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Dave Cross @davorg.davecross.co.uk · 06/07/2026

It's "checking out proofs" day here in Clapham. Real books available through Amazon imminently (probably later this week).

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Dave Cross @davorg.davecross.co.uk · 29/06/2026

The cover needs a few tweaks. But the first physical Perl School book is getting excitingly close.

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Dave Cross @davorg.davecross.co.uk · 24/03/2026

I've just been sent a "Nigel Farage exposed the Bank of England's secret on Question Time" post - from a fake BBC News website. It's an obvious scam and it's easy to laugh. But how much longer will our finely-tuned bullshit detectors work against ever-improving AI content?

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Dave Cross @davorg.davecross.co.uk · 07/01/2026

I've just been (mildly) bitten by a Markdown gotcha. Who can work out what problem this commit fixed? github.com/davorg/davec...

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Dave Cross @davorg.davecross.co.uk · 07/01/2026

I'm rather enjoying this conversation with a scammer (even though I know it's, ultimately, pointless) 🙂

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Dave Cross @davorg.davecross.co.uk · 24/12/2025

For many years, I used this photo as part of the Magnum Solutions branding. It was on business cards, my website and talk slides. Google Photos "On This Day" has just reminded me that it was taken 20 years ago today. It's the Castlerigg Stone Circle, just outside of Keswick in the Lake District.

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Dave Cross @davorg.davecross.co.uk · 08/10/2025

I understand that some of you will have objections to this (for perfectly reasonable reasons), but this is all AI. * Lyrics (ChatGPT - from an idea by me) * Song (Suno) * Image (DALL-E) * Lip sync (Runway) I think it's all pretty impressive.

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Dave Cross @davorg.davecross.co.uk · 06/07/2025

When people have an unfortunate name and that leads to you getting an incredibly scary email :-/

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Dave Cross @davorg.davecross.co.uk · 31/03/2025

It's not every day you wake up and find you're featured on the front page of the site you use to sell your books! leanpub.com

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Dave Cross @davorg.davecross.co.uk · 26/03/2025

Here's a great way to guarantee I'll never use your company again.

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Dave Cross @davorg.davecross.co.uk · 25/11/2024

The "call a general election" petition just passed 2,000,000 signatures. Still completely pointless though - parliament plays no part in the scheduling of general elections.

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Dave Cross @davorg.davecross.co.uk · 22/10/2024

I'm surprised that as many as 18% of Brits support Trump. I guess I don't talk to many Reform voters. yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

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Dave Cross @davorg.davecross.co.uk · 26/09/2024

I described PerlDiver to ChatGPT and asked it to produce a diagram of the system. It didn't do very well :-/ But if that whets your appetite at all, I'll be talking about how it actually works at the London Perl Workshop on 26 October. act.yapc.eu/lpw2024/talk... #perl #ci #perldiver #lpw

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Dave Cross @davorg.davecross.co.uk · 13/09/2024

Twenty-five years ago today (13 Sep 1999), an explosion on the dark side of the moon blew the moon out of its orbit and sent the inhabitants of Moonbase Alpha off into deep space.

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Dave Cross @davorg.davecross.co.uk · 29/08/2024

The interesting side of using the latest Perl features. perlhacks.com/2024/08/on-t...

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Dave Cross @davorg.davecross.co.uk · 02/06/2024

Making some notes. What could I be working on?

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Dave Cross @davorg.davecross.co.uk · 02/05/2024

Amazon KDP - changing my life one royalty at a time :-/

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Dave Cross @davorg.davecross.co.uk · 25/04/2024

It seems I should thank Rebel Wilson for some traffic on the Line of Succession site. Image 1: The site's traffic over the last month Image 2: The queries driving that traffic Image 3: A story from the Mail lineofsuccession.co.uk/2014-01-01

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Dave Cross @davorg.davecross.co.uk · 17/03/2024

Four years ago today. Not only was I right about it being our last restaurant visit for a very long time but, sadly, Oldroyd never reopened.

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Dave Cross @davorg.davecross.co.uk · 20/01/2024

I probably will update the Line of Succession site to use WebP images soon. But "saving up to 0.0 seconds of load time" really isn't the convincing argument that Diib seems to think it is.

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Dave Cross @davorg.davecross.co.uk · 22/12/2023

The country looks completely split on this vitally important topic.

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