Cape Town Hammer ⚒️
@sjh66.bsky.social
Swallow from the UK 🇬🇧 inhabiting Cape Town in South Africa 🇿🇦, writer/blogger 📝 craft beer 🍺 enthusiast, West Ham United ⚒️ and Prog Rock 🎸🎹 fan.
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Cape Town Hammer ⚒️
@sjh66.bsky.social
· Nov 22
I've created Breweries Started Pack for anyone interested in such things. It also includes my "The Brewery Social" feed for all posts relating to breweries. If you know of other breweries hiding on the outskirts on Bluesky please let me know and I will update the pack regularly.
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One step closer to the DeLorean time machine from Back To The Future .....
Amazon-backed X-Energy gets green light for mini reactor fuel production
Amazon-backed X-Energy gets green light for mini reactor fuel production
Startup expects to complete construction of its first fuel plant later this year
Amazon inched closer to its atomic datacenter dream on Friday after the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) licensed its small modular reactor partner X-energy to make nuclear fuel for advanced reactors at a facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.…
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February 14, 2026 at 4:49 AM
One step closer to the DeLorean time machine from Back To The Future .....
A good days writing yesterday. Currently into the 3rd year of my semi autobiographical story of a young computer programmer from the 1990's. The plan was to cover my 33 years in IT, at this rate the book will be over 6000 pages long. I may need to do some editing !!
February 11, 2026 at 7:29 AM
A good days writing yesterday. Currently into the 3rd year of my semi autobiographical story of a young computer programmer from the 1990's. The plan was to cover my 33 years in IT, at this rate the book will be over 6000 pages long. I may need to do some editing !!
Watched "Mixtape" on the BBC iPlayer. Quite interesting story with a few twists, sometimes predictable at times but had an excellent sound track from the 80s and 90s 🎵🎶🎵
February 8, 2026 at 11:53 AM
Watched "Mixtape" on the BBC iPlayer. Quite interesting story with a few twists, sometimes predictable at times but had an excellent sound track from the 80s and 90s 🎵🎶🎵
#NowPlaying #ProgRock #Spotify Another play of the new album from Big Big Train, starting to appreciate it more every time I play it. Maybe its the chilled atmosphere of Sunday morning after a West Ham win that makes it sound even better 😀 ...
open.spotify.com/album/5eq5Jy...
open.spotify.com/album/5eq5Jy...
Woodcut
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February 8, 2026 at 7:35 AM
#NowPlaying #ProgRock #Spotify Another play of the new album from Big Big Train, starting to appreciate it more every time I play it. Maybe its the chilled atmosphere of Sunday morning after a West Ham win that makes it sound even better 😀 ...
open.spotify.com/album/5eq5Jy...
open.spotify.com/album/5eq5Jy...
Another win for the Hammers yesterday, 2-0 away at Burnley. This was amazing in itself but to also keep a clean sheet as well was doubly so. The Premiership dream is still alive. #COYI ⚒️
February 8, 2026 at 7:32 AM
Another win for the Hammers yesterday, 2-0 away at Burnley. This was amazing in itself but to also keep a clean sheet as well was doubly so. The Premiership dream is still alive. #COYI ⚒️
Final Raspberry Pi upgrade complete. My Pi 4 was on "Bookworm" OS so tried to upgrade to "Trixie" directly. This went spectacularly wrong so ended up doing a fresh install. Luckily my years at IBM taught me the importance of backups so I copied the contents of the SD card to my laptop prior to ...
February 7, 2026 at 10:07 AM
Final Raspberry Pi upgrade complete. My Pi 4 was on "Bookworm" OS so tried to upgrade to "Trixie" directly. This went spectacularly wrong so ended up doing a fresh install. Luckily my years at IBM taught me the importance of backups so I copied the contents of the SD card to my laptop prior to ...
3rd Raspberry Pi Zero updated to Trixie. This one has the Envirophat header attached and monitors the current temp, pressure and light in the lab. The data is stored in an sqlite database and then presented as a Web page.
February 6, 2026 at 1:51 PM
3rd Raspberry Pi Zero updated to Trixie. This one has the Envirophat header attached and monitors the current temp, pressure and light in the lab. The data is stored in an sqlite database and then presented as a Web page.
Friday drinks, some Saggy Stone Desert Lager 👍🍺
February 6, 2026 at 1:07 PM
Friday drinks, some Saggy Stone Desert Lager 👍🍺
#NowPlaying #ProgRock #Spotify New Music Friday with the latest release (today) from Big Big Train ....
open.spotify.com/album/5eq5Jy...
open.spotify.com/album/5eq5Jy...
Woodcut
open.spotify.com
February 6, 2026 at 12:34 PM
#NowPlaying #ProgRock #Spotify New Music Friday with the latest release (today) from Big Big Train ....
open.spotify.com/album/5eq5Jy...
open.spotify.com/album/5eq5Jy...
Day 2 of Raspberry Pi upgrades. Second Pi Zero done. Bit more complicated this time. Had get to the LCD display up abd running with a python script to get Cape Town weather information.
February 6, 2026 at 7:36 AM
Day 2 of Raspberry Pi upgrades. Second Pi Zero done. Bit more complicated this time. Had get to the LCD display up abd running with a python script to get Cape Town weather information.
February 5, 2026 at 9:47 AM
Raspberry Pi day today. First task is getting all my Pi's up to the latest version, Debian 13 Trixie. First 1, my digital clock Pi Zero. It was 2 levels back so it means a new SD card with the latest image and then migration of backed up code to get it back working again. #raspberrypi
February 5, 2026 at 8:08 AM
Raspberry Pi day today. First task is getting all my Pi's up to the latest version, Debian 13 Trixie. First 1, my digital clock Pi Zero. It was 2 levels back so it means a new SD card with the latest image and then migration of backed up code to get it back working again. #raspberrypi
Writing day today continuing with my semi-autobiography story returning to the 1990's and my early career in the IT industry. #writing #booksky #oldschool #nostalgia 📖✒️💻🖱️
February 3, 2026 at 9:03 AM
Writing day today continuing with my semi-autobiography story returning to the 1990's and my early career in the IT industry. #writing #booksky #oldschool #nostalgia 📖✒️💻🖱️
#NowPlaying #ProgRock Back to the start of this century for some music from Matt and the boys ... from my newly curated digital music library ...
February 2, 2026 at 9:29 AM
#NowPlaying #ProgRock Back to the start of this century for some music from Matt and the boys ... from my newly curated digital music library ...
#NowPlaying #ProgRock New week starting ... some old(ish) music to begin with .. Pendragon's 2008 release Pure ...
February 2, 2026 at 8:18 AM
#NowPlaying #ProgRock New week starting ... some old(ish) music to begin with .. Pendragon's 2008 release Pure ...
#NowPlaying #ProgRock First listen to Bioscope's Gento, the highly anticipated collaboration between Marillion guitarist Steve Rothery and Tangerine Dream's Thorsten Quaeschning. So far an excellent and atmospheric album, perfect for Sunday morning chilling ☺️
open.spotify.com/album/5ov1TW...
open.spotify.com/album/5ov1TW...
Gentō
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February 1, 2026 at 8:03 AM
#NowPlaying #ProgRock First listen to Bioscope's Gento, the highly anticipated collaboration between Marillion guitarist Steve Rothery and Tangerine Dream's Thorsten Quaeschning. So far an excellent and atmospheric album, perfect for Sunday morning chilling ☺️
open.spotify.com/album/5ov1TW...
open.spotify.com/album/5ov1TW...
Normal service has been resumed, 3-2 to Chelski at the full-time whistle, more bullshit officiating as usual, Chelski players kicking off against the Hammers and coming off second best, Jao Pedro and Cucerella deserved a good slap for being cheating knobheads at the end.
January 31, 2026 at 7:39 PM
Normal service has been resumed, 3-2 to Chelski at the full-time whistle, more bullshit officiating as usual, Chelski players kicking off against the Hammers and coming off second best, Jao Pedro and Cucerella deserved a good slap for being cheating knobheads at the end.
Reposted by Cape Town Hammer ⚒️
London clash ⚒️
January 31, 2026 at 10:08 AM
London clash ⚒️
If anybody is looking for something different to watch I recommend "Landman" with Billy Bob Thornton who is brilliant in it. The story has the right mixture of humor, sadness and action. The characters are all strong in their own way and relatable to despite the Texas oil fields setting. 🛢️
January 29, 2026 at 10:56 AM
If anybody is looking for something different to watch I recommend "Landman" with Billy Bob Thornton who is brilliant in it. The story has the right mixture of humor, sadness and action. The characters are all strong in their own way and relatable to despite the Texas oil fields setting. 🛢️
#NowPlaying #ProgRock #Spotify Time for some more classic tunes ....
open.spotify.com/album/78tN6v...
open.spotify.com/album/78tN6v...
Fragile (Super Deluxe)
open.spotify.com
January 28, 2026 at 9:02 AM
#NowPlaying #ProgRock #Spotify Time for some more classic tunes ....
open.spotify.com/album/78tN6v...
open.spotify.com/album/78tN6v...
#NowPlaying #ProgRock #Spotify Playing some midweek classic albums starting with this personal favorite of mine.....
open.spotify.com/album/75ol9O...
open.spotify.com/album/75ol9O...
In The Court Of The Crimson King (Expanded & Remastered Original Album Mix)
open.spotify.com
January 28, 2026 at 7:08 AM
#NowPlaying #ProgRock #Spotify Playing some midweek classic albums starting with this personal favorite of mine.....
open.spotify.com/album/75ol9O...
open.spotify.com/album/75ol9O...
Back in Cape Town after a month away and back on the semi-autobiography writing project again ... more reminiscences from way back when I was a brand new computer programmer starting my career in the IT industry and figuring out life .... 😦💻
#writing #wannabeauthor #booksky
#writing #wannabeauthor #booksky
January 27, 2026 at 7:03 AM
Back in Cape Town after a month away and back on the semi-autobiography writing project again ... more reminiscences from way back when I was a brand new computer programmer starting my career in the IT industry and figuring out life .... 😦💻
#writing #wannabeauthor #booksky
#writing #wannabeauthor #booksky
Another win for the Hammers 👍⚒️ ... that's now 3 in a row, I appear to have entered a parallel universe 🌌🌍 ...
January 24, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Another win for the Hammers 👍⚒️ ... that's now 3 in a row, I appear to have entered a parallel universe 🌌🌍 ...