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James Belchamber @james.belchamber.com · 28/09/2026

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Going Digital @cathedrow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Amiga A500 Super Hexagon port - end sequence tests. @terrycavanaghgames.com @chipzel.bsky.social

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James Belchamber @james.belchamber.com · 26/09/2026

Very cool, Super Hexagon is one of my favorite games and the Amiga is absolutely a great fit for it 😁

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James Belchamber @james.belchamber.com · 24/09/2026

Pretty sure this is just a nostalgia snipe for all of us who grew up with these in our lunch box.

A hand holding a "gold bar" chocolate snack.

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James Belchamber @james.belchamber.com · 08/09/2026

This dork just ordered left-handed calipers

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James Belchamber @james.belchamber.com · 02/09/2026

The Pebble Index 01 already being put to serious work 😎

A series of notifications from the Pebble app - downloading the parakeet speech recognition model, saving "Font pajamas" to a shopping list, then giving common definitions of the phrase "Fart pajamas"

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James Belchamber @james.belchamber.com · 16/08/2026

I'm no physicist but this is clearly a house?

A sign at Jodrell Bank Observatory displaying five stars arranged like a simple stick house, superimposed over a drawing of King Cepheus

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James Belchamber @james.belchamber.com · 01/05/2026

@ericmigi.com the Index still shows a March shipping date on the site. Do you have an updated estimate? I want to snooze my confirmation email and I don't know when to :)

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James Belchamber @james.belchamber.com · 10/04/2026

Son: "Daddy, I want to watch 'I'm not on my computer mum'" Me: "Pardon son?" Son: "You know, with the mini" Me: ".." Son: "He takes apart the car!" Look Mum No Computer. He means Look Mum No Computer.

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James Belchamber @james.belchamber.com · 26/03/2026

Mancunians don't say hello to strangers on the bus or in the street. We've been lied to all this time.

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James Belchamber @james.belchamber.com · 02/03/2026

I'm running out of tea and my tea dealer won't replenish my supply until the weekend :(

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James Belchamber @james.belchamber.com · 14/02/2026

(We do walk and use the bikes a lot but it's not always practical and some people just aren't going to do either)

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James Belchamber @james.belchamber.com · 14/02/2026

The bus pretty much only discourages 1-2 person commuter cars - still a good proportion of traffic but you need to be in town for 8 hours for even that to even out.

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James Belchamber @james.belchamber.com · 14/02/2026

For my family to go to Stockport (our local town) for 2 hours: - Bus: £10 (£9 with a family ticket) - Car: £2.20 (cheaper in other car parks a bit further away)

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James Belchamber @james.belchamber.com · 05/02/2026

Why do all the planes have to come into Manchester Airport sideways

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James Belchamber @james.belchamber.com · 01/02/2026

Excellent talk, very entertaining 😁 loved seeing a nice practical application of TinyGo. Come back next year, I want to see the progress 😎

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James Belchamber @james.belchamber.com · 20/01/2026

Between this and realising that I wasn't buying the sweet bread THAT'S JUST HOW BREAD TASTES THERE - man, the US is addicted to sugar, isn't it. Have yourself some dandelion and burdock Hank, that's pretty sweet.

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James Belchamber @james.belchamber.com · 12/01/2026

I suppose I should follow this up by saying that I'm not sure that's a bad thing, just that it doesn't seem to be "fair use" as I understand it.

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James Belchamber @james.belchamber.com · 12/01/2026

I'm not convinced that "LLM training is always fair use", if this is the intended implication. E.g. if I create: - A novel product that didn't exist before - A product that's almost identical to something in the training data The former looks like fair use but the latter looks like laundering?

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James Belchamber @james.belchamber.com · 04/01/2026

It's coffee freezing day 😎 green for Chemex 4-cup, grey for v60 2-cup. Dump these straight out of the freezer and into the grinder for more more consistency from brew to brew - and anecdotally I think the grind profile is more even as well. Cheaper, too!

Coffee beans being weighed out and placed in tupperware

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James Belchamber @james.belchamber.com · 01/01/2026

Someone saw a promo for a TV channel and thought "..oh wow, that's exactly what we want for our new years celebrations"

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James Belchamber @james.belchamber.com · 01/01/2026

Ah, the London new year exposition-dump fireworks show is on again

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James Belchamber @james.belchamber.com · 31/12/2025

Aico sell smoke alarms that can transmit reports to your phone by screaming like an old-school modem while their app is listening. Not only incredibly cool but essential since it will tell you why the alarm is chirping! Essential feature for me now. I dunno if they sell them in the US.

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James Belchamber @james.belchamber.com · 16/12/2025

"impact of what happened [..] has led him to seek professional help." The bravery, honesty, humility and vulnerability demonstrated in this article is incredibly inspiring. I won't call him a hero if he doesn't want us to but I look up to him and I hope he finds peace: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Liverpool fan Daniel Barr stopped Paul Doyle driving further into parade crowd

Daniel Barr jumped into action when he saw a car striking pedestrians at Liverpool's victory parade.

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James Belchamber @james.belchamber.com · 10/12/2025

Of course the beavers operate the dam :D

An OpenStreetMap way near Exeter, UK, with the tags "waterway=dam", "material=wood;soil", "operator=beaver"

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James Belchamber @james.belchamber.com · 10/12/2025

Very cool that I can test these for size 😎 everyone should have a 3D printer

A 3D printer printing samples of the Pebble Index in different ring sizes

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James Belchamber @james.belchamber.com · 10/12/2025

How well does it work under nitrile gloves?

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James Belchamber @james.belchamber.com · 09/12/2025

Aah, I would definitely use this. I sold all my smart speakers because they got more creepy and less useful but the primary use was asking them to set reminders.

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James Belchamber @james.belchamber.com · 24/11/2025

Great to hear that you're moving away from reliance on a single app repository 👍 support for multiple repositories was on my wishlist.

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James Belchamber @james.belchamber.com · 24/11/2025

randomNumber() will return a random number, which is always 7. But don't worry - it was written in Rust, so it's very secure.

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James Belchamber @james.belchamber.com · 21/11/2025

Can someone explain to this old man how to follow FOSDEM discourse on Bluesky. I thought I had but the feed's last post was two months ago 🤔

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James Belchamber @james.belchamber.com · 18/11/2025

There is a leak in our office. Someone helpfully put a bin under it to catch the water.

A bin with holes all over it being used to catch water from a leaky ceiling.

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James Belchamber @james.belchamber.com · 17/11/2025

I understand why couldnt-give-a-fuck Evri drivers put my parcels in the bin as a "safe place" - why are unionised Royal Mail workers doing it too?

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James Belchamber @james.belchamber.com · 14/11/2025

"At the high end of those guesses are analysts like F-Squared‘s Michael Futter, who expects a starting price of $799 to $899 for the entry-level 512GB Steam Machine and a whopping $1,000 to $1,100 for the 2TB version." Honestly, that's my expectation as well - around the price of a similar spec PC.

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James Belchamber @james.belchamber.com · 11/11/2025

They gave me a blood pressure monitor yesterday after testing my blood pressure right after my flu jab and finding it to be "quite high". But they said I couldn't see the results. Thing is, this has a USB port on it..