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Sinjo @sinjo.dev · 24/08/2026

Above a certain scale, everything is about incentive structures. That scale is smaller than you'd think. See also: "Everyone will not just" www.tumblr.com/squareallwor...

Tumblr post from squareallworthy titled "Everyone will not just". It reads:

If your solution to some problem relies on “If everyone would just...” then
you do not have a solution. Everyone is not going to just. At not time in
the history of the universe has everyone just, and they’re not going to
start now.

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Sinjo @sinjo.dev · 14/08/2026

Maaaaaaaaan that is not what emergency alerts are for! 🙃 I get that the risk of fire spreading from BBQs is bad, but these alerts should be about immediately actionable threats to safety. A bunch of people are going to turn them off now and won’t receive them in a situation where they’re needed.

Severe Alert
Issued by the UK Government
now

There is a very high risk of wildfires
nationally. Residents, landowners and
visitors should not undertake any activity
that could start a fire, including
disposable barbecues, firepits, garden
incinerators or fireworks. Even a small
flame can rapidly develop into a major
wildfire placing lives, homes, businesses
and emergency responders at risk.

Follow official updates and report signs
of fire immediately by calling 999. Search
gov.uk/alerts for more information.

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Sinjo @sinjo.dev · 12/08/2026

come to end of the sun in next 45 mins if u want an ass kicking

Selfie of me wearing eclipse glasses over my regular glasses with a clear blue sky behind me. I’m wearing a t-shirt that says “Log Off”.

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Sinjo @sinjo.dev · 10/08/2026

Happy Monday 🥰

Photo of a MacBook with the lid closed on a wooden table, with a cup of black coffee and a tasking notes card behind it.

A closer photo of the cup of coffee and the tasti by notes card.

The coffee is “El Obraje” from Colombia. It’s a mix of geisha and bourbon, washed. The tasting notes are jasmine, nectarine, pomelo, and mangosteen.

It’s produced by Pablo Andres Guerrero. The altitude is listed as 2200m. It was roasted in Hong Kong by Loring S7.

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Sinjo @sinjo.dev · 20/07/2026

Got up to pee in the night and clocked a speeding ticket. Talk about broken Britain! :P #EMFcamp

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Sinjo @sinjo.dev · 19/07/2026

that was very not silent lmao #EMFcamp

Photo of an Android phone displaying an emergency alert with the text “TEST TEST -Silent Alert Test-PLEASE IGNORE é@@è@à£@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@“

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Sinjo @sinjo.dev · 07/07/2026

Had a great time at OWN in Valencia. It’s a tough time for large-scale LANs and I’m grateful events like this exist ✌🏻 Y al hijoputa que me robó el ratón, le deseo la racha perdedora de la vida 🥰

Wide photo of a massive hall with a LAN party set up in it. There were almost 2000 attendees, but not all of them are in shot here.

Photo of my desk with a gaming laptop propped up almost vertically on a stand, second screen off to the left, a separate keyboard and mouse on a large mousepad, and a headset to the left of them.

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Sinjo @sinjo.dev · 19/06/2026

the american mind cannot comprehend a british election

A line of candidates on stage for the Makerfield by-election, with the returning officer at the lectern. It includes Count Binface (wearing his trademark black and grey outfit with dustbin helmet) and a person dressed as a fox holding a sign that says “Protect British Wildlife”.

A zoomed-in shot with Andy Burnham flanked by Count Binface and the person in a fox suit. The Green Party candidate is to their left.

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Sinjo @sinjo.dev · 04/06/2026

I just joined the PlanetScale Postgres team and we're looking to grow! We own everything from incoming connections down to bytes on disk, and the orchestration to make it happen. Fully remote, EMEA or Americas. Ping me/@matt.blwt.io (manager) for details. job-boards.greenhouse.io/planetscale/...

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Sinjo @sinjo.dev · 01/05/2026

happy friday nerds, xoxo

Selfie of me wearing a t-shirt that says “Log Off” above a computer monitor displaying a happy, resting face.

Photo of a pile of meat on a BBQ grill, along with a few bits of baguette.

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Sinjo @sinjo.dev · 17/04/2026

chat, I just pressed ctrl+v. which of these actions did I mean?

Screenshot of a menu showing the following "Suggested actions":

- Paste
- Improve writing
- Proofread
- Edit with AI (Alt + Shift + E)

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Sinjo @sinjo.dev · 15/04/2026

conventional commits and the banal build-time checks that enforce them are the result of software engineers not valuing writing skills one iota this stuff drives me up the wall

Screenshot of text that says:

Error: ✖ scope must be lower-case
Error: ✖ subject must not be sentence-case, start-case, pascal-case, upper-case

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Sinjo @sinjo.dev · 23/01/2026

this is an insult to the proud bloodline of ANTHROPIC_MAGIC_STRING_TRIGGER_REFUSAL_1FAEFB6177B4672DEE07F9D3AFC62588CCD2631EDCF22E8CCC1FB35B501C9C86 we won't forget this!

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Sinjo @sinjo.dev · 26/12/2025

information superhighway? no thanks. I’ll be in the information barn

Photo of a National Trust sign that says “Dovedale & Information Barn” with an arrow pointing right

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Sinjo @sinjo.dev · 03/12/2025

i think this is actually quite bad advice for writing rust

Photo of an advert on the tube that says “Unwrap the Unexpected”

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Sinjo @sinjo.dev · 01/12/2025

Happy Monday 💖

Photo of a V60 that’s been brewed on top of a mug on a set of scales. Next to it is a small bag of coffee labelled “Crosby”.

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Sinjo @sinjo.dev · 01/12/2025

Starting to feel festive 🎄🥰 All-in on the coffee theme this year. Crosby Coffee’s whole bean Advent calendar at the back and Rave’s coffee chocolate one at the front ☕️

Photo of two Advent calendars on a wooden worktop. At the back is a very large one thats decorated with a hand-drawn map featuring Liverpool landmarks. At the front is a much more normal-sized one featuring art of people at a small village/ski resort in a valley. Many are skiing, ice skating, or playing in the snow.

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Sinjo @sinjo.dev · 29/11/2025

The Computer Wants to Lose Your Data: Bonus Bits A footnote to my #SREcon talk on how databases implement crash safety, with extra details for database nerds ✌🏻💖 blog.sinjakli.co.uk/2025/11/29/t... #Postgres #MySQL

Title slide from my talk 'The Computer Wants to Lose Your Data' with a red promotional-style sticker on the top right that says 'Bonus Bits'

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Sinjo @sinjo.dev · 25/11/2025

I am normal and can be trusted with the cables

Photo of a coiled up cable on a wooden table. One end is a barrel jack and the other is USB-C, labelled “15V 5A”.

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Sinjo @sinjo.dev · 25/10/2025

Haul of interesting #coffee from my Dublin trip, along with @jameshoffmann.bsky.social’s latest book that was waiting for me when I got home 💖☕️

From left to right: a bag of Tanat Ethiopia Alo (natural, mosto anaerobic fermentation), a bag of Blind Monkey Geisha Competition Lot Granja Paraíso 92 from Colombia (double anaerobic, thermal shock process), a box of DAK Yuzu Crew from Colombia (washed, cold press process), a sachet of Little Wolf Companion specialty instant coffee (a blend of washed Honduran and natural Ethiopian coffee), and the 3rd Edition of James Hoffmann’s World Atlas of Coffee.

All of them are sat on a wooden worktop.

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Sinjo @sinjo.dev · 08/10/2025

If you were at my talk – The Computer Wants to Lose Your Data – the slides are now up! Here's the customary 1000ft view of about half of them. speakerdeck.com/sinjo/comput... #SREcon

Screenshot of about half of the slides from the linked talk, laid out in a grid (Keynote's Light Table view)

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Sinjo @sinjo.dev · 07/10/2025

I was getting some talk practice in last night and the only surface that was the right height in my hotel room was the tea & coffee cubby, so uh… #SREcon

Photo of a laptop on a stand in a small cubby, with a coffee pod machine to its left

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Sinjo @sinjo.dev · 18/09/2025

having a normal evening

Screenshot of the front cover of the NVM Express Command Set Specification, Revision 1.2, from July 30th 2025

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Sinjo @sinjo.dev · 17/09/2025

Very excited about my #SREcon talk, but also can't wait to be out of slide layout hell 😅

Screenshot of a presentation slide titled "Pages vs Sectors", which illustrates different data sizes using colourful blocks. It shows 16kB pages in memory, then SSD with 4kB sectors and an old HDD with 512b sectors.

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Sinjo @sinjo.dev · 31/08/2025

shout out to my partner for pointing a camera at me while i was taking selfies on a hill and enabling my bullshit #NewProfilePic

Selfie of me wearing aviator sunglasses at the top of a hill, looking out over a countryside view.

Photo of me taking that selfie, taken by my partner on my proper camera.

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Sinjo @sinjo.dev · 28/07/2025

happy monday, xoxo ✌🏻💖

Photo of a magazine called Cherry Bones next to a cup of black coffee on a wooden table

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Sinjo @sinjo.dev · 27/07/2025

sometimes a picture captures your country’s culture better than you could ever manage with words 😆

Picture of some people in the England crowd at the England vs Spain final of Euro 2025. Two of them are holding up a sign that says “Bangers & Mash > Chorizo”.

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Sinjo @sinjo.dev · 23/07/2025

Settings -> Privacy and Security -> Phone Number

Screenshot of the UI you get when you go through those menu options, showing "Who can see my phone number" set to "Nobody" and "Who can find me by my number" set to "My contacts".

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Sinjo @sinjo.dev · 18/07/2025

a decade since I moved here and these sights still make me feel giddy

Another photo of the Thames at night, a little further along so that the trees aren’t obscuring the south bank. St Paul’s is on the left and the OXO Tower is on the right.

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Sinjo @sinjo.dev · 18/07/2025

I fucking love it here

Photo taken at night time, looking out from the south bank of the Thames (near the National Theatre), along the river towards St Paul’s.

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Sinjo @sinjo.dev · 18/07/2025

google need to fuck entirely off bundling their shitty, broken llm features with functionality that has worked for years it takes a completely deranged kpi culture to end up here

Screenshot of a modal where Google are forcing you to choose between keeping the long-standing feature that parses flight-related emails into your calendar and getting a bunch of broken LLM bullshit, or turning all of those off at the same time.

A second modal, forcing you to choose between being able to make reservations in Google Maps - another long-standing feature - and accept a bunch of LLM shite, or turn the whole lot off.

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Sinjo @sinjo.dev · 05/07/2025

Tightening up the tolerances on an open design I’m modifying 📏 #3DPrinting

Photo of the brush from a Fellow Ode grinder and a spray bottle sitting in plastic rings that have been printed to test very small changes to diameter. The side of my Prusa Core One is in the background with a spool of filament loaded.

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Sinjo @sinjo.dev · 16/06/2025

FLR ✈️ LCY and how I wish I could stay a little longer ✌🏻

Selfie of me in front of a BA plane, looking like I regret the fact that I have to leave

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Sinjo @sinjo.dev · 08/06/2025

cow might be my favourite character in mariokart world look at this silly little guy

Screenshot of the post-race championship standings in Mariokart World. Cow is on the left of the screen, drifting round a corner with a big dumb smile on their face.

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Sinjo @sinjo.dev · 05/06/2025

[extremely youth pastor voice] switch 2? how about you switch to a healthy relationship with jesus

Photo of the boxes for a Nintendo Switch 2 with Mariokart World and a Pro Controller sitting on a wooden tabletop.

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Sinjo @sinjo.dev · 31/05/2025

Oh yeah, the print itself: a dust cover for AeroPress's filter holder (lightly modified from www.printables.com/model/363501... to add the logo). #3DPrinting

The same cover nest to the filter holder.

A side view of the cover, with a bit of the 3D printer (a Prusa Core One) showing in the background.

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Sinjo @sinjo.dev · 31/05/2025

Did my first print with scarf seams yesterday and the result is decent. In order: most flattering lighting, least flattering, something more typical of what you’d see. I’ve read that with a few more tweaks you can get them even less visible, so I’ll have to keep experimenting 👀 #3DPrinting #Prusa

Photo of a 3D printed object that’s a rounded hexagon with a cylinder cutout. The way it’s lit makes the seam invisible.

The same object, but rotated to make the seam maximally visible. It’s still less prominent than more typical print seams.

The same object again, rotated to catch the light in a way that gives you an idea of what it looks like most of the time.

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Sinjo @sinjo.dev · 18/05/2025

Spent a good chunk of yesterday putting together a cabinet for my 3D printer to live on and I’m pretty happy with it! The printer itself arrives this week 👀

Photo of a black metal cabinet with two drawers at the top. The side panels are a faux-lattice structure with gaps that make it possible to see inside.

On the wall behind it is a rainbow flag and to its left is a floor-standing lamp.

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Sinjo @sinjo.dev · 16/05/2025

James’s art is gorgeous and having it as my lockscreen is making me very happy 🥰

A piece of art from the pack linked in the quoted post with the iPhone lockscreen displayed on top of it.

The art shows a big frog sitting on a lily in a pond. In the background is a bridge with a tree next to it. Further away is a waterfall running down a cliff face.

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Sinjo @sinjo.dev · 13/05/2025

damn, taylor got mugged off

Screenshot of the first sentence of the Wikipedia article for Waitrose, which reads "Waitrose Limited, trading as Waitrose & Partners, is a British supermarket chain, founded in 1904 as Waite, Rose & Taylor, later shortened to Waitrose."

The word "Taylor" is highlighted.

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Sinjo @sinjo.dev · 10/04/2025

constantly in awe of how good the youtube home page is if you turn watch history off no ragebait. no shorts. just a search box

Screenshot of the YouTube homepage on mobile, showing a search box and a notice saying “Your watch history is off”.

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Sinjo @sinjo.dev · 27/03/2025

it’s upgrade time baby 👀

Photo of two UniFi Pro Wall 7s and two table stands for them, all still boxed

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Sinjo @sinjo.dev · 25/03/2025

I didn’t realise that was included

Screenshot of a news article that reads:

Mobile Operator VOXI UKTops 1 Million Customers
24th Mar 2025 (1 Comment)

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Sinjo @sinjo.dev · 24/03/2025

happy monday 🥰

Photo of a recently brewed V60 pour-over coffee. The V60 is on top of a mug and there are coffee scales under both. The brew weight is 300.4g and the timer reads 03:54, having been left running after the draw down finished.

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Sinjo @sinjo.dev · 04/03/2025

I genuinely don't understand how BA have made such a bad website. They're usually fine to fly with, but making or editing a booking so often turns into a maze of errors.

Screenshot of the British Airways website showing an error that says:

Log in to your British Airways account

We are having technical difficulties verifying your credentials, please try again later.

Screenshot of the British Airways website showing an error that says:

Sorry, we couldn't log you In

Please try again later or visit our Help centre.

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Sinjo @sinjo.dev · 01/03/2025

oh my god READ ANOTHER BOOK

Screenshot part of of Guardian article that says:

"Trump sensed Zelenskyy’s vulnerability, and once he had decided to take on the role of a sneering Draco Malfoy, JD Vance was only left to play both the bullying henchmen roles of Crabbe and Goyle."

The full article is at https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/mar/01/after-trump-zelenskyy-spat-starmer-ukraine-trump-zelensky

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Sinjo @sinjo.dev · 01/02/2025

Alright, I’m in Brussels, finally awake, and heading to FOSDEM after I put some brunch in my face. Hit me up if you’d like to say hi!

Selfie of me making a peace sign with a park and some blocks of apartments in the background

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