John Children

Labour and the Lib Dems need to stop splitting the left and unite behind the Greens to stop Farage

Video games taught me that fashion is the endgame and I feel like I've kinda maxed out my career and hobbies now so...

The two #GuppyLang papers are also out on arXiv now:

GUPPY: Pythonic Quantum-Classical Programming Guppy (PLanQC '24): scirate.com/arxiv/2510.1...

Imperative Quantum Programming with Ownership and Borrowing in Guppy Guppy (PLanQC '25): scirate.com/arxiv/2510.1...

Guppy docs at guppylang.org

Clearly the previous owner successfully shed the flesh and no longer has need for the t-shirt

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www.e-dracaena.com?pid=181410904 my fashion choices are being vindicated

Don't suppose anyone knows anyone with more lockboxes than they anticipated?

I guess I'm going to have to use these as ttrpg props over time... Or just start handing out keys with a riddle and see if it causes people to go on quests

A bag of lots of small keys

So I thought it was buying like 3 much larger keys for some reason...

There's a lot more to this work though and I know the authors have been working incredibly hard on it for the past few years! A few of them are even on bsky!

@aborgna.bsky.social @seyon-s.bsky.social @rossquantum.bsky.social

I didn't contribute anything to this work, but seeing the application of linear typing to quantum programming was a primary motivator in my career choices, excited to see this gain traction and possibly even use it myself in other projects!

HUGR: A Quantum-Classical Intermediate Representation We introduce the Hierarchical Unified Graph Representation (HUGR): a novel graph based intermediate representation for mixed quantum-classical programs. HUGR's design features high expressivity and ex...

arxiv.org/abs/2510.11420 🫂📄📤

I guess an unfortunate consequence of 2026 being the year of the Linux desktop means there will likely be more supply chain attack attempts as the user base grows

I am of course measuring my Japanese with the only objective measurement, by ability to answer JLPT example questions

My Japanese has improved a lot recently but my vocabulary is very weak still and I don't find that apps are particularly good for learning lots of new vocabulary in a way that sticks for me. Possibly I have to just read more...

I let my ffxiv subscription lapse, I'll probably need to update my profile picture on here once my house is demolished

Always fun to reverse engineer the mandatory security software to see what it does

The obvious question might be "why didn't you write that in C or C++?"

And that would be a very good question

In a previous job we did actually do this for a Go service that had to maintain a lot of pointers in memory...

It was easier to just restart it periodically than allow garbage collection cycles to run

I got to the credits in Hades 2. Not a bad game but the story does suffer a lot from just trying to have the same formula as the first game.

cowtools but it's the gnu gnu

gnu cowutils

HOLD THE LINE EGGHEADS

gotta say i am not enjoying seeing breaking news about american university professors successfully fleeing the country

comic panel featuring Batman and a cow standing dramatically in the rain. Batman says "this is where I watched my parents die, cow tools cow." The cow responds, her word bubble containing only the lump-with-handle cow tool.

cowabummer

🚨 NEW | Greens surge to 15% (2pts behind Lab)

➡️ REF – 32% (-3)
🔴 LAB – 17% (-2)
🔵 CON – 17% (+3)
🟢 GRN – 15% (+4)
🟠 LD – 12% (-)

Via @FindoutnowUK, 8 Oct (+/- vs 1 Oct)

(sqlite integer primary key starts from 1)

I correctly index from 1, which is where numbers start from

I forgot how nice sqlite and nushell are to work together with when debugging

Might mess around and make a PDS

I mentioned effect systems and was asked for more information instead of a blank stare 😍

The AI videos of dead people talking are just necromancy, a thing already roundly condemned by our society, right? Am I missing something here? Is reconstructing the dead to use as puppets ok now or