Henge Finder
Fun site. Taking the watered-down version of what a henge is, this site helps you find streets that align with sunsets.
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Configure your repositories with .github
TIL: you can create a .github repo and it has special meaning.
Composing Text in Emacs: Unicode, Emojis, and the Power of C-x 8 | Rahul's Blog
Good overview of how to compose various characters in Emacs.
HN Wrapped 2025
A not-very-serious review of my view of Hacker News.
web2py/pydal: A pure Python Database Abstraction Layer
A fairly neat-looking DAL/ORM for Python.
sqlitedict
A kind of NoSQL wrapper for sqlite in Python; store Python dictionary objects in a sqlite database.
dataset 1.6.2 documentation
Python database wrapper for the lazy developer. The main selling point being:
dataset provides a simple abstraction layer that removes most direct SQL statements without the necessity for a full ORM model - essentially, databases can be used like a JSON file or NoSQL store.
PonyORM - Python ORM with beautiful query syntax
A Python ORM that seems to aim to be very Pythonic in its approach.
SondeHub Tracker
Site that tracks weather balloons. I have no use for it, but it's cool.
Please Just Fucking Try HTMX
I really should try HTMX one day...
What Actually Makes You Senior
Being in a senior role I find I often run into resistance, especially from product manegers, when it comes to trying to really get to the bottom of some requirement. Sometimes I find myself second-guessing if I should bother.
This article was a good reminder that I should bother.
QQQLANG
This... is awesome. Sit someone in front of this, let them mash the keyboard, fun happens.
How we pwned X (Twitter), Vercel, Cursor, Discord, and hundreds of companies through a supply-chain attack
Yet more supply chain fun.
Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work
A take on the use of "AL" in coding that I find fits my view.
Prompt injection is not SQL injection (it may be worse)
Nice little simple description of why "prompt injection" is so much worse than "SQL injection" so it's generally not a good idea to think of them as the same class of problem.
Next.js Security Update: December 11, 2025
Another week, another Next.js security problem.
Well, okay, two new security problems...
Hire Helsinki to be your new hometown
I keep getting this pop up as an advert on Reddit. If I could be tempted somewhere other than Scotland, it would be here, so it's weird that I keep getting it.
Not that I could ever move somewhere like Helsinki. I can't speak anythign other than English, and I suck at learning another language (over a year into trying to learn some Dutch, at this point, and getting nowhere).
Still, it's nice to dream...
Pony Tutorial
I doubt I'll ever have a need for it, but there's something about Pony that looks interesting. I think I might have to dabble at some point...
Digital ID - Hansard - UK Parliament
The UK Parliament debated the plan to introduce a digital ID. I have mixed feelings about this falling mostly on the no side; shades of the old No2ID campaign all over again.
The f*** off contact page - Nic Chan
A nice little rant about how many company websites have a contact page (or a lack of contact page) that is designed to discourage you from contacting them. Nothing says "we want your money now fuck off" like a "here's our knowledge base" link...
Transparent Leadership Beats Servant Leadership | Hacker News
One of those rare threads on HN where the comment threads are the better read than the article (and I don't think the article is a bad read). I've long been collecting articles related to leadership in tech, and this has some interesting opinions to consider.
Why I Ignore The Spotlight as a Staff Engineer
Thoughts on, in effect, getting on with the job and not chasing the spotlight.
macOS WM Directory
I never really think of macOS as an OS that has swappable window managers -- and I think that's correct for the most part -- but there are some neat ways of better managing windows. Here's a handy list to explore.
Critical Security Vulnerability in React Server Components – React
React doing React things...
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.