Derek Graham

Inlay card for the audio tape for Wind in the willows

@misterabk.bsky.social reminded of the audiobook of Wind in the Willows read by Kenneth Williams. Two audio tapes and so much more cosy and with less Pan

People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.

Come on, it’s half an hour of the worst thing you/I’ve ever heard

The AI Vampire with Gas Town's Steve Yegge AI is making developers dramatically more productive...so why is everyone so exhausted? In this episode, Scott talks with Steve Yegge, legendary blogger and creator of Gas Town, a multi-agent orchestr...

@edzitron.com you might like/hate hanselminutes.com/1035/the-ai-...

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

preorder To Catch A Fascist today, in stores on Tues, let’s make this thing a bestseller www.simonandschuster.com/books/To-Cat...

All my old bands got back together without me?!?

YouTube video by Modern Software Engineering The BEST Programmers Use Tests For Engineering Like THIS...

Lots of people have opinions about what good tests look like - I've taken inspiration from many and condensed it all down to some useful insights. And I talk about shoes! youtu.be/IFrmfN1fxLg?...

If you prefer to read, this blog is on the same topic: coding-is-like-cooking.info/2025/12/test...

The habit persists with to this day, 40 years later.

@recdiffs.bsky.social doing prep for my radio operator exams back in the day, I was “encouraged” to write 7 and 0 with a slash so that I could not be marked down for ambiguity when taking down morse code.

A yellow bird singing the words "despair is a tool of your enemies" -audre lorde

Good night, everyone. It feels like our so-called "leaders" have all but abandoned us, but we still have each other. I didn't know what else to do, so I made a little painting. Stay safe out there 💛

Weird philosophical @kevlin.bsky.social with my phone's todo app. Due dates for repeating tasks have stayed the same but their reminders have moved forward one day.

All my important "Today don't forget to..." have been magically transformed into "Yesterday did you remember to...?"

Delivery confirmation email showing a blank email address as $object dot shipping address dot email

I $object to this template @kevlin.bsky.social

And maybe buy a huge turkey in the morning. Oh, no wait...you already bought a huge turkey :)

My Christmas wish for any ai vibe coders out there is for you to be visited in the night by @JasonGorman.bsky.social, GeePaw Hill and @EmilyBache.com. Don't worry, they aren't ghosts, they are nice, you'll really like them. Listen to them.

You will be visited by three spirits.

Part of our 2025 Advent Calendar, a black and white line drawing showing my version of Bigfoots wearing wintery clothes and bearing various wrapped Christmas presents.

Every year we make a free-to-download-and-print-off-yourself colouring-in Advent Calendar. This year’s heavily features Bigfoots. Please share!
Download it for free here… www.worldofmoose.com/pages/2025-b...

The very last #AgileNorthEast tonight, closing with a round of lightning talks.

Thanks to Jon, Paul and Stephen for the hard work of organising and facilitating over the years #agile

Hackable and fixable

Occasionally on my work laptop a black box pops up with the words "Windows Powershell", and I think "Yes, it probably does."

Reminding myself of maintenance on an early c++ project with at least one file > 17k lines

Extract Method?

…you did so no *new* tools and I’m sure I have a CD laying around here somewhere

Rational Rose?

LLMs, Context Windows & Brown M&Ms An interesting piece of research was published recently that found that the effective maximum context size of Large Language Models is orders of magnitude smaller than the advertised maximum contex…

Van Halen wouldn't have fallen for it!

"I showed GPT-5’s responses to a bunch of people, and more than half didn’t notice the 'Brown M&Ms'. This, I suspect, is what really explains why people perceive the effectiveness of LLMs so differently"

codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/10/03/l...

I could do that in about a parsec, easy

Coffee!