(daft punk One More Time voice) Auld Lang Syne

I do hope the information they're farming is free range organic stuff.

About to drop the synthpop banger of the summer

SREcon25 Americas - Mitigating Against Large Scale Systemic Failures in E-Trading YouTube video by USENIX

Looks like my #SRECon talk is up, in case people wanted to hear me witter on about how resiliency isn't straightforward.

youtu.be/2kxrT-dSpk8

My first #SREcon was a great experience and I've come away with a tonne of things to think about. Thanks to everyone who helped make it so good!

Once in a brew moon.

A packet of Tyrrell's crisps which proudly and prominently proclaims "Now Made With 25% Recycled Plastic" just above the actual product description

In hindsight, I think I'd rather they were 100% potato.

Absolute top notch developer "we've got a workaround and it's rare enough we don't need to change the code" mentality by decades of governments there.

In an Internet rabbit hole about public holidays, and discovered that St Patrick's Day is one by law if it falls Monday to Friday, or Sunday (subbed by the Monday).

If it's on a Saturday though, it's not covered by law - so they just bodge it and have the Monday proclaimed as one by the king.

But hey, there's a copilot key!

Brother in law sourced and found space for them in the oven despite everything else being crammed in there. Christmas saved!

Discovered over the weekend that my wife's family don't have pigs in blankets at Christmas. Guess at least I've got time to solve this problem.

Nothing quite like waking up thanks to dreaming the sound of your own doorbell at 6am. Thanks for that brain.

Liam Neeson is starring in one coming out next year, so I guess you got half of what you're suggesting there.

A view of the dark blue Pacific ocean with a blue sky above it interspersed with some small white clouds.

This is what this place is for right? Especially seeing as we don't get many days like this in London.