Reposted by Alex DixonSisyphus, but for reducing tail latency @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 24/09/2026we don't talk enough about the total cultural victory of functional programming nerds honestly. big monad was really cooking with promises, even awful Enterprise Software SaaS sludgeware is monadic now 19516
Reposted by Alex DixonCharlie Brooker @charliebrooker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Here. Have this. 714414
Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 20/09/2026I wonder whether the average stately home in the UK has seen more actual murders, or murders staged for cosy crime dramas 000
Reposted by Alex DixonStuart Millard @franticplanet.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Firstly, a female Doctor, played by an older actress with a background in theatre/comedy. For an added frisson, let's make the sidekick character the husband. And we'll lose the whole 'Doctor' tag and reveal the birth name, which is spelled 'Bucket' but 3133891
Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 06/09/2026Made fun of my friend for buying special condoms, but it was only a bit of gentle ribbing 092
Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 02/09/2026Nobleman in 1326 whose scion just became a mendicant monk be like: Guys you have GOT to get an heir friar. Life changing 040
Reposted by Alex DixonWildvale Cryptic @wildvale.co.uk · 18/08/2026Today's Cryptick Daily Clue is from @dixonary.co.uk! Former rep has breakdown (6) #cryptic #crossword #cotdcryptick.wildvale.co.ukClue of the Day | 18 Aug 2026Former rep has breakdown (6) 042
Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 17/08/2026Can't get over how much this door on my walk home looks like a painted-on videogame texture 171
Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 12/08/2026Had a quick look at the Sun just now, and everyone was right, it did some serious harm. Looking at it for any more than a couple of seconds is a terrible idea Bunch of vapid headlines about small boats and the royal family. Nice lady on page three though 0131
Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 12/08/2026Right listen up folks. Five heatwaves is too many. I am taking the unilateral decision to block out the sun Gonna give it a test run at about 7pm tonight xoxo 061
Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 10/08/2026What a trouncing. Can't spell Warwick without W! #universitychallenge 100
Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 05/08/2026Just realised that, looking at the numbers, almost certainly more Whodle games have been played than the number of people who have watched S15E08 The Reality War...... #doctorwho #whodle 053
Reposted by Alex DixonHaskell programming language @haskell.org · 03/08/2026"Twenty Years of Pandoc" by John MacFarlane pandoc.org/twenty-years... #Haskellpandoc.orgPandoc - twenty-years-of-pandocA universal document converter 2219
Reposted by Alex DixonAnnette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 01/08/2026August as an academic 82073290
Reposted by Alex DixonWildvale Cryptic @wildvale.co.uk · 01/08/2026Today's Cryptick Daily Clue comes courtesy of @dixonary.co.uk! Kid with a motto of "measure once, cut twice"? (3) #cryptic #crossword #cotdcryptick.wildvale.co.ukClue of the Day | 1 Aug 2026Kid with a motto of "measure once, cut twice"? (3) 043
Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 26/07/2026Game dev moment: finding a random loose card with "Winston Churchill" on it and nothing else, and having no clue why 140
Reposted by Alex DixonDave Powell @powellds.bsky.social · 22/07/2026I think they got these two the wrong way round 26029
Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 14/07/2026The Message From Deep Space is a fantastic game. If you haven't played it yet, get on it! And if you have, come chat with us on the Deep Space Communication Relay :) [bring your own dictionary]: dscr.dixonary.co.uk 021
Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 08/07/2026There once was a man called Ted Mowels Who had awful trouble with vowels He was wonderfully fond Of those he called 'frond' And he drank hot soup out of his bowels 000
Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 03/07/2026Since we're doing North-South divide discourse again, here's the objectively correct breakdown of the UK that everyone can agree on 121
Reposted by Alex DixonGareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 25/06/2026🚀Citizen Sleeper 1 and 2 are OUT NOW on Nintendo Switch 2! Play the critically acclaimed series in its smoothest, most beautiful, handheld form: CS 1: www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro... CS 2: www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro... Enjoy higher resolution and framerates, with a free upgrade for owners ⭐ 325472
Reposted by Alex DixonM a r c u s 🏳️🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 22/06/2026It’s time for Andy Burnham to do the honourable thing and resign 527268
Reposted by Alex DixonThom @thwphipps.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Starmer to take full advantage of all the possibilities of legs 1831692
Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 19/06/2026Douglas Adams reincarnated as a 26th-century historian: 'Despite all the odds, Joseph "What are you going to do, nuke us?" Webb is widely regarded as only the *second*-worst Prime Minister in the history of the United Kingdom. The worst...' 110
Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 14/06/2026Queer AF artists rejected twats' hot air? (5) cryptick.wildvale.co.uk/clue.html#UX... #cryptic #crosswords #cryptickcryptick.wildvale.co.ukCryptick | Solve this clue!Can you solve this cryptic clue? 121
Reposted by Alex DixonGabby HC @scriblit.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Cabin Pressure is honestly one of the best British sitcoms of the 21st Century so far - if you haven't heard any of it yet, treat yerself 38548166
Reposted by Alex DixonCalligram Studio @calligramstudio.com · 05/06/2026📣✨ NEW GAME ANNOUNCEMENT ✨📣 We're pleased to introduce... I’M YOUR HOST An audio deduction game where you have one task: restore a series of lost podcast episodes. 🙏 Wishlist now s.team/a/4720280 🎧 Press/ creators shorturl.at/0Chkp 👀 30-second trailer👇 26434158
Reposted by Alex DixonMike McMahan @mikemcmahan.bsky.social · 30/05/2026We should be two “D&D Honor Among Thieves” sequels deep. 18697312039
Reposted by Alex DixonSebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 30/05/2026I'll probably stop using theatrical trapdoors eventually, it's just a stage I'm going through 418671
Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 29/05/2026So much talk of the halting problem. I see only halting opportunities 051
Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 27/05/2026I will play every single one of this type of game until the end of the world 100
Reposted by Alex DixonAlasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Americans think British people are wimps for complaining about the heat. But what you don't realise is that most British houses were actually built in Britain, a cursed island that hates us. 905048935
Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 26/05/2026I'm not saying it's hot or anything, but one of our drinking glasses just spontaneously exploded 070
Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 10/05/2026Brokeback Mountain implies the existence of Brokeback Island, Brokeback Plains, Brokeback Forest and Brokeback Swamp 030
Reposted by Alex DixonWildvale Cryptic @wildvale.co.uk · 08/05/2026Today's Clue of the Day is from @dixonary.co.uk! Couple of computers with one setting switched (4) #cryptic #crossword #cotdcryptick.wildvale.co.ukClue of the Day | 8 May 2026Couple of computers with one setting switched (4) 162
Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 07/05/2026They're mad about spoiled Celtic ale - two cents per serving in your backyard? (5,9) cryptick.wildvale.co.uk/clue.html#VG... #cryptic #cryptickcryptick.wildvale.co.ukCryptickCreate a cryptic crossword clue and share it with people you know. 100
Reposted by Alex DixonBuckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 06/05/2026We’ve been told our content needs to be more informative so here you go 374699992