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This is awesome news! I’ve been tracking this project for a while and I appreciate the amount of effort that you have put into it.

But I did notice that the concierge got straight on the phone once the chap had left for his room.

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I’m not really sure what his angle was. It has left me a little unsettled, if I’m honest.

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He then engaged another member of staff in a conversation about physics whilst proffering a book (I didn’t catch the title, but it was fiction).

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It took him about 50 minutes to check in, all told. He got his room for the day.

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In the end, he went on line, paid for the room, and then gave the concierge the booking reference. The name on the reference didn’t match the one he’d given to her.

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His payment cards were in his Apple Wallet, but he needed a physical card to check in.

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The concierge explained that she couldn’t check him in if he had no ID. He’d got his iPhone out to show her photos of bills and travel documents (not current it seemed).

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He grabbed a glass of cranberry juice from the breakfast buffet at one point, but dropped it and it smashed. He then proceeded to explain to the cleaners that his hands were too big and his arms too long.

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There was then a lengthy conversation that meandered all over the place: who he used to work for, which countries he had been to, what his interests were, the fact he owned a flat in Tower Hill (about 10 minutes walk away).

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Keep in mind this chap was very tired and claimed to have traveled from Shanghai.

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He had nothing except the clothes he stood up in, an iPhone, a laptop, a bag with a book, and a Tupperware box. No passport, no driving license, no credit/debit cards.

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The concierge was accommodating and found a room that he could have for the day, and asked for ID.

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He claimed he’d taken three flights from Shanghai, all of which had been delayed. He claimed that he had been travelling for 40+ hours, was tired and wanted to sleep.

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Matthew Gibbons @accuser.dev · 04/11/2025

Chap walked into the hotel I’ve been staying at this week, asking to check in for the day. It was about 06:30 when he arrived, and I was having breakfast at a table adjacent to the reception desk.

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TS → ESM is the future, today

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The parallax effect on multiple the scrolling signs in the Circle Line carriages is pretty cool.

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I often wonder if Microsoft’s long game will be to replace the Windows kernel with Linux at some point, and WSL was just a PoC that they were able to ship on the way.

Absolutely. Value doesn’t need to be everything - something can be enough, and usually is.

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Too true: user stories need to be simple to be told effectively.

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My FIL was convinced it was pronounced jiggerbyte, either way

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Was this planned or spur of the moment? Asking for a friend.

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Claude Code is great, until it isn’t. I spent an early morning churning through chores with Claude Code, feeing super productive. We then hit a tricky issue - Claude Code got stuck in and solved it by rewriting content rather than code. I lost an hour of my life on that one.

I was thinking about this the other day; we’re soon going to see `—llms` or similar being added to CLIs just so that can play all the more fully.

Matthew Gibbons @accuser.dev · 30/10/2025

Who is still arguing? 😏

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Matthew Gibbons @accuser.dev · 30/10/2025

This feels pretty awesome, ngl. Can’t wait to see how @vite.dev and friends benefit from the investment, but also looking forward to seeing @voidzero.dev flourish.

Thankfully both were samples downloaded from the Kindle Store. But therein also lies the problem.

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The other I’m not sure about, but it was just so weirdly constructed that AI had to have had a hand in the process somewhere.

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One was AI generated. It still had markdown notation in parts of the text, and all the characters had the same voice.

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Matthew Gibbons @accuser.dev · 23/10/2025

I’ve only ever not finished a book I’m reading once before this week, but I’ve stopped two in as many days. #books #reading #kindle

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Finished reading Shroud by @aptshadow.bsky.social, and the ending was perfect. 👌

Matthew Gibbons @accuser.dev · 09/10/2025

Every cloud-service interruption has a silver lining.

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Matthew Gibbons @accuser.dev · 09/10/2025

It’s been a long time since I’ve been in a room with sharpies and post-it notes, but it feels good. If you know, you know.

Sharpies, market pens, post-it notes, and other facilitation materials.

Matthew Gibbons @accuser.dev · 07/10/2025

Listening to my wife go through a home insurance policy almost line by line with a call centre agent before agreeing to the quote is bringing me more pleasure that it should.

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Matthew Gibbons @accuser.dev · 24/09/2025

Really enjoyed that - thank you. Remote functions are a game changer.

Matthew Gibbons @accuser.dev · 18/09/2025

What have been the highlights Grandson?

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Matthew Gibbons @accuser.dev · 18/09/2025

There should be a 20s timeout when downloading a deprecated package, with a suitable message to the console… 😏

So, just don’t add the comment? 😏

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That border radius thing is so jarring, and then there’s nested borders like the mail sidebar - so much wasted space. I get white space is useful, but if you’re going to stick borders and shadows in it, it’s no longer white space.

That would be great. I’ve been using the form remote functions with valibot and it works brilliantly, but the client side was clunky (which I solved for my use case by flattening the validated issues collection)

Matthew Gibbons @accuser.dev · 12/09/2025

Awesome. Does this play nicely with the SvelteKit’s `form` remote function? It would be nice to use the schema in both.

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In the browser there are the Web APIs, which are the stdlib-quality stuff you can trust. NodeJS implements those that make sense for its environment.

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Matthew Gibbons @accuser.dev · 12/09/2025

But surely context is important. If you’re writing micro services, Go and JavaScript are likely going to outperform Python (where startup time and IO performance are important). If you’re writing data analytics software, Python is going to be better.

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Matthew Gibbons @accuser.dev · 11/09/2025

I’ve mitigated this for personal projects (where I’d jump between a desktop and a laptop whilst working on the same repo) by using VSCode with remote devcontainers.