Rob Lang

Ah! Typography only!

Pop Will Eat Itself - This The Day, This Is The Hour, This Is This. 1989. Artwork by the Designer's Republic.

a man with glasses and a scarf says do you know what nemesis means ALT: a man with glasses and a scarf says do you know what nemesis means

Seems like a good time to tip the hat to Britain's favourite pig farmer.

Don't Do Dis. 😉

Tried connections for the first time because of @josemonkey.com

Quite fun, happy to have got it.

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Exquisite picture!

A UK analogue is cockney rhyming slang. Traders in the East End of London would want to obscure what they were saying - particularly to authorities. Some of it has passed into language used today.

We get the business/client side to choose the order. Like Bartlett in The West Wing, it's always "What's Next".

My face isn't a real face. Something of an insult.

"... then there were those that knew him as Seven Clamp Beattie. More tripods than HG Wells. The dude could stand any smart phone at any angle, at any height, at time of the day. Feared? He was revered..."

Once in a while I'm reminded of a senior manager who, when faced with a looming deadline, wanted to cut out all the QA. When we pointed out that there would be bugs in prod as a result, he asked dead-seriously:

"Can you code without putting bugs in?"

The problem with arguments like this is that they require the viewer of the art to know its providence in detail.

A modern artist may create with paint and emotion in an instant that took very little choice but embodied a time and place for them. Art? Definitely but not by that definition.

Built in app LLMs seem to have a cycle:

1. There's a meeting summary "wow, that's amazing!"
2. Ah, but there's important detail missing
3. QA <> Kuwait 😂
4. Spent 30 minutes laughing at it
5. Leave it switched off

From actual Slack experience this morning.

And when you correct them, they're like "Yes, you're right, brilliant, you're amazing, sorry for getting that wrong [for I am just a worm that is not worthy to wriggle at your feet]". It's like a Monty Python sketch.

Sorry to hear that, I hope things improved.

Related to what? I sincerely hope it was an article about something completely unrelated such as Crofton's Beam Engine house.

Can confirm, ISO27001 as standard in the UK.

Willingly in your basement or locked in there?

Actually, don't tell me that answer, tell your therapist! 😂

Introducing OpenCLI Patrik Svensson's blog

I just published a blog post about the OpenCLI initiative. I think it's time we had a way to standardize CLI automation!

Feedback, suggestions, and thoughts are more than welcome.

patriksvensson.se/posts/2025/0...

I know this is ridiculous but every time I see Chad, I keep having to remind myself that he's you in a wig and a hat. So that's Josemonkey's childlike side being let out only to be admonished by the socially-acceptable mature side of Josemonkey. Time to collect your acting Oscar, I guess!

Friends have been to see Linkin Park so I thought I'd give Hybrid Theory a listen again after many years and it's all killer. Such a fantastic album - and a debut too.

The more I read the NHS Plan, the more excited I get. There's a lot of good stuff in there.

Movie you've watched more than six times using GIFs (hard mode: no Star Wars, Star Trek or LOTR)

Bears shit in woods.
Pope Catholic (and wears funny hat).
Sky is blue.
Water is wet.
Sun is hot.
Narcissistic predators are sex trafficking nonces.

Missed opportunity for #AWS to have a sense of humour.

YouTube video by Dave Rondot "Turbo Encabulator" the Original

My favourite #computing silly facts are:

🍴 A nibble is half a byte (4 bits)
🫖 HTTP status code 418 is "I'm a teapot"
🕊️ RFC1149 is standard for internet using birds
⚙️ Turboencabulator is an entirely fictious machine ⬇️

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac7G...

#computerscience

Metro Map Maker Make the Metro map of your dreams: create your own metro maps, save them, and share with friends!

I ❤️ maps. I 💛 tube maps. I 💙 making tube maps to explain project order and inter-dependencies to non-technical peeps.

I usually use Google drawings but have just found Shannon Taylor's wonderful metromapmaker.com

💚 this.

It's quite hard to find best practise articles about CQRS without Event Sourcing.

If you want me to renew my home insurance then send me your best quote. Don't make me phone someone. Don't make me argue about cover levels.

I don't want to barter over the phone. It's 2025. Send me the best you have or I'm off.