@derickr seems like an "AI policy" is needed

So am I right in thinking “making tax digital” is a way to force sole traders to pay for accounting software?

If you ever wanted to memorise the countries in Africa, just learn this song https://youtu.be/nhmdDjatyRY?si=G7fILROS6DMkEPEV

The world is still crying out for a great backpack with pannier clips.

There are some good ones out there (I have a couple) but they're all like 4 stars out of 5

It's possible the problem is intractible

What does it say about the climate that London's parakeet population, which for years has been present but small, is absolutely booming now?

I can see five of them out of my window right now, the loud bastards

Following the demise of ZipCar in London I’m starting to occasionally feel the pain of not having a personal car :/

I only used it a few times per year but it papered over the cracks in our mostly public transport / bicycle lifestyles

Pauline presenting

Now @vanamerongen encouraging companies to invest more time/resource/effort into open source software

#phpuk26

Sebastian presenting

Good to hear @sebastian's approach to testing event sourced apps

#phpuk26

Indeed standing at a lectern

Interesting to hear @OndrejMirtes mention using custom static analysis rules in PHPStan as a way of keeping coding agents within guardrails

#phpuk26

Gary in front of a slide where a developer has typed 'composer require bitcoin/miner'

A cracking keynote from @GeeH about all the trade-offs we have to reckon with in modern development

#phpuk26

At PHP UK today - I think it's my 18th year in a row, which is a bit of a scary thought

#phpuk26

I really wish teenage-me had been more careful and not lost my Blue Peter badge...

NHS closed Tavistock over care complaints – there were only eight An eye-opening FOI report has revealed that just eight people complained about the Tavistock gender clinic's care provision in 10 years.

When the UK government rescinded care for thousands of trans people it was a tragedy. To find out the premise they used was a lie is an outrage

www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/nhs-closed-ta...

@derickr show the solder side ;)

Looks good!

@JessTheUnstill have you tried Uniqlo?

@JessTheUnstill it'd be nice if browsers just did that by default

@derickr do you play?

larenmcjesse &Co 2016 ELON MUSK In 10 years we'll have self-driving cars on Mars. 2026 ELON MUSK I've updated my child porn machine to be more racist.

One of the greenhouses lit up with flaming torches in front of it, with a full moon in the sky and a bright planet below it

#ChristmasAtKew with a full moon and Jupiter visible just below it

Will FIFA ask for its prestigious peace prize to be returned?

GitHub - speakeasy-api/openapi: A set of packages and tools for working with OpenAPI, Swagger, Arazzo and Overlay Specification documents. A set of packages and tools for working with OpenAPI, Swagger, Arazzo and Overlay Specification documents. - speakeasy-api/openapi

This looks very useful, at least on a surface read: https://github.com/speakeasy-api/openapi

“a comprehensive set of [golang] packages and tools for working with OpenAPI, Swagger, Arazzo, and Overlay Specification documents.”

Reading that Robin Ince is resigning from presenting BBC shows because he is NOT a bigot is a really disappointing and depressing thing to read about.

On January 3, 1941, Martin Bormann issued a circular to all public offices which declared Fraktur typeface to be Judenlettern (Jewish letters) and prohibited their further use. alphahistory.com/pastpeculiar/1941-nazis-...

There have been roughly 120 billion humans who ever lived.

If you wonder about where you come in human history, it’s most likely to be somewhere in the middle, so you could guesstimate there will be 120 billion more people before the end.

That’s like 15 more generations or so

The "FIFA Peace Prize" is not the worst thing FIGA have ever done, but it's up there

I've given up running Slack as a PWA on MacOS. It works pretty much amazingly with lower footprint than the Electron app, but as soon as I'm logged out from certain clients' slacks it takes me half a day to figure out how to get re-authed.

Discord, Mastondon (and some others) are still going […]

Writing my first GitHub Action for a few weeks and.... OMFG they've added support for Yaml anchors?!

If you're writing code that talks to Home Assistant, I made an image that lets you run a containerised HA pre-populated with a user and API token so you don't have to mess around with the web-based onboarding workflow […]

Anyone know of anywhere that's hiring that might be interested in a Billie? I am based in Germany and enjoy Rust, XP and Agile environments. Do a bit of public speaking now and again.