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Murph @murph.recumbent.co.uk · 17h

For @seatsixtyone.bsky.social - we're heading to Montenegro in Tito's staff carriage 😁

Railway carriage window with the number 469 showing

Old map of rail lines on the inside of the railway carriage captioned Jugoslavie and framed with red velvet curtains

View of a conference table, chairs, and a lounge area in the railway carriage

Two berth sleeper compartment with modern luggage amdist the rather older fittings

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DevOpsDays London @devopsdays.london · 10/09/2026

There are just 7 days (approximately 1 week or 160 hours) until DevOpsDays London 2026! If you want to be part of it, get your tickets now at 20% off! ti.to/devopsdays-l... We can’t wait to see you there! 🚀 #DevOpsDays #DevOpsDaysLondon #DevOps #London #TechCommunity

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Murph @murph.recumbent.co.uk · 05/09/2026

I should post more... Worthy of mention is that I went for a swim today - the length of Windermere. Smug mode engaged 😁

Strava map of Windermere end to end: time 7:43; distance 17024

Murphy in the finish area standing in front of the finish arch with the lake behind

A pint of bitter in a Badger Bar glass with a finishers medal propped against it next to a Chillswim 2026 Triple Crown trophy

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Elanor @elanorandthearts.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

CALLING LONDONERS 📣 My friend has spent FIVE YEARS developing her play—a queer horror story—and she's hardly sold any tickets. She's travelling down from Leeds and I'm devastated 🥺 The Haunting of Verity Evans, The Hope Theatre, 25th–26th August. I hope you'll join me! Please share if you can't!

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Murph @murph.recumbent.co.uk · 24/07/2026

And today, in addition to burning AI credits I am learning about the "over-eager junior" problem and why one needs to put effort into the various things that coerce an LLM into creating code that one can live with...

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Murph @murph.recumbent.co.uk · 23/07/2026

Today I have been learning how to burn through Github Copilot AI credits Interesting...

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Murph @murph.recumbent.co.uk · 10/06/2026

First time using @floci.io (just for an S3 bucket) - ran via dotnet.testcontainers.org (there's a nuget package for that 😁) and huge levels of "just worked". Not new to running infra locally, but even so the lack of surprises was very welcome.

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Glynn Stewart @glynnstewart.com · 27/05/2026

The galactic war is over. Humanity and their allies have won. What happens now? Peacekeepers of Sol on sale until Friday! Raven's Peace is free! mybook.to/RavensPeace The Peacekeeper Initiative is $0.99 / £0.99 mybook.to/peacekeeperi... Raven's Course is $1.99 / £1.99 mybook.to/ravenscourse

A grim-faced Asian-American man faces the camera. He is in a senior officer's uniform, wearing gold pilot wings with the center painted red.
Behind him, a starship looms over a planet tinted red with starlight.

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Murph @murph.recumbent.co.uk · 27/05/2026

When you can see it's broken, when you know that's potentially problematic, when you know what its supposed to be doing, and when its potentially fragile typescript (which is not particularly high on your list of skills) and there are *so many* other things to fix 😢- that!

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Murph @murph.recumbent.co.uk · 25/05/2026

Please buy the fabulous Spirit Blade, or indeed any or all of Glynn's other work - good stories, excellent world building, I eagerly await the next (of any series)

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Murph @murph.recumbent.co.uk · 22/04/2026

1. Sensibly delete a (long) departed user from service 2. Find that we are still using a token with no expiry associated with that user 3. Set the new token to a relatively short expiry 4. Work out how on earth to use the token again, and add more IaC (mostly cut/paste) to make it easier...

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Nicolas Carlo @nicoespeon.com · 15/04/2026

🎙️ Agenda @emilybache.com — Technical Coaching as a Career Yoan Thirion — Outside-In Discovery Bhaskar Bharat Sawant — The Hidden Cost of "Just One More Fix" @raymyers.bsky.social — AI Hates Legacy Code 👥 Open-space sessions if you prefer interactive discussions www.eventbrite.com/e/mendercon-...

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MenderCon 2026

A full day virtual event focused on modernizing and improving software systems. From the smallest apps, to the biggest enterprise monoliths.

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Murph @murph.recumbent.co.uk · 11/04/2026

Try to remember to celebrate the good days * Parkrun * Friends * Family * Rugby * Beer * Puzza *Sunshine All mushed together into a glorious day

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badly drawn bee 🐝 @soapachu.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Are you registered to vote? Because it's not just trans rights (though that should be enough on its own). Eradication of trans rights is the leading edge of the eradication of *everyone's* rights. It's just a question of how long.

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DevOpsDays London @devopsdays.london · 18/03/2026

DevOps isn’t just tools it’s culture, collaboration, and community. Join us for: 💡 Talks 🧪 Real stories 🗣️ Open Spaces 🤝 Great people 📅 Sept 17, London 📍 City & Guilds Building, Imperial College Road, SW7 2AZ 👉https://devopsdays.org/events/2026-london/welcome/ #DevOps #DevOpsDays #TechCommunity

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Murph @murph.recumbent.co.uk · 18/03/2026

Reading (re-read of the whole series) for near future holiday

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Jeremy Diamond ☕️ @dmnd.me · 08/03/2026

This is a failure of imagination There are open models small enough to run on a home computer Simple ones will run on Raspberry Pi You can build cool shit that you own if you want to

There is no punk rock Al. To be into Al is to wed yourself to the worst billionaires in the world. And I think this makes the Al people crazy. You just can't be into it and not be a shill for a corporation. You can't be into Al and be cool. And it makes them all bitter weirdos.

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Bear TK @bear-xiong.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Gonna post it again... Please give it some exposure. It might not result in anything even if it got 100K signatures, but if it doesn't get any it definitely won't and we're seeing more and more evidence rather than conjecture around these murky, opaque orgs. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...

petition.parliament.uk

Petition: Require all think tanks to disclose their donors, funding, and media spending

Research bodies and representation of specialist interests is important when making policy. However, think tanks go beyond merely brainstorming ideas and presenting data and arguments. They can push s...

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Ben Kuchera @benkuchera.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

The ADHD ability to make hard stuff look easy so people think you're being ridiculous when you struggle with easy stuff is my favorite part.

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Murph @murph.recumbent.co.uk · 13/02/2026

Another piece of my youth...

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Glynn Stewart @glynnstewart.com · 22/01/2026

Happy book day to me! The theocratic once-masters of the alien half of Chimera's people have taken the system by storm. Mars has a plan to liberate them, but it will take time. Time the Chimerans may not have. Time Mage-Captain Roslyn Chambers isn't prepared to wait... mybook.to/SM18Shadow

A redhaired woman in a blue uniform lurks in an alleyway, holding a ball of magical lightning in her hands. On the street outside, a hovering armored vehicle moves closer, escorted by armored aliens who have not spotted her ambush.

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Murph @murph.recumbent.co.uk · 22/01/2026

Managing to refrain from shaving this very hairy yak instead of actually progressing demos for my presentation next week. No, the two are not unrelated - but as it turns out I don't actually need to shave the yak for the presentation so... yay me?

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Cassia Rowland @cassiarowland.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

NEW REPORT: the gov’s proposals for judge-only trials will deliver only marginal savings and distract from the real route out of this crisis: reversing recent falls in court productivity.

instituteforgovernment.org.uk

Trial and error?: The impact of restricting jury trials on court demand | Institute for Government

The government’s reforms will unlock only relatively modest reductions in demand.

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Murph @murph.recumbent.co.uk · 14/01/2026

In another round of IaC is hard and Kubernetes is not for the faint of heart (and overkill for the systems in question), I got my regular reminder to _read the error message_ (no, *all* of the error message). I now have a cross dependency I could live without 😢 and that is bound to bite me again

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Murph @murph.recumbent.co.uk · 14/01/2026

In using dev tools I am not a fan of magic naming of things - I fully get the need to avoid naming collisions but I am not entirely "trusting" - and finding things becomes way more interesting (especially when one does something wrong). That said, I've just hit a collision problem and... maybe...?

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Murph @murph.recumbent.co.uk · 09/01/2026

I'm a long way from being able to lean heavily on AI, but having copilot magically suggest F# types (correctly) here for the json opened over there is definitely a win

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Murph @murph.recumbent.co.uk · 08/01/2026

This is the thing I clearly need to progress to... I have more work than I can do, and I think some ability to express what I want. The challenge is getting from here to there

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Murph @murph.recumbent.co.uk · 01/01/2026

Ok, here we go again (UTC version)...

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Murph @murph.recumbent.co.uk · 24/12/2025

Today's lesson in read the error message was a result of fixing a breaking change with a typo in the git tag the depended on... If it says "already exists" then the next step is to acknowledge that and work out why...

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

This is such bollocks. You can do both. Agrivoltaics use *raised* solar on fields and contribute to *increased* yields, better moisture retention and shade for grazing livestock. There's absolutely no need to make this an either/or.

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Mary Branscombe @marypcbuk.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Windows has a set of folders where it expects you to put documents, pictures, music & other common files that it treats as special folders linked to your Windows user account; in fact there are dozens of special folders the Windows shell uses with shortcuts for access. what if you want to move them?

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Murph @murph.recumbent.co.uk · 17/12/2025

Current "background" entertainment - trying to get a grip on how to persuade kubernetes to distribute things across nodes (AWS EKS Node Groups) in a tolerably open / flexible way to allow for various bits of evolution of (my barely noticeable) cluster over the next couple of months.

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Eurosky Social @eurosky.social · 15/12/2025

Announcing eurosky.social accounts - launching January 2026. ✅ Managed by Eurosky, a European non-profit initiative ✅ Hosted on European cloud ✅ Governed by European law www.eurosky.social/register

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

This is the PR strategy fb and google have played us (and our elected officials) with since the turn of the century. And it’s worked really well for them and their shareholders. Especially Zuckerberg. Altman is now following the same playbook.

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Murph @murph.recumbent.co.uk · 09/12/2025

When <cloud-provider> changes something you use a lot - and you can see that it might, possibly, be better if you understood it when "learning _yet another_ new thing" was not on your list for the day. (In this case AWS are doing things - that might be helpful - to CloudWatch logs and...)

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Murph @murph.recumbent.co.uk · 29/11/2025

It so was, sorry, is... Iwas required to read said book...

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noé @celechii.itch.io · 29/11/2025

last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')

comparison between apple's finder icon and mine. apple's is the split blue and white smiley face, mine is two blue and white anime girls making out

comparison between discord's icon and mine. mine is like a screaming cat on a blue/purple slimy background

comparison between celsys's clip studio paint icon and mine. mine is similar but rotated with some comic styling and pink and blue highlights

comparison between mozilla's firefox icon and mine. mine is similar but looks closer to the old firefox icon and brings back the little arm and gives the fox a cute little smiley face

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 23/11/2025

“Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health, according to unredacted filings in a lawsuit by U.S. school districts against Meta and other social media platforms.”

m.economictimes.com

Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege - The Economic Times

Meta reportedly halted internal research into the mental health impacts of Facebook and Instagram after finding causal evidence of harm. Internal documents revealed users reported lower depression and...

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Murph @murph.recumbent.co.uk · 07/11/2025

Today I learned: > The maximum value for alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/group.order is 1000. Guess how I learnt this... 😱🤬😭

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Murph @murph.recumbent.co.uk · 06/11/2025

TIL that github actions/checkout@v5 doesn't (appear to) work with a short SHA, you have to give it the whole thing. I also learnt that you can translate short to long with git rev-parse <sha> I am about to re-learn setting a variable for a subsequent step in an action...

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Murph @murph.recumbent.co.uk · 22/10/2025

The amount of FUD around the AWS outage is wearing... * It was a "snow day" - its a thing that happens, but rarely * We had more outages when we "owned" our servers (mine were in racks in 3rd party data centres, the servers and the data centres broke Are there concerns? Yes... but...

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve.news We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now. Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

An observation test for you - for your inner 8 year-old “The artist has hidden 12 things in this picture. How many can you find?” Treasure magazine, 1964 Official answers coming soon (Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one? 🙏)

Black-and-white picture of two children playing in woodland. Also in the picture, there are 12 hidden animals including an owl, a bat and a squirrel.

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Murph @murph.recumbent.co.uk · 09/10/2025

I really do not like bash much... but I am very fond of these three lines (excluding the 1 line of whitespace!): #!/bin/bash pwsh -noprofile -File "$0.ps1" exit $? Which mean I can very easily setup git hooks in powershell 😁 (I don't need to customise anything, just copy and rename)

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Chrome for Developers @developer.chrome.com · 02/10/2025

Chrome 141 is rolling out now → goo.gle/4nRaqAi This release includes the getAllRecords() method for IndexedDB, WebRTC Encoded Transform V2, support for nested SVG width and height attributes, and more.

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