Justin Cormack
@justincormack.bsky.social
Tech and pictures of nature. Suffolk, UK
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#opensource #opendata #openhardware #opensourcesoftware #openuk #ambassador
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November 13, 2025 at 12:19 PM
🔥✨🤩🫣⬇️ Want to get more involved in OpenUK and become a part of the team? openuk.uk/ambassadors/
#opensource #opendata #openhardware #opensourcesoftware #openuk #ambassador
#opensource #opendata #openhardware #opensourcesoftware #openuk #ambassador
"China added 240GW of solar capacity in the first nine months of this year, and 61GW of wind"
Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds
World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:19 AM
"China added 240GW of solar capacity in the first nine months of this year, and 61GW of wind"
For #wildflowerhour some wild snapdragons from Spain where I was earlier this week. Back home its more shaggy inkcap weather and slime mold bsky.app/profile/just...
November 9, 2025 at 7:56 PM
For #wildflowerhour some wild snapdragons from Spain where I was earlier this week. Back home its more shaggy inkcap weather and slime mold bsky.app/profile/just...
I was re-perusing @komorama.bsky.social organizations are like slime molds piece komoroske.com/slime-mold/ and then ran into a whole lot of the tastefully named "dog's vomit slime mold" up the road - slime molds are weird!
November 9, 2025 at 10:44 AM
I was re-perusing @komorama.bsky.social organizations are like slime molds piece komoroske.com/slime-mold/ and then ran into a whole lot of the tastefully named "dog's vomit slime mold" up the road - slime molds are weird!
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The Tour de France slows rise of far right
The Tour de France slows rise of far right: "It looked like our town was actually important" | BikeRadar
Voting in towns and villages on the route of the Tour found to shift less to the right than nearby areas, according to new research
www.bikeradar.com
October 23, 2025 at 6:29 PM
The Tour de France slows rise of far right
"This is a more extreme policy position than, say, the BNP’s 2005 manifesto."
Hadn’t, in truth, really absorbed the scale of what the Conservatives are proposing on ILR and immigration more broadly until this week’s Sunday Times interviews. Some thoughts on that in today’s note:
Tory deportation plan would upend Britain
Proposing such a radical bill with little public support is a gift to Nigel Farage
www.ft.com
October 23, 2025 at 11:00 AM
"This is a more extreme policy position than, say, the BNP’s 2005 manifesto."
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I can't understate how good of a job the @inkandswitch.com folks did at this Automerge website. Wow, holy shit automerge.org
And the fact that you can *interact* with the visual demo at the top?
This is the new high bar for a technical website. Holy moly.
And the fact that you can *interact* with the visual demo at the top?
This is the new high bar for a technical website. Holy moly.
Automerge
Automerge is a library for building collaborative, local-first applications.
automerge.org
October 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I can't understate how good of a job the @inkandswitch.com folks did at this Automerge website. Wow, holy shit automerge.org
And the fact that you can *interact* with the visual demo at the top?
This is the new high bar for a technical website. Holy moly.
And the fact that you can *interact* with the visual demo at the top?
This is the new high bar for a technical website. Holy moly.
"Storing beautiful things in your head is really worth doing"
I’ve a piece in the Financial Times magazine about the stuff I’ve learned from singing sessions www.ft.com/content/3954...
What I learnt from Irish folk singing sessions
Fame means nothing; sing for the room you’re in; slow down and listen. Patrick Freyne’s lyrical lessons for life
www.ft.com
October 19, 2025 at 10:53 AM
"Storing beautiful things in your head is really worth doing"
First thing that comes to mind when I hear the Louvre has been robbed "Inside the air was filled with gorilla smoke. I was looking for a man who might specialise in piano robberies from the Louvre." goonshow.org/goonshow/nap...
Napoleon’s Piano
The GSPS keeps a full set of transcriptions of the various versions of all the shows which were broadcast. These aren’t the original scripts, though we have many copies of those too. TheyR…
goonshow.org
October 19, 2025 at 10:29 AM
First thing that comes to mind when I hear the Louvre has been robbed "Inside the air was filled with gorilla smoke. I was looking for a man who might specialise in piano robberies from the Louvre." goonshow.org/goonshow/nap...
The EU wants to “help AI start-ups grow through increased demand for European-made open source AI solutions”
on.ft.com/48hiEgC "It warns of “external dependencies of the AI stack” — the infrastructure and software needed to build, train and manage AI applications — which it says “can be weaponised” by both “state and non-state actors”, posing a risk to supply chains."
EU pushes new AI strategy to reduce tech reliance on US and China
Brussels to unveil plan targeting digital sovereignty as it warns technology can be ‘weaponised’ by geopolitical rivals
on.ft.com
October 5, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The EU wants to “help AI start-ups grow through increased demand for European-made open source AI solutions”
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This autumn the UK Office for Rail and Road will decide on capacity at Temple Mills depot in east London
What that is going to mean for Eurostar's rivals - and the many questions I still have! - I've written up in a new blog post
jonworth.eu/constraints-...
What that is going to mean for Eurostar's rivals - and the many questions I still have! - I've written up in a new blog post
jonworth.eu/constraints-...
Constraints on future Channel Tunnel operators - Jon Worth
Sometime this autumn the UK’s Office of Rail and Road (ORR) will adjudicate on capacity allocation at Temple Mills depot in east London. Responses to ORR from Eurostar and the four other companies tha...
jonworth.eu
October 5, 2025 at 9:31 AM
This autumn the UK Office for Rail and Road will decide on capacity at Temple Mills depot in east London
What that is going to mean for Eurostar's rivals - and the many questions I still have! - I've written up in a new blog post
jonworth.eu/constraints-...
What that is going to mean for Eurostar's rivals - and the many questions I still have! - I've written up in a new blog post
jonworth.eu/constraints-...
after the roses
October 4, 2025 at 1:50 PM
after the roses
"The field changes arising from train leakage currents have to be added to the variations due to temperature changes, terrestrial tides and seasonal deformations of the LEP ring from the water level of the lake of Geneva and the amount of rainfall in the vicinity of CERN" cds.cern.ch/record/33409...
cds.cern.ch
October 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM
"The field changes arising from train leakage currents have to be added to the variations due to temperature changes, terrestrial tides and seasonal deformations of the LEP ring from the water level of the lake of Geneva and the amount of rainfall in the vicinity of CERN" cds.cern.ch/record/33409...
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This sounds great on.ft.com/46vOll8
Five stars for 11,000 Strings played on 50 pianos in New York — review
[FREE TO READ] Georg Friedrich Haas’s microtonal work brings an astonishing palette of colours and sounds to the Park Avenue Armory
on.ft.com
October 2, 2025 at 9:27 AM
This sounds great on.ft.com/46vOll8
Goethe tells the story of the old Duke of Saxony, an original as well as stubborn man, whose advisers urge him to reflect and ponder before making an important decision. “I want neither to reflect nor to ponder,” he replies, “otherwise why would I be the Duke of Saxony?” www.ft.com/content/85ee...
How tech lords and populists changed the rules of power
Digital moguls and strongman leaders are more than disrupters of the old liberal order. Together they seek to sweep it away, writes Giuliano da Empoli
www.ft.com
September 27, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Goethe tells the story of the old Duke of Saxony, an original as well as stubborn man, whose advisers urge him to reflect and ponder before making an important decision. “I want neither to reflect nor to ponder,” he replies, “otherwise why would I be the Duke of Saxony?” www.ft.com/content/85ee...
“When translating Dumas’s work, for instance, he would sometimes go off on twenty-page-long digressions before returning to the text. His version of The Three Musketeers, which is some six hundred pages long in the original, weighs in at more than six thousand pages” yalereview.org/article/amir...
Amir Ahmadi Arian Goes in Search of Iran's Most Famous Translator
Was Zabihollah Mansouri secretly a prolific author?
yalereview.org
September 22, 2025 at 10:00 AM
“When translating Dumas’s work, for instance, he would sometimes go off on twenty-page-long digressions before returning to the text. His version of The Three Musketeers, which is some six hundred pages long in the original, weighs in at more than six thousand pages” yalereview.org/article/amir...
Saw some clouded yellows fluttering around today, very bright yellow! @bc-suffolk.bsky.social
September 19, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Saw some clouded yellows fluttering around today, very bright yellow! @bc-suffolk.bsky.social
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dunno but this was his license plate
September 16, 2025 at 4:13 AM
dunno but this was his license plate
Some common soapwort for #wildflowerhour
September 7, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Some common soapwort for #wildflowerhour
"We dominate the world when it comes to “doing miscellaneous stuff”. Nobody can touch us when it comes to “things that don’t fit in any other category”." backofmind.substack.com/p/the-thing-...
the thing that makes the thing-in-itself
on the oddness of British exports
backofmind.substack.com
September 3, 2025 at 4:11 PM
"We dominate the world when it comes to “doing miscellaneous stuff”. Nobody can touch us when it comes to “things that don’t fit in any other category”." backofmind.substack.com/p/the-thing-...