Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025
Cloudflare's explanation of what was behind the great outage of 2025.
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...
News API to Search & Collect Worldwide News - NewsData.io
A news API with a (not great but possibly useful) free tier. Could be handy as the backend for a fun application build.
Dozens of pro-Indy accounts go dark after Israeli strikes
Sure correlation is not causation but sometimes it's hard not to think it is.
JK Rowling called The National 'anti-woman' – here's my response
The National's response to JKR's nonsense.
‘It’s better for them than being in a cage!’ Why are cat cafes suddenly so controversial?
News article about how some folk (and I do wonder how few folk really) seem to think cat cafes are a bad thing.
Gulf of Yorkshire - God's Own County
Finally, the North Sea has a proper name!
The Dark Secrets Behind the Neil Gaiman Abuse Accusations
Archived version of the story that has even more details of the allegations against Neil Gaiman.
RemovePaywall | Free online paywall remover
Paywall removal tool. These seem to be a bit of a moving target (or rather the success with which they work is), so it's good to have a collection of them.
12ft.io - Remove paywalls
Tool to try and remove paywalls from news sites.
No, Apple Didn't Really Cut Vision Pro Production By 50%
Stories all over the place in April 2024 that Apple had cut production of the Vision Pro. Those stories might not be all they seem...
Two Stop Bits
Kinda like HackerNews, but for retrocomputing.
New sculpture by Kelpies artist unveiled in Edinburgh
That time I turned up in the background of a photo on the BBC news website; if you know where to look.