An osprey looks out from its nest.

LOUIS!!!

👉 buff.ly/8WnEU5G

A vibrant cherry blossom tree in full bloom is situated between two street lamps against a clear blue sky.

Spring: sprung

Oh my. I checked. It's real.

River scene on an overcast day, with a large tree in the foreground and calm water stretching toward a row of old stone mill buildings along the opposite bank, partly framed by budding spring branches.

Watching the Avon meander through Chippenham.

A seagull is flying near a waterfront with modern brick buildings in the background.

The flight of the herring gull.

A serene coastal scene at sunrise with gentle waves lapping the shore and a silhouette of distant buildings on the horizon.

Easter Sunday sunrise on Shoreham Beach, looking towards Brighton.

Started reading: Blightslayer by Richard Stratchan 📚

Well, the #artemisII launch was the first time I had a real time news experience on Bluesky the way I did back in the early years of Twitter.

The camera geek in me wants to know what they used for these images… #artemisII

I’m going upstairs to take that phone off her now.

Is my 10 year old daughter running social media for you?

That was stressful. Never been able to enjoy launches in quite the same way since Challenger.

My wife and I are watching this with our hearts in our mouths.

Godspeed, Artemis.

Oh, I will!

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Oh, we're the top story on @niemanlab.org rn... no big deal

I was beginning to feel like the only person who remembers that he did that…

Just saw this mentioned in a discussion on Reddit, along with mich confusions about its April Fools status. Saw your name on it, so came to find *exactly* this post.

The CMS geek in me is very excited by this.

Introducing EmDash — the spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security Today we are launching the beta of EmDash, a full-stack serverless JavaScript CMS built on Astro 6.0. It combines the features of a traditional CMS with modern security, running plugins in sandboxed W...

Crazy crazy day. My first Cloudflare blog, and it's a big one.

We're rebuilding WordPress as if it were built today. It's end to end TypeScript, works as an Astro plugin, and has secure plugin execution in dynamic workers.

It's called EmDash, try it now ⤵️

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OK. This is my absolute favourite piece of “special content” for today: Warhammer 40k: the Musical.

MattGPT's defence that the peer reviewers of his book are anonymous is all fine and well if you are published by an academic publisher and therefore have stringent and independent review process. It is not alright when you self publish. He was once a experienced academic so he knows that.

This is a cautionary tale of letting ChatGPT do your research and writing for you, if ever there was one.

MattGPT is going to stick.

It looks like OpenAI shuttering Sora might well be all about money. After all, the orange one’s war has spiked energy prices, making AI inference ever more expensive…

A quiet, illuminated train station platform is seen at night with signs directing to the exit.

The last week has been a flashback to the days, 25 years ago, when my job involved a lot of waiting for connections in small rural stations…

A whimsical mural features a warning sign with reality may stop suddenly, surrounded by fish, flowers, a purple tentacle, and a blue bench.

This sums up the state of the world.

Each story is appearing in your Bluesky account three or four times in a row.

Yes, they *really* should.

Yes, they should.

Yes, they should.