Tootfinder

Progress on my new open source project retrofit continues.
As we work to getting a stable release I’d be happy for others to kick around, we’ve decided to make Wednesdays demo day.
So do please check out our new demo:
https://retrofit.sh/demos/flyway-adopt-retrofit/<…

Denshattack: chugga chugga
The bright colours caught my eye, and since I was stuck at some hunters in a room on the way to the Silent Cartographer, I thought I'd give it a go. I'm glad I did. Denshattack bombards you quickly with different controls, and it's an assault on your concentration for the first few levels as you battle to remember to grind around corners, jump ahead of blockages, and find routes to the collectibles.

Microsoft says it is closing The Garage, which gave employees around the world space and tools for side projects and ran the company's Global Hackathon (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/microsoft-sh

Microsoft shuts the door on The Garage, the central program behind its hackathon and maker spaces
Microsoft is winding down The Garage, the 17-year-old program behind its Global Hackathon and employee maker spaces, according to an internal FAQ. Some Garage spaces could be restricted to employees as early as Friday, and Microsoft says the hackathon team is reimagining the event.

Memo: the BBC plans to merge TV and audio commissioning teams across comedy and other genres amid plans to close around 100 roles in BBC's content unit (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/10/bbc-merge-tv-audio-teams-cut-100-content-rol…

BBC Merges TV & Audio Commissioning Teams Amid Plan To Cut 100 Content Roles
The BBC is planning to cut around 100 roles in its content commissioning team over the next five months as the UK broadcaster seeks to save £500M.

Security personnel around the world are on high alert following the discovery of eight TLS certificates with private keys so weak they could allow anyone to mint trusted browser and app credentials for any site on the Internet.
As of late morning Tuesday, browser makers and some major apps and programming languages had blocked all eight of the intermediate certificates.
There are no reports of certificate transparency logs, which track the issuance of all browser-trusted certifi…

The Internet goes on high alert after discovery of 8 compromised TLS certs
Intermediate certs allow anyone to mint web credentials for any Internet server.

Dak Prescott has three-word message as Cowboys face must-win situation https://www.sportingnews.com/ca/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/dak-prescott-has-three-word-message-cowboys-face-must-win/dcf9060b986175583ac445…

Global unrest is spreading. Time for a macro thread... .
On Sept 25 in TT#16, I noted some echoes of the Arab Spring in the unrest developing all over the world around the high cost of living and the poor state of public services.
https://www.transitiontimes.net/tt-16-iran

TT#16 – Iran-ic Energy Dominance
Just as soaring food prices resulted in the Arab Spring, soaring fuel prices today could spell doom for petrostate leaders. In its pursuit of 'energy dominance' through oil and gas production, the Trump administration is giving the world ample reason to transition away from fossil fuels.

My choice of 4 would be:
https://tvark.org/channel-four-original-ident-2
which is the original UK Channel 4 animated logo.

Dak Prescott Sent Undeniable Message to Cowboys Before Critical Eagles Game https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/dak-prescott-sent-undeniable-message-eagles/

#WordWeavers 11 Oct: Share a passage from your WIP where the setting is doing as much storytelling as the characters.
This is a passage from 'Management Apologises for the Inconvenience':
#thementalmansion