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Murph @murph.recumbent.co.uk · 30/09/2026

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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Murph @murph.recumbent.co.uk · 18/09/2026

Oh dear, if only... yes, coping mechanisms, but no, still not able to be forward

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Murph @murph.recumbent.co.uk · 18/09/2026

All of those are, at best, problematic - that is only two companies one of which is arguably not great and the other of which should be actively shunned.

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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 · 25/08/2026

That's how I learnt... limited access to a computer, just books (that may or may not align with the actual tooling you are using), and fixing compilation errors / debugging from printed listings - not necessarily suggesting we go back, but it's given me an enduring set of foundational skills

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Murph @murph.recumbent.co.uk · 18/08/2026

There seems to be work going on in that space, electric for cruise where the power demands are less and then more conventional fuels for the high power bits Meanwhile airbus are playing with fuel cell driven electric motors in a self contained engine. I await various developments with interest!

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Murph @murph.recumbent.co.uk · 17/08/2026

Because running one's own infrastructure is both hard and inherently risky* - it's often not so much a wish to centralise as a wish to make things someone else's problem *because remote access and a need to avoid a single point of failure if nothing else

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Murph @murph.recumbent.co.uk · 12/08/2026

Nice, one of the reasons to have lots of types in a union is messages, another is events for event sourcing - but the same applies 10's might be reasonable, more tend to questionable

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Murph @murph.recumbent.co.uk · 11/08/2026

Remembering that that is US gallons, 4.54 litres in an actual imperial gallon 😁

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Murph @murph.recumbent.co.uk · 04/08/2026

"I have reason to use a personal interface device" (or something like that 😎)

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Murph @murph.recumbent.co.uk · 29/07/2026

Fond memories of Harrods void hall in the eighties - it was not nearly as expensive as one would assume, and good value for the quality, but what it absolutely wasn't was "cheap" (no offers, no discounts, no anything)

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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

Yeah "causing congestion" is interestingly weird - there's a whole thing about traffic management if you control the vehicles that one might explore. My 2 offspring (~30) have basically refused to learn to drive, there are things going on across generations

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

But as a rule they don't think that way, they regard car ownership / use as a final bastion of independence and don't consider fixed / capital costs (and there is an associated change in mindset which is also problematic)

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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 · 21/07/2026

That it's something you do, rather than something you are (or at least aspire to be)

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Murph @murph.recumbent.co.uk · 20/07/2026

Mens Rugby World Cup in 2031 Womens Rugby World Cup in 2033 I have a faint hope that one might be willing to visit again by that point...

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Murph @murph.recumbent.co.uk · 20/07/2026

One of the amazing things about becoming a parent (some decades ago) is that when I hear a small child light up my brain goes "not mine 🎉" and tunes it out...

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Murph @murph.recumbent.co.uk · 15/07/2026

Cix with a side of usenet, there or thereabouts...

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Murph @murph.recumbent.co.uk · 06/07/2026

Google is doing this to me with chrome 🤬 not that I usually have chrome open...

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Murph @murph.recumbent.co.uk · 05/07/2026

I think the problem is that code was basically "done" a while ago - the plug in model + language servers means that you can add more than enough on top of the core... but we're not allowed to have software be done so on we go

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Murph @murph.recumbent.co.uk · 05/07/2026

Atom was basically a copy of (or inspired by, whichever you prefer) Sublime, but slower because JavaScript. That led to the electron shell, which gave people a way to run the Monaco editor outside of a browser and that was VS Code...

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Murph @murph.recumbent.co.uk · 05/07/2026

Once upon a time, a zune subscription gave you a DRM free album per month... and zune had a load of other things that just worked better. But it was Microsoft so we weren't allowed to like that 😭

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Murph @murph.recumbent.co.uk · 29/06/2026

Tax axle weight - given that damage goes up exponentially with that - same effect, demonstrable basis, harder to game, same outcome of encouraging smaller / lighter cars

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Murph @murph.recumbent.co.uk · 25/06/2026

Answer is in the message you replied to, and astonishingly easy, revert to known good, then start the process... the hard bit is the discipline this requires - the mechanics are straightforward

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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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Murph @murph.recumbent.co.uk · 05/06/2026

Got into a carriage with Brian Blessed once, his face fell a bit when I recognised him, so being very British I nodded politely in his direction - at which point the full on smile came out, I sat down (a few rows away) and we continued in peace 😁

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Murph @murph.recumbent.co.uk · 05/06/2026

There are a few of us, of a certain age (older!), who will remember adverts for instant coffee - sufficient to get him a puppet on spitting image too 🙂

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Spookiest Welsh Canadian (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 · 04/05/2026

Much as I have spent decades starting with a restart cures all ills, I hate that kubernetes makes this an aggressively enforced default. 🤔 But will not kill (EKS) my sick nodes 😖

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Murph @murph.recumbent.co.uk · 02/05/2026

A certain amount of "what did the Romans ever do for us"? But equally not enough going for broke when potentially there was a two term window to sort out the rough edges. And way too much dumb stuff (tech related and otherwise)

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Murph @murph.recumbent.co.uk · 30/04/2026

The fundamental failure of the current executive is that all we wanted them to be was NOT what went before (and not any reflection of same) - that they could also have been brave... makes me very sad

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

...because I need to add more IaC code to make using the token vastly easier and ideally to manage the token and some other things related to the service so that I'm less likely to end up in the same hole again. Only 90 minutes... not too bad 🤣

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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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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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Murph @murph.recumbent.co.uk · 03/04/2026

We celebrate on Sunday 😖

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Murph @murph.recumbent.co.uk · 03/04/2026

We have ours planned for the end of September 😁

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badly drawn boo! 🎃👻🧛🏼‍♀️ @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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Murph @murph.recumbent.co.uk · 03/04/2026

At the time the sums were in favour of rackspace, but that can't have lasted long as more / better options evolved

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Murph @murph.recumbent.co.uk · 03/04/2026

Interestingly that's about as long as I've been not using them (moved on from the business that used them). Not cheap - and I'd guess that ultimately that's been the problem

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Murph @murph.recumbent.co.uk · 24/03/2026

You can blame netscape for that - what we needed was an email markup language (like minimal markdown) and what they gave us was unrestricted HTML email, that Google then further messed up 😖

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