Bill Horsman

That's 90,000 signatures!

90,000 of you calling for a ban on driven grouse shooting.

If we reach 100,000, we can get this debated in parliament. So please sign and share - help us get there!

Good morning, from the back page of Private Eye magazine!

EV charger port with the door open

The door on our EV's charging port is broken so currently remains open at all times. I drove into #Dundee today slightly annoyed with it but had two lovely interactions with people who came to tell me I'd left it open. All three of us ended up feeling slightly happier, I'm sure.

The Handmaiden - Wikipedia

Hey, I’ve seen The Handmaiden, a South Korean film which is based on that novel (I’ve just found out). Loved the film.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Han...

Green Runners co-founder Jasmin Paris makes history at Barkley Marathon - Jasmin Paris becomes the first woman to complete the gruelling Barkley Marathons in a year packed with Green Runner competitors

Looking back over 2024

A review of ‘24 wouldn’t be complete without mentioning Jasmin Paris, co-founder of The Green Runners. She became the 1st woman to finish the Barkley Marathons, completing her five 20-plus-mile loops with one minute & 39 seconds to spare.

thegreenrunners.com/green-runner...

I’d say it’s unusual at your age, Carl, but conformity is overrated. You do you.

YouTube video by Coldplay Coldplay - ALL MY LOVE (Official Video) (Directors' Cut)

Lovely video of Coldplay and Dick van Dyke at the age of 99 — www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4Ol... h/t Daniel Steinberg's Dim Sum Thinking newsletter #246: mailchi.mp/32f09cac953f...

Last day for this petition. Who do I know in the UK who will sign?

Dense Discovery – Issue 317 / The human scale of care Read the archived version of DD317. A weekly dispatch of curated links worth your time.

📬 Out now: DD317 / The human scale of care

I’m looking forward to this.

I'm sure you're right. Not sure we can get away with low temperature in our house though. Existing radiators that we'd rather keep, old stone house. Insulation is as good as we can reasonably get it but below what you'd expect for a more modern house.

Seriously considering replacing it with a high temperature air sourced heat pump next year. Might add solar PV and batteries but the capital cost adds up.

Boiler repair man — Oh, deary, deary, deary me.

Things not looking good for -2º forecast for tonight. Fingers crossed 🤞 for his poking around to eventually work.

Our wood pellet boiler is just under 10 years old but looks like 20 year old technology.

Petition: Ban driven grouse shooting Chris Packham, Ruth Tingay and Mark Avery (Wild Justice) believe that driven grouse shooting is bad for people, the environment and wildlife. People; we think grouse shooting is economically insignifi...

5000 signatures at my bed time.
Thank you for all the support.
We start again tomorrow.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

A partially visible hand holding a single AirPod with a cotton bud sticking out of it. In the background, an AirPods case with "Bill" engraved on it, a wooden table and two stone coasters.

Cotton buds to the rescue! Not for your ears but the AirPods. An unpleasant but satisfying task :)

Being an engineer means I can break things in my spare time too Computers and furnaces are not that different

I have the lgc.li domain and I love how short it is. In my head, it says "logically" but I'm not sure that's at all obvious to anyone else. I've been hand-crafting short URLs to my blog and I guess that one day, but not today, I'll automate that. Short link to my previous post:

b.lgc.li/5y6

That's pretty neat and certainly a lot quicker than what I did yesterday. Pandoc and Netlify is a little different:

- custom domain and styles
- updates don't change URL

Embedding the content in the URL is interesting. That's how I did it on my experimental widget helper that we never shipped :)

Markdown with Pandoc and Netlify Publishing markdown as a webpage

I wanted to share some markdown with some friends yesterday so, naturally, I put it on the web — here's how I did it: logicalcobwebs.com/blog/2024/ma...

Once automated, the steps are:

1. Edit markdown
2. Push commit to GitHub
3. That's it

#pandoc #netlify #markdown

I’m wondering if we should … rename the repos? And purge tito2 and vito2 from the code and infrastructure config. How hard can it be?

😱

I wish there was a macOS version. Sometimes I want to _type_ dammit.