"Hello, We're Firefox, The Only Browser That Hasn't Hit Itself In The Dick With A Hammer. For years now, folks use us because of our un-hammered dick. Now, you may be wondering why today we've brought this hammer and pulled out our dick. Well I'm glad you asked--"

Navigating Irish roads be like "Turn left. Now continue on this random country lane for 20km. Then turn right. Then continue down this other random country lane". Loving it.

I wrote an article on software testing!

Does even the most trivial line of your code have a billion unit tests, extensive security testing and mathematical proof that its correct? Or do you just assume it works first time and YOLO it into production on a Friday?

I cover what some of the main […]

After a very, very long time in the tech industry, I finally got around to setting up my own website. Mainly intended as a place to publish stuff, but I'm also hoping it'll help me land a contract job. I figured porting over my old Medoum articles is a good start, so here's me trying to replace […]

New 433mhz units arrived! Pretty much plug and play with Bruce firmware, although the i2c hub unit turned out to not work the way I thought it worked. The biggest discovery is what _isn't_ using that frequency - I now officially have no idea how my own bedroom […]

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Types of codebases my customers send me:

- Enterprise javabean factory factory... on a SIM card

- C# programmer retasked to write an authenticated bootloader in C for an arm platform with no training

- Beautiful well-written, easy-to-read C by an experienced systems programmer, with one […]

Ok, I might stop after this one:

The new Pope has a degree in mathematics from Villanova University. This guy doesn’t just understand sin. He understands cos.

[WARNING! HTML Abuse. Not for the faint-hearted.]

You may not like it, but this is 100% syntactically valid HTML.

The internet of things is truly a wonder. 😝

#dishwasher #parody #iot

The latest in my trip down the #homeassistant and #esphome rabbithole - I wired up an oled display to an old atom echo to show me energy and climate stats.

Took a while to get the display working, and I still cant figure out how to accept the text as a […]

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So this arrived. Feels really solidly built, and took 5 minutes to set up M5Launcher. Now to try out the assorted firmwares! #cardputer #m5cardputer

This is a public service announcement to **never** ever use Oracle

My dive club is looking for freediving novices for their Zero2Hero competition. Anyone interested?

12 chosen competitors will learn the fundamentals of freediving over two pool sessions in London in February with Marcus Greatwood - NoTanx Freediving founder […]

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Amazing what a difference a proper proving basket makes. Using a blend of wholemeal and strong bread flour, still tweaking the formula. #bread #baking #sourdough