It really pisses me off how Chromecast was deliberately turned from something useful to absolute rubbish. AFIACS, there is no way for me to cast a document (e.g. slides) to a chromecast device. Lots broken links to apps or features that no longer exist. Am I missing something?

They'll never be a more devastating read than kids imagining what it's like to be 40

I mean, Jennifer was bang on about the hills

Once out from under all the book signing, I really hope Matt Parker does a video on Wyrmwood's gyroid dice, because the nerdery is strong with these. youtube.com/watch?v=ZDz8vk…

I wish I could bottle up this feeling of communal joy

I like watching Masterchef UK, primarily because the underscore slaps *hard*! Way more quality and attention to detail, especially the timbres, than incidental music usually gets. Looked it up, looks like it's by Mark Doggett youtube.com/@MarkDoggettco… Kudos. I dig it.

I feel seen. Observed, you might say.

An example. The drum loop hits hard when it lands. youtu.be/9g5e5LSMJp8?t=…

Right, I am migrating off bitwarden for my personal passwords. What an absolute enshittification example. GO AWAY. I DO NOT WANT YOU TO MANAGE MY 2FA I WANT TO USE THE 2FA I HAVE CONFIGURED, NOTHING ELSE What a joke

Timing.

Two Public Lectures by the mighty George Davey Smith in Oxford! We're hosting george davey smith to do two talks at Jesus College Oxford on Sept 30th: a wide ranging public lecture at 5pm, and a tough technical one on MR at lunchtime. COME! bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2024/08/c…

Fantastic article with practical tips on how to instrument with open-telemetry. Wish I'd had this 2 years ago!

Made a spoken video about faith. How it can be used and abused. As a person of faith, who wrestles with faith - it’s one of my biggest sources of hope and frustration. *Lovely lovely team to work with. youtu.be/tu2ygl8xzqU?si…

There are many engineering archetypes, but these two help me most when talking to leadership: - Engineers as application builders & integrators - Engineers as infrastructure builders If you hire an infrastructure builder to build applications and integrations, they will cause a

It’s lucky we have a famously competent state, a well-funded health service, & courts with plenty of time on their hands, or I’d be worrying that this is a terrible decision

We really enjoyed welcoming so many people to our OpenSAFELY Community Symposium in London last week. We're making videos of every session, so there'll be an archive for those who couldn't make it In the meantime, here's a little teaser :) youtube.com/watch?v=Pv_Z9r… #OpenSAFELY

This list of all dinosaurs at the National History Museum is pretty fun. h/t Jon Massey 🐄 📊 Possibly of interest to Tom Holland ? nhm.ac.uk/discover/dino-…

I've been fascinated by a special type of programmer, the devs who don't use IDE features like: -autocomplete/copilot -LSP - go-to-def What allows them to just rawdog text editors? Do they have superhuman coding ability? I asked them and here is a thread of what they said:

I feel seen