in order to get systems back up

Imagine writing a pure C, dependency free, fast enough Flux 2 Klein 4B inference library. In a weekend. Thanks to AI writing the code, and the human steering it towards the right direction.

github.com/antirez/flux...

If @taylor.town was into enterprise software, this would be one in his no-comment absurdist image series.

Industry S4 is here. The big short reimagined as money p0rn.

What a show. But could anyone from 90s britain believe it at all?

Keir Starmer often takes 2-3 days to issue very mild criticism of US actions. This is both direct and issued fast.

I think there is a serious risk that the US miscalculated quite what a big deal the Greenland thing is to Europe (and in Europe).

It is Saturday

The world is confusing and maybe too much?

Just listen to this

The reverb

Scarves should have square cut ends. If you want to be a leisure pirate, get a kerchief.

Langston Hughes

Apparently dobby went to balliol or something. And probably now has a podcast.

The new waterstones is a lot nicer than the old one! I think that corner will recover soon.

Oxford streets are doing well since going more pedestrian despite early fears of the opposite. The Westgate centre also a success. Only downside is Harry Potter merch.

But the town has many visitors

Uruguay’s Renewable Charge: A Small Nation, A Big Lesson For The World Uruguay built a power grid that runs 99% on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. Here’s how its bold energy overhaul became a global model.

“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”