Matt Bailey
@epsilonzero.co.uk
Software Engineer (mostly writing code)
Working at IBM on integration with OpenShift, Kubernetes, Go & Node.js
Maintainer of JSONata query language open source project
Videogames & motorsport enthusiast
He/Him
Personal site: https://epsilonzero.co.uk/
Working at IBM on integration with OpenShift, Kubernetes, Go & Node.js
Maintainer of JSONata query language open source project
Videogames & motorsport enthusiast
He/Him
Personal site: https://epsilonzero.co.uk/
Just a perfectly normal evening playing "RV There Yet?" with friends.
February 10, 2026 at 12:42 AM
Just a perfectly normal evening playing "RV There Yet?" with friends.
Enjoyed this and looking forward to the full game. Has the same "you figure out the rules" vibe that I really enjoyed with Cipher Zero last year, with a distinct and elegant art style too.
The free demo for Clover's Quadrants is now live on Steam!!! Link in the replies.
The demo has 21 select puzzles from the first three chapters. Expect about an hour of playtime.
The demo has 21 select puzzles from the first three chapters. Expect about an hour of playtime.
February 9, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Enjoyed this and looking forward to the full game. Has the same "you figure out the rules" vibe that I really enjoyed with Cipher Zero last year, with a distinct and elegant art style too.
Cutting it close there. #DonkeyKongBonanza
February 8, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Cutting it close there. #DonkeyKongBonanza
Very nice surprise on my doorstep last night: @mackeza.bsky.social's new book Super Nintendo. Extra surprised because I forgot I'd pre-ordered a copy from Waterstones (having more recently pre-ordered the audiobook) and also because the book isn't out for another week!
February 5, 2026 at 7:54 PM
Very nice surprise on my doorstep last night: @mackeza.bsky.social's new book Super Nintendo. Extra surprised because I forgot I'd pre-ordered a copy from Waterstones (having more recently pre-ordered the audiobook) and also because the book isn't out for another week!
Having played through Leap Year entirely on the Steam Deck I know this will be lovely on Switch/Switch 2. An excellent puzzle platformer, about 2-3 hours long (perfect!), and cheap too.
February 5, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Having played through Leap Year entirely on the Steam Deck I know this will be lovely on Switch/Switch 2. An excellent puzzle platformer, about 2-3 hours long (perfect!), and cheap too.
Good news: She liked it!
Bad news: She liked it! A lot.
I think the free trial-imposed deadline created a sense of urgency, but it was difficult to draw her away to do other things. However the parental controls meant I had a time limit she didn't breach and would much rather it than more Netflix
Bad news: She liked it! A lot.
I think the free trial-imposed deadline created a sense of urgency, but it was difficult to draw her away to do other things. However the parental controls meant I had a time limit she didn't breach and would much rather it than more Netflix
Using the Switch Online trial to let the (almost)9 year old try out Stardew Valley. Was surprised to discover via the Parental Controls that it's a PEGI 12 game; have added to safelist and will keep an eye out. Hoping it's just the "simulated gambling" that's responsible as we can manage that.
February 3, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Good news: She liked it!
Bad news: She liked it! A lot.
I think the free trial-imposed deadline created a sense of urgency, but it was difficult to draw her away to do other things. However the parental controls meant I had a time limit she didn't breach and would much rather it than more Netflix
Bad news: She liked it! A lot.
I think the free trial-imposed deadline created a sense of urgency, but it was difficult to draw her away to do other things. However the parental controls meant I had a time limit she didn't breach and would much rather it than more Netflix
Remembering Michael Bloomberg's 2020 US presidential campaign (for some reason), and looked up the only caucus here won, and had completely forgotten she was running to be the Democratic candidate back then, and actually came second to Bloomberg and got 2 delegates en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Am...
February 2, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Remembering Michael Bloomberg's 2020 US presidential campaign (for some reason), and looked up the only caucus here won, and had completely forgotten she was running to be the Democratic candidate back then, and actually came second to Bloomberg and got 2 delegates en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Am...
Every damn time. And it's one of my children's birth month too.
February 2, 2026 at 12:13 AM
Every damn time. And it's one of my children's birth month too.
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i talked to the lead designer for Seance of Blake Manor, one of my favorite mystery games of last year. it's not as brain-destroying as something like Blue Prince and that's very much by design. you can walk away and come back to it, for example www.mothership.blog/seance-of-bl...
The Séance of Blake Manor's lead designer on why she made the game's clock so important
“I am a woman in her 40s who has the brain of a turnip.”
www.mothership.blog
January 29, 2026 at 2:04 PM
i talked to the lead designer for Seance of Blake Manor, one of my favorite mystery games of last year. it's not as brain-destroying as something like Blue Prince and that's very much by design. you can walk away and come back to it, for example www.mothership.blog/seance-of-bl...
Using the Switch Online trial to let the (almost)9 year old try out Stardew Valley. Was surprised to discover via the Parental Controls that it's a PEGI 12 game; have added to safelist and will keep an eye out. Hoping it's just the "simulated gambling" that's responsible as we can manage that.
February 1, 2026 at 9:41 AM
Using the Switch Online trial to let the (almost)9 year old try out Stardew Valley. Was surprised to discover via the Parental Controls that it's a PEGI 12 game; have added to safelist and will keep an eye out. Hoping it's just the "simulated gambling" that's responsible as we can manage that.
Needed to put together two A5 images together to print out invites for my daughter's birthday party. The joy of Linux is that I don't even need to open an image editor, I just ran "convert +append *.png out.png" and they're side by side horizontally. No giant data centre required.
January 30, 2026 at 6:35 PM
Needed to put together two A5 images together to print out invites for my daughter's birthday party. The joy of Linux is that I don't even need to open an image editor, I just ran "convert +append *.png out.png" and they're side by side horizontally. No giant data centre required.
I'm not even into football but this is joyous!
This is what I meant when I said Footbal!!!: www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
Everything about this is incredible. The dying seconds! Benfica need a goal! Madrid are being petulant dicks! The keeper is up!!!!! The header!!! Mourinho!!!! Mourinho losing it!!! Mourinho celebrating with... a ballboy??!!!
Everything about this is incredible. The dying seconds! Benfica need a goal! Madrid are being petulant dicks! The keeper is up!!!!! The header!!! Mourinho!!!! Mourinho losing it!!! Mourinho celebrating with... a ballboy??!!!
Benfica 4-2 Real Madrid: Goalkeeper Anatoliy Trubin's 98th-minute header puts Jose Mourinho's side into play-offs
Goalkeeper Anatoliy Trubin scores a stunning 98th-minute goal to send Jose Mourinho's Benfica into the Champions League play-offs after beating Real Madrid.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 29, 2026 at 12:40 AM
I'm not even into football but this is joyous!
I wonder what happened in the US in January 2025 which caused the measles cases by week to rocket upwards... 🤔
January 28, 2026 at 2:07 PM
I wonder what happened in the US in January 2025 which caused the measles cases by week to rocket upwards... 🤔
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Calling transphobia a 'gateway drug' to the far right undersells it. It's pure accelerant. Grimly fascinating to guess what crankery becomes any famous transphobe's secondary obsession, cos they all have one: 15 minute cities are fascism! Grok noncing is cool! ICE are good! We should kill all dogs!
January 27, 2026 at 1:59 PM
Calling transphobia a 'gateway drug' to the far right undersells it. It's pure accelerant. Grimly fascinating to guess what crankery becomes any famous transphobe's secondary obsession, cos they all have one: 15 minute cities are fascism! Grok noncing is cool! ICE are good! We should kill all dogs!
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Isn't this a telling aspiration? To want robots to look after your kids, so you can do stuff, rather than robots to do stuff, so you can spend time with your kids?
The darkness inside these shrivelled men must be like a gaping unfillable void.
The darkness inside these shrivelled men must be like a gaping unfillable void.
January 22, 2026 at 5:39 PM
Isn't this a telling aspiration? To want robots to look after your kids, so you can do stuff, rather than robots to do stuff, so you can spend time with your kids?
The darkness inside these shrivelled men must be like a gaping unfillable void.
The darkness inside these shrivelled men must be like a gaping unfillable void.
For the first 35 years of my life I only knew Sony TVs as the living room TV, from my parents' CRTs to my first big TV purchase as an adult, to my first 4K TV. They were *the* TV maker for so long.
Sony is getting out of the TV business, a true end of an era and it feels weird.
www.theverge.com/news/864263/...
www.theverge.com/news/864263/...
Sony’s TV business is being taken over by TCL
The new joint company may launch in April 2027.
www.theverge.com
January 20, 2026 at 11:20 PM
For the first 35 years of my life I only knew Sony TVs as the living room TV, from my parents' CRTs to my first big TV purchase as an adult, to my first 4K TV. They were *the* TV maker for so long.
@qntm.org This book was recommended on this week's The Besties podcast, think it might be in your wheelhouse thebesties.substack.com/p/terminator...
January 18, 2026 at 10:33 AM
@qntm.org This book was recommended on this week's The Besties podcast, think it might be in your wheelhouse thebesties.substack.com/p/terminator...
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When people talk about reasons to leave X, the fact that the owner is a mass murderer doesn't get mentioned enough. The Grok porn stuff is foul. The naked white nationalism is foul. This is worse.
Too few people are talking about the blood on Elon Musk's hands.
When DOGE slashed foreign aid, it wasn't just numbers on a screen. It was insulin, food, and antibiotics being ripped away from the world's poorest children.
Musk is responsible for the death of thousands
When DOGE slashed foreign aid, it wasn't just numbers on a screen. It was insulin, food, and antibiotics being ripped away from the world's poorest children.
Musk is responsible for the death of thousands
January 17, 2026 at 4:18 PM
When people talk about reasons to leave X, the fact that the owner is a mass murderer doesn't get mentioned enough. The Grok porn stuff is foul. The naked white nationalism is foul. This is worse.
I know the Steam Detective Fest is in my wheelhouse because 5 games on my wishlist went on sale for it, 1 on there got released alongside it, and 1 got a demo for it. store.steampowered.com/category/det...
Detective
Steam Detective Fest 2026
store.steampowered.com
January 13, 2026 at 10:46 AM
I know the Steam Detective Fest is in my wheelhouse because 5 games on my wishlist went on sale for it, 1 on there got released alongside it, and 1 got a demo for it. store.steampowered.com/category/det...
Amused by a #FormulaE team celebrating a pole position apparently having paid no attention to race control that their driver's lap has been deleted. Reminds me a bit of the Massa celebrations getting cut short in F1 in 2008.
January 10, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Amused by a #FormulaE team celebrating a pole position apparently having paid no attention to race control that their driver's lap has been deleted. Reminds me a bit of the Massa celebrations getting cut short in F1 in 2008.
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One reason I feel like I'm going mad is, even if Musk did immediately halt Grok and issue a grovelling apology - rather than PAYWALLING IT - he should *still* be prosecuted and his website banned. Very obviously! You don't get out of CSAM charges by just stopping. AND HE STILL HASN'T STOPPED.
Now only paying subscribers can make violent non-consenual sexual imagery of women and children -
Grok turns off image generator for most users after outcry over sexualised AI imagery www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Grok turns off image generator for most users after outcry over sexualised AI imagery www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Grok turns off image generator for most users after outcry over sexualised AI imagery
X to limit editing function to paying subscribers after platform threatened with fines and regulatory action
www.theguardian.com
January 9, 2026 at 9:46 AM
One reason I feel like I'm going mad is, even if Musk did immediately halt Grok and issue a grovelling apology - rather than PAYWALLING IT - he should *still* be prosecuted and his website banned. Very obviously! You don't get out of CSAM charges by just stopping. AND HE STILL HASN'T STOPPED.
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It's now unconscionable for the government to be posting on X.
X is not a neutral utility, it is far, far darker: an environment that shapes behaviour, rewards cruelty, and normalises abuse.
@theleaduk.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/theleadu...
X is not a neutral utility, it is far, far darker: an environment that shapes behaviour, rewards cruelty, and normalises abuse.
@theleaduk.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/theleadu...
Abuse thrives where the government tweets – why it's time to quit X now
The use of AI tool Grok to generate en masse intimate images of real women and girls is sickening.
open.substack.com
January 6, 2026 at 1:21 PM
It's now unconscionable for the government to be posting on X.
X is not a neutral utility, it is far, far darker: an environment that shapes behaviour, rewards cruelty, and normalises abuse.
@theleaduk.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/theleadu...
X is not a neutral utility, it is far, far darker: an environment that shapes behaviour, rewards cruelty, and normalises abuse.
@theleaduk.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/theleadu...
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Brr! London is chilly overnight, and A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build is FREE because of our ridiculous Pay What The Temperature Is pricing model.
draknek.itch.io/a-good-snowman
Get it before it's hot!
draknek.itch.io/a-good-snowman
Get it before it's hot!
A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build by Draknek & Friends, Benjamin Davis
Pay what the temperature is: -0.2°C = FREE!
draknek.itch.io
January 3, 2026 at 12:50 AM
Brr! London is chilly overnight, and A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build is FREE because of our ridiculous Pay What The Temperature Is pricing model.
draknek.itch.io/a-good-snowman
Get it before it's hot!
draknek.itch.io/a-good-snowman
Get it before it's hot!
One day into 2026 and already taking advantage of National Trust membership, and escaping from the detritus of Christmas
January 1, 2026 at 1:48 PM
One day into 2026 and already taking advantage of National Trust membership, and escaping from the detritus of Christmas
Turns out every button in Birdcage is bindable, and in an attempt to cancel out of the menu I accidentally bound the same button for confirm and up, and now pressing B always does both actions at once, making the menus un-navigable. 🤦
December 31, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Turns out every button in Birdcage is bindable, and in an attempt to cancel out of the menu I accidentally bound the same button for confirm and up, and now pressing B always does both actions at once, making the menus un-navigable. 🤦