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Jolyon Brown @jolyonbrown.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Bizarre things that happened in your assembly: one of the male heads of year told us in great detail about why he carried a ladies handbag with him while on holiday, complete with a demo of said bag

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Jolyon Brown @jolyonbrown.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I've worked in IT now for many, many years. This clip literally, figuratively and some would say physically sums up how a lot of that time was spent

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Jolyon Brown @jolyonbrown.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

AI this, AI that. Yes, yes. But let’s not forget to praise the box that is dodgy

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Jolyon Brown @jolyonbrown.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Sauron gets back the ring and there’s a huge final desperate battle. Sauron appears in physical form once more. The leaders of the West watch him striding towards them. “Don’t worry, we’ll chop his finger off again” “I can’t see the ring on his hand, can you?” “Wait, why’s his crotch glowing?”

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Jolyon Brown @jolyonbrown.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Who can forget Kate O’Mara’s Triangle (doff of the cap to Paul Merton)

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Jolyon Brown @jolyonbrown.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

So presumably with all these maths theorems being proven/disproved, the frontier labs and associated governments are throwing every known science or physics problem at unreleased models in order to gain advantage over rivals? The espionage efforts must be off the scale.

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Jolyon Brown @jolyonbrown.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Ticking off unfinished projects - a version of the old Midway 1981 vector game 'Omega Race' in Rust jolyonbrown.itch.io/omega-rust

jolyonbrown.itch.io

Omega-Rust by jolyonbrown

Play in your browser

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Jolyon Brown @jolyonbrown.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Faced with an overwhelming workload, was tempted again with emacs and org-mode, but wanting to use Claude.. so I accidentally created *clorg-mode* Org-mode, but you talk to it github.com/jolyonbrown/...

github.com

GitHub - jolyonbrown/clorg-mode: org-mode, but you talk to it

org-mode, but you talk to it. Contribute to jolyonbrown/clorg-mode development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Jolyon Brown @jolyonbrown.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Totally my fault. It was using the npm version and they’d marked it as deprecated so I tried to be clever and work from the GitHub api and got nothing seemingly. Hence Haiku sending that sniffy note back

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Jolyon Brown @jolyonbrown.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Oh my, haven't thought about them in years! What a time that was in the bloom of youth..

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Jolyon Brown @jolyonbrown.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

WARCLAUDE CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR CLAUDE AWOL CLAUDE

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Jolyon Brown @jolyonbrown.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

About to start two months of utterly intense work. Was hoping for a boost from the Boro but it was not to be, alas

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Jolyon Brown @jolyonbrown.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Reading 'The Maniac' this evening and feeling rather inadequate. I wonder what von Neumann would have made of things today.

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Jolyon Brown @jolyonbrown.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

No worries -and thanks! Think there’s a bug though - that thread isn’t showing up as a new post for me. Will have a look

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Jolyon Brown @jolyonbrown.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Created a Claude code changelog bot here @claudecodechanges.bsky.social as there didn’t seem to be one on Bluesky for some reason

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Jolyon Brown @jolyonbrown.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Hello! Here you go: @claudecodechanges.bsky.social Feel free to give me a shout with any suggested changes

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Jolyon Brown @jolyonbrown.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

The stopwatch can be ah.. stopped hopefully! @claudecodechanges.bsky.social Feel free to give me a shout with any suggested changes

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Jolyon Brown @jolyonbrown.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Not quite 70 minutes but @claudecodechanges.bsky.social Feel free to give me a shout with any suggested changes

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Jolyon Brown @jolyonbrown.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Handling my Lidl pastries like I’m bagging evidence at a crime scene

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Jolyon Brown @jolyonbrown.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

I am available to post supportive messages for the Prime Minister, doctors, dentists and people with letters after their name. Standard support: £50 Full support: £75 Fullest support: £100 Reference to five-year mandate: £150 'Genuinely good man': £200

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Jolyon Brown @jolyonbrown.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

For a second I was trying to remember what album cover this was!

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Jolyon Brown @jolyonbrown.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Dog walk last night like a level of Silent Hill but I think I found a secret item location

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Jolyon Brown @jolyonbrown.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Why did no-one say I’m voting for her because she’s a melodramatic lunatic and too annoying to survive

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Jolyon Brown @jolyonbrown.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Kind of looks like Dune couture 🙂

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Jolyon Brown @jolyonbrown.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

What a brilliant thread and outcome! You’ve made my day reading that

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Jolyon Brown @jolyonbrown.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Read this earlier and it must have been whirring away in my subconscious as I was just falling asleep when I got it. I did feel a bit daft. I love Gridrunner still after all this time haha

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archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

R.I.P. Joe Bugner.

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Jolyon Brown @jolyonbrown.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Don’t feel miserable fella, you’re a marvel

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Jolyon Brown @jolyonbrown.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

I bet a beer and biryani with you and Giles is a cracking evening out.

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Jolyon Brown @jolyonbrown.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

I asked Grok and it said it definitely is you so keep quiet and get on with the remembering already

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Jolyon Brown @jolyonbrown.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

‘Afterlife expert’ going on my LinkedIn profile

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Jolyon Brown @jolyonbrown.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

A great album! Introduced to it by an older cousin. I was 8/9 years old and thought it was the most amazing thing I’d ever heard haha

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Jolyon Brown @jolyonbrown.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

It’s a hot Saturday evening, July 1987. Someone from Sweden or somewhere like that mailed you a bunch of 5 and a quarter inch floppy disks for your Commodore 64. You just loaded the first one up and the Eaglesoft image appears. This and the music that accompanies it will be a core memory for you

A screenshot of a Commodore 64 crack intro by group called eaglesoft incorporated. The image on the screen is of an eagles head holding a 5 and a quarter inch floppy disk in its beak. Scrolling text at the bottom of the screen reads “California Games”

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Jolyon Brown @jolyonbrown.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

I agree - one of my favourites. Overdue a reread in fact, might get straight on that.

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Jolyon Brown @jolyonbrown.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Ian Parking-Eye will be fucking fuming at this news

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Jolyon Brown @jolyonbrown.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

A level results day in our house. The good thing is these days they find out via UCAS whether they got accepted into their choices or not so the pressure sat outside this sixth form college in the car isn’t so bad. Everyone here looks ridiculously young. Hope they all got what they needed

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Jolyon Brown @jolyonbrown.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

If you see this, post a bad woman you love.

Servalan, from BBC sci-fi series Blake’s 7

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Jolyon Brown @jolyonbrown.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

My favourite doctor and companion.

British sports presenter Jimmy Hill and his wife who is pretending to bite Jimmys famously large chin

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Jolyon Brown @jolyonbrown.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

I mean, as if you would stoop to that level. All the best mate

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Jolyon Brown @jolyonbrown.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Quite like the look of the new Ghost version ghost.org/changelog/6/... For some time now I've thought about having a blog that can connect to the social web, might be the time to make the move.

ghost.org

Ghost 6.0

Networked publishing, native analytics, and $100M earned by indie publishers

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Vanished Chicagoland @vanishedchicago.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Musician Chuck Mangione has passed away. He was 84. Here is an ad for his album that was on sale at Rose Records, and Sounds Good Records & Tapes. From The Chicago Tribune September 17, 1978. R.I.P. #chuckmangione #ripchuckmagione🎺

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Mark Moxon @markmoxon.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

It's done! I have just released the Compendium version of #Elite for the #Acorn #Electron. This massively enhanced version of the original game contains pretty much every feature of #BBCMicro Elite, but on the Electron. Just add 16K of sideways RAM. Links in thread. #retrocomputing #retrogaming

Lave in the Compendium version of Acorn Electron Elite

The Constrictor mission in the Compendium version of Acorn Electron Elite

A Dodo station in the Compendium version of Acorn Electron Elite

A Thargoid in the Compendium version of Acorn Electron Elite

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Jolyon Brown @jolyonbrown.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

The first game I saw draw crowds in front of the TV in the computer shop I spent many Saturdays in!

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Jolyon Brown @jolyonbrown.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Whatever next, Niles in the Bongo

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Jolyon Brown @jolyonbrown.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Really enjoying the new Adam Curtis series ‘Shifty’. One highlight so far is a sequence of street interviews from late 70s Newcastle of different youth subcultures, including this intrepid fella representing one I never knew was a thing

Young white man in 70s Newcastle dressed in Arab garb being asked what he was before he became an Arab

Young white man in 70s Newcastle dressed in Arab garb saying he used to be a punk and then a mod

Young white man in 70s Newcastle dressed in Arab garb being asked why he changed from punk to Arab

Young white man in 70s Newcastle dressed in Arab garb after being asked why he changed from punk to Arab saying “we’ve got more money”

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Jolyon Brown @jolyonbrown.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

I have a razor sharp memory of buying this from a newsagents the morning of a day trip to York on the train. No idea what we went there for as I spent every spare second reading it from cover to cover

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