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Jamie @jamescun.com · 30/09/2026

Why are the unions rushing to defend the triple lock? You don't represent pensioners, they already have enough representation, you represent workers, whose public services are being cut to the bone to fund the triple lock.

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Jamie @jamescun.com · 29/09/2026

Something I'm noticing, as somebody who uses NoScript, with Single Page Apps. I'll see the full page load, then disappear again. Why? Because the page wanted to do a fade-in effect. It renders the static content, hides it with CSS, loads the content over a JSON API, then fades in again. Wat.

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Jamie @jamescun.com · 20/09/2026

I've noticed _a lot_ more CloudFlare captchas since moving to Linux. Every time, I have to "prove I'm human", can't even do it automatically. Gotta get all those bots! (that their platform also hosts...)

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Jamie @jamescun.com · 18/09/2026

> For the fault to occur, a higher-priority request had to arrive during that exact millisecond while the original request was part-way through updating a value. A 1ms window for this bug to occur? Sounds like a race condition to me... www.nats.aero/news/nats-pu...

nats.aero

NATS publishes preliminary report on technical incident of 8 September - NATS

NATS provides safe and efficient air traffic services and innovative solutions to UK and international airports, airlines and governments.

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Jamie @jamescun.com · 14/09/2026

> Burnham will be last Prime Minister of UK, says John Swinney Be careful John, that's some monkey paw bullshit right there. You'll wake up and Burnham will have staged a military coup and crowned himself king.

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Jamie @jamescun.com · 14/09/2026

Now imagine if they worked with Westminster, rather than just each other, to improve the UK...

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Jamie @jamescun.com · 13/09/2026

> AI development needs to slow down! It's too dangerous! Says man in dominant market position.

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Jamie @jamescun.com · 12/09/2026

So all my new PC parts have arrived... except... guess which numpty added the ATX version of the power supply instead of the SFX version to their basket for their small form factor build?

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Jamie @jamescun.com · 10/09/2026

PlanetScale Neki for sharded PostgreSQL looks cool, could be open sourced at some point. (also I know it's supposed to be from neko, but "nekky" is what I say instead of naked)

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Jamie @jamescun.com · 09/09/2026

All this money flooding into Omarchy, why? Where is all the money for the rest of the ecosystem? What about the projects Omarchy itself uses? Why are they all funding this, I think is fair to say, extremist?

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Jamie @jamescun.com · 09/09/2026

> Very hot drinks may damage the food pipe and increase cancer risk There is also a health risk to those around me before my coffee.

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Jamie @jamescun.com · 05/09/2026

Recently drove an MG, which has "tiredness detection", which can detect you getting sleepy and warn you to stop and take a break. I have a mild ptosis in my both eyes. I always look tired. It would not shut up!

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Jamie @jamescun.com · 04/09/2026

Back on my coding bullshit, and taking a page out the Linux Kernel on writing comments...

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Jamie @jamescun.com · 03/09/2026

I was already in the process of migrating from 1Password to Bitwarden (well, Vaultwarden); so thanks for the hint to hurry up with that 1Password!

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Jamie @jamescun.com · 03/09/2026

Okay so my PC parts are being delivered 11th of September (building a new PC). So, DO NOT get confused if you see me celebrating...

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Jamie @jamescun.com · 24/08/2026

The IT Crowd is over 20 years old now...

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Jamie @jamescun.com · 18/08/2026

Channel 4 have serious ethics questions to answer over "The Great ADHD Myth?" Running a trial on a child, stopping their meds during exams to "see what happens" for TV; the presenter popping an Elvanse with no titration or supervision, a psych suggesting we need to bring back "corporal punishment"

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Jamie @jamescun.com · 17/08/2026

People getting worked up about AI leaving "watermarks" in the text it generates. Maybe, if that annoys you, write the text yourself? Maybe use that millions of years worth of evolution on top of your shoulders.

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Jamie @jamescun.com · 16/08/2026

I don't know what worse, the fact it looks like it is _doing something else_ (See Mac's exercise bike in IASIP)... and that is my exact bike! Do we need help?! www.asus.com/accessories/...

asus.com

Oxiis Intelligent Bike Booster｜Bike Booster｜ASUS Global

ASUS Oxiis E250G1 transforms any bike with 500W peak boost, 50 km eco range, app control, fast USB-C charging, and easy install now for riders

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Jamie @jamescun.com · 13/08/2026

That is really fucking cheeky. The Google Open Source code explorer is broken in Firefox. Almost all Go resources, links from pkg.go.dev etc point to it.

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Jamie @jamescun.com · 13/08/2026

This is what I've been tinkering with recently. Trying to integrated directly with the Linux network stack. I have basic link/address configuration working, as well as generic netlink and wireguard. Need to focus tests, in particular, automate the integration tests. github.com/jamescun/net...

github.com

GitHub - jamescun/netlink: Pure Go Linux Netlink and Generic Netlink Implementation

Pure Go Linux Netlink and Generic Netlink Implementation - jamescun/netlink

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Jamie @jamescun.com · 11/08/2026

Well... clearly I knew how to do this at some point... (fourth link)

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Jamie @jamescun.com · 05/08/2026

Other agencies could not be found for comment...

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Jamie @jamescun.com · 05/08/2026

> Blackbird, GitHub’s code search engine, indexes over 180 million repositories—more than 480TB of source code. Somehow that is a lot less space than I expected... github.blog/engineering/...

github.blog

Don't stop early: Case-folding source code at memory speed

How a branch-free loop and byte-space arithmetic let GitHub case-fold every byte of code search at >45 GiB/s on a single core.

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Jamie @jamescun.com · 04/08/2026

I have to say, using VSCode Remote + OrbStack machine makes Linux development on my Mac a dream. (If buying a new computer, I'd probably go full Linux, but this computer is fine, and certainly not buying anything at todays prices!)

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Jamie @jamescun.com · 03/08/2026

"Don't blindly follow AI. Don't be a meat proxy."

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Jamie @jamescun.com · 31/07/2026

So if I hack a company, that’s a crime. But if I write a hacking programme, misconfigure it, and it “goes rogue”, that’s fine? “Ooops! My AI did it! 🥺”

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Jamie @jamescun.com · 29/07/2026

> We're not seeing any consensus coming out of Andy Burnham's cross-party meeting on social care... Yeah, because it's not happened yet. Honestly don't know why I try to keep up with the news, it's all spin and nonsense. We don't even have the BBC anymore...

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Jamie @jamescun.com · 28/07/2026

Don't understand why Kata Containers has been rewritten from Go to Rust (other than memes): > Reduced Memory Footprint Fair enough, it's not a huge difference, but when the aim is density. > Improved Security > Performance Provides zero evidence to back that up. How was Go too slow or insecure?

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Jamie @jamescun.com · 26/07/2026

I miss the original Twitter Bootstrap, everything is too flat now. Just give me nice buttons! getbootstrap.com/1.0.0/ getbootstrap.com/2.0.0/

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Jamie @jamescun.com · 23/07/2026

Bring back the "pizza box" computer form factor!

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Jamie @jamescun.com · 23/07/2026

Just British problems... #golang

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Jamie @jamescun.com · 19/07/2026

Despite being a staunch privacy advocate, digital ID cards were a good idea, solved a bunch of problems, and would actually reduce the amount of information the government held on you... Burnham hasn't even been coronated yet, and he's scrapped it...

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Jamie @jamescun.com · 17/07/2026

Go home linter, you're drunk.

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Jamie @jamescun.com · 16/07/2026

69 and 420 in the Prometheus / OpenMetrics 1.0 has to be on purpose... prometheus.io/docs/specs/o...

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Jamie @jamescun.com · 13/07/2026

Searching for anything remotely technical now is just a slew of AI-slop generated articles. "<technical topic> deep dive" etc etc Looks inside, AI article based off a README or quick start...

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Jamie @jamescun.com · 12/07/2026

Ah yes, I better shift mein arsh...

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Jamie @jamescun.com · 09/07/2026

"I rewrote X in Y using AI, and all the tests pass!" - is not the panacea some people think it is... Sure bud, you rewrote PostgreSQL in Rust using Claude. Go ahead and put your production data in it.

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Jamie @jamescun.com · 07/07/2026

When the dotcom bubble burst, we got a lot of cheap dark fibre afterwards. Hopefully we'll get a lot of cheap "dark datacentre" when the AI bubble bursts...

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Jamie @jamescun.com · 06/07/2026

I've started using a Justfile instead of a Taskfile in my projects. Taskfile was a natural fit being written in Go, and most of my projects are Go. But more often than not I feel I'm fighting YAML, and a not-quite-make DSL is what I need.

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Jamie @jamescun.com · 02/07/2026

It makes me unreasonably happy that I was able to get Home Assistant to display when my next bin collection is and what colour needs to go out...

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Jamie @jamescun.com · 01/07/2026

Happy Q3 to all those who celebrate! Get that 26Q3 planning done! (or start that 26Q2 plan...)

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Jamie @jamescun.com · 29/06/2026

I like these little ASCII Art I've made for some terminal emulators... ☺️

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Jamie @jamescun.com · 23/06/2026

"Built For Developers" = "Built For Me, and you are wrong".

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