Decided to check the status of the train I normally get into london today for lulz... #heatwave #britain

Today is my birthday and my daughter gave me the best present... A wake-up call at 5am for me, the family morning person while she and Mrs R go back to sleep. I get a few hours alone with my thoughts, my journal, a full caffetiere, birdsong, a lack of road noise and this little doughnut. #CatsOfMastondon #coffee #meditative #morningroutine

@hosford42 congrats on the new job dude 🎉🎉

Woke up last night at 2:30am to a little tinny voice on repeat and then a siren noise. Initially I thought it was outside them I thought my wife was watching something on YouTube and eventually I went to look around the house for the source of the noise. Eventually I isolated the noise to our loft… Friends, climbing up into the pitch black loft at 2:30am to investigate a mysterious noise is not exactly a fun experience even for a scientifically-minded sceptic 👻 👻. It… https://brainsteam.co.uk/notes/2025/12/29/1767051804/

Made something of an expensive mistake last night dropping a big pot on the induction hob. The cost of repair is about the same as a new unit so I’ve ordered one on AO with measurements from the old and new data sheets and I just hope that it can be swapped like-for-like by the AO installer without involving a kitchen fitter.

#Personal #fail (https://brainsteam.co.uk/notes/2025/10/25/1761377975/)

This morning I suddenly have some free time for - related reasons - so I updated a classic https://xkcd.com/303/ #aws #outage

Very happy with my new stickers from @robb which just arrived and get pride of place on my laptop near @molly0xfff 😊

And Now for Something Completely Different: a life update from the Ravenscroft clan instead of my usual weeknote post #weeknotes

There's a sort of double applicability to the title of the post going on here 👶

https://brainsteam.co.uk/2025/8/31/and-now-for-something-completely-different/

GitHub rebranding as "Microsoft Visual Studio Code Repository for Teams Enterprise 365" when? #github #JoinCodeberg

Urgh artisan - that company that wants to replace all the human workers with AI is now advertising in London. Waiting for it to emerge that their "AI" is just disenfranchised people in an emerging market country...

@davidgerard have you seen this nonsense? It's like they saw your story yesterday about Anthropic and decided to double down. Unbelievable.

Edit: its from your friends Palisade "the AI cheated at chess because we told it to" Research

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligence/researchers-claim-chatgpt-o3-bypassed-shutdown-in-controlled-test/

#introduction hey all - wanted to introduce myself in light of my account migration to social.lol. I am a Software Engineering Manager and reformed academic by day and an amateur musician (saxophonist + guitarist), foodie, gamer and sci-fi enjoyer by night. I picked social.lol because some of the coolest people I was following from my old server are here and it seems like a laid back, inclusive and fun place. Looking forward to chatting to y'all :)