Harry Wood
@harry-wood.bsky.social
Software engineer somewhat specialised towards ruby on rails and back-end data work. Open data & open collaborations. Father of two.
https://harrywood.co.uk
https://harrywood.co.uk
RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@njr/115547379010814888 Some grounded (not too hyped) thoughts and tips on AI coding. "Think of swearing as a probabilistic form of sudo"
December 4, 2025 at 5:35 PM
RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@njr/115547379010814888 Some grounded (not too hyped) thoughts and tips on AI coding. "Think of swearing as a probabilistic form of sudo"
Alright that's all set up for Tuesday 16th! Mark yourself as attending here: https://osmcal.org/event/4263/
December 2, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Alright that's all set up for Tuesday 16th! Mark yourself as attending here: https://osmcal.org/event/4263/
Blogged: Transcript of what I said, or intended to say, for my #sotmeu Dundee talk all about OpenStreetMap Notes. https://harrywood.co.uk/blog/2025/11/29/openstreetmap-notes-sotmeu-dundee-talk
November 29, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Blogged: Transcript of what I said, or intended to say, for my #sotmeu Dundee talk all about OpenStreetMap Notes. https://harrywood.co.uk/blog/2025/11/29/openstreetmap-notes-sotmeu-dundee-talk
Last week the wife accidentally bought some Sainsburys mince pies which had icing on top (as if a mince pie isn't sweet enough). Just now she's come home with some Waitrose limoncello mince pies. Very tasty, but I can't help feeling my festive season didn't kick off properly yet because I
November 28, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Last week the wife accidentally bought some Sainsburys mince pies which had icing on top (as if a mince pie isn't sweet enough). Just now she's come home with some Waitrose limoncello mince pies. Very tasty, but I can't help feeling my festive season didn't kick off properly yet because I
Hmm. Mastodon introduced quote tweets recently. This is the first time I've used it, but obviously by the time it makes its way here to BlueSky, it's difficult for the @sociab.li bridge to present it as anything other than a big fat "RE:" link.
So yeah. You might see a few of those.
So yeah. You might see a few of those.
RE: https://social.heise.de/@heiseonlineenglish/115587443618813840 In my job we need to concern ourselves with how third party tools handle data, and *where* the data gets transferred to. Apparently we need to avoid it leaving the UK/EU. So even no US. I always found this tedious. Surely
November 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Hmm. Mastodon introduced quote tweets recently. This is the first time I've used it, but obviously by the time it makes its way here to BlueSky, it's difficult for the @sociab.li bridge to present it as anything other than a big fat "RE:" link.
So yeah. You might see a few of those.
So yeah. You might see a few of those.
RE: https://social.heise.de/@heiseonlineenglish/115587443618813840 In my job we need to concern ourselves with how third party tools handle data, and *where* the data gets transferred to. Apparently we need to avoid it leaving the UK/EU. So even no US. I always found this tedious. Surely
November 24, 2025 at 10:20 AM
RE: https://social.heise.de/@heiseonlineenglish/115587443618813840 In my job we need to concern ourselves with how third party tools handle data, and *where* the data gets transferred to. Apparently we need to avoid it leaving the UK/EU. So even no US. I always found this tedious. Surely
I gave a #sotmeu talk yesterday about OpenStreetMap notes. I'll write it out as a blog post soon, but for now these are the things I was showing: https://harrywood.co.uk/maps/notes/
November 16, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I gave a #sotmeu talk yesterday about OpenStreetMap notes. I'll write it out as a blog post soon, but for now these are the things I was showing: https://harrywood.co.uk/maps/notes/
Jochen Topf's OSM spyglass gives you everything everywhere all at once! https://codeberg.org/jot/osm-spyglass
November 15, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Jochen Topf's OSM spyglass gives you everything everywhere all at once! https://codeberg.org/jot/osm-spyglass
The brilliant Robert Whittaker @rjw62 presenting his "Survey Me" tool https://osm.mathmos.net/survey which brings together bugs data from his other various tools, to show things which are good to fix while out and about in the UK. Must remember to use this. #sotmeu
November 15, 2025 at 10:59 AM
The brilliant Robert Whittaker @rjw62 presenting his "Survey Me" tool https://osm.mathmos.net/survey which brings together bugs data from his other various tools, to show things which are good to fix while out and about in the UK. Must remember to use this. #sotmeu
Sarah Hoffman develops the #OpenStreetMap search system "Nominatim". She's leading a discussion with the UK mapping community at #sotmeu (and prompting much laughter) with the question: "How can we organise tagging of boundary data in the UK, in a way where I *don't* need to understand
November 14, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Sarah Hoffman develops the #OpenStreetMap search system "Nominatim". She's leading a discussion with the UK mapping community at #sotmeu (and prompting much laughter) with the question: "How can we organise tagging of boundary data in the UK, in a way where I *don't* need to understand
On the Caledonian Sleeper, on my way to #sotmeu ! I'll have to wake up in time to disembark at 06:11. Not sure what I'll be able to do in Dundee at that time of day. Any suggestions? A cafe breakfast would be ideal, but it's a bit early for that.
November 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
On the Caledonian Sleeper, on my way to #sotmeu ! I'll have to wake up in time to disembark at 06:11. Not sure what I'll be able to do in Dundee at that time of day. Any suggestions? A cafe breakfast would be ideal, but it's a bit early for that.
Excellent London #ruby user group this evening: https://ruby.social/@lrug/115526913153973583 Interesting tech topics plus a bit of politics from @Floppy to spice things up a bit. (Although someone made a good point: if DHH is going to be racist, then that shouldn't be described as
November 10, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Excellent London #ruby user group this evening: https://ruby.social/@lrug/115526913153973583 Interesting tech topics plus a bit of politics from @Floppy to spice things up a bit. (Although someone made a good point: if DHH is going to be racist, then that shouldn't be described as
I haven't always been very good about donating to open source software I use, but me and the kids have had so much fun having multiplayer games together on @Luanti (and not buying Minecraft) so I'm bunging them a wee donation: https://floss.social/@Luanti/115520760327879578
November 9, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I haven't always been very good about donating to open source software I use, but me and the kids have had so much fun having multiplayer games together on @Luanti (and not buying Minecraft) so I'm bunging them a wee donation: https://floss.social/@Luanti/115520760327879578
After writing a blog post about Repton 3, I have to confess I've been wasting my life playing through the old games on jsbeeb, challenging myself to complete the puzzles which I wasn't smart enough to manage when I was little, first on the original, then on "Repton Around The World", and
October 27, 2025 at 1:28 PM
After writing a blog post about Repton 3, I have to confess I've been wasting my life playing through the old games on jsbeeb, challenging myself to complete the puzzles which I wasn't smart enough to manage when I was little, first on the original, then on "Repton Around The World", and
The guy doing the TV weather explained that there's some strange flickering caused by missing data due to the AWS outages this morning! Quite funny. I should've recorded it. The iPlayer weather doesn't show it.
October 20, 2025 at 1:53 PM
The guy doing the TV weather explained that there's some strange flickering caused by missing data due to the AWS outages this morning! Quite funny. I should've recorded it. The iPlayer weather doesn't show it.
I read "Orbital" by Samantha Harvey. Booker award winning short novel. Lot's of slow paced adjective-laden descriptions of the views and the experience of being on the International Space Station. I'm interested in all things space, so should've liked this, but... I suppose having read a
October 14, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I read "Orbital" by Samantha Harvey. Booker award winning short novel. Lot's of slow paced adjective-laden descriptions of the views and the experience of being on the International Space Station. I'm interested in all things space, so should've liked this, but... I suppose having read a
It's London #Ruby User Group (LRUG) again tonight: https://lrug.org/meetings/2025/october/ "Extreme Versioning", "De-mystifying the GVL", and pub!
October 13, 2025 at 1:39 PM
It's London #Ruby User Group (LRUG) again tonight: https://lrug.org/meetings/2025/october/ "Extreme Versioning", "De-mystifying the GVL", and pub!
Doing some paper mache. It was supposed to be the 5 year old's show & tell project, and a fun activity with the kids. For a while they were loving it (but laying the paper very haphazardly). Now they've got bored and gone to make another mess upstairs, so that leaves me carefully laying
October 12, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Doing some paper mache. It was supposed to be the 5 year old's show & tell project, and a fun activity with the kids. For a while they were loving it (but laying the paper very haphazardly). Now they've got bored and gone to make another mess upstairs, so that leaves me carefully laying
It's going to burst! 😬
October 9, 2025 at 7:17 PM
It's going to burst! 😬
It's going to burst! 😬 https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/circular-deals-bay-area-tech-21089538.php “If NVDA has to provide the capital that becomes its revenues in order to maintain growth, the whole ecosystem may be unsustainable.”
October 8, 2025 at 9:41 AM
It's going to burst! 😬 https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/circular-deals-bay-area-tech-21089538.php “If NVDA has to provide the capital that becomes its revenues in order to maintain growth, the whole ecosystem may be unsustainable.”
My twitter account is now mostly for arguing with racists. Feels like I'm in the viper's nest today, steeling myself for the pile-on of racist responses, and wondering if I should make the account more anonymous. So who is this high profile white-supremacist that I find myself a bit
October 3, 2025 at 11:10 AM
My twitter account is now mostly for arguing with racists. Feels like I'm in the viper's nest today, steeling myself for the pile-on of racist responses, and wondering if I should make the account more anonymous. So who is this high profile white-supremacist that I find myself a bit