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New Jan 3, 2025
Server isn't sending content length [blog]
As part of the ZX Spectrum community I wrote a tool that can download content over HTTP from a ZX Spectrum Next, but one prerequisite is that the content-length header is present (so it operate...
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New Dec 31, 2024
My 2024 [blog]
This year zipped past for me, mostly because I had my eye on an event in November for most of the year, but here we are: the close of '24 and on the doorstep of '25. In this post I'll try to remind my...
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New Dec 27, 2024
Starter Villain [book]
Cats…sentient cats. A fun, good length book that doesn't take itself too seriously (which, sentient cats is probably the first clue). On reflection (and since the blurb already gives this away), the...
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New Nov 30, 2024
FFConf 2024 [blog]
Our 16th year, 17th outing (it's complicated with doubles for 3 years and skipping the pandemic years…) completed two weeks ago, and it is high time I post my thoughts. There are two parts this post...
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New Nov 27, 2024
The Answer Is No [book]
Brief, sadly, on all aspects. I knew this was a short read, and having come out of Frank Herbert's Dune at almost 900 pages, a nice little chomp down on a Backman book was exactly what I...
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New Nov 24, 2024
Dune (Dune Chronicles, #1) [book]
Incredible world building, but I definitely felt the story lost me multiple times. I've watched Dune 1 and 2 before having read this book, so I had a distinct advantage that Denis Villeneuve's version...
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New Nov 5, 2024
Build and run online services _easily_ [link]
I find this very cool that the Gov.uk / GDS have released their platform tooling (in particular forms) to the public sector.I can imagine it's a jump to go from project in the public sector to being...
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New Nov 2, 2024
The Open Source AI Definition – 1.0 [link]
There's now an official definition of "open source AI", which companies like Facebook have been using (prior to this definition) to effectively attempt to convince us (Devs) that the models...