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Longer hair than you. Chaotic Good. Doesn't work for The Man™ any more. If you're involved in Blockchain or Crypto you will be blocked on sight. All content © and personal. May not be reproduced without consent. Blog https://shkspr.mobi/blog
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Lights of London Bridge.

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New blog post: Why are QR Codes with capital letters smaller than QR codes with lower-case letters? https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/02/why-are-qr-codes-with-capital-letters-smaller-than-qr-codes-with-lower-case-letters/ Take a look at these two QR codes. Scan them if you like, I promise there's …

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

Hi @bsky.app @support.bsky.team love your work and all but can you come out in support of the mental health of your many users and introduce the ability to turn off retweets for people you follow? People reading this, RT if you also want to see this feature introduced ASAP.

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New blog post: Why are QR Codes with capital letters smaller than QR codes with lower-case letters? https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/02/why-are-qr-codes-with-capital-letters-smaller-than-qr-codes-with-lower-case-letters/ Take a look at these two QR codes. Scan them if you like, I promise there's …

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

I don't know if anyone from DfE still follows me, but can someone please have a word with their digital team? Make links clickable. That's literally the selling point of the Web!

submitted 17 hours ago • 5 comments

Henry David Greene was the MP for Shrewsbury, where this bench is. Feel free to add his bench to Wikipedia 😃 (probably a conflict of interest if I do it.) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_D...

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I got a notification that someone had cited one of my papers. Excited I clicked it. It was me 😂 I cited myself ❤️. My new paper is out! Using physical computing to teach #data to #primary kids dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... #microbit #physicalcomputing @microbit.org I'll be in #Pittsburgh at #SIGCSE

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New blog post: Book Review: In Search of Lost Time - Marcel Proust ⯪☆☆☆☆ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/02/book-review-in-search-of-lost-time-marcel-proust/ A friend mentioned that they were going to a Proust book club where they'd be discussing Swann's Way, the first volume of the masterpiece. …

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Those rubes will fall for any slop as long as it confirms their biases! Not like us. Our superior media literacy and critical thinking skills allow us to take the moral and intellectual high ground. Now excuse me while I shit all over some kid's fan-art because I think it is an official poster.

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New blog post: Theatre Review: Trash ★★★⯪☆ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/02/theatre-review-trash/ I went into this as a cynic and came out a grinning maniac. Look, it is basically "Stomp" but for kids. It's a join-in pantomime where four babbling fools play with junk in a recycling centre to …

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Bench 36156 https://openbenches.org/bench/36156 For our baby George Who never quite made it into this world (March 1992) "Never to have known you, but to have loved you all the same" Jim and Liz Bewsher

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New blog post: Theatre Review: Trash ★★★⯪☆ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/02/theatre-review-trash/ I went into this as a cynic and came out a grinning maniac. Look, it is basically "Stomp" but for kids. It's a join-in pantomime where four babbling fools play with junk in a recycling centre to …

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This is the message you get when you apply to Microsoft's #PhotoDNA service. Really doesn't feel professional.

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I dislike type-casting. I'm interested in playing a variety of roles - that's the fun of it. Exploring differences. Thus I've always joked, "able to play a judge or a bag-lady". This year two films will be shown where indeed I got very near. Fishwife and Juror. Photos below.

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It's not"comedy on prescription". It's an intervention from a charity that could be 1 option for someone receiving social prescribing support. It's not NHS - social prescribing systems are partnerships across health, LA, & voluntary sectors. No-one commenting has any idea what they're talking about

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

WTAF?!

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Those rubes will fall for any slop as long as it confirms their biases! Not like us. Our superior media literacy and critical thinking skills allow us to take the moral and intellectual high ground. Now excuse me while I shit all over some kid's fan-art because I think it is an official poster.

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New blog post: Automatic Kobo and Kindle eBook Arbitrage https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/02/automatic-kobo-and-kindle-ebook-arbitrage/ This post will show you how to programmatically get the cheapest possible price on eBooks from Kobo. Background Amazon have decided to stop letting customers …

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New blog post: Automatic Kobo and Kindle eBook Arbitrage https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/02/automatic-kobo-and-kindle-ebook-arbitrage/ This post will show you how to programmatically get the cheapest possible price on eBooks from Kobo. Background Amazon have decided to stop letting customers …

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Hey #Shakespeare friends! I'm on a quest and request your help 😃 Shakespeare invented the emoji in A Winter's Tale. The :) is in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th folios. But it disappears in Rowe's 1709 edition. So, can anyone find a pre-1709 version of The Winter's Tale which omits Sir Smile's smile?

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A lovely couple of mentions of @openbenches.org in this new academic paper. doi.org/10.1080/1448...

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New blog post: Theatre Review: Inside No. 9 Stage/Fright ★★★★★ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/02/theatre-review-inside-no-9-stage-fright/ This is spoiler-free review. In one episode of Inside Number Nine, two old comedians are bickering. In a moment of understated savagery one says to the other …

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Has anyone seen @paulclarke.com recently?

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Slightly geeky question, but does anyone know when normal UK humans might be able to use Vehicle to Grid or Vehicle to Home charging (V2G or V2H) ? (I know @octopus.energy is running a V2G trial but it's restricted to Nissan Leafs)

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New blog post: Theatre Review: Inside No. 9 Stage/Fright ★★★★★ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/02/theatre-review-inside-no-9-stage-fright/ This is spoiler-free review. In one episode of Inside Number Nine, two old comedians are bickering. In a moment of understated savagery one says to the other …

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🚨 New fine jar alert 🚨 I will report back how much money I will be donating to charity at the end of 2025 😂

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I am 20% through Swann's Way. NGL, it is *so* dull. Possibly the most "idiot savant" novel I've ever read. Almost like an alien tried to describe in excruciating detail the most trivial aspects of humanity. Sorry #Proust fans - this may be a DNF.

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Retrogaming hackathon in London on 1st March, being run by Devoxx. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1-GqRJuvB7j7gjFzue4WrEwSWZK2jWQSa-7oBznuRP-A/viewform?edit_requested=true #retrogaming

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The typical UK household uses around 2,700kWh of electricity per year. That's less than 8kWh per day. Our bog-standard #solar panels generated more than that today. Which means our home battery is full and we're not buying any electricity tonight. (Source for stat www.ofgem.gov.uk/information-...)

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