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Mike Hall @mikehall314.bsky.social · 22h

Continue to be disappointed at this government’s cultural and technical illiteracy. I did not expect Labour to be the government which went hard on surveillance and peeking over everyone’s shoulder in case you’re saying or doing stuff they don’t like.

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Mike Hall @mikehall314.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Turns out .. that Premiere won’t start unless you give it access to your desktop. Well fuck off.

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TetraLogical @tetralogical.com · 14/10/2026

Introducing the Accessible Components Library! Common components with accessibility requirements, test scenarios, and automated tests. • Free to use and adapt • Human-readable tests in Gherkin • Mapped to WCAG 2.2, levels A to AAA Dig in! #Accessibility #OpenSource #WCAG #AccessibleComponents

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Introducing the Accessible Components Library - TetraLogical

We've open-sourced our Accessible Components Library, and, as you might expect, this includes the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code. But, we thought, "Why stop there?" So, we've also published ...

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Mike Hall @mikehall314.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Having not seen it in ages I recently had cause to rewatch the end of Ace Ventura. Genuinely impressed at how they were able to make a single scene which was simultaneously transphobic, homophobic, and misogynistic. Fuck me.

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Mike Hall @mikehall314.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

It wasn’t a nazi salute he was just pointing at a passing Starlink satellite.

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Mike Hall @mikehall314.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The Guardian’s coverage of the new White House Press Secretary has a weird dig at Colin Baker in the opening paragraphs. Why would you add that? Such a needlessly unpleasant comment.

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Mitch Benn @mitchbenn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

HIVE MIND - having a bit of a crisis, perhaps someone can help… Does anyone London-ish have a fairly recent model MacBook I might be able to borrow just for a few days? Hoping someone can sort me out 😕

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Mike Hall @mikehall314.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

So the thing about HomeView is… I think I have no idea what the fuck it’s for?

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rem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com · 13/10/2026

I’m looking to connect with university lecturers and staff. We offer student tickets for @ffconf.org, but they’re easy to miss, and I’d love to give the next generation of web developers the chance to attend a great indie event. If anyone can contact please drop me comment here I can follow up.

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Mike Hall @mikehall314.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I’m so cross. Tired. But cross.

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Mike Hall @mikehall314.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Well. Didn’t this turn out to be a massive waste of time.

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

On BBC, a “Protect the Dolls” t shirt is erased. In the US, opening of a revered comedy show says women in the gym are dressed like whores - and still we hear talk of the oppression by “the woke” - to hell with every comic that has monetised their base by pretending they’re a free speech rebel

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Mike Hall @mikehall314.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I only have a large scale international conference to run. It’s no big deal.

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Mike Hall @mikehall314.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

And there goes Hannah Fry repeating all the usual placebo guff off hand about two pills vs one pill and pill colour …

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Mike Hall @mikehall314.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I am 8 minutes in and already shouting at my phone.

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Mike Hall @mikehall314.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Oh bollocks. I haven’t the time!! 😭

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Mike Hall @mikehall314.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I was half-hoping when I deciphered this I would find a message like “Call Apogee and say Aardwolf”. But no it is just the letter from the show, mostly.

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Viewport @viewportconf.org · 10/10/2026

New speaker announcement coming on Monday! This person first spoke for the Viewport team when we were running a meet up in Liverpool named Merseycode. They are also a highly regarded speaker and software engineer. Can you guess who it will be?

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Mike Hall @mikehall314.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I’m currently writing on this for an upcoming SWAK.

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Mike Hall @mikehall314.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Well. Cloudflare seems to have acquired and (largely) killed Deno. I have a big sad.

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Mike Hall @mikehall314.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I love this weird amnesia people get. Tories will make you better off. They fucking didn’t though did they? They were in government just a couple of years ago. Why didn’t they do it then?

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

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Mike Hall @mikehall314.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

But the question of the hour is… is TARDIS Crew canon?

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Dave Letorey @letorey.co.uk · 05/10/2026

This week I am attending @webdevconf.com (The longest running UK conference), I'm so excited about their community too, they attract wonderful people. There are still tickets come be wonderful with us all webdevconf.com

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WDC2026 - October 9 2026, Watershed, Bristol, UK | Web Developers Conference

WDC is the web design and development conference based in Bristol, taking place in autumn each year.

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Mike Hall @mikehall314.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Does anyone else open a fresh pack of kitchen roll like an Auton breaking into a tent?

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Ben Schwarz @benschwarz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

GitHub just finished ripping styled-components out of github.com. Result: 55% less time to server-render a page, 25% faster component init. CSS-in-JS makes you pay for styles twice: collecting them on the server, running JS on the client. Static CSS is *always* more efficient. Ship CSS.

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Mike Hall @mikehall314.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Folks in the comments here seem to think this is from Logopolis. Pretty sure it’s part one of Resurrection of the Daleks with the TARDIS in the time corridor. (Ofc it’s just like Doctor Who fans to try and work out which episode it is rather than engaging with the joke. Myself included.)

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Mike Hall @mikehall314.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

International Electromatics is basically Apple. Uniformity. Regularity. Packer even has an Apple Watch.

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Mike Hall @mikehall314.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Crikey the copy of The Invasion on iPlayer is looking rough.

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Mike Hall @mikehall314.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Not many people understand it these days. Fortunately I do.

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Mike Hall @mikehall314.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Me: Mise. That looks an interesting tool. I might play with it a bit and see how it is. “Sponsored by Omarchy” Oh.

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Mike Hall @mikehall314.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Annoying me today. Meat proxy YouTube videos.

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Mike Hall @mikehall314.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Watching Ludwig. DCS Shaw: We are going to end up sharing a cell. Me: That seems unlikely, you would likely be sent to the female estate. Ludwig, literally one second later: That seems unlikely, we would probably be sent to a men’s prison. For. Fucks. Sake.

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Mike Hall @mikehall314.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you like Ludwig there is a good chance you will enjoy Jonathan Creek too.

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Mike Hall @mikehall314.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And b) the latency on their XML-RPC integration is awful. They don’t fire until several minutes after the episode actually publishes. So my site is out of date at exactly the time people are there looking for the new episodes.

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Mike Hall @mikehall314.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is working okay, except that a) the endpoint gets SO MUCH SPAM from bots trying to hack Wordpress. I’m validating the requests so it’s okay, but it is also wasteful of CPU time handling those bogus requests.

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Mike Hall @mikehall314.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So what I’ve done is create a fake XML-RPC endpoint in my app, which implements just the bits of the API that Libsyn want to hook into for the Wordpress integration. I am then ignoring everything in their payload, and just using it as a build hook.

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Mike Hall @mikehall314.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In my case I just want to kick off a static site rebuild, but could be for any reason right? They do not seem to have this feature. They do however have a feature where you can configure a Wordpress blog to create a new post when an episode is published via XML-RPC.

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