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Andrew White @pixeltrix.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is was what it used to be - now don't get any direct sun at all. We also have houses being built next to us at the same time and whatever the developers put in the construction management plans is just bullshit - they don't stick to them and the council don't enforce it.

Sunset over the fields off Wilsons Lane, Coventry - now no longer possible to see.

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Andrew White @pixeltrix.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

They're building this 40m from my study window and we got 10 people to sign a petition and now everyone is "oh it's so big". In contrast a petition about some trees being cut down for a cycle path in Coventry got over 4,200 signatures.

Ariel photo of the Pannatoni Park Coventry main warehouse measuring 18m tall and covering over 500,000 square metres of floorspace.

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Andrew White @pixeltrix.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Going to be a great tool for nimbys - the visualisation I generated for the warehouse they're building next to me is wrong perspective and size but that's not going to stop them. panattoni.co.uk/our-properti...

Google Earth/Nano Banana generated image of a warehouse in a field

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Andrew White @pixeltrix.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Whilst such tricks work on our other three, Ginge doesn't eat treats so we have to wrap him up in a blanket and squirt the antibiotic into the back of his mouth. As you can see he's quite lanky and it's like wrestling a sack of eels with razor sharp claws - I'm sure he can smell my fear 😅

Photograph of the aforementioned "Little Ginge" stretched out on a blanket revealing that he is anything but "little".

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Andrew White @pixeltrix.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Is there a bigger lie in Veterinary Science than the word "palatable" on medicine for cats?

Close up photograph of a ginger and white male cat called "Little Ginge", sitting on a path with yellow eyes and narrow pupils..

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Andrew White @pixeltrix.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

We had one of these at the hospital in Coventry which they fixed by telling people to get off their bike - complete with chicane, 2m of cycling and then having to get off. (There's some kind of hut in the hatched area now as obviously no-one paid attention to the hatching)

Satellite photograph of a cycle lane round the edge of a car park at UHCW hospital in Walsgrave, Coventry from 2016 with a 90° corner

Same corner in 2026 with the cycle lane hatched out and 'Cyclists Dismount' painted on the path.

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Andrew White @pixeltrix.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

"Cyclists should wear hi-vis so drivers can see them"

Photograph of a bridge strike on Marston Lane, Bedworth with the parapet falling off completely and blocking the road. The bridge carries the Trent Valley main line between Rugby and Nuneaton and has caused widespread disruption to Avant West Coast and London North Western services out of Euston.

Image source:
https://x.com/LNRailway/status/2065102351979946356

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Andrew White @pixeltrix.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Made it back in time to vote despite Avanti’s best efforts to stop me - had to travel home via Reading as Euston was closed 😅 #BikesAtPollingStations

Road bike with front and rear lights illuminated outside Oban Road polling station in Coventry

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Andrew White @pixeltrix.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Same vibe coming from the local council candidates here

Dril tweet from May, 2014 satirising car-brain people by saying: "drunk driving may kill a lot of people, but it also helps a lot of people get to work on time, so, it's impossible to say if it's bad or not"

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Andrew White @pixeltrix.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

This tweet popped up whilst check Twitter/X about some petitions

Screen capture of a DHH tweet mislabeling a video from Brisbane, Australia as being in the UK - original tweet at: https://x.com/dhh/status/2030922334182195212

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Andrew White @pixeltrix.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

These look like newly built buildings and I can't find any application for planning permission on the LPA's public register. There are a bunch of other applications, some of which have been refused but they refer to the main house. pa2.north-herts.gov.uk/online-appli...

Google Earth view of Jack's Hill Farm near Graveley, Herts that was taken on May 11, 2024. The area in question is grassland and some footpaths.

Google Earth view of Jack's Hill Farm near Graveley, Herts that was taken on March 8, 2025. The area in question shows Heron Cottage and other buildings under construction.

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Andrew White @pixeltrix.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

I love to play Russian roulette with software when changing its config 🙈

Except of a post on X talking about how NanoClaw configures itself: "He’s talking about NanoClaw’s approach to configuration. When you run /add-telegram, the LLM doesn’t toggle a flag in a config file. It rewrites the actual source code to integrate Telegram. No if-then-else branching. No plugin registry. No config sprawl. The AI agent modifies its own codebase to become exactly what you need."

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Andrew White @pixeltrix.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

In this case the method was generated inside a `with_options` block so the `source_location` reported by Ruby was inside ActiveSupport::OptionMerger - no hope of Claude finding that. (wonder whether `with_options` could pass location data to the option merger instance for better reporting 🤔)

Screenshot of a VS Code editor window showing a block of meta-programming delegating a number of predicate methods to an association.

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Andrew White @pixeltrix.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Aside from Claude completely hallucinating that Active Record named scopes add a predicate method, I wonder whether over time Ruby codebases will use less and less meta programming since it's difficult for LLMs to include the generated code in the context.

Output from Claude Code when asking "Where is the PlanningApplication#publishable? method defined" showing that it incorrectly states that it is defined by a named scope called :publishable

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Andrew White @pixeltrix.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

I just plugged in a Logitch USB PC keyboard and added a 'British PC' input source like this and seems to map correctly

Screenshot of keyboard input sources on Mac OS with a 'British - PC' option selected

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Andrew White @pixeltrix.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

This was my translation in our company dev Slack channel 😅

Screenshot of a Slack message giving a succinct summary of the Heroku blog post where they signal their intention to shut it down at some point in the future in a lot of Enterprise-y language

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Andrew White @pixeltrix.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

The transfers in of $1m, $10k and $50k are the last three description lines - you can see how the balance figure increases to match. The "Mr R Avila Da Silva" line is the one before those transfers so would be the last of the withdrawals - $4000. All the figures tally in the attached screenshot.

Reconstruction of a Jeffery Epstein statement showing 14 transactions.

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Andrew White @pixeltrix.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

There's a bunch of accounts on X that seem to find it inspirational to emulate and the Trump post echos that by the "Embrace the penguin" text in the post. Not sure whether Reform actually understand what they're posting.

Screenshot of a post on X where the user states: 'if this penguin doesn't penetrate your psyche so deeply that you are compelled to finally drop everything & chase your dreams.

then you're doomed forever bro."

The post features a clip from the Werner Herzog movie "Encounters at the End of the World" where a penguin walks of in the direction of some remote mountain probably to die alone.

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Andrew White @pixeltrix.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Will have to go back to Llandeilo now 🤩

View down the Towy valley, the air is slightly misty and the countryside is very green despite it being the middle of August 2023. In the middle distance is the ruins of Castell Dryslwyn on a hill and beyond that is Castell Dinefwr.

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Andrew White @pixeltrix.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

It looks like there's Cloudflare caching on the URL - it might be they're only seeing the origin requests for the file and even then mostly the 'Not Found' requests as it's got a 365 day max-age on it. You'd need the CDN logs to get more detail - not sure whether you can access that with WPEngine

Screenshot of the response headers when requesting the OBR November 2025 budget report which indicate the resource is protected by Cloudflare caching

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Andrew White @pixeltrix.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

For the life of me I can't understand why GitHub hasn't got an option to retry the job here and instead I'm forced to click through to the job details page and do it there

Screenshot of GitHub Action results on a Pull Request page showing 'More Actions ...' only having 'Explain error' and 'View details' options, but no option to retry the job.

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Andrew White @pixeltrix.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

After I pointed out the error, today I received new calculations which basically say I'm out of time to claim relief on the pension contributions but I still owe the HICBC and now I'm trying to tell them about Section 36(3) of the TMA 1970 which allows out-of-time reliefs during assessments 😩

Excerpt from the Tax Management Act 1970 as amended which states: "s36(3) TMA 1970 - If the person on whom the assessment is made so requires, in determining the amount of the tax to be charged for any chargeable period in any assessment made in a case mentioned in subsection (1) or (1A) above, effect shall be given to any relief or allowance to which he would have been entitled for that chargeable period on a claim or application made within the time allowed by the Taxes Acts."

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Andrew White @pixeltrix.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Do schools in Birmingham have simple circles for catchment areas? Our service for Bucks has to use very much not circles imported from their ArcGIS system like this example

Map showing the catchment area of High Ash Church of England Combined School on Buckinghamshire's Find My Child a School Place service: https://schools.buckinghamshire.gov.uk/school-admissions

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Andrew White @pixeltrix.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Everyone was focused on the roundabout itself but there is also a signalised left-in, left-out junction that will likely cause massive tailbacks onto the roundabout which cyclists will have to navigate. This excerpt shows exiting HGVs will have priority over traffic coming off the roundabout.

Excerpt from the Transport Assessment Addendum on the B4113 Left-In, Left-out junction saying that the new signals will 'rest on red' with priority given to vehicles coming out of the employment site.

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Andrew White @pixeltrix.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

There's signs of a crack in 2021 from the Google Street View image - if it was a struck by a car it's not recent. Maybe it's just the weight of an SUV plus horse trailer over time?

Screenshot of Google Street View showing early signs of a crack in the canal bridge in September 2021 according to the image capture date.

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Andrew White @pixeltrix.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

I'm not saying the AWS CloudWatch console is bad but I'm glad they have this AI query generator 😂

Screenshot of the AWS CloudWatch Insights AI query generator showing the results of the prompt "query for the number of 404 requests grouped by edge location for the home page"

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Andrew White @pixeltrix.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Got an uptime alert for petition.parliament.uk - seems like there was a glitch in the european internet for a few minutes at 10:15 UTC 🤔

Table of data from CloudWatch CloudFront logs showing a number of 404 requests from edge locations in Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Stockholm, Zurich, Helsinki, Warsaw and Munich for the https://petition.parliament.uk home page

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Andrew White @pixeltrix.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

A warehouse development has started near me and despite their planning permission saying they should drive in forwards here they are just reversing in with no care for the other traffic - just a 'might is right' attitude.

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Andrew White @pixeltrix.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

You might want to have a word with the housing developers on Hospital Lane in Bedworth about cleaning up their mess before the race comes down it. They've left the road in a filthy state and there's hardened lumps of clay soil as well as a pot hole right in the racing line.

Photograph of Hospital Lane in Bedworth, Warwickshire showing a hardened lump of earth in the northbound lane.

Photograph of Hospital Lane in Bedworth, Warwickshire showing a hardened lump of earth in the southbound lane.

Photograph of Hospital Lane in Bedworth, Warwickshire showing a dangerous pothole in the racing line going south.

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Andrew White @pixeltrix.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Original reporting: www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventr... Neighbourhood alert: www.neighbourhoodalert.co.uk/Alerts/A/311... Summary article: www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventr...

ChatGPT AI results showing an article from 2020 being misidentified as being from 26 June 2025.

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Andrew White @pixeltrix.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

After a few tries in a new Incognito window each time I finally got it, though it went through a number of reasonable versions first. The phrase appears mainly in the context of religious figures like Enoch in the Bible so the LLM is probably combining real figures with these references.

Terrible Google AI search result stating that Emma of Normandy did not die in the "traditional sense".

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Andrew White @pixeltrix.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Appears to be giving correct results now - it would be nice if Google put out a statement on how this got fixed and whether it occurred automatically or required manual intervention.

Screenshot of Google AI search results for "how did emma of normandy die" describing how the exact cause of death isn't recorded.

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Andrew White @pixeltrix.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Finally got a chance to take the bike up on to the moor proper this holiday

View from Lee Moor on Dartmoor looking towards Plymouth Sound

A view looking down on the Cadover Bridge across the River Plym on Dartmoor

A view from the northern edge of Wigford Down on Dartmoor looking to the north across the rest of the moor

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Andrew White @pixeltrix.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Looking at the Met Office forecasted rainfall map you might want to take a long lunch break and wait for this to pass over 😬

Screenshot of the Met Office map of forecasted rain show an intense band of rain passing over Cornwall and Devon in the middle of the day.

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Andrew White @pixeltrix.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

TBF, removing this is probably safer - not quite sure where a cyclist is meant to turn left into?

Street view image of a section of advisory cycle lane on the A104 Epping New Road instructing a cyclist to turn left into a bank of trees.

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Andrew White @pixeltrix.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Obviously not good enough for a court case but on the balance of probability I'd say he's not looking at the road

Still image from the crash video at the time 1.03 which appears to show the drivers head looking down.

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Andrew White @pixeltrix.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

The minister talked about ban on bus stop boarders until the guidance is published - is that affecting current plans? NBBC has a plan to add a shared path with some boarders to what is essentially a plan to widen the road. Are councils likely to just remove cycle lanes in these cases?

Outline plan for B4113 Longford Road Corridor improvements showing two "bus stop boarders" with shared cycle paths going though bus stops. Taken from the WCC decision page: https://democracy.warwickshire.gov.uk/ieDecisionDetails.aspx?ID=1019

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Andrew White @pixeltrix.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

@coventrycc.bsky.social according to the permit on the one.network website, National Grid are meant to provide an alternative route but as you can see they haven't done so. They could've diverted people onto Momus Boulevard at the entry/exit points close by but there is no signage for that.

Screenshot from one.network website showing cycle lane closure on Binley Road in Coventry. The details of the permit show 'Provide Alternative Roiute' but the second picture shows that this has not been provided.

Photo of works on Binley Road cycle lane in Coventry showing the complete closure of the lane without any diversion.

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Andrew White @pixeltrix.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

There are exit/entry points into the parallel Momus Boulevard which would be better points to divert users as that road is very quiet and could've had a section coned/barricaded off without affecting anyone.

Photo of Binley Road cycle lane in Coventry showing an exit point onto Momus Boulevard.

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Andrew White @pixeltrix.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Anyone would think I was inter-railing for a month round Europe and not just a day trip to London 😂

A spread of 21 UK rail tickets consisting of 12 cycle reservations, 4 seat reservations, 4 actual tickets and a collection receipt

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Andrew White @pixeltrix.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

A development in planning next to me has sheds for cycle storage as required by local LPA guidelines but some of the affordable housing has rear access paths that will be virtually inaccessible. We've commented on the application to that effect but will probably be ignored

Planning layout for a Taylor Wimpey development that shows a mid-terraced house with access to the cycle storage blocked by right-angle corners.

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Andrew White @pixeltrix.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Seven barbers in the space of 70m in a set of local shops in Coventry 🤔

Map showing seven barbers in 70m on Foleshill Road, Coventry

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Andrew White @pixeltrix.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

This is fine - just Google classifying domain verification emails from Amazon Route 53 as dangerous. Domain was suspended because I hadn't replied to the first email. 😭 (TBF to Google it is very spammy with a link to www.verify-whois.com )

Top of an email from Amazon's Route 53 domain registration service showing it has been marked as dangerous.

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Andrew White @pixeltrix.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

The provision on the A45 is terrible and I avoid it like the plague - look at the state of this shared path the other side of the road at that point. I had hoped that the new HS2 station there might improve things but with Adam Tranter and Andy Street gone I've given up hope on that.

Shared pedestrian/cycling path by the roundabout at the junction of the A45 and A452 near Solihull. The path is completely covered with earth and grass is starting to grow.

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Andrew White @pixeltrix.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Also no more magical sunsets like this as the warehouse will block the horizon

Sunset across the field west of Wilson's Lane, Coventry

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Andrew White @pixeltrix.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Magical moment as a pair of Red Kites came hunting in the field outside the window of my study. Not going to be many more moments like this as they're building an 18m high warehouse for me to look at instead 😭 panattoni.co.uk/our-properti...

Red Kite swooping down in an attempt to catch some prey in a field to the west of Wilson's Lane, Coventry.

The same bird rising again after its unsuccessful attempt to capture dinner.

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Andrew White @pixeltrix.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Very sunny out on the bike this morning but the fields look more like July than May - so little moisture in the ground

View of the church in Monks Kirby, Warwickshire

View across parched fields towards Coventry from Cord Lane between Pailton and Easenhall in Warwickshire

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Andrew White @pixeltrix.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

TIL about the "Backend for Frontend" pattern and immediately thought of this @tenderlove.dev classic 😂

Screenshot of a quote post from X saying: Microservices: "I wish my method calls had more latency"

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Andrew White @pixeltrix.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

I mean, even the Active Storage guide says it's not for hosting images on your VPS in the introduction: guides.rubyonrails.org/active_stora...

Screenshot from the Active Storage guide saying that it is for uploading files to a cloud storage service with a local disk-based service for development/testing.

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Andrew White @pixeltrix.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

I turn right at this junction most days and at rush hour it's only possible by humans signalling you to pull out by intuitive means - no headlight flashing, just a look, pause or a nod of the head. If you followed the rules you'd be stuck there for ages (even as a human it can take 5 minutes).

Street view image showing the junction of Windmill Road with Longford Road in Coventry, UK

Satellite view of the junction of Windmill Road with Longford Road in Coventry, UK

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