Robert Wray
@robertwrayuk.bsky.social
Development Manager, developer, technology enthusiast, cook, runner & someone who sometimes wishes there were 25, or 26, hours in the day...
Adding functionality to an incredibly old app (AngularJS, yes, with the "JS") has made for a fun few weeks.
The whole app's written in JavaScript and this was a good excuse to add TypeScript to the toolchain and write all the new bits in that. Every cloud, eh....!
The whole app's written in JavaScript and this was a good excuse to add TypeScript to the toolchain and write all the new bits in that. Every cloud, eh....!
November 6, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Adding functionality to an incredibly old app (AngularJS, yes, with the "JS") has made for a fun few weeks.
The whole app's written in JavaScript and this was a good excuse to add TypeScript to the toolchain and write all the new bits in that. Every cloud, eh....!
The whole app's written in JavaScript and this was a good excuse to add TypeScript to the toolchain and write all the new bits in that. Every cloud, eh....!
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Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area
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Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction
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Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it
Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…
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Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely
[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over
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Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat
[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster
Minister:
I understand your concerns…
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Nurse:
Are you OK love?
Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters
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Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian
[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]
Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love
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Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to
[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]
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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR
[woman looks baffled]
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woman:
I just want a bus service
Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]
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If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
October 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
As happens every time this comes up as #RecipeOfTheDay, this is going on the menu for Friday. It's so easy to make and more than worth the (small!) effort required.
Also - I use mint sauce as a 1-1 replacement for dried mint; it works a treat!
Also - I use mint sauce as a 1-1 replacement for dried mint; it works a treat!
#RecipeOfTheDay is Pappardelle with Lamb Ragù. It’s a big favourite on nigella.com, as you can see by the comments below the recipe, one of which being “I couldn't have believed anything so delicious could be so easy!” My heart is gladdened and grateful. www.nigella.com/recipes/papp...
Pappardelle With Lamb Ragu
‘Ragout’ is French, ‘ragù’ Italian, and this meat sauce is certainly inspired by the Sicilian combination of sweet lamb, dried wild mint and crushed chilli flakes, though I’ve added an Anglo note with...
www.nigella.com
September 30, 2025 at 2:21 PM
As happens every time this comes up as #RecipeOfTheDay, this is going on the menu for Friday. It's so easy to make and more than worth the (small!) effort required.
Also - I use mint sauce as a 1-1 replacement for dried mint; it works a treat!
Also - I use mint sauce as a 1-1 replacement for dried mint; it works a treat!
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The govt should find 100 small things that piss people off & fix em, such as…
Ta to Politico for the vid, at its Labour fringe event, I explained that as big changes take time, govts should also have a team focused on small winnable change.
What little fixes'd you want?
Ta to Politico for the vid, at its Labour fringe event, I explained that as big changes take time, govts should also have a team focused on small winnable change.
What little fixes'd you want?
September 30, 2025 at 8:22 AM
The govt should find 100 small things that piss people off & fix em, such as…
Ta to Politico for the vid, at its Labour fringe event, I explained that as big changes take time, govts should also have a team focused on small winnable change.
What little fixes'd you want?
Ta to Politico for the vid, at its Labour fringe event, I explained that as big changes take time, govts should also have a team focused on small winnable change.
What little fixes'd you want?
I slept through my alarm this morning 🤬
I won't be taking questions about just how late I was awake because I couldn't put this book down 👀
It's *still* got that little orange sticker, nearly a week after publication, with good reason
I won't be taking questions about just how late I was awake because I couldn't put this book down 👀
It's *still* got that little orange sticker, nearly a week after publication, with good reason
New book out accompanied by that little orange sticker. I know it’s not the most important thing, but it’s nice to know that after nearly 30 books, people still buy my work.
September 29, 2025 at 10:21 AM
I slept through my alarm this morning 🤬
I won't be taking questions about just how late I was awake because I couldn't put this book down 👀
It's *still* got that little orange sticker, nearly a week after publication, with good reason
I won't be taking questions about just how late I was awake because I couldn't put this book down 👀
It's *still* got that little orange sticker, nearly a week after publication, with good reason
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I have been learning more about PDFs than I really wanted to for maybe the absolutely most funny reason possible - letting agency forgery: mjg59.dreamwidth.org/73317.html
September 24, 2025 at 10:25 PM
I have been learning more about PDFs than I really wanted to for maybe the absolutely most funny reason possible - letting agency forgery: mjg59.dreamwidth.org/73317.html
Seeing a comment online (particularly for genre shows with fandoms, like Start Trek), usually found attached to an episode review, that begin "As a real fan" and you just *know* it's one to skip right past.
Almost 100% certainty that douchery of the highest order is ahead.
Almost 100% certainty that douchery of the highest order is ahead.
September 1, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Seeing a comment online (particularly for genre shows with fandoms, like Start Trek), usually found attached to an episode review, that begin "As a real fan" and you just *know* it's one to skip right past.
Almost 100% certainty that douchery of the highest order is ahead.
Almost 100% certainty that douchery of the highest order is ahead.
I cook, a lot, and most recipes that I put together (eventually) end up on my recipe blog @ robertwray.co.uk/recipes
Running's something I took up mid-2020 that helped me to shift about 20kg of weight and dramatically improve my health and fitness levels.
That'll do as a whistlestop intro...!
Running's something I took up mid-2020 that helped me to shift about 20kg of weight and dramatically improve my health and fitness levels.
That'll do as a whistlestop intro...!
August 3, 2025 at 9:33 AM
I cook, a lot, and most recipes that I put together (eventually) end up on my recipe blog @ robertwray.co.uk/recipes
Running's something I took up mid-2020 that helped me to shift about 20kg of weight and dramatically improve my health and fitness levels.
That'll do as a whistlestop intro...!
Running's something I took up mid-2020 that helped me to shift about 20kg of weight and dramatically improve my health and fitness levels.
That'll do as a whistlestop intro...!
Outside of work, running, cooking and reading are my main vices.
I've got over 300 books yet to read on my Kindle. I'm still not sure how that happened; hopefully at least a quarter of them are samples but I can't bring myself to look.
I've got over 300 books yet to read on my Kindle. I'm still not sure how that happened; hopefully at least a quarter of them are samples but I can't bring myself to look.
The campervan company (www.ultravans.co.uk) is by far the most challenging/interesting of the two. My other half built us a campervan late in the COVID era, got the bug for it, binned off a career in IT and went full-time van constructing.
Small businesses have challenges, but boy it's a ride!
Small businesses have challenges, but boy it's a ride!
August 3, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Outside of work, running, cooking and reading are my main vices.
I've got over 300 books yet to read on my Kindle. I'm still not sure how that happened; hopefully at least a quarter of them are samples but I can't bring myself to look.
I've got over 300 books yet to read on my Kindle. I'm still not sure how that happened; hopefully at least a quarter of them are samples but I can't bring myself to look.
The campervan company (www.ultravans.co.uk) is by far the most challenging/interesting of the two. My other half built us a campervan late in the COVID era, got the bug for it, binned off a career in IT and went full-time van constructing.
Small businesses have challenges, but boy it's a ride!
Small businesses have challenges, but boy it's a ride!
August 3, 2025 at 9:28 AM
The campervan company (www.ultravans.co.uk) is by far the most challenging/interesting of the two. My other half built us a campervan late in the COVID era, got the bug for it, binned off a career in IT and went full-time van constructing.
Small businesses have challenges, but boy it's a ride!
Small businesses have challenges, but boy it's a ride!
Professionally, I wear two hats.
By day I'm Head of Development (or that's how my boss tends to introduce me!) for a small Foreign Exchange company.
By night I'm Finance Director for a four year old Campervan conversion company - the A-level in Accounting is finally finding a use.
By day I'm Head of Development (or that's how my boss tends to introduce me!) for a small Foreign Exchange company.
By night I'm Finance Director for a four year old Campervan conversion company - the A-level in Accounting is finally finding a use.
* taps mic *
Is this thing on? Finally took the time to make the move from the other place as it's time I got a bit more "back out there" and the other place doesn't look like somewhere I want to be anymore!
Perhaps I should (re)-introduce myself....
Is this thing on? Finally took the time to make the move from the other place as it's time I got a bit more "back out there" and the other place doesn't look like somewhere I want to be anymore!
Perhaps I should (re)-introduce myself....
August 3, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Professionally, I wear two hats.
By day I'm Head of Development (or that's how my boss tends to introduce me!) for a small Foreign Exchange company.
By night I'm Finance Director for a four year old Campervan conversion company - the A-level in Accounting is finally finding a use.
By day I'm Head of Development (or that's how my boss tends to introduce me!) for a small Foreign Exchange company.
By night I'm Finance Director for a four year old Campervan conversion company - the A-level in Accounting is finally finding a use.
* taps mic *
Is this thing on? Finally took the time to make the move from the other place as it's time I got a bit more "back out there" and the other place doesn't look like somewhere I want to be anymore!
Perhaps I should (re)-introduce myself....
Is this thing on? Finally took the time to make the move from the other place as it's time I got a bit more "back out there" and the other place doesn't look like somewhere I want to be anymore!
Perhaps I should (re)-introduce myself....
August 3, 2025 at 9:22 AM
* taps mic *
Is this thing on? Finally took the time to make the move from the other place as it's time I got a bit more "back out there" and the other place doesn't look like somewhere I want to be anymore!
Perhaps I should (re)-introduce myself....
Is this thing on? Finally took the time to make the move from the other place as it's time I got a bit more "back out there" and the other place doesn't look like somewhere I want to be anymore!
Perhaps I should (re)-introduce myself....