Section 75 Consumer Credit Act
Saving this as I might need to finally make use of it...
.Net devs argue with Copilot in a PR...
Folk on the .Net team having an argument with Copilot is the most funny thing to me at the moment.
Paged Out!
I miss good geeky programming magazines. This looks like just the thing. Also it's free online, has RSS, has PDFs, etc; and you can buy a printed copy if you wish. Nice!
GDPR Enforcement Tracker - list of GDPR fines
It's often you get told or hear that nobody ever gets fined under the GDPR. Here's a site that shows that really isn't the case at all.
Air Loom - 3D Flight Tracker
Pretty neat visualisation of aircraft flight paths, all in 3D. Little bit bare but also fun; I can imagine it getting more comprehensive over time.
AI will write your next compiler!
The blog post that explains the background of the horrific Ocaml AI-written PR. Honestly... this feels like some post hoc rationalisation cope rather than a coming clean of an honest attempt to test something out.
I'm not convinced at all.
Stopslopware
Pretty funny, but also on the nose, website relating to the issue of slopware. We're seeing more and more of it at the end of 2025.
GitLab discovers widespread npm supply chain attack
Yet another week; yet another supply chain attack...
DWARF support for macOS and Linux by joelreymont · Pull Request #14369 · ocaml/ocaml
This has to be a classic example of what I think of as a toxic AI-spawned PR.
“The Fall Of Icarus”: Astrophotographer Snaps Skydiver Falling In Front Of The Sun In Spectacular Photo
This is some fantastic dedication to getting a specific shot.
Unflipgame
Neat little game that reminds me of an even more clever take on what 5x5 seeks to do.
Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025
Cloudflare's explanation of what was behind the great outage of 2025.
From the shortcuts community on Reddit: Google Keep to Apple Reminders
I'm in a household that is split between Apple and Google. I think this might become useful.
AI World Clocks
Pretty funny site that gives an indication at how good various LLMs are at understanding a request to write some code.
A Commentary on the Sixth Edition Unix Operating System
I've owned a copy of Lions' for a long time; perhaps 25 years at the time of writing. I'm pretty sure it was one of the firts books I ordered from this wee book-selling website called Amazon, back in 1999.
Here's an online version.
Body Battery for Apple Watch : r/AppleWatch
The reddit post where I first discovered BodyState. For a year or so this remained a really useful and focused app that did what I needed. As of November 2025 it's been sold to a company who are starting to ruin it already.
Such a shame.
Learn Dutch phrases, vocabulary and grammar – Understanding Dutch
Useful-looking site with resources for learning Dutch.
Cloudflare Pages
I use GitHub pages a lot. They work. But I also feel that all-eggs-in-one-basket isn't a great idea. I should look at playhing with Cloudflare Pages at some point.
I’m autistic and don’t speak. Here’s what I want you to know
Interesting insight into being on the spectrum and being non-verbal.
Conflicts at Work
I'm not sure I quite agree with all the content here, but I do like the overall breakdown. Having worked with some very disagreeable people, and having worked with people in a leadership position who could not handle any form of disagreemnt (I should blog my startup experience one day...), this does hit a few points I recognise.
Why “Everyone Dies” Gets AGI All Wrong
"Everyone Dies" is on my to-read list. From what I've seen it sounds pretty alarmist, but also that feels like that's the point. This article seems pretty negative on it (not that I've read the article at the time of saving this) so I'm keeping a link to this to read at some point in the future, once I've read the book.
Everything I know about good API design
Interesting article to consider when thinking about what is and isn't a good API design.
The Mission - From Wayne....November 10th, 2026, will mark...
One of my favourite bands playing one of my favourite albums at one of my favourite places in the UK.
VERY tempting...
Glyph Party - Unicode Character Search
Handy website for looking up emojis and so on.
Interactive Noise Map - Airspace Change Proposal
Map of noise around Edinburgh and the Lothians caused by Edinburgh airport.
Mistakes I see engineers making in their code reviews | Hacker News
Interesting article relating to ideas on how to conduct a good code review. I've chosen to link to the Hacker News thread where I first found it, rather than the blog post itself, because this is one of those HN threads where the comments are a worthwhile read too.
AWS Outage—What Happened And What To Do Next
A review of the great us-east-1 AWS outage of 2025.
Why Large Language Models Won’t Replace Engineers Anytime Soon
In short: an attempt at a mathematical proof as to why humans won't be replaced by LLMs any time soon.
Not sure I have the background to really follow all of this, and I'm not sure this is as reassuring as some might want it to be; but it's an interesting read. Finally I sense the "replacement" won't happen or fail to happen because of facts of the world, but because business will decide it's for the best and will cause things to collapse.
Why everything you thought you knew about your immune system is wrong
There's folk I know who seem to thnk they're experts on how the immune system works, and who offer terrible unsolicited advice any time someone has a cold, or the flu, or whatever. It almost always relates to crap based off their own health-freak bias founded in ignorance.
This should be a good article to start with to tackle such bollocks.
AI has a cargo cult problem
I'm not sure I really quite agree with the article, especailly the "cargo cult" side of things, I can see where it's coming from and I think I'd agree in some ways.