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he/him. Hacker-at-large. Occasional Brightonian. Googler. @[email protected]
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It's been a while since I've written about the innards of @compiler-explorer.com. xania.org/202506/how-c... has the details, some statistics and some fun war stories.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Thanks @pimlicat.bsky.social @quietriotpod.bsky.social for highlighting this positive story 🙌👇👇👇👇👇 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

submitted 8 days ago • 8 comments

Bloody good timing as I just finished Andor last night 😁

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Scavengers Reign (2023) The best recent sci-fi show that almost no one has seen.

submitted 12 days ago • 65 comments

*Fetch, boy

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Thus it begins.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Before WikiLeaks, there was Cryptome – whose extraordinarily truculent founder has died, aged 89. www.theregister.com/2025/05/24/j...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Weighted Round Robin

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Three Trail of Bits engineers audited core Go cryptography for a month and found only one low-sev security issue... in unsupported Go+BoringCrypto! 🍾 Years of efforts on testing, limiting complexity, safe APIs, and readability have paid off! ✨ Yes I am taking a victory lap. No I am not sorry. 🏆

submitted 17 days ago • 15 comments

I was recently prevented from installing software by a bad regex...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Today's thread is about something I'm rather experienced with... How to Get Fired With Both Grace and Aplomb

submitted 23 days ago • 4 comments

Ian Lance Taylor deserves an award for the most patient person in Open Source. He also has an amazing ability to translate the clarity of his thinking into the written word. He has had such impact on the way people create software. I really hope he continues to contribute to Go.

submitted 26 days ago • 4 comments

North Americloud

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Fil-C is some great engineering. github.com/pizlonator/l...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

The Swiss are *very serious* about #CrossChannelRail trains to London, and this is the latest evidence of it www.watson.ch/schweiz/inte... There is space in Basel SBB and Zürich HB for terminals, Genève is harder, and rolling stock should be ordered next year

submitted 28 days ago • 17 comments

The view over St David's Head & Ramsey Island, west Pembrokeshire, this afternoon during @rcahmwales.bsky.social aerial survey ☀️🛩️ Glorious clear air but a bumpy north wind & freezing 🥶 with the window open for photography 📷 Mobile phone pic from 2000ft #AerialArchaeology

submitted 30 days ago • 6 comments

For followers of my work, I have some very exciting news, both personally and professionally. A new challenge. A new beginning. I'm going back up on the high wire, to see what happens next. Details below.

submitted 32 days ago • 195 comments

Pangolins: "the warrior caste of the Clangers"

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

It is, today, the 54th anniversary of a gift to satire: James Arkell’s solicitors writing to Private Eye, prompting everyone’s favourite reply. First, though, the initial letter:

submitted 38 days ago • 7 comments

I love Brighton. There's a guy juggling in the road while the traffic lights are red. No reason.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Someone on Threads noticed you can type any random sentence into Google, then add “meaning” afterwards, and you’ll get an AI explanation of a famous idiom or phrase you just made up. Here is mine

submitted 44 days ago • 661 comments

In the Beano this week Bananaman’s enemy General Blight becomes the head of DOPE - the Department of Pure Evil.

submitted 44 days ago • 71 comments

Master and Commander/TNG Intro this was rendering all day while I was out lol

submitted 47 days ago • 6 comments

This is really shameful.

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

Hopefully an interesting overview of what's going on inside your (admittedly quite x86like) CPU. More in depth than my Computerphile videos anyway :)

submitted 50 days ago • 3 comments

People arguing about the scientific definition of "female" and ignoring there being no clear line scientific definition of "human"

submitted 50 days ago • 4 comments