It’s common to compare the current AI takeover of software engineering to the rise of AI in chess. Chess AIs went from much weaker than serious players to much…

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Baz and Angry George Edwards discuss Nottingham Forest's home defeat to Coventry City, and there's a lot to go through - not least, yet another scoreless home game with VAR playing an important role.  💡We need your support! 1865 has been shortlisted for the Football Content Awards in the

This week in the far-right -19th September 2026

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Take the positives? Or the worst, stodgiest game we've ever seen? Oliver Glasner's Nottingham Forest took on Roberto de Zerbi's Tottenham Hotspur. Two teams in transition cancelled each other out in a nil nil draw. Baz and George discuss the game, looking at the VAR controversy and

Nothing better than a coffee as autumn hits. Visit Yatesy's Espresso Bar as we recap the summer's transfers. How do we replace Elliot Anderson? Is Xaver Schlager enough? Or is Harrison Armstrong the answer? And is Liam Delap worth the money? Is Daniel Munoz too old? Baz and

Many Forest supporters were not optimistic prior to kick off, but a see-saw match ended with a point apiece. Dan Ndoye gave Forest the lead in the first half, with Alexander Isak equalising in the second half. Morgan Gibbs-White scored a penalty after Neco Williams was brought down

One day we will win a game in the Carabao Cup.

George Edwards reviews the weekend's game at the City Ground against Leeds United - and looks forward to tomorrow's game ... at the City Ground against Leeds United

It was hardly a classic to start the season, in Oliver Glasner's first game in charge of the Reds. As predicted, Forest played a 3-4-2-1 formation, and although they lacked sharpness in their play, Igor Jesus forced a fine save from James Trafford before Jair Cunha

This month Jade Dickinson (https://ruby.social/@jadedickinson) will be showing us how we can leverage Rails' multi-database support to connect and query data...

“There’s so much more to me than impaling. I paint watercolors. I run half-marathons. I am a father, many times over, all across the Wallachian countryside. ...

A Tesla solar customer opened their lease contract online to find the Book of Enoch instead. Electrek confirmed the bizarre document swap with Tesla.

A brief comment on Codeberg’s new terms, and why a free-software host deciding which projects are welcome worries me more than the bans themselves.

The aftermath as we escape the Group of Death

Where did it all go wrong? What could we have done differently? Thomas Tuchel - should he stay or should he go?

We're not actually that far from pouring oil into a bowl of water to decide whether to go to war.

Panama, Scotland, Tuchel, DR Congo and the path to the final

My journey inside the world of LARPing, where hustlebros pretend to be rich for TikTok.

Somewhere in the mid-aughts eXtreme Programming (XP) practices became widely-discussed in software. From that time forward, a strange chasm emerged in the disco

First, I absolutely love this: This is a blog-style writeup of the paper. I wish every paper would come with one of these. Academic writing is pretty dry - the …

Elliot Anderson and gimp masks. * Croatia goal from distance * Harry Kane penalty retake * Croatia keepers double save * England set-piece corner routine * Jude Bellingham half-time psychology * Marcus Rashford goal * Elliot Anderson tactical analysis * Djed Spence substitution and impact * Second round of games / next fixtures * England vs Ghana * England vs Panama