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jonskeet.uk
Christian, husband of @hollywebb.bsky.social father, feminist, software engineer, author, Stack Overflow contributor. He/him.
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PSA to anyone with a Behringer Wing who uses Dante. There's a new firmware update available for the Wing, v3.0.6. The release notes say you need to update the Dante firmware - and give fairly scary instructions. Take them seriously. I found that Dante worked a mixer input, but not output.

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

Watching "The Rubber-Keyed Wonder". About 90 minutes in, there's a montage of *loads* of games, just about a second of each of them. It's like an assault on my memory. I'd forgotten *just* how much I must have played with my ZX Spectrum as a kid. Wow.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Thank you @naomialderman.bsky.social for highlighting the importance of the Spectrum manual on BBCR4 earlier. I learned trigonometry from the manual about 3-4 years before doing it in school - in order to implement Logo on the Spectrum. The Spectrum changed my life.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Okay, so now I have a rather large Dante-enabled pendant speaker (admittedly without the hanging accessories). It sounds great, I love that it only needs a network cable. Absolute bargain (about $60) so I couldn't resist. Not actually sure what I'm going to do with it though...

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

From a now-deleted Stack Overflow question: "I have some Date objects in an old project. Running JDK 17 all set/get methods of Date are deprecated." Yeah... the methods in question were deprecated in JDK 1.1. In February 1997. Don't you reckon that 28 years is enough time to migrate off them?

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Not sure how to support trans folks in the UK at the moment? The GoodLaw Project have a fighting fund: goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

CNCF xRegistry 1.0 RC1 - What. Why. What might be next. #cncf #xregistry #eventing #cloudevents vasters.com/clemens/2025...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Blogged - Election 2029: Postcodes - codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2025/04/13/e...

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Watching Penny Dreadful, and Reeve Carney in 2014 reminds me strongly of my cousin Andrew Skeet (the composer) in his twenties.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Watching Cabaret again in the West End. It's always been disturbing, but now it's almost unwatchable. (Don't get me wrong, it's great. But it just makes me very, very worried right now.)

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Why did I not hear about Bunheads before? I feel you've all let me down, badly. Now @hollywebb.bsky.social gets to lord it over me for weeks for suggesting we watch it. It's a good job I've still got Battlestar Galactica on that front. It's disputed territory, but we both know the truth.

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

Achievement unlocked: added new voting intention poll (Techne) to election2029.uk before @markpackuk.bsky.social added it to www.markpack.org.uk I don't expect this to be repeated often.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Anyone seen a User Agent of "IPFX SipUTL 21.9.87.0" before? For some reason, this user agent started making about 25qps of requests to nodatime.org a couple of days ago. The requests are all http rather than https, so they're getting 302'd, but then not following the redirection.

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Black lives matter. Gay, lesbian and trans people deserve the same rights as everyone else. Workplaces, and their staff & customers/clients benefit when they accommodate diversity. People should be allowed to follow their religion. These statements reflect basic human rights and a civilised society.

submitted 31 days ago • 5 comments

Blogged: Election 2029: Records and Collections - codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2025/03/27/r... (Two blog posts in one day as I've been travelling a lot today. There might even be a third...)

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Blogged: Election 2029: Storage - codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2025/03/27/e...

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Well and truly pinned down by cats.

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

Post a warning

submitted 36 days ago • 8 comments

Just listening to Hadestown again, and it's funny how the 2019 rhythm in Epic I for "And with them, the cycle of the seed and the sickle" now feels odd to me. When the proshot comes out, listen out for a longer "cyc" and "sick" - it really changes the sense of movement in the lines.

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

I'm currently sitting in an ECMA TC49-TG2 meeting (C# standardization) where we're discussing nullable reference types and arrays. My head hurts. I had no idea that the types int[][,][,,] and int[]?[,][,,] are *radically* different, which is clear if you look at the IL. And I thought I knew C#...

submitted 40 days ago • 4 comments

Blogged: Election 2029: Data models - codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2025/03/16/e...

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

We've just watched Elektra with Brie Larson (and other fab people). It was very good, but also very odd. Still processing. I feel there was a lot of imagery which I "got" emotionally but not intellectually. I don't know whether that was the intention or whether I'm not quite cultured enough. But yay

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments