Read/heard somewhere that the Isle of Wight has the oldest trains still in service in the UK. Think it was in relation to Bakerloo line running since 1972.

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Why I Wrote A Nintendo Emulator Grasping the fundamentals of computer science, being an overachiever, and burning out

No I wonder if I should port my NES emulator...

Screenshot of snake game. Yellow snake, orange borders and blue background.

Found this old snake game I wrote in C++ with SDL around 2008. It was a recreation of the old QBASIC snake game Nibbles.

GPT ported it to run on browser and all looks and works fine. Port and original here. Maps/levels can added or edited in maps.js

drive.google.com/file/d/10vpK...

Tube orange, yellow and black moquette socks in front of seats with same pattern.

Recent conversation about autism and trains stereotype.

Me: I’m not really into trains.

Them: Why are you wearing tube socks?

Me: Well…

Them: What’s your week looking like?

Me: I’m going to the London Transport train depot on Friday.

Then: …

Me sitting in the driver seat of an old tube train.

And the front of the 1962 stock. The old Central Line I used to get on my trips.

Interior of 1932 rolling stock tube train car.

Went to London Transport Museum depot open day yesterday and got to on this 1932 rolling stock. They actually get it out and running a few times a year.

Interested to see what the @adhdpathfinding.org.uk team has been working on? Come to our show and tell tomorrow, Tuesday 24 March 2026. Everyone is welcome.

#adhd #neurodiversity #mentalhealth

ADHD Pathfinding Show & Tell · Luma Our vision, mission and goals - Himal Mandalia, Service standard workshop playback - Sian Murray Huynh, Post diagnosis support: what good looks like - Ellie…

@adhdpathfinding.org.uk show & tell:

1) Our vision, mission and goals - @himal.bsky.social,
2) Service standard workshop playback - @sianmurrayhuynh.bsky.social,
3) Post diagnosis support: what good looks like - Ellie Smith Barratt.

1230 to 1330 Tuesday 24 March 2026.

Sign-up luma.com/qi9spcfa

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Life’s too short for emails. I ignore most now and it’s working out quite well. But I’d still take an email over a video call.

Likewise! Really looking forward to it. Talk is shaping up nicely.

On Stillness and Spaciousness Why calm feels threatening before it feels peaceful

Stillness can be scary.

It's a funny thing to finally feel safe. Grieve, let go, be free. And then find I can just be. That's it really. I just want an ordinary life. Someone to share it with. Few good friends who can meet me where I am.

Less trying. Letting what doesn't serve me fall away. Less noise, more signal.

Living in survival mode most of my life set me up with options and security but kept me constantly chasing. Until a few months ago. Lot of slowing down and letting go since. Also coming to terms with the ways I abandoned myself.

But I most certainly survived. Now I get to live. For real this time.

Trying things and collecting data points. Not interested in moving around. Which is why trip was slower, most days unplanned. Movement used to be a coping mechanism and travel doesn't interest me in the same way anymore. I'm looking to plant myself somewhere and simply live. No decisions yet.

Back a month from the trip. I prototyped a different way of living across Sydney, Melbourne and Wellington. Slower, less urgency, more noticing, more presence. Long brunches, writing, little chats, time to reflect, let ideas emerge.

Doing same in London but it's taxing. More friction.

Saying "no" is a muscle. It gets better with use.

So above all I protect it. Operate from abundance. Without urgency. Also helps to ask myself "how much time and energy would I have if I had a partner and kids?" It helps put things in their proper place. I pretend I do, or rather I treat myself with the same care I would them. Prioritise myself.

The “spaciousness” I’ve found is something I would previously have seen as unused capacity that needed filling. Now I protect it by saying no to things. Paradoxically some of the work I get offered lately comes from ideas that come from having extra capacity. Which the work would quickly eat up.

Thanks @catcutmore.bsky.social, really looking forward to it!

Some chats about AI recently and I'm leaning into my usual: institutional capability, ownership, sustainable change.

AI just intensifies it all and forces the question: who owns decisions?

That was always the point of gov digital. Bring policy, delivery and operations together. More pressing now.

It's embodied and can't be explained intellectually. I was the same. I had no idea I was missing something, that ability to pause between impulse and action.

Lessons From Stepping Out of Survival Mode On regulation, integration and the cost of becoming more yourself

Some generalised lessons from stepping out of survival mode. Embodied insights from my month away.

Limiting myself to three video calls a week. No limits on real life catch ups.

Deal with emails at allocated times.

Don’t respond to messages immediately.

Stopped responding to some people altogether. Turns out they were only looking for regulation or stimulation.

It’s good to breathe.

So I have privately been developing a classification framework in the line of work I do, in line with civilisation classifications, along with a non-interference policy, à la prime directive…

I’m looking for speakers for a London event on the science of Star Trek. I’d really appreciate suggestions from underrepresented minorities in STEM, especially PoC/global majority.
(10 min, central London, Sept, currently unpaid but I’m trying to fix that)
Feel free to message

If you need revision material.

I can walk 10 minutes to Sainsbury’s for biscuits.

This is one of those “I’ll enjoy it once I get there.” But it’s the getting there. Need teleportation. Or nicer weather and less tube. Ugh rush hour too.

I have made the right choice. I just wish I had biscuits.