@dracos.co.uk am I right in thinking that traintimes.org.uk did split tickets first?

you acknowledge that it still exists tho right?

red.anthropic.com/2026/mythos-... people keep being astonished at them doing the kind of exploits you can only pull off if you never get tired - when their most unique skill is they don’t ever get tired.

holy shit the speaking clock still works in the UK -123

Claude is just the new I’m Feeling Lucky button.

as I recall, my contribution was to be too hungover to make the meeting, and so find my name on the press release as sole creator as punishment.

theory - 97% of the reason asking claude is better than googling has nothing to do with the chatbot interface but is simply because it filters out all the ads and surveillance crapware and gives you the natural search answer that the web used to in 2003

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I'm going to experiment with apps.apple.com/us/app/organ...

OpenStreetMap OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.

Absolutely not. If they do a paid ad-free version, I'll buy it. If the only option is ad-supported, I'll use something else. On my phone, on my TV, in my house.

So maybe time to look at www.openstreetmap.org again. Or I'll just get Claude to make me my own navigation app base on OSM.

that looks… complicated- but mine doesn’t need to have as high a quality bar. Also in terms of updates, the titles db is relatively stable now compared to 2004

‘People thought I was a communist doing this as a non-profit’: is Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales the last decent tech baron? | Jimmy Wales | The Guardian In an online landscape characterised by doom and division, the people’s encyclopedia stands out – a huge collective endeavour giving everyone free access to the sum of human knowledge. But with Elon M...

I think the tech is quite nifty. I welcome thoughts, suggestions, feedback. I think it's overmatching a little at the moment on single words and I might tighten that. I've also built a little proxy at whitelabel.org/wikilinker?u... so you can see how it works before installing the plugin.

Wikilinker Wikilinker Auto-links the most popular 1,000,000 people, places, organizations, and other matchable names to their Wikipedia pages on any webpage, using a...

So yeah, me and Claude dusted off a very old (2004) idea of mine and made it anew. Enjoy the whitelabel.org/wikilinker/a... - a browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari) plugin that backfills wikipedia into the whole web. No APIs, no tracking, just a built-in Bloom filter of the 1m most popular articles.

I am loving spending a lot of time with Claude Code, but it's not without problems. I've gone from 15 unstarted hack projects that have been lingering in my todo list for years to 15 unfinished hack projects, in a month. 😬🤦

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Bah, i just liked what I could do with it for whitelabel.org

ditch wordpress, go eleventy.

bit of a above-the-fold dark pattern there Tom, don’t make it look like I need to subscribe to get access to your grumpy blogpost

oh yeah be very afraid

you think “spit” isn’t onomatopoeia?

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love this kind of UX studies interactionmagic.com/UX-LEGO-Inte...

Disapeering act: some peers hide foreign earnings by going on leave - Tortoise Others say this is a loophole that needs closing

The number of peers on a leave of absence jumped 48% after new rules requiring them to declare income from foreign states were introduced, @tortoisemedia.bsky.social analysis has shown.

More Peer Review work by myself and @seitarowhite.bsky.social 👇

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A flow chart titled: Should I say resources? Do you mean people? If yes, say people If no Do you mean people and things? If yes say People and the things If no Do you mean things? If yes, say the things

Reposting my popular post from elsewhere. It's still relevant 6 years later. I made a handy flowchart called "Should I say resources?" Please use as needed.

A screenshot of all the closing day witness statements from my transcript site, showing them all linked up to the relevant PDFs.

The Post Office Inquiry has finished its hearings; closing statements take place in December. You can read all the transcripts on my site at postofficeinquiry.dracos.co.uk which has just been updated with the latest evidence links, including the final tranche of statements I have manually linked up.

I know I have posted something like this before, but it still boggles my mind what has happened to Google Maps

Apple Maps doesn’t but even so, that wouldn’t make it better, Mr whatabout.

I was a diligent noodle soup tweeter back in my SE Asia days - pls keep it up!

It's ok, you can just say you didn't understand the video.

i would be delighted

but the flexibility of Google apologist contortionists will never cease to amaze. Do you take supplements, sir?

hi!