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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 08/10/2026

Gary Oldman is 2 weeks younger than Gary Numan.

Picture of Gary Numan in 2025, "Gary Anthony James Webb, 8 March 1958 (age 68), London, England"

Picture of Sir Gary Oldman in 2014. "Gary Leonard Oldman, 21 March 1958 (age 68), London, England"

Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 04/10/2026

Steam looks like it is conducting age assurance checks on all gifts for any child in the UK, no matter the age rating on the gift itself. Tried to gift my son copies of Portal 1 & 2 (PEGI rating of 7 & 12) and son met with "Mature sexual content is not allowed in your country for users under 18".

Steam gift of Portal 1 & 2, with a message showing "Mature sexual content is not allowed in your country for users under 18. To accept this gift, you must first add a valid credit card to your account."

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 12/09/2026

Somehow a graze.social test feed I set up has a few followers. 🤷‍♂️

Picture of two yellow characters raising a carrot, followed by the text: "Congrats! Your feed just hit double digits!
Ten people wake up and check your curation. Ten people have subscribed to your taste in posts, your eye for what’s interesting, and your voice in the mix."

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 11/09/2026

Spammers who don't even bother to check if you're on the network they're talking about.

Hey man I noticed you're focused on growing your TikTok marketing.
Just wanted to mention I run a platform that creates and warms up unlimited TikTok and Instagram accounts targeting any country, with automatic content creation and scheduled posting

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 23/08/2026

Walked up a Pen-Y-Fan today. If anyone wants me I'll be asleep on the sofa.

Beautiful welsh landscape from the top of Pen-y-Fan. Blue sky with a few white fluffy clouds above a huge steep mountain with dramatic shadows.

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 21/08/2026

....and now its now pushing $125K in 49 hours.

A screenshot of outbid.lol stating: "This simple side project made $124,508 since it's launch 49 hours ago"

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 18/08/2026

That isn't a yes/no question Odi:

Screenshot of an odeon chatbot "Odi" saying: "Due to unexpectedly high business levels, our chat queue has a very long wait and it may be some time before an agent can respond. Do you want to Continue to the queue or try again later?"

With Yes/No as response options

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 17/08/2026

Oof! Since DeepSeek have just upped their prices, this is the before and after of how the changes affect the limits in OpenCode Go. I'll still be using it, since it's great for trying out agents with different models, but I'll likely be using it a lot less:

Requests per 5 hour

120 Grok 4.5
220 Kimi K3 (2x usage)
880 GLM-5.2
950 Owen3.7 Max
1,150 Kimi K2.7 Code
3,200 MiniMax M3
3,250 MiMo-V2.5-Pro
3,450 DeepSeek V4 Pro
4,300 Qwen3.7 Plus
30,100
MiMo-V2.5
31,650 DeepSeek V4 Flash

Requests per 5 hour

110 Kimi K3
120 Grok 4.5
160 Qwen3.8 Max
880 GLM-5.2
1,050 DeepSeek V4 Pro
3,200 MiniMax M3
3,800 DeepSeek V4 Flash
4,100 GPT 5.6 Luna 2x usage
4,300 Qwen3.7 Plus
4,300 Hy3
30,100 MiMo-V2.5

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 15/08/2026

Snapping working correctly and now have a separate playlist on my minimal player now #buildinpublic

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 14/08/2026

Trying to break apart my music player to add snapping. I've created a monster. #buildinpublic

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 13/08/2026

bluesky appears to be predicting election results now.

A capture of bluesky's trending block:

1: Farage wins Clacton seat
2. A-level results day arrives
3. Games that didn't click for players
4. Perseid meteor shower peaks August 12
5. Twitch trains Al on channel content by default

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 12/08/2026

Fondly remembering my last total solar eclipse back in 2015 at the BBC Analytics Team, where @markturner.info saved our eyes by making a pinhole viewer out of a paper plate.

A pinhole in a paper plate held aloft in the sunlight.

The image of the moon eclipsing the sun via a shadow through a pinhole in a paper plate on a wall.

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 10/08/2026

I decided to have make a minimal local first music player with no streaming ability whatsoever. I got fed up that the default for most players is to load a stream and stuff it with ads, or being guided to a platform store over an artists actual site. Give me my local collection every time thanks.

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 28/07/2026

Whats your best ever commit message? Just found this old one of mine.

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 19/07/2026

Loving my custom FPGBC I finally built last week. I went with a transparent case, green motherboard and DMG style black and red buttons!

A clear Funny Playing Game Boy with transparent case, green motherboard and original black and red buttons. Super Mario 2 6 Golden coins is showing on the bright screen.

A clear Funny Playing Game Boy with transparent case from the rear. Super Mario 2 6 Golden coins is shown in the cartridge slot and there's a gold battery.

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 18/07/2026

Ooh, apparently 2x for the next week. Cheers @thdxr.com!

Opencode tweet. "2x the Kimi k3 usage on opencode go for 1 week"

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 17/07/2026

Nice to see that even new models like Kimi K3 are on the Opencode Go sub - nice to try them out even if they're more limited.

Opencode usage chart; including Grok 4.5, Kimi K3, GLM 5.2

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 15/07/2026

Relic of a bygone era - look at this size of this chonky SIM.

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 07/07/2026

Happy Anniversary to me and Viv. 19 years today! Had a picnic by the castle and saw some swans. 🦢🦢

A picture of Caerphilly castle entrance in the summer sun, with two swans basking by the moat surrounding it.

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 07/07/2026

I mapped the monthly high value winners of Premium Bonds across the UK since 2022. Always though this info would be best represented as a heat map, so spent the last few days creating it. Dig in to the data at pbwins.ianwootten.co.uk - let me know your thoughts! #buildinpublic #finance

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 02/07/2026

Of course this would happen today 😅

Opencode error "Plan • DeepSeek V4 Flash OpenCode Go
•••• Error from provider (Console Go): Provider rate limit exceeded [retrying in 9m 11s"

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 30/06/2026

Maybe I should update to Astro v7, let's check what am I currently running? Oh no:

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 30/06/2026

Help me resolve an argument. Do you read this as separate sentences or 1 long one. The difference in size and weight makes me read It that way. Also co-op, quit shouting at me.

A carton with the text "RECYCLE ME", "RINSE WITH COLD WATER AND REPLACE CAP SQUASH CARTON" "DROP IN YOUR RECYCLING POINT" shown in different sizes and weights.

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 23/06/2026

Having fun building a little show note generator for podcasts. Nice to see them all trickling through. #buildinpublic #podcasts

A list of uploaded files with different statuses of "Transcribing", "Processing" and "Completed"

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 22/06/2026

Ooof. £879 for the base Steam Machine. store.steampowered.com/sale/steamma...

Steam Machine 512GB
Semi-custom AMD Zen 4 6C / 12T
Semi-custom AMD RDNA3 28CUs
16GB DDR5 + 8GB GDDR6 VRAM
512GB NVMe SSD, microSD card slot
Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.3, Gigabit ethernet
Integrated Steam Controller wireless adapter
Small form factor, ~6 inch cube
SteamOS 3

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 19/06/2026

the top provider has earned a whopping $100 since April, which I think is several billion $ more than OpenAI over the same period:

A leaderboard screenshot from darkbloom.dev, showing all time stats: Provider $106, 2001.5M tokens, 705.2K jobs, 261 active accounts.

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 12/06/2026

Elon's net worth is now greater than Larry & Sergeys, Bezos and Elison's combined. Absolutely mental.

**Rankings table showing the top 5 wealthiest individuals by net worth.** Elon Musk leads at $1,171B (age 54, Tesla/SpaceX), followed by Larry Page at $296B (age 53, Google), Sergey Brin at $273.1B (age 52, Google), Jeff Bezos at $247.7B (age 62, Amazon), and Larry Ellison at $229.7B (age 81, Oracle, with a peak wealth of $395.5B — the highest peak of any person listed).

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 12/06/2026

Upgraded to brew 6, along with updating everything it can. I'm sure this will have no terrible repercussions:

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 10/06/2026

Tweaked the formatting on n3ws.dev daily email. Made it link out to the original threads. Also made it an actual mailing list behind the scenes. Likely only useful to myself for research at this point. Let me know if you'd want to sub. #buildinpublic

Email preview of top 5 links from n3ws.dev sources

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 09/06/2026

This HN thread, stuffed with tools made by devs for themselves since AI. Equal parts interesting and depressing: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4844...

tboughen: "I’m a UK teacher. I have built a custom GPT that marks essays for the subject I teach in a repeatable and reliable way. It gives actionable feedback to students."

"I use it, and have given my students access to it too - they use it to help their revision."

colcoalba: "Students use AI to write essays and teachers use it to grade. What a wonderful system"

markdown: "Kids making mud cakes, climbing trees, and taking shots at each other with shanghais. Teachers lounging on a beach somewhere. Meanwhile in classrooms, bots.
The Dead Classroom Theory."

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 09/06/2026

You can now navigate posts and repos by any day on n3ws.dev #buildinpublic

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 08/06/2026

Thanks for the amazing insight Google.

Screenshot of a Google search: "why is crunchyroll called crunchyroll"

Crunchyroll's name is a playful combination of "crunchy" and "roll".

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 08/06/2026

Genuinely gutted that junodownload.com is no more. It's been a great source for finding new music for me over the last decade.

Message on the junodownload.com website: "It's been our privilege to share some of the most incredible music from the most amazing artists, but we're sorry to say, that the time has come to say goodbye.

There's still plenty of great music available from Traxsource, Beatport, Mixupload and Volumo, but for now, this is Juno Download signing off.

You can download previous orders from your account, and if you need to get in touch, please send us a message, and we will help out however we can."

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 08/06/2026

Hermes agent has gone from 39k->186k stars in the last 2 months. It was at 100 in Feb. 📈

star-history.com graph of NousResearch/hermes-agent. Shows little velocity til feb and quickly ascends to 186k

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 07/06/2026

First n3ws.dev digest sent to me this morning courtesy of n8n. Formatting needs work, but useful for me right now. #buildinpublic

Screenshot of an email from n3ws.dev Daily. "Sunday 7th June 2026" with the top 5 items showing from Hacker News

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 30/05/2026

Incredible that First Light sold 1.5M copies in the first 24 hours!

Text: "1.5 million copies of First Light sold in 24 hours"

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 21/05/2026

duckduckgo has a bunch of cute custom duck logos that show when you search for various video games characters. I found a bunch so far.

A picture of the duckduckgo icon themed as link, when searching for "link" on duckduckgo.

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 19/05/2026

Just seen an ad for a 76 year long contract (!)

Screenshot of a job role. "912 month contract"

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 14/05/2026

This 18 year old t-shirt, from Google Developer Day 2008 in London is older than my teenage offspring. Logos for: Android SDK - First demo in the EU (!) Google Gears - Browser plugin to use desktop features Google App Engine - Run your app on Googles infrastructure Google Maps API for Flash (!)

An old Google t-shirt showing multiple logos. Gears, A jet engine, android robot and maps.

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 30/04/2026

You can use data to show anything, especially when you get to choose the source. Here's Labour and Plaid showing me with simple voting intention charts how they're the only party that can beat Reform in my local area for the Senedd next week.

A selection of leaflets by Labour Cymru and Plaid Cymru showing wildly different voting intention charts for the Senedd election in Wales.

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 25/04/2026

Outrageous none of this is divulged and over £940k raised this time.

Crowdcube screenshot of what3words funding round. "11 days left, £940,200 raised, 2,224 investors"

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 17/04/2026

New (to me) album Friday: "Four Tet - There is Love in You" on an old skool physical cd.

A picture of a "Four Tet - There is Love in You" rainbow cd within a cardboard cover covered in colourful dots.

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 10/04/2026

The 26/27 tax year just started and a new £20k ISA allowance for UK investors. If you'd used your full allowance at the start of April each year and invested in ACWI over the last decade, you'd have a total of £382k and be £37k better off than someone who waited til the last minute each year.

Screenshot of comparison of investment strategies for ACWI. Shows that most years it makes more sense to invest at the start of tax year vs waiting til the end.

Bar chart of comparison of investment strategies for ACWI. Shows that most years it makes more sense to invest at the start of tax year vs waiting til the end.

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 28/03/2026

It's my birthday, so I got myself a present. 🎁

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 20/03/2026

This comment on a @bashbunni.dev video made me lol.

YouTube video comment "It's nice of Al to sponsor every single video l've ever seen warning about Al"

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