This #emfcamp installation project is a real rollercoaster, on third computing device, who knew “support 40 usb devices” would be the hard part (dear xhci you suck, go away), cautiously optimistic this morning..
This #emfcamp installation project is a real rollercoaster, on third computing device, who knew “support 40 usb devices” would be the hard part (dear xhci you suck, go away), cautiously optimistic this morning..
Direct quote (not by me): Important limitation: Subsequent verification found that 57% of the second-pass agent descriptions did not match the actual PRs. Agents fabricated plausible-sounding descriptions for PRs they did not read carefully. 13 PRs cited by agents do not exist or are closed. #ugh
You can’t make this stuff up: Started up Android Studio to continue work on a thing, tapped “build” and, nope! Java error. Turns out my kernel upgrade the other day was not compatible with the JDK I’m using (!?), Maybe JDK v17 is a little old, and Gradle 8.13 is not the newest #dev #android #upgrade
In the “should do this more often” department, had tickets to see Brandon Sanderson and Joe Abercrombie yesterday. Queued an hour outside the Emmanuel Centre for good seats, excellent talk. Touristed a bit after. QOTD: “Ideas look so shiny before you start working on them” #goodbooks


In case anyone else is swearing at #Ghost blog upgrades lately (and has an ancient install like me), this is my contribution: github.com/TryGhost/…
morning walk: floofy malamute, old staffy, and helped a driver manoeuver out of a parking space (methinks she needs more cameras :)
Not often I see #Swindon in a newsletter walks.gojauntly.com/walks/swi… … see the cherry blossom .. before the tourists knock them all off
Visited #hagbournecopse in #Swindon to see the bluebells, just a few! flic.kr/s/aHBqjCR…
Adventures with the £30 Aliexpress X99 motherboard, after some soldering and much poking around we have a Pi Pico reading POST codes via the LPC header #PCHacking
#MarchPhotoChallenge Today, leave the house and take a photo of a .. tree
#MarchPhotoChallenge Guess who failed to post before leaving the house? I did take a photo, so I’m going to declare this one “blossom”
Warmest it’s been this year! Spent some time in the garden enjoying the 17C sunshine, and battling ivy versus tree. Here’s a buddleia bush which refuses to be beaten back, next to a (Cherry I think) tree which the ivy is trying to reclaim and is also still alive somehow under the ivy.
#MarchPhotoChallenge Today’s house leaving will be to visit the Science and Innovation Park (Science Museum outpost), so today I should take a photo of something .. old
#MarchPhotoChallenge still trying! Today, leave the house and take a photo of something .. blue
#MarchPhotoChallenge weekends are tricky! I did go out on Saturday, and took a photo, but didn’t post about it.. Today, I just about managed to leave the house at lunchtime, so you get a photo and the info together, this is “street infrastructure”
#MarchPhotoChallenge (yes I have taken photos, uploading them is an extra step!) Today, leave the house and take a photo of some.. advertising
#MarchPhotoChallenge Today, leave the house and take a photo of something .. commercial (running out of ideas, suggestions welcome!)
#MarchPhotoChallenge Today, leave the house and take a photo of something.. tasty
#MarchPhotoChallenge One third of the way through March! Today, leave the house and take a photo of something .. wet (today’s adjective generously donated by my other half)
#MarchPhotoChallenge yes I did skip yesterday entirely! I did leave the house though.. Today, leave the house and take a photo of something .. blue
#MarchPhotoChallenge failed yesterday despite leaving the house to travel. Today, leave the house and take a photo of something.. creative
#MarchPhotoChallenge Today, leave the house and take a photo of something .. on the move
#MarchPhotoChallenge Today, leave the house and take a photo of something.. Far away
#MarchPhotoChallenge Today, leave the house and come back with a photo of something .. Arty
#PhotoChallenge today, leave the house and take a photo of something .. Tall