Peter Hicks

Obama addressing the Jesse Jackson Celebration of Life. Boy, have I missed calm, competent and coherent presidents

Hurry up, May - I want my annual dose of Devoxx!

A headline from the BBC News website reading "Rapper Ghetts jailed over fatal hit-and-run"

Good wordplay for a bad deed

It’s two syllables more than he can comprehend

Each time the orange one opens his beak to give a short (well, long) blast of hot air, I visualise him as Mayor Quimby from The Simpsons

Thank you, this is the timeline cleanse that I needed

Fairies, Fakers and Factories: boost you tests with better test data by Jaap Coomans YouTube video by Devoxx UK

Once again, going to @devoxx.uk has helped me work better. I needed some test data for an application for a customer, and remembered @jaapcoomans.nl's talk on DataFaker www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lKz...

Result? A delighted customer and a happy developer :)

Four stacks of tiny little pancakes

We're adults and we can have pancakes whenever we like - not just Shrove Tuesday

'Being detained at your brother's pleasure' will never not be funny

I needed to optimise some code that took about 20 minutes to process a file - it's within the 30 minutes the client is happy with, but I can do better.

A few minutes work and it's down to 10 seconds. That'll do!

I did the same, except managed to turn up a week early. This time of the year…

Oh, that's where I left my sense of humour

Hot sewage in your area.

endless.downward.spiral - is this the beginning of the end of What3Words? Long-time readers know that I am not a fan of What Three Words. I think it is a closed, proprietary, and user-unfriendly attempt to enclose the commons. I consider that it has some dangerous failure m...

endless.downward.spiral - is this the beginning of the end of What3Words?
shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/02...

"I was hacked"

I am delighted to be reviewing a rail industry report which has plentiful xkcd references within it, all of which amplify the points being made!

I'll go with either Shadwell looking south to Wapping, or Rotherhithe looking south to Canada Water

I hope all the AI boosters understand that they’re training their kids that only chumps do things the hard way—by working diligently and going through the discomfort and hassle of learning and acquiring skills.

And also teaching them that a 30% error rate is good enough.

A picture of Reading station, showing the 11:11 departure to London Paddington departing from platform 11A

More eleven!

A notification of an email received, saying that a "Who Gives A Crap" package (containing toilet paper) is being delivered by Evri

A very appropriate courier

A screenshot of the TfL Rainbow Board showing a good service on all lines

Well, we've got plenty of scope for... things

A screenshot of the TfL Rainbow Board showins a good service on all lines

I disagree - I'd go for *excellent* service

Output of Maven showing it's downloading a file from a path including 'jackson-module-mrbean'

Ecce homo qui est faba

The slow burning jokes are the best

GitHub - poggs/os-opendata-downloader: Scripted download of Ordnance Survey Open Data Scripted download of Ordnance Survey Open Data. Contribute to poggs/os-opendata-downloader development by creating an account on GitHub.

Useful stuff - a Node.js script to download OS Open Data. Run it as a scheduled task to keep your stash up-to-date github.com/poggs/os-ope... #opendata #dataviz

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Agreed - also make sure you treat servers like cattle and not pets. Fortunately, this was a non-live environment :D

It's wonderful that I can deploy a change to an entire server estate with a single command. It's less wonderful when I forget to stagger the deploy...

What the fuck is going on