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October saw life imitate art, as crooks acted out the straight-to-TV movie Mystère au Louvre.
At Isotoma HQ, we guarded our Crown Jewels and chatted about...
- Minecraft ChatGPT AI model
- Evil bunny
- 'Friend' ad campaign
- A-Z of hacker laws
- The Amazon dilemma
isotoma.com/the-stack/re...
At Isotoma HQ, we guarded our Crown Jewels and chatted about...
- Minecraft ChatGPT AI model
- Evil bunny
- 'Friend' ad campaign
- A-Z of hacker laws
- The Amazon dilemma
isotoma.com/the-stack/re...
November 10, 2025 at 5:24 PM
October saw life imitate art, as crooks acted out the straight-to-TV movie Mystère au Louvre.
At Isotoma HQ, we guarded our Crown Jewels and chatted about...
- Minecraft ChatGPT AI model
- Evil bunny
- 'Friend' ad campaign
- A-Z of hacker laws
- The Amazon dilemma
isotoma.com/the-stack/re...
At Isotoma HQ, we guarded our Crown Jewels and chatted about...
- Minecraft ChatGPT AI model
- Evil bunny
- 'Friend' ad campaign
- A-Z of hacker laws
- The Amazon dilemma
isotoma.com/the-stack/re...
Remember kids. A website is for life, not just for Christmas
October 9, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Remember kids. A website is for life, not just for Christmas
Last month Max Verstappen secured the fastest F1 lap. And Isotoma talked about...
- Status of Titanic's swimming pool
- Risks of outsourcing cybersecurity functions
- Unlocking the history of our homes
- Pathetic motorways
- Best place in Britain for quality of life
isotoma.com/the-stack/se...
- Status of Titanic's swimming pool
- Risks of outsourcing cybersecurity functions
- Unlocking the history of our homes
- Pathetic motorways
- Best place in Britain for quality of life
isotoma.com/the-stack/se...
October 3, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Last month Max Verstappen secured the fastest F1 lap. And Isotoma talked about...
- Status of Titanic's swimming pool
- Risks of outsourcing cybersecurity functions
- Unlocking the history of our homes
- Pathetic motorways
- Best place in Britain for quality of life
isotoma.com/the-stack/se...
- Status of Titanic's swimming pool
- Risks of outsourcing cybersecurity functions
- Unlocking the history of our homes
- Pathetic motorways
- Best place in Britain for quality of life
isotoma.com/the-stack/se...
We love a challenge. IWSR brought us a can / bottle / barrel shaped one and we drank it up!
As a global leader in market analysis for the alcohol industry, IWSR needed a user-friendly application fast enough and scalable enough to cope with dauntingly varied data sets.
isotoma.com/our-work/iwsr/
As a global leader in market analysis for the alcohol industry, IWSR needed a user-friendly application fast enough and scalable enough to cope with dauntingly varied data sets.
isotoma.com/our-work/iwsr/
September 26, 2025 at 12:42 PM
We love a challenge. IWSR brought us a can / bottle / barrel shaped one and we drank it up!
As a global leader in market analysis for the alcohol industry, IWSR needed a user-friendly application fast enough and scalable enough to cope with dauntingly varied data sets.
isotoma.com/our-work/iwsr/
As a global leader in market analysis for the alcohol industry, IWSR needed a user-friendly application fast enough and scalable enough to cope with dauntingly varied data sets.
isotoma.com/our-work/iwsr/
Ever wondered what kind of life your 13th century self would have lived? Ponder no more. Now you can use The National Archives currency converter to work out how many squirrel skins your peasants wage would afford you.
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/currency-con...
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/currency-con...
September 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Ever wondered what kind of life your 13th century self would have lived? Ponder no more. Now you can use The National Archives currency converter to work out how many squirrel skins your peasants wage would afford you.
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/currency-con...
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/currency-con...
Last month at Isotoma HQ we battened down the hatches, watched The World Humanoid Robot Games and chatted about...
- AI cheatsheet
- Are we evolving into anteaters?
- Trump's internet 'kill switch'
- Unknown origin of Elara Voss
- Margaux Blanchard's media trickery
isotoma.com/the-stack/au...
- AI cheatsheet
- Are we evolving into anteaters?
- Trump's internet 'kill switch'
- Unknown origin of Elara Voss
- Margaux Blanchard's media trickery
isotoma.com/the-stack/au...
September 2, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Last month at Isotoma HQ we battened down the hatches, watched The World Humanoid Robot Games and chatted about...
- AI cheatsheet
- Are we evolving into anteaters?
- Trump's internet 'kill switch'
- Unknown origin of Elara Voss
- Margaux Blanchard's media trickery
isotoma.com/the-stack/au...
- AI cheatsheet
- Are we evolving into anteaters?
- Trump's internet 'kill switch'
- Unknown origin of Elara Voss
- Margaux Blanchard's media trickery
isotoma.com/the-stack/au...
Bids at the ready. Some absolute corkers in this WHSmith archive auction.
timed.chorleys.com/auctions/937...
What would you like the hammer to close on?
timed.chorleys.com/auctions/937...
What would you like the hammer to close on?
August 13, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Bids at the ready. Some absolute corkers in this WHSmith archive auction.
timed.chorleys.com/auctions/937...
What would you like the hammer to close on?
timed.chorleys.com/auctions/937...
What would you like the hammer to close on?
Last month's Isotoma water cooler chat:
- The Jock-Nerd / Prep-Goth test
- A love for owls via subliminal learning
- Wheels fall off transport company thanks to weak password
- Self-driving fleet of Lego trains
- Lawsuit reveals service desk gave out passwords
isotoma.com/the-stack/ju...
- The Jock-Nerd / Prep-Goth test
- A love for owls via subliminal learning
- Wheels fall off transport company thanks to weak password
- Self-driving fleet of Lego trains
- Lawsuit reveals service desk gave out passwords
isotoma.com/the-stack/ju...
August 8, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Last month's Isotoma water cooler chat:
- The Jock-Nerd / Prep-Goth test
- A love for owls via subliminal learning
- Wheels fall off transport company thanks to weak password
- Self-driving fleet of Lego trains
- Lawsuit reveals service desk gave out passwords
isotoma.com/the-stack/ju...
- The Jock-Nerd / Prep-Goth test
- A love for owls via subliminal learning
- Wheels fall off transport company thanks to weak password
- Self-driving fleet of Lego trains
- Lawsuit reveals service desk gave out passwords
isotoma.com/the-stack/ju...
The month of June was England's warmest since records began in 1884.
The world also experienced the largest data breach in history.
At Isotoma HQ, we wished our aircon was as efficient as our cyber security, and distracted ourselves with these Slack channel stories:
isotoma.com/the-stack/ju...
The world also experienced the largest data breach in history.
At Isotoma HQ, we wished our aircon was as efficient as our cyber security, and distracted ourselves with these Slack channel stories:
isotoma.com/the-stack/ju...
July 8, 2025 at 11:49 AM
The month of June was England's warmest since records began in 1884.
The world also experienced the largest data breach in history.
At Isotoma HQ, we wished our aircon was as efficient as our cyber security, and distracted ourselves with these Slack channel stories:
isotoma.com/the-stack/ju...
The world also experienced the largest data breach in history.
At Isotoma HQ, we wished our aircon was as efficient as our cyber security, and distracted ourselves with these Slack channel stories:
isotoma.com/the-stack/ju...
Remember the heady days of 2024? A time before the words 'vibe' and 'coding' were used together.
#vibecoding
- Love it. Bring on the vibe!
- Loathe it. it's the new DIY.
- Or just plain meh. This too shall pass.
How does the term make you feel?...
#vibecoding
- Love it. Bring on the vibe!
- Loathe it. it's the new DIY.
- Or just plain meh. This too shall pass.
How does the term make you feel?...
June 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Remember the heady days of 2024? A time before the words 'vibe' and 'coding' were used together.
#vibecoding
- Love it. Bring on the vibe!
- Loathe it. it's the new DIY.
- Or just plain meh. This too shall pass.
How does the term make you feel?...
#vibecoding
- Love it. Bring on the vibe!
- Loathe it. it's the new DIY.
- Or just plain meh. This too shall pass.
How does the term make you feel?...
Last month 166 million viewers watched Austria win the Eurovision Song Contest, with a tune about love.
At the same time Microsoft announced that their love affair with Skype was over.
Our one true love is software development, but we also quite like these stories:
isotoma.com/the-stack/ma...
At the same time Microsoft announced that their love affair with Skype was over.
Our one true love is software development, but we also quite like these stories:
isotoma.com/the-stack/ma...
June 3, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Last month 166 million viewers watched Austria win the Eurovision Song Contest, with a tune about love.
At the same time Microsoft announced that their love affair with Skype was over.
Our one true love is software development, but we also quite like these stories:
isotoma.com/the-stack/ma...
At the same time Microsoft announced that their love affair with Skype was over.
Our one true love is software development, but we also quite like these stories:
isotoma.com/the-stack/ma...
April saw the passing of Pope Francis, Trump's tariff war, celebrity space exploration, and biotech boffins reanimating dire wolves.
At Isotoma HQ, with full gravity and no office wolves to contend with, our Slack channel featured:
isotoma.com/the-stack/ap...
At Isotoma HQ, with full gravity and no office wolves to contend with, our Slack channel featured:
isotoma.com/the-stack/ap...
May 6, 2025 at 2:22 PM
April saw the passing of Pope Francis, Trump's tariff war, celebrity space exploration, and biotech boffins reanimating dire wolves.
At Isotoma HQ, with full gravity and no office wolves to contend with, our Slack channel featured:
isotoma.com/the-stack/ap...
At Isotoma HQ, with full gravity and no office wolves to contend with, our Slack channel featured:
isotoma.com/the-stack/ap...
March saw Charli XCX dominate the Brit Awards. The Anora love story was triumphant at the 97th Academy Awards. And the 'Best Ever Accidental Group Chat Addition' award was handed to the US government.
Meanwhile at Isotoma HQ we were chatting about:
isotoma.com/the-stack/ma...
Meanwhile at Isotoma HQ we were chatting about:
isotoma.com/the-stack/ma...
April 11, 2025 at 2:10 PM
March saw Charli XCX dominate the Brit Awards. The Anora love story was triumphant at the 97th Academy Awards. And the 'Best Ever Accidental Group Chat Addition' award was handed to the US government.
Meanwhile at Isotoma HQ we were chatting about:
isotoma.com/the-stack/ma...
Meanwhile at Isotoma HQ we were chatting about:
isotoma.com/the-stack/ma...
Today is World Backup Day.
Apparently 21% of people have NEVER made a backup. Shocking!
We guarantee that running a backup is one thing you'll never, ever regret.
For more info and shocking stats: www.worldbackupday.com/en
Apparently 21% of people have NEVER made a backup. Shocking!
We guarantee that running a backup is one thing you'll never, ever regret.
For more info and shocking stats: www.worldbackupday.com/en
March 31, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Today is World Backup Day.
Apparently 21% of people have NEVER made a backup. Shocking!
We guarantee that running a backup is one thing you'll never, ever regret.
For more info and shocking stats: www.worldbackupday.com/en
Apparently 21% of people have NEVER made a backup. Shocking!
We guarantee that running a backup is one thing you'll never, ever regret.
For more info and shocking stats: www.worldbackupday.com/en
Time to share another piece of Isotoma HQ artwork. And given that Public Service Broadcasting are performing in York next week, this feels like the perfect time to nod our space helmets to wondrous pop historians @psbhq.bsky.social
March 21, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Time to share another piece of Isotoma HQ artwork. And given that Public Service Broadcasting are performing in York next week, this feels like the perfect time to nod our space helmets to wondrous pop historians @psbhq.bsky.social
Last month saw the odds of an asteroid impacting Earth in the next eight years deviate wildly. So we chose to distract ourselves from potential impending doom with these titbits...
isotoma.com/the-stack/fe...
isotoma.com/the-stack/fe...
March 11, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Last month saw the odds of an asteroid impacting Earth in the next eight years deviate wildly. So we chose to distract ourselves from potential impending doom with these titbits...
isotoma.com/the-stack/fe...
isotoma.com/the-stack/fe...
What lovely feedback to get on a Friday!
February 21, 2025 at 11:33 AM
What lovely feedback to get on a Friday!
We came. We saw. We talked tech.
This morning's Tech Forum event, hosted by City of York Council in partnership with HSBC, resulted in a room full of people all keen to use technology to drive growth and innovation in their businesses.
This morning's Tech Forum event, hosted by City of York Council in partnership with HSBC, resulted in a room full of people all keen to use technology to drive growth and innovation in their businesses.
February 13, 2025 at 4:43 PM
We came. We saw. We talked tech.
This morning's Tech Forum event, hosted by City of York Council in partnership with HSBC, resulted in a room full of people all keen to use technology to drive growth and innovation in their businesses.
This morning's Tech Forum event, hosted by City of York Council in partnership with HSBC, resulted in a room full of people all keen to use technology to drive growth and innovation in their businesses.
As we slither into the Year of the Snake, here's the Isotoma look back over the month of January.
isotoma.com/the-stack/ja...
isotoma.com/the-stack/ja...
February 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
As we slither into the Year of the Snake, here's the Isotoma look back over the month of January.
isotoma.com/the-stack/ja...
isotoma.com/the-stack/ja...
An expensive firework? Rather pretty? A conscious uncoupling? Surely not a 'rapid unscheduled disassembly’?!
How would you describe the latest test flight of SpaceX’s Starship rocket?
(We're just rather pleased the Martians won't be needing a digital detox anytime soon)
#SpaceX #Starship #Mars
How would you describe the latest test flight of SpaceX’s Starship rocket?
(We're just rather pleased the Martians won't be needing a digital detox anytime soon)
#SpaceX #Starship #Mars
January 17, 2025 at 1:57 PM
We owe you a Christmas cracker. So let's open the December round-up with the winner of Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024's funniest joke:
"I was going to sail around the globe in the world's smallest ship but I bottled it." - Mark Simmons
isotoma.com/the-stack/de...
"I was going to sail around the globe in the world's smallest ship but I bottled it." - Mark Simmons
isotoma.com/the-stack/de...
January 9, 2025 at 1:34 PM
We owe you a Christmas cracker. So let's open the December round-up with the winner of Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024's funniest joke:
"I was going to sail around the globe in the world's smallest ship but I bottled it." - Mark Simmons
isotoma.com/the-stack/de...
"I was going to sail around the globe in the world's smallest ship but I bottled it." - Mark Simmons
isotoma.com/the-stack/de...
November retrospective: inside the Isotoma Slack channel
While the rest of the UK was debating Gregg Wallace's extra 'g' - among other superfluous aspects of the former Masterchef judge, we've been discussing:
isotoma.com/the-stack/no...
While the rest of the UK was debating Gregg Wallace's extra 'g' - among other superfluous aspects of the former Masterchef judge, we've been discussing:
isotoma.com/the-stack/no...
December 12, 2024 at 11:38 AM
November retrospective: inside the Isotoma Slack channel
While the rest of the UK was debating Gregg Wallace's extra 'g' - among other superfluous aspects of the former Masterchef judge, we've been discussing:
isotoma.com/the-stack/no...
While the rest of the UK was debating Gregg Wallace's extra 'g' - among other superfluous aspects of the former Masterchef judge, we've been discussing:
isotoma.com/the-stack/no...
It may be chilly outside, but after our Zaap Thai Street Food pay day lunch we’re chilli inside 🌶️ #IsotomaFamily #PayDayLunch #zaapstreetfood
November 29, 2024 at 3:03 PM
It may be chilly outside, but after our Zaap Thai Street Food pay day lunch we’re chilli inside 🌶️ #IsotomaFamily #PayDayLunch #zaapstreetfood
We're an arty bunch at Isotoma HQ. And the prints adorning the walls bring us all a lot of joy. So we'd like to say thank you to the artists responsible, starting with the delightful @gailmyerscough.bsky.social
You can purchase prints and more via her website:
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
You can purchase prints and more via her website:
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
November 22, 2024 at 3:14 PM
We're an arty bunch at Isotoma HQ. And the prints adorning the walls bring us all a lot of joy. So we'd like to say thank you to the artists responsible, starting with the delightful @gailmyerscough.bsky.social
You can purchase prints and more via her website:
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
You can purchase prints and more via her website:
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
We've been using Python since forever, and Typescript since 2018, so the continued rise of these languages makes us very happy. Python overtaking Javascript in the GitHub rankings is very big news though.
https://buff.ly/4hoOU3u
https://buff.ly/4hoOU3u
November 18, 2024 at 11:02 AM
We've been using Python since forever, and Typescript since 2018, so the continued rise of these languages makes us very happy. Python overtaking Javascript in the GitHub rankings is very big news though.
https://buff.ly/4hoOU3u
https://buff.ly/4hoOU3u