those are some skinny jeans

Milky Way over the Cuckmere meanders.

Milky Way over the Cuckmere meanders 🤩

Congratulations to Daniel Richards for winning the People's Choice award in our annual astrophotography competition with this impressive photo!

#InternationalDarkSkiesWeek

Choose Microsoft, choose a false sense of security, choose horrendous documentation, choose siloed working, choose incompatibility with anything else, choose co pilot, choose a culture set by technology.

Been asked by another org to go in and do this talk.

Have fun when you need to create a meeting series for a team but can’t mark yourself as not attending when on holiday, as it’ll just cancel the entire meeting

It’s fantastic, very moreish!

@pablobones.bsky.social Sir! I’ve run out of Boom Sauce. Where did you buy it from again? Was it Worthing or Brighton?

People are particularly prone when using off-the-shelf Al to produce insights without understanding the inherent risks. There are companies developing specialist Al tools who take care over accuracy, reliability and trustworthy outputs. But most enterprise LLMs, like Copilot, are generic - they can't guide you, and they don't let you configure many settings. (In fact, Copilot's terms state it's provided for entertainment purposes only.)

Heard this post is doing the rounds, being shared on a few Slack/Teams channels in gov depts. So for those that don’t know: boringmagi.cc/2026/04/02/r...

people who wait for you to open the train doors and then walk on first #names

Been meaning to come to this for years, maybe it should be my first one…

On the plains of northwestern Iran, edged by snow-ribboned ridges, spring nudges almond trees into frothy bloom and a fragile ceasefire brings more traffic onto highways, and more Iranians back to their homeland.

Lyse Doucet, you poet

It's International Dark Sky Week 💫🌠🌃

In the Yorkshire Dales National Park Dark Sky Reserve our dark nights enhance habitats for wildlife, improve health and wellbeing and brings economic benefit to our local tourist industry. More 👇

https://idsw.darksky.org/

📸 Pete Collins | #IDSW #DarkSkyReserve

Bluebells blanket the forest floor beneath beech trees as warm light filters through.

A carpet of bluebells fills the forest floor as sunlight filters through gaps in the dense trees.

Close-up of bluebells shot from below, with blurred trees and blue sky in the background.

A bluebell carpet spreads through a forest as sunlight pours through gaps in the trees, with a wooden gate standing at the centre of the scene.

This is your doom scrolling interruption ✋

Please enjoy some bloom‑scrolling instead - bluebell edition.

📸 credits:
1. Stuart East
2. Piers Fearick
3. Kathrin Ruehl
4. Alexander Swyer

Tiny nature reset complete 💜

@genmon.fyi > “If apps are cheap and abundant in the era of vibing, then let’s focus on interop!”

Heck yes!

Was worried about putting my email address on my website, but every now and then I get people saying hello, whom I don’t expect, which makes it all worth it.

A very stupid chart, which suggests that the number of Mr Blobby TV appearances moderately correlates with CPIH, a UK measure of inflation.

Day 15 of #30dayChartChallenge, correlation. Getting real stupid with it. It actually took me ages to find a source of data that would even mildly correlate. Spurious correlations are hard!
Colleague: "I don't know what to say".
Me: "Get me The Economist on the phone"?

Glad it’ll be helpful! Even if you don’t have LM Studio, Goose will recommend a model that can run on your machine via Ollama, so that’s pretty good.

Having a gander at Goose Playing with an open source AI agent to build powerful, automated workflows without subscriptions or data leaks.

Spent half the day fiddling about with my computer, because I am between contracts and avoiding getting quotes to redesign the garden. visitmy.website/2026/04/15/h...

It’s not, but two sections were just me summarising blog posts I’ve written – and those are public.

I’ll pull something together since @jukes.ie asked and needs reading materials!

Not entirely sure I can do one. I basically stitched together previous notes, my positions on generative AI and the Extract case study.

Although maybe it’s the glue which held those together that’s the ‘new’ post…

No hype, no fluff. AI as normal technology.

This was what I talked about.

On Waterfall Wednesday we're sharing this view of Wain Wath Force just north of the village of Keld in Swaledale.

#YorkshireDales #WaterfallWednesday

Short‑eared owl perched on a branch, looking directly at the camera, with softly blurred long grass and warm light behind it.

Looking for ways to take action and care for our dark skies? It's owl about the small actions🦉

We've pulled together a handy little guide on how you can play your part. Some even take as little as 15 seconds - yes, really.

Take a look ➡️ www.southdowns.gov.uk/dark-skies-h...

📸: Gary Smith

Which Manchester wine bar has the softest, most relaxing seating? Post-marathon plans are afoot…

You can hear that shit in your head clear as day

You were right!

Doing a talk on product and AI later. Feel a bit weird as I’m not presenting any frameworks or big research findings. It’s just the ethos and principles I used to approach a thing.

Which feels a bit self-centred? And it’s just vibes?

I’m not a fan of the style of barefoot shoes, although the Vivo bits are nice. Instead just looked for zero-drop shoes from other brands with a thin sole.

The toe box isn’t wide but Adidas Sambas are pretty much a barefoot shoe.

Interesting to note that most of the frontier models listed here could have exploited the Companies House issue with browser tokens.

That being said, what government *shouldn’t* do is still bleeding obvious!