Month: June 2026
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Maybe "is AI a bubble?" is the wrong question
Emile Silvis asks 'is AI a bubble?' and delivers a concise and balanced view of the key factors - clocks, in this case - that impact the related question, 'do the cash flows arrive before the financing patience runs out?'. There are no answers here, but I've been watching those clocks and they smell like tulips to me... ๐ท
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Always reassuring when you fill in a company's contact form and the next page is placeholder text...
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Thanks For Your Enquiry title, followed by 'Aliquam vehicula laoreet lacus, ac vulputate purus vulputate...' etc.
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How the European heatwave fucked me up
I've been somewhat-offline for the last few days, after a heatwave lead to a heat illness lead to an opportunistic infection lead to me lying in bed and groaning. But I'm getting back to normal, slowly.
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Some mornings... you just gotta make a whole damn litre of coffee.
(for iced coffee purposes, of course; and definitely not just for me!)
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Demmy would like to know why I haven't turned off the UK's heatwave yet. ๐ฅต
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Close up of the face of a fawny French Bulldog with her tongue blepping out to the side.
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Iced coffee and air con. Possibly the only things that'll keep me sane, working in the UK's current heatwave (especially with the schools closed and kids sent home!).
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Dan, a white man with a small beard and a blue ponytail, holds a pint if iced coffee on front of a residential portable air conditioner unit.
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What Was Matt Thinking?
Ernie Smith from Tedium wrote about Matt's Script Archive, which back in the 1990s was a big part of how and why I learned to code in Perl. Let's take a trip down memory lane...
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F-Day plus 130
A hundred and thirty days since we got flooded out of our home, and remedial works are starting to ramp up. Today an electrician, tracing a fault that's developed in the wiring, cut a hole through a wall to repair it and threw up so much dust that it's hard to see anything!
I was nearby, helping a restoration company assess the damage to the ride-on lawnmower that was in the garage and whose motor hasn't started since (the garage saw some of the deepest water that hit us), when I heard the fire alarm and went to check on them. All is well: we don't need to add 'fire' to the list of disasters befalling our house this year! -
Setting the width of selects to the width of the selected option
Sometimes a new CSS feature comes along and I immediately "get it". Like: that's a cool new feature, I can already see how it'll save me time, or make things simpler, or improve accessibility, or allow me to do something new. Other times...
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Found GC9P505 Paddington Bear & friends (Leicester Square)
A morning meander around the local (mostly virtual) caches under the guise of checking the condition of the West End Live queue, while the rest of my group enjoyed a lie-in, eventually brought me to take a seat alongside this iconic bear. TFTC!
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Found GCBJ704 Seven Dials Sundial
Approaching from the West I was foiled by the glare of the rising sun in my efforts to claim this fascinating monument from afar and eventually had to walk all the way past it to line up my photo!
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Found GC38EQ3 Underground
Initially thought I'd be able to find this one without the hint, but when I couldn't get fix to closer than 8m I took a peep at it and was instantly aware of where to search. Soon the cache was in hand and I was back on my way. TFTC!
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Found GC240NQ West End 1 - The Beatles
Stood around for a bit reading about David Bowie while I waited for the waitstaff -on their pre-work fag break down the alleyway - stopped their muggling and went inside. Glad I came early while it was quiet here! TFTC.
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Found GC5E4E Catastrophe, Calamity, Cataclysm Part 4
Can't do the physical today, but scooping a pic with the virtual during a morning walk around the neighbourhood.
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Found GCAJJCJ Piccadilly Circus (Virtual Reward 4.0) ใ
After nine hours on my feet yesterday queuing for and then attending the first day of West End Live in Trafalgar Square, I somehow decided that the best thing for my poor legs would be to get up early while everybody else slept in, to come walk around and find a virtual or two. Right around the corner from my hotel, this was the first!