Simon Wright
@simonjohnw.bsky.social
Ada programmer, retired but still at it, on Mac.
At the other place,I was a "Deeply unhelpful cave-dwelling liberal-elite filthy remoaner citizen of nowhere. Moralising cog in an engine of evil."
https://github.com/simonjwright
At the other place,I was a "Deeply unhelpful cave-dwelling liberal-elite filthy remoaner citizen of nowhere. Moralising cog in an engine of evil."
https://github.com/simonjwright
Is there an international award for The Most Undiscoverable API?
February 9, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Is there an international award for The Most Undiscoverable API?
Reposted by Simon Wright
Hope it’s a negotiating tactic.
Fear it’s just bloody stupid.
Fear it’s just bloody stupid.
NEW: Yvette Cooper rules out a youth mobility scheme between the UK and EU: "That's not the right starting point for us at all."
Brussels is demanding one as part of the government's "reset" of relations with the bloc.
Brussels is demanding one as part of the government's "reset" of relations with the bloc.
February 2, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Hope it’s a negotiating tactic.
Fear it’s just bloody stupid.
Fear it’s just bloody stupid.
Reposted by Simon Wright
A punch & judy show in the margin
Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 264; Romance of Alexander; 1338 CE–1344 CE; Flanders; f.54v @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 264; Romance of Alexander; 1338 CE–1344 CE; Flanders; f.54v @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
January 18, 2025 at 8:36 PM
A punch & judy show in the margin
Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 264; Romance of Alexander; 1338 CE–1344 CE; Flanders; f.54v @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 264; Romance of Alexander; 1338 CE–1344 CE; Flanders; f.54v @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
@ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social My daughter gifted me a sub but I couldn’t claim it because I was already a member, so (absent any obvious way to contact you) I cancelled my existing membership; still can’t claim the gift!!! What was I supposed to do? What can you do to help?
January 4, 2025 at 4:24 PM
@ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social My daughter gifted me a sub but I couldn’t claim it because I was already a member, so (absent any obvious way to contact you) I cancelled my existing membership; still can’t claim the gift!!! What was I supposed to do? What can you do to help?
Today would have been the 209th birthday of Augusta Ada, Countess of Lovelace
December 10, 2024 at 8:58 AM
Today would have been the 209th birthday of Augusta Ada, Countess of Lovelace
Have been looking at Unicode Normalization Forms (www.unicode.org/reports/tr15...). O. M. G.
UAX #15: Unicode Normalization Forms
Specifies the Unicode Normalization Formats
www.unicode.org
November 21, 2024 at 6:17 PM
Have been looking at Unicode Normalization Forms (www.unicode.org/reports/tr15...). O. M. G.
My mother, with her brother Alexander William Flett, before her wedding on 14 November 1944. Yesterday would have been her 105th bitrthday.
November 16, 2024 at 1:50 PM
My mother, with her brother Alexander William Flett, before her wedding on 14 November 1944. Yesterday would have been her 105th bitrthday.
Tautology of the day
November 16, 2024 at 12:29 PM
Tautology of the day