David Wragg @dwragg.bsky.social · 17h"Godzilla Minus Zero" oh they're using IEEE 754 for film titles now? 000
David Wragg @dwragg.bsky.social · 20hLast week I walked the West Highland Way in Scotland. First long distance walk I've done. 102 miles in 7 days. I enjoyed it! 240
David Wragg @dwragg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Here's a fascinating article about the history of Slavic languages. dannylbate.substack.com/p/good-king-...dannylbate.substack.comGood King VáclavFor the Czechs, he is saintly duke Václav, but in the Christmas carol, he is Wenceslas – with a linguistically interesting extra N. 000
David Wragg @dwragg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026My favourite book on coding style, though it's now like reading Cicero for tips on writing style. 120
Reposted by David WraggAna Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 25/09/2026Because I am an adult and totally know how to manage my time, I made a carousel quoting some of the best fat bear write-ups. Enjoy! 48225
David Wragg @dwragg.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Is it entirely prudent for the UK to be buying most of the US Treasuries that China offloaded in recent years? www.ft.com/content/69f0... 001
David Wragg @dwragg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Reached for tcpdump for the first time in 9 or 10 months. Longest such gap in years. (Odd issues on my home network turned out to be due to two nodes claiming the same ipv6 address, despite distinct ipv4 addresses. Only caused marginal problems because so much stuff tolerates broken ipv6.) 000
David Wragg @dwragg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026We're into the "how can it be going dark, it's only 7pm?!?" season. 110
David Wragg @dwragg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026When I see that an acquaintance has gone to a new job at an early stage tech company, I look up the company to see what it does. Not sure why I bother anymore. The answer is always "something something AI agents". 010
Reposted by David WraggAstronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Help! Parton Community Council has 60 days to raise £70k to buy Parton Kirk (resting place of James Clerk Maxwell). They plan to turn it into a visitor centre celebrating our great hero! The other buyers could turn it into long-term storage 😬 Even £5 would help 🙏🧪⚛️ www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...justgiving.comHelp raise £70000 to Save Parton Kirk – JustGiving CrowdfundingIʼm raising money to Save Parton Kirk. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page. 14278201
David Wragg @dwragg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026On 2001-09-11, I had stayed in the office overnight due to a product launch. I travelled home in the afternoon London time. On the train I half listened to two guys having a conversation. I was tired and struggled to understand the context. I thought they were talking about events in a film or book. 000
David Wragg @dwragg.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Spoiler: In the climax of Silo season 3, Walton Goggins as the ghoul cleans the camera of silo 18. 100
David Wragg @dwragg.bsky.social · 03/09/2026You can tell we're into the -ber months, because Sainsbury is selling mince pies. 100
David Wragg @dwragg.bsky.social · 26/08/2026You can spend a shocking amount of money on a serious pair of hiking boots. 100
Reposted by David WraggNeil Miles @neilsmiles.com · 17/08/202629th August 1985 - An excited Michael Fish gets to deploy the rarely seen red number as the temperature gets up to an incredible 26 degrees in London! 511656712
Reposted by David WraggMartin Heneghan @martinheneghan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026He’s been prime minister for five minutes and he’s already playing with the emergency alert. 13837230
David Wragg @dwragg.bsky.social · 14/08/2026"Nano Banana Pro in Slides" is an actual Google product name 040
Reposted by David WraggAoḋán Ó Conġaile @tinydonkey.bsky.social · 07/08/2026The word escalate did not exist before escalators. Its first recorded usage was in 1922. I learned this this morning and I still can't stop thinking about it. 1411426
David Wragg @dwragg.bsky.social · 06/08/2026What a missed opportunity for some Achaeans to descend from the horse in the middle of the night and creep up St Martin's Lane to the British Museum, where they break in and reclaim the Elgin Marbles. 000
Reposted by David WraggMatt Procedural ★8️⃣6️⃣4️⃣7️⃣★ @proceduraltexture.bsky.social · 29/07/2026When the mesh is so fine, but the grids don't align, that's a moiré. 8542135
David Wragg @dwragg.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Fond memories of watching repeats of The Goodies as a small kid. So it goes. 010
Reposted by David WraggNetpol @netpol.org · 23/07/2026Sign the petition – and join over 15,000 others opposing this ludicrous prosecution – before we present it to new Justice Minister Alex Norris next week you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...you.38degrees.org.ukSave Britain's JuriesJuries have had the right to acquit based on their conscience for centuries. Now, a barrister is facing jail just for mentioning it in court. Add your name to help save Britain's juries. 072
David Wragg @dwragg.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Right now in theaters you can see the movie featuring Agamemnon and Menelaus Atreides. And then later in the year you can see the movie featuring Paul Atreides. 000
Reposted by David WraggSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 18/07/2026One day, somebody in government will notice what the net migration level is hesding to. The fiscal forecast (£24 billion) was based on average net 235k to 2026-29 but that is at least 100k too high, costing £13 billion, or double that if want to reduce immigration visas further. 13278108
David Wragg @dwragg.bsky.social · 13/07/2026- Get a youtube ad for a product I might actually buy - Follow the link to the site, read more, realize I don't want it - The machines think I have shown interest, so now I get that ad before every single youtube video I watch. 200
David Wragg @dwragg.bsky.social · 10/07/2026It's amazing how, whenever it gets hot in the UK, loads of independent inventors come up with revolutionary new cooling devices that make traditional air conditioners obsolete at a fraction of the cost. Necessity truly is the mother of invention. 010
David Wragg @dwragg.bsky.social · 03/07/2026The UK vehicle test for safety, roadworthiness and emissions is called the MOT test. MOT stands for Ministry Of Transport. The relevant government department has not had that title since 1970. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Departm...en.wikipedia.orgDepartment for Transport - Wikipedia 000
David Wragg @dwragg.bsky.social · 29/06/2026I've had a copy of Noah Yuval Harari's "Sapiens" for a decade. I tried to read it, but I didn't like the style much and I bailed after 10 pages. But recently I've seen a bunch of videos and essays telling me what a terrible book it is. And each one brings me slightly closer to reading it. 100
Reposted by David WraggSimon Wren-Lewis @sjwrenlewis.bsky.social · 27/06/2026This week's post: Why governments should not be in hock to the bond market mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2026/06/why-... Policy based on fears about the bond market, or worse about what journalists are writing about that market, will be bad policy. This has become one of Andy Burnham's first tests.mainlymacro.blogspot.comWhy governments should not be in hock to the bond marketMy starting point is not what Andy Burnham said but points recently made by Chris Dillow. Here he argues that we shouldn’t worry about t... 1298
Reposted by David WraggHeather Anne Campbell @heathercampbell.bsky.social · 24/06/2026can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool 502243375589
David Wragg @dwragg.bsky.social · 23/06/2026So you will get taxed on interest on cash in a S&S ISA (at a weird flat rate), but not taxed on money market fund returns if those funds are 99% of your investments? This is even more stupid than it sounded at first. Utterly pointless complications. 210
David Wragg @dwragg.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Skimming the new government consultation document on turning off Freeview (www.gov.uk/government/c...), I learned that "YouTube is now the most-watched service for children aged 4 to 15, accounting for 28% of video viewing for this age group". Hmmm. 100
Reposted by David WraggNetpol @netpol.org · 23/06/2026Judge Johnson has decided that Filton Four barrister Rajiv Menon KC has a case to answer for alleged contempt of court and has referred it to a senior judge to find a High Court judge to preside. Rajiv faces a criminal trial for telling a jury about a plaque outside the Old Bailey. 77446
David Wragg @dwragg.bsky.social · 21/06/2026I did not realise that YouTube was included in the UK social media ban for under-16s. This seems like trying to ban TV. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukHow the social media ban could reshape how all of us use the internetWhy some argue the social media ban could have a profound affect on how young people gain new knowledge and the rest of us move around online 010
David Wragg @dwragg.bsky.social · 21/06/2026It's a shame that Orwell is more known for 1984 and Animal Farm than Homage to Catalonia, Road to Wigan Pier and Down and Out, etc. 100
David Wragg @dwragg.bsky.social · 14/06/2026If the UK is going to ban under-16s from social media, it should also ban pensioners from reading the Telegraph or watching GB News. Fair's fair. 181
Reposted by David WraggLegacy Update @legacyupdate.net · 14/06/2026Is the Microsoft Office Ribbon causing people to have fewer children? A provocative new working paper explores the persistent drop in birth rates since Office 2007 was introduced nearly two decades ago. 11946101030
David Wragg @dwragg.bsky.social · 10/06/2026When reading about Claude's safety classifiers, for a second I expected the discussion of "distillation" (alongside cybersecurity, chemistry and biology) would be about preventing kids getting drunk. Then I remembered it's a term of art in the LLM space. www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...anthropic.comClaude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5Today we’re launching Claude Fable 5: a Mythos-class model that we’ve made safe for general use. 010
Reposted by David Wraggflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Like, I am concerned yer Da is getting radicalised by at-KekHitler88 but it’s harder to worry about that when e.g. the Times of London has been telling the public for well over a decade that there’s a clandestine, malicious Bolshevik/ethnic conspiracy against white British people generally 25214
David Wragg @dwragg.bsky.social · 07/06/2026This article mentions that amd64 was introduced in 2003 (with the AMD Opteron). The 8086 was released in 1978, so in 2028 we'll be as far from the introduction of 64-bit x86 as that was from the introduction of the original x86 instruction set. 111
David Wragg @dwragg.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Two popular UK investment platforms that I use have sent me emails inviting me to participate in the SpaceX IPO. They have never done this for any prior IPO. I'm sure they are trying to serve their customers' needs. But it has a "shoeshine boy giving out stock tips" feel to it. 070
David Wragg @dwragg.bsky.social · 04/06/2026This explains why the pub on the corner of Blackfriars Road opposite Southwark tube station is called The Ring. 130
David Wragg @dwragg.bsky.social · 30/05/2026I know one shouldn't anthropomorphise chatbots. But I think Claude Code gets into a bit of a sulk if I nitpick its code for too long. It's not what it says, but the tone of voice it says it in. 110
David Wragg @dwragg.bsky.social · 27/05/2026My level of interest in the opinions of former Prime Ministers: Major, Brown: hmmm, maybe Cameron, May, Sunak: no thank you Blair, Johnson, Truss: get to fuck 0232
Reposted by David WraggWorld of Telly @world-of-telly.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Just a reminder that both seasons of A Very Peculiar Practice are now available on iPlayer. Once you've seen the series, please consider taking a look at our recent podcast about it: youtu.be/FFxzLa67PC0?...youtu.beWorld of Telly Episode 13: A Very Peculiar PracticeYouTube video by World of Telly 22820
