Daniel King
@kin.gy
Software man, just an innocent software man.
It's so weird to me that one of the biggest kitchen/home appliance brands is called "SharkNinja", it has such teenage xbox gamertag vibes.
Who's in the market for a fridge freezer from *~420#killer#69~*
Who's in the market for a fridge freezer from *~420#killer#69~*
November 15, 2025 at 11:57 AM
It's so weird to me that one of the biggest kitchen/home appliance brands is called "SharkNinja", it has such teenage xbox gamertag vibes.
Who's in the market for a fridge freezer from *~420#killer#69~*
Who's in the market for a fridge freezer from *~420#killer#69~*
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In 2014, Hackney Council sold a property under Right to Buy for £95,050
In 2021, they bought it back off the ex-tenant for £365k
In ~6 yrs, the council lost £269,950 on a single property
It's not an isolated example. @bigissue.com has uncovered 100+ 'Yo-yo Homes'
www.bigissue.com/news/housing...
In 2021, they bought it back off the ex-tenant for £365k
In ~6 yrs, the council lost £269,950 on a single property
It's not an isolated example. @bigissue.com has uncovered 100+ 'Yo-yo Homes'
www.bigissue.com/news/housing...
How ex-council tenants make over £200k selling homes back to councils
Big Issue investigates the Right To Buy properties sold back to councils for massive profits, just years after being bought at a discount.
www.bigissue.com
October 13, 2025 at 9:24 AM
In 2014, Hackney Council sold a property under Right to Buy for £95,050
In 2021, they bought it back off the ex-tenant for £365k
In ~6 yrs, the council lost £269,950 on a single property
It's not an isolated example. @bigissue.com has uncovered 100+ 'Yo-yo Homes'
www.bigissue.com/news/housing...
In 2021, they bought it back off the ex-tenant for £365k
In ~6 yrs, the council lost £269,950 on a single property
It's not an isolated example. @bigissue.com has uncovered 100+ 'Yo-yo Homes'
www.bigissue.com/news/housing...
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in case you're not sure who dhh is, he's a danish counterstrike player and race car owner who writes essays like "i am smarter than you" and "foreigners bad"
rich enough not to worry about consequences but at the very same time, still desperate for status, a man two friends short of a podcast
rich enough not to worry about consequences but at the very same time, still desperate for status, a man two friends short of a podcast
September 19, 2025 at 5:30 PM
in case you're not sure who dhh is, he's a danish counterstrike player and race car owner who writes essays like "i am smarter than you" and "foreigners bad"
rich enough not to worry about consequences but at the very same time, still desperate for status, a man two friends short of a podcast
rich enough not to worry about consequences but at the very same time, still desperate for status, a man two friends short of a podcast
"one in six private tenants in England now rents a former local authority home" - money that could have been helping councils fund services and build more affordable homes.
Right to buy was a policy disaster *if* you were aiming to have more affordable, quality homes for working people.
Right to buy was a policy disaster *if* you were aiming to have more affordable, quality homes for working people.
Right to buy in England ‘fuelled housing crisis and cost taxpayers £200bn’
Right to buy in England ‘fuelled housing crisis and cost taxpayers £200bn’
Common Wealth report calls discounted sales of council homes one of the ‘largest giveaways in UK history’
Margaret Thatcher’s right-to-buy scheme has cost UK taxpayers almost £200bn, according to a report into the policy’s contribution to Britain’s housing crisis.
In its report into the sale of millions of council homes to their tenants at steep discounts since 1980, the Common Wealth thinktank said the policy had fuelled vast shortages in social housing and turbocharged inequality. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
August 3, 2025 at 2:13 PM
"one in six private tenants in England now rents a former local authority home" - money that could have been helping councils fund services and build more affordable homes.
Right to buy was a policy disaster *if* you were aiming to have more affordable, quality homes for working people.
Right to buy was a policy disaster *if* you were aiming to have more affordable, quality homes for working people.
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"People are doing real work to bring Vöråcore to the masses, and they’re doing it for free, out of the love in their hearts for some guys from Finland."
@chiltonm.bsky.social explains what makes Finland-Swedish comedy group KAJ refreshing in her media: unwinnable.com/2025/07/31/w...
@chiltonm.bsky.social explains what makes Finland-Swedish comedy group KAJ refreshing in her media: unwinnable.com/2025/07/31/w...
August 1, 2025 at 1:00 AM
"People are doing real work to bring Vöråcore to the masses, and they’re doing it for free, out of the love in their hearts for some guys from Finland."
@chiltonm.bsky.social explains what makes Finland-Swedish comedy group KAJ refreshing in her media: unwinnable.com/2025/07/31/w...
@chiltonm.bsky.social explains what makes Finland-Swedish comedy group KAJ refreshing in her media: unwinnable.com/2025/07/31/w...
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Solving "UK Passport Application" with Haskell: jameshaydon.github.io/passport/
Solving `Passport Application` with Haskell
Using logic programming to beat the game
jameshaydon.github.io
June 29, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Solving "UK Passport Application" with Haskell: jameshaydon.github.io/passport/
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📢 Thanks to the generosity of local company @hiveit.co.uk and a few lovely individuals we are now able to offer a small number of diversity tickets for this year’s Front End North conference in Sheffield on 10th July.
See frontendnorth.com/blog/2025/06... for full details.
See frontendnorth.com/blog/2025/06... for full details.
Apply for a diversity ticket for Front End North | Front End North Conference
Front End North is pleased to offer a small number of diversity tickets for this year’s conference
frontendnorth.com
June 13, 2025 at 12:28 PM
📢 Thanks to the generosity of local company @hiveit.co.uk and a few lovely individuals we are now able to offer a small number of diversity tickets for this year’s Front End North conference in Sheffield on 10th July.
See frontendnorth.com/blog/2025/06... for full details.
See frontendnorth.com/blog/2025/06... for full details.
Inspired by @fabinou.bsky.social's great Wolfenstein 3D game engine book I decided to give a simple raycasting renderer a go.
Using plain C and Raylib for the draw calls, it is pretty rough, but was really satisfying to see the results as someone that never does any graphics programming.
Using plain C and Raylib for the draw calls, it is pretty rough, but was really satisfying to see the results as someone that never does any graphics programming.
June 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Inspired by @fabinou.bsky.social's great Wolfenstein 3D game engine book I decided to give a simple raycasting renderer a go.
Using plain C and Raylib for the draw calls, it is pretty rough, but was really satisfying to see the results as someone that never does any graphics programming.
Using plain C and Raylib for the draw calls, it is pretty rough, but was really satisfying to see the results as someone that never does any graphics programming.
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Incase you missed the news, we have announced our full lineup of speakers!
Tickets are £75 and include access to our evening social at the National Videogame Museum
🎟️ frontendnorth.com
Tickets are £75 and include access to our evening social at the National Videogame Museum
🎟️ frontendnorth.com
June 2, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Incase you missed the news, we have announced our full lineup of speakers!
Tickets are £75 and include access to our evening social at the National Videogame Museum
🎟️ frontendnorth.com
Tickets are £75 and include access to our evening social at the National Videogame Museum
🎟️ frontendnorth.com
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The mere suggestion that the United States could order its cloud firms to shut off foreign clients the Trump administration is feuding with is yet another reason to accelerate the creation of sovereign public cloud facilities.
Governments can’t give more contracts to Amazon, Microsoft, or Google.
Governments can’t give more contracts to Amazon, Microsoft, or Google.
Microsoft would push back against Trump order to suspend European cloud operations
Company to change contracts amid concerns that services will get tangled in US-EU fight.
www.politico.eu
April 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The mere suggestion that the United States could order its cloud firms to shut off foreign clients the Trump administration is feuding with is yet another reason to accelerate the creation of sovereign public cloud facilities.
Governments can’t give more contracts to Amazon, Microsoft, or Google.
Governments can’t give more contracts to Amazon, Microsoft, or Google.
I'm late to the new oklab/oklch colour syntax in CSS, but found this post by @ericportis.com to be a great explainer. With some interesting history of colour spaces too.
Even if you only occasionally touch CSS, I'd strongly recommend giving it a read.
ericportis.com/posts/2024/o...
Even if you only occasionally touch CSS, I'd strongly recommend giving it a read.
ericportis.com/posts/2024/o...
Okay, Color Spaces — ericportis.com
ericportis.com
February 2, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I'm late to the new oklab/oklch colour syntax in CSS, but found this post by @ericportis.com to be a great explainer. With some interesting history of colour spaces too.
Even if you only occasionally touch CSS, I'd strongly recommend giving it a read.
ericportis.com/posts/2024/o...
Even if you only occasionally touch CSS, I'd strongly recommend giving it a read.
ericportis.com/posts/2024/o...
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I gave a talk at Handmade Seattle last year about why I think software gets complicated (spoiler: it's not laziness). www.youtube.com/watch?v=czzA...
This is something I've thought about for years and observed up close both in commercial and research contexts, so I hope you enjoy.
This is something I've thought about for years and observed up close both in commercial and research contexts, so I hope you enjoy.
Why Can't We Make Simple Software? - Peter van Hardenberg
YouTube video by Handmade Cities
www.youtube.com
December 2, 2024 at 5:26 PM
I gave a talk at Handmade Seattle last year about why I think software gets complicated (spoiler: it's not laziness). www.youtube.com/watch?v=czzA...
This is something I've thought about for years and observed up close both in commercial and research contexts, so I hope you enjoy.
This is something I've thought about for years and observed up close both in commercial and research contexts, so I hope you enjoy.