Celebratory biscuit.

Sneak peek of a personal project that’s been in my brain for a while, and all about water, places and how we use it.

www.waterdictionary.net

Sunset murmuration

Currently drinking this from my local whisky bar. The tasting notes are a bit silly (that’s Brighton for you) but the important thing is it’s a fabulous smooth Speyside but with a surprising amount of smoke. #whisky

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Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 Cloudflare suffered a service outage on November 18, 2025. The outage was triggered by a bug in generation logic for a Bot Management feature file causing many Cloudflare services to be affected.

Cloudflare’s biggest outage since 2019 - the post mortem is as comprehensive as ever: blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-...

Ffs jutty, that was confidential! What a man does in the privacy of his own garden is his business alone. And anyway, there’s nothing unusual about wanting to bathe in a giant margarine pit. Don’t make it weird.

Sloe Gin bottle, shot glasses and tub of sloe berries.

Thought we’d left it too late but loads of sloes still about to collect. And now enjoying the last bottle from 2024.

‘Kin hell. The USA is a crazy scary place these days.

European file hosting services | European Alternatives With a file hosting service, users can upload files to back them up or share them with others.

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“…everything is going to be alright” – conflict, balance and resolution in law and policy 22nd August 2025 * In his 1992 memoir Fever Pitch, Nick Hornby describes his experience of a crush in a stadium at a 1980 match (before the tragedies later on that decade): “…there was a forty-thou…

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face— forever.” - George Orwell, 1984

Anthropic's CEO says that in 3 to 6 months, AI will be writing 90% of the code software developers were in charge of "And then in 12 months, we may be in a world where AI is writing essentially all of the code," Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said.

This was 6 months ago. I can only assume he was trying to pump the stock price, because these kind of wild proclamations about the future of AI are proving to be complete and utter bollocks.

I grew up in them there parts. The Old Smithy is a great spot for a pint in you’re up near the coast. Have fun counting trees!

The new Datastar homepage.

It finally happened – we launched the new Datastar site and V1 (RC) 🚀
It’s been an incredible journey, and I feel honoured to be working with people like @data-star.dev and Johnny Stevers. And there’s so much more yet to come!!
data-star.dev

Congratulations Angie! What a journey it’s been.

Talking Heads - Psycho Killer (Official Video) YouTube video by Talking Heads

The 50 year anniversary of Talking Heads’ debut. I used to sing this one in my 6th form band (badly, and usually drunk). @stach.uk I bet you can still do the bass youtu.be/CJ54eImz88w?...

Introducing: Webbed Sites A video from Webbed Briefs

📢 New video and a big announcement!

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Got some availability coming up from mid-June for illustration, comics and commissions. Hit me up if you have a project in mind and shares - as always - appreciated 🙏

Keir Starmer claims soaring immigration has done incalculable damage to UK economically and politically

Shameful bullish. What's done incalculable damage is a decade of pernicious falsehoods about immigration, while people who should know better refuse to counter the lies of the increasingly normalised far right.

Let's tackle those lies:

🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read.

He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords

Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:

This is high art

Those bastards penguins have been getting away with it this whole time. They can't fool us with that cutesy monogamous waddling crap. America is going to tariff the shit out of them.

The dream combo.

😂 🧼

Welsh tourist in US chained 'like Hannibal Lecter' Becky Burke's parents say her legs, waist and hands were secured by US immigration officers.

Hmm, don’t think we’ll be visiting the US again.

Same! However, you *can* do progressive enhancement with D*, as we both found out (even if it annoys the author!). And overall, it’s a more flexible framework with much better ergonomics, I think. So I’m going to keep a foot in both camps :)

I think this you’ve hit on a key philosophical distinction - htmx encourages progressive enhancement, D* emphasises real-time hypermedia. Both are valid approaches.

Sprig / htmx has history support baked in (including caching and scroll position restoration) so if it’s an important part of your multi-faceted search interface then it’s still a better choice, imo.

Multi-faceted search · putyourlightson craft-spark · Discussion #10 To get to grips with Spark / Datastar, I wanted to implement a drill-down style faceted search interface of the kind you might find on a shopping website. It's something I've often had to build ove...

Interesting article! I created something similar with Ben’s early version of Datastar for Craft (‘Spark’), and ended up creating a web component to manage history state: github.com/putyourlight...

I got push back from the D* dev about the history api, but he later changed his mind somewhat.

I remember your fabulous hair! Good times.

Post you from a different era.

1990-ish, rocking a paisley shirt for reasons.