Mark Oliver

Smyths currently has an offer on any Lego set over £50; £5 off per £50 spent. It only really adds up if you spend hundreds of pounds, but it means that the Game Boy set is £48.

This looks ace. Where in the world is it?

I made a tool that lets you use Claude Skills with any coding agent: dave.engineer/blog/2025/11...

Set it up as a GitHub action in 2 minutes: github.com/dave1010/ski...

Cover of William Golding's novel "Lord Of The Flies".

“Lord Of The Flies” may be a classic, but it’s also a bleak statement about how humans - boys, in this case - are riddled with violent, selfish cruelty & savagery.

However, a real-life version happened in 1965 with 6 boys marooned on a deserted island in Tonga - & things went very differently!

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{dev.talk} a FREE monthly meetup for software engineers and related disciplines in the south of the UK run by volunteers within the community. {dev.talk} a FREE monthly meetup for software engineers and related disciplines in the south of the UK run by volunteers within the community.

We have 3 speakers coming up talking about Software Design using DSLs, better dev environment within Linux, and how Product can make Dec's want to build something.
An interesting lineup from 3 local speakers.
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🐶🐾 Lewis Hamilton shares a Lego portrait of Roscoe he was gifted:

“This lego portrait of Roscoe really touched me. The amount of detail in it is incredible and I can't imagine how long it took. Thank you to Karen and Ilona for making this and sending it to me.”

#F1 #TeamLH #Dogs #Lego

A great book. Looking forward to seeing thr movie too

Wait. This is a thing. I have been looking for this for 6 months. You have made my day!

Windows XP-inspired Crocs with custom Jibbitz charms sitting on top of a Bliss-themed drawstring backpack on a table.

We're doing a limited-edition release of Windows XP-inspired Crocs with custom Jibbitz charms and a Bliss-themed drawstring backpack! Details in this blog post! I scored a pair - my first ever Crocs. #MicrosoftCrocSweepstakes #Microsoft50 blogs.windows.com/windowsexper...

Why I Built a SaaS Boilerplate and Why You Should Use It Skip months of foundational development and launch your SaaS idea in weeks, not months I've watched countless brilliant SaaS ideas die in the foundational development phase. Talented developers and i...

Ship SaaS Fast — .NET SaaS Boilerplate

Launch your SaaS in weeks, not months.

Skip months of boilerplate development and start with a battle-tested, production-ready platform.

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My starry night has been on the wall since new. It has never moved. I love seeing it up there.

Don't want LinkedIN to automatically train its AI on your data, switch it off here: www.linkedin.com/mypreference...

Not sure about the rest of the world, but if you don't switch it off it will start collecting in November for the Netherlands/ Dutch members.

Unfortunately, due to poor ticket sales, we are cancelling {dev.talk} this Wed August 27th. We will be back Sept 24th.

@kieranlarwood.bsky.social my son was giddy walking out of the bookshop yesterday clutching podkin books 7&8. He has devoured them and says he cannot wait for the paperback of 9, so is using money from his piggybank to get the hardback. Thanks for inspiring him with a great set of characters.

I'm off to BSides Bournemouth tomorrow. Never been to a cyber security Conf before. Should be interesting.
Come and say hi if you are going too.

Adding Bluesky Powered Comments - M.O.W. A post covering: bluesky, building this blog, javascript... > [!TIP] > [Bluesky](https://bsky.social/about/blog/6-13-2023-what-is-bluesky) is an open social media platform similar to Twitter. I have ...

I took a different approach with my blog bluesky integration. It is all JavaScript. blog.markoliver.website/Adding-Blues...

I'm having a rough go of it lately, and have been thinking: everyone is going through something, and you have no idea what it is, or how it's affecting them.

Quote post this is if you're going through something, and maybe we'll all realize that we aren't as alone as we feel right now.

The Wild Robot Series and the Podkin one-ear series.

Keeping Your Mac Book Awake - M.O.W. A post covering: tools... We have all needed it! A way to keep our device awake so a long running task wont be interrupted by your machine going to sleep. In Windows (the OS I have used for most of m...

This is a neat tool to keep your MacBook from going to sleep:
blog.markoliver.website/Keeping-Your...

It looks great on the wall wall. I love it

YouTube video by TEDx Talks Tech Promised Everything. Did it deliver? | Scott Hanselman | TEDxPortland

I just wanted to say, I’m probably more proud of this Ted talk than just about anything I’ve ever done so I’m gonna be absolutely useless for the next couple of weeks as I promote the shit out of this because I want you to watch it because it matters in the moment we are in youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg

YouTube video by Debbie O'Brien New Playwright MCP Tool: Evaluate JavaScript

Just used the new evaluate JavaScript tool in the @playwright.dev MCP server to add thick red CSS borders around tested elements — then screenshot the result. 🔥

Visual debugging + test coverage. So many use cases.
What would you use it for?
youtu.be/n0CFmm38o4Y

A meeting room full of people with Rendle showing a presentation

Dev South Coast meetup in Southampton has @rendle.dev telling us how to keep software dev simple

Picture of pride and prejudice cast in ball gowns leaning on the terrace of Netherfield Park. Text: Modern things that Pride and Prejudice Characters Would Love

Modern things that the Pride and Prejudice characters would LOVE. 🩷🩵 1/12

A little bit of silliness for Monday morning.

I am so happy you enjoyed it.

@emmalamma.bsky.social I hope you enjoyed the event. Any feedback would be appreciated (both negative and positive) so we can make it better next time

I cannot express what an amazing re:connect conference we had yesterday. It was a huge achievement and the buzz in the venue was electrifying. #Bournemouth tech scene is back!

It is finally the day for reconnectconference.co.uk. It is going to be a long one. 2 disasters already, let's hope that is it.

Best day ever. This is very exciting.