This is very relevant to the whole AI-slop debate, particularly in my line of work.
When people rant about ai code quality I am tempted to ask if they’ve seen the shite most humans produce…
Just tried to get lunch at the Bridge Centre cafe. They wouldn’t serve us as they were having their lunch break. 🤦♂️
I can’t even…
“Someone took inspiration from that. His name was Alan Dye…”
Bloody hell it’s hard to talk to the government!
Called HMRC about my power of attorney for my dad who has dementia.
10 minutes on hold, then cut off.
Tried DWP. 10 minutes on hold, then the person told me I needed a different menu choice and couldn’t tell me the menu numbers or connect me. 🤬
My Mastodon and Bluesky use could hardly be more contrasting.
There I follow developers, read a focussed list of them every day, quite often interact.
Here it’s tumbleweed. I follow lots of politics feeds that I never read. I hoped to persuade friends over from Facebook - that has largely failed!
🔷 OH!CON 2026 - Saturday 3 October! 🔷
Another fabulous day of workshops, competitions, talks, games and gaming, props, arts and crafts and - last but not least - COSPLAY.
It's time to start thinking of your outfit....
Keep in touch with what's happening on our website - www.ohcon.info
Ordered some waffles for breakfast at a local cafe that shall remain nameless.
Turned out to be from a packet!
The food scene here in Stornoway was never great, but these days it is atrocious 😢
As Starmer blocks Burnham’s bid to return to Westminster as an MP, we’re reminded of this cover from October 2025... #EyeToldYouSo
Do you ever feel you’re being excluded?
From the new Private Eye, out now.
With everything going on in the world, the BBC thinks that the second (and third!) most important news item is something about one of their own weather presenters leaving.
Because: BBC things.
How did it come to this? 🤦♂️
I did once start trying to make an asteroids game as a Sketch plugin 😂. Just to prove a point…
It would have been awesome :)
And only taken a minute or two to implement*
(* honest…)
That’s how I eat my pancakes too 🙃
It's the satirists I feel sorriest for.
Flight back to Stornoway cancelled due to an excess of wind.
Who’d’a’thunk’it?
Saw Hamilton at the Kings Theatre in Glasgow tonight. It was pretty good.
Sustaining two and a half hours of songs about the accies is an impressive feat...
Morven, a cat, sitting on my lap.
Sit rep: pinned down. Send reinforcements.
Imagine a world where government ministers were required to pass A level standard critical thinking.
Or, for that matter, take a basic evening class in project management and delivery.
🤔
Another great OH!CON has been and gone.
Congrats to the organisers and volunteers for an excellent event.
Looking forward to next year…
ohcon.info
Permanent Waves*
(* CalMac service status update)
Labour seem to be engaged in an appalling race-to-the-bottom on immigration issues.
Instead, this is the line they should be taking:
infosec.exchange/@david_chisn...
😆
I was always more of a fan of their first album, which of course was heavily inspired by the Stornoway fishing scene.
Tracks like Anyone Out There, To the Shore, Night Boat, and Sound of Thunder speak for themselves.
And then of course there was the absolute classic Gulls on Film…
🤔
Just thinking…
Hegseth’s new fitness standard presumably applies to the commander-in-chief, right?
I’d hate to be that personal trainer.
