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@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-09-06 17:47:09

Folk who've been following me for a long time will remember that last autumn I was posting pictures of doing the joinery for a new workshop. And then I went mad, and got ill, and for most of this year there's been no progress.
But my friend Lucy has been here for a week, and between the two of us the frame is now erected. Now I need to sort the timber stack (which hasn't been improving while I've been ill), erect a roof, and build some walls. But the bit I couldn't …

Lucy standing in front of the north end truss, which has just been erected and its tenons forced into their mortices with a Spanish windlass. The truss is held upright by temporary diagonal braces. Between the pillars, various carpentry tools lie on a very chaotic timber stack.
The footing of one pillar of the south end truss on an old tree stump. The reason the building is so crooked is because it's foundations are the stumps of four trees that were blown down in Storm Arwen.
General view of the newly erected frame from its north east corner. The chaotic pile of sawn timber runs through it from north to south. Beyond, the trees on the edges of the wood are still standing, but most of the centre was blown flat in the storm, and new young trees are only slowly beginning to grow through the remaining wreckage.
Looking down on the new frame from my bedroom window. One of the new top rails still needs to be cut to length, and there's at least one brace still missing (I'll add more if I think they're needed. This is enormous progress, and a weatherproof workshop will be a great improvement to my quality of life.
@cdarwin@c.im
2026-09-08 04:21:09

Nitter, the open source front-end for reading X Posts without signing up for an account,
is not going anywhere yet.
Weeks after X Corp's lawyers showed up demanding a permanent shutdown,
Hthe project's GitHub repository has come out of read-only mode
with an updated README that says:
UPDATE: Following legal advice, the Nitter project will continue.
More details will be announced soon.
Now, the repository and the homepage carry the same messa…

Elom Musk's X Tried to Kill Nitter. The Project Just Said It’s Coming Back
Two weeks after X Corp's legal letter forced the project offline, Nitter says it will continue.

@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scot
2026-06-08 03:46:11

Feeling this one hard.
[via my old friend, Martin_FFF]

Two people holding hands, looking out the window of a high-rise building at a dark cityscape. Overlaid text: "The world turning to shit" , on one person's back "Me", on the other person's back "Star Trek". I think it's a still from a film, but I'm not sure which one.
@scott@carfree.city
2026-07-07 20:29:54

I usually get the small coffee at Fox & Lion. Today I was feeling extra sluggish and ordered a large, and it's cartoonishly enormous! What have I gotten myself into

A very tall skinny paper cup of coffee along a table in front of a street-facing window. There are potted plants on the table and a yellow painting of wheat on the window.
@floheinstein@chaos.social
2026-09-07 10:34:07

If you have problems with your Atlassian Confluence Wiki today (unable to change formatting of text, change tables etc.), then you might want to take a look at this ticket here:
jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF

commerciallicensekeymanager.js:2 The editor is disabled because the license key has expired and is no longer valid. Read more: https://www.tiny.cloud/docs/tinymce/latest/license-key/ (anonymous)@commerciallicensekeymanager.js:2
@hex@kolektiva.social
2026-06-08 11:59:44

Now, I have a lot of reasons to hate vibe coding, but one of them is that I just think more easily in code. I reason by writing the code. It's not something I can easily disentangle.
Architectures tend to live in my head as pictures that change as I write. The words are code. There's no intermediate. So the offer of being able to skip the poc phase is just not interesting. "Oh, cool, I can skip the part where I preemptively identify problems? Great. That's gonna work out well." Vibe coding can give you working proof of concepts that self destruct when you try to grow them (much like any poc code you just try to use without actually engineering).
I don't know that this problem will ever get fixed. Even if it does, I don't know that this fix will ever rival human engineering. I don't think it's actually possible to know that yet, there are too many factors at play. It's definitely lowered the bar for writing proof of concepts. Now a business idiot can make a proof of concept, which even further distorts their understanding of what engineering actually looks like.
In order to go back to work, I'm basically expected to be ramped up on LLM stuff. But it all keeps reminding me of the feeling of powerlessness when we organized against Trump, when we organized against the rally at UW, when I tried to stop someone from pepperspraying people and I got shot. It's all the same ideology of rapists and pedophiles forcing their entire world on us against our will, thinking they can dangle "the Epstein files" in front of everyone and then yank them away like nothing ever happened... Like no one knows they implicate the entire power structure.

@cowboys@darktundra.xyz
2026-09-07 20:34:33

Disaster strikes Dallas as Tyler Smith set to miss several weeks sportingnews.com/ca/nfl/dallas

Disaster strikes Dallas as Tyler Smith set to miss several weeks
The Dallas Cowboys suffered a major setback as star offensive lineman Tyler Smith is expected to miss four to six weeks following thumb surgery, forcing Dallas to make an early adjustment up front.

@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scot
2026-08-07 18:24:51

Can you imagine the luck?
My friend David in Aberdeenshire managed to take a photo capturing one of the swallows flying past his window!
#FensterFreitag

View out through a window, showing a golden field of grain, a partially cloudy sky, and a swallow in mid-flight. Photo by David Ward.
@leftsidestory@mstdn.social
2026-08-05 00:30:03

City Lives V 🔃
城市人生 V 🔃
📷 Pentax 6x7
🎞️ LUCKY SHD 100 (6x7)
If you like my work, Support by buying me a coffee or a roll of film from
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Lucky LUCKY SHD 100 (6x7) English alt text: Black-and-white close-up photo of a motorcycle in display. The front of the motorcycle is turned slightly to the left. A round headlight and a clear windshield or windscreen stand in front of the handlebars and instrument area. The motorcycle has a round side mirror on the left side. The front wheel and tire tread are visible at the bottom, with the wheel angled slightly toward the camera. In the background, shelves or containers and other display it…
Lucky LUCKY SHD 100 (6x7) English alt text: Black-and-white photo. In the lower left, there is a metal grid or framework with many straight bars forming a rectangular shape. The framework looks like a small structure seen through foliage. In the right half, large arch-shaped branches and smaller twigs are in the foreground, partially covering the metal structure. The background is bright and mostly empty sky with thin branches and leaves. 中文 alt text： 黑白照片。画面左下有一段金属网格或框架结构，里面由许多直线杆组成，整体呈矩形。这个框…
Lucky LUCKY SHD 100 (6x7) English alt text: Black-and-white photo taken outdoors. A modern building fills the background, with many rectangular windows arranged in rows. In the foreground, a large wooden bench is centered, and a person is lying down on the bench. Dense bushes and small trees surround the bench, filling most of the lower half of the image. The person’s clothing appears light in tone, and the person is resting with their body lying horizontally on the bench. 中文 alt text： 黑白户外照片。…
Lucky LUCKY SHD 100 (6x7) English alt text: Black-and-white photo indoors or under a roof. In the foreground on the right, there are tall, thin bamboo stalks with visible nodes. The bamboo stalks are sharp and close to the camera. In the middle distance, there are several tables and chairs, but they are blurred, creating a sense of depth. Vertical wooden or structural elements frame the space. Bright light comes from the left side, and the background people, if present, are indistinct due to b…
@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2026-07-29 20:25:35

Chiefs HC Andy Reid says Eric Bieniemy's wife, Mia, out of ICU following shooting league-frontend.pocket.nfl.com