Matthew Wilkes

A large crowd at an outdoor stage. Almost all taking videos on their phones.

Watching the Kaiser Chiefs at Temple Newsam on Saturday, and they start being very Leeds United. Something tells me that for most of the attendees, something amazing is happening.

Great concert, I just don't know my trophies and my strikers.

I finally got around to trying gandalf.lackera.ai and it was a real fun way to kill an hour (even if one tricke solved many step)

Just tried it, that was fun. Level 7 was the most fun, I got it so close a few times before it would clam up.

Why are people so keen to outsource all their creativity and artistry and _fun_ to LLMs?

The latest depressing experience with vibe coding.. A really fun little self-contained project, a treat for myself around the less technical tasks. Anyway, some more junior engineers have some free time, and offer to help. Their first suggestion, outsource it all to Gemini.

The only time I remember seeing a 4 order-of-magnitude speedup was early in my career, when one engineer (who guarded his code like a dragon's horde) told another "you won't get more than a few milliseconds out of that, I've microoptimised it".

Thanks, you got me with this too. I thought I'd see what words start with homophones of other English names for letters. It wasn't as good as I'd hoped, e.g.:

A is for Aisle
C is for Cane
D is for Djinn
O is for OEstrus
Q is for Queso
S is for Seek
W is for Wyes
X is for Xenic
Y is for Yuzu

Only connect 2nd round answer screen. Christmas bank holidays. Thursday Thu 25th Dec Fri 26th Dec Friday Fri 25th Dec Mon 28th Dec Saturday Mon 27th Dec Tue 28th Dec Sunday Mon 26th Dec Tue 27th Dec

I'm not at all sure about this Only Connect answer.

Shouldn't it be:
Sunday
Tue 27th Dec
Mon 26th Dec

When Christmas day falls on a Sunday, the Christmas Day bank holiday is substituted for the Tuesday but the Boxing Day bank holiday remains on the Monday.

Have been accused of "having dropsy" after dropping a knife twice in one day.

Seems fine to me?

A pallet containing 10 cases of club mate

Happy Club Mate day to me

If collections count, then Sonic 1 for the Megadrive. Otherwise, maybe Steredenn (Steam, Switch Digital, Switch Physical)

Bluesky is a great way to add comments to your blog or site. I've made a web component to make that easy to do.

Load the script, then use the <bluesky-comments> tag. Looks great by default, but is super-customisable with CSS vars and parts. Lazy loads, zero frameworks

github.com/ascorbic/blu...

Hexpansion idea for @emfcamp.bsky.social 26

How on earth is anyone meant to resist chocolate oranges for less than a quid?