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  FFS. Literally the only thing I even marginally like LLMs for (Pull Request reviews, because it's a total pedant) now seems shonky.

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  RE: https://wikis.world/@depthsofwiktionary/117093290280031483 This just reminded me of a call I was on recently when a colleague warned others not to do $thing in case they get "porned".

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  The English FA in 2026, everyone. You know, a mere 61 years after metrication. Feet and inches are literally the stupidest measurement system. Why would anyone use that when metric measurements exist and are the default for your country? FFS. Football is run by morons.

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  If this turns out to be meaningful rain, it'd be *very* welcome. We've had zero significant rain here since March - so ~5 months. For much of that time it's been 30-35℃. 75% of England and all of Wales is in drought currently. In south oxfordshire we've had a hosepipe band for quite a while now. Anyone who isn't convinced about climate change needs to stop smoking whatever they're smoking and look outside. We've officially f**ked up a...

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  Saw the RayBan Smart Glasses display whilst on holiday. Couldn't help thinking this.

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  Infantino is definitely upping his grift game...no doubt inspired by his new best pal, the king of all blatant grifts. FIFA -> bin, Infantino -> Jail/Mars/The North Sea https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c8xng9894z0o

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  Long shot...does anyone know any details about AS213802 - "tianfeng (hong kong) communications limited" AKA TFTel? We saw what looks like a crawler make a chunk of requests from IP addresses geoip'd in China (which may be inaccurate) so I checked them out... - HTTP only website - Made up or massively out of date map location - Text looks very generic (could be a poor machine translation though) All in all, they look a bit fishy. I suspect this is traffic from their customer thou...

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  You know who's missing from this, right?

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  TIL @Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net has mouse gestures. Reminds me of HP VUE we used at uni. Very cool, using that for sure.

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  That's a powerful look. #CatsOfMastodon #Cats https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0nx55f9

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  England Vs Argentina last night was *busy*! Easily the busiest ever live event on the BBC (I can't give you streaming stats, sorry). On my logging pipeline (subset of BBC logs): - Peak: 2.2M row/s (105GB/s) - Total: 20.1B rows (16.4TB), 2.7M log files - 0 write fails - 0 duplicated rows - Peak: 1035 Cloud Run containers @ 2x CPU each ∴ 2070 CPU Best bit is that we did precisely nothing, it all just worked. #WebStats #WorldCup #BBC

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  I noticed that a *lot* of the crawlers/bots we see on www.bbc.co.uk & www.bbc.com are spoofed e.g. a "Meta" crawler coming from 10s of different small ISPs across the world (the real one comes from a Meta ASN). I deployed a change this morning which adds source ASN validation (alongside user-agent string analysis) to our "known crawlers/bots" classifier & well, the results speak for themselves. Attached graphs show RPS from "known craw...

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  TCP RTT for a BBC telemetry service by country from end user/client to closest CDN [1] PoP. Larger, redder circles are slower/worse. This neatly illustrates the global web performance divide. TCP: Transmission Control Protocol RTT: Round Trip Time PoP: Point of Presence [1] I can't name the CDN, sorry, corp/competition rules. #WebDev #CDN #WebPerf #WebPerformance

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  Just been catching up on the news. #JLR #Ransomware #infosec https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy9pdld4y81o

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  Amount of AI I use at work: 0 Amount I am falling behind my peers: Also 0 Maybe AI is a thing for some people but not for me.

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  Microsoft/GitHub should offer an easy way for enterprise orgs to fund packages/maintainers. How about something like: Enterprise orgs allocate whatever monthly/annual amount they choose & GitHub uses the package manifest files to divide that amount up based on the org pref - e.g. % based on usage or even split or a custom setup - maybe with exclusions. Feels like a major reason orgs don't fund maintainers is it's too fiddly & time-consuming & needs contr...

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  Now I've thought of this I can't un-think it

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  TIL Jamie Oliver (chef) has his own ASN

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  Any personal recommendations (not search results please) from UK folks for a small UPS to cover our ONT, router, switches and a WIFI access point? Ideally something fairly compact, I don't want it to be rackmount. If it could do a few hours at something like 60-70W, that'd be fine.

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  Sweet! Orban is in the bin. Let's keep this rolling everywhere. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2d8zw2d3rkt

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  Looks like www.bbc.com is now blocked in Belarus. This started around April 4th 2026 & covers the most popular (for us) ISPs in Belarus. Traffic is down ~95%. Seems to be DNS spoofing. DNS test results from: - https://dashboard.censoredplanet.org/observatory.html - https://explorer.ooni.org/chart/mat?probe_cc=BY&since=2026-03-08&until=2026-04-09&time_grain=day&axis_x=measurement_start_day&axis_y=domain&test_name=web_connectivity&...

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  @jon This may actually be the best photo of all time

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  "My son is about to take his 40th flight - we are extreme day trippers" ``` s/day trippers/polluters ``` The kid is 6 years old. Imagine the pollution they've created. #Pollution #Environment #ClimateChange https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce84zd68242o

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  We're (BBC) recruiting a Technical Product Manager to work in a team for which I cover architecture: BBC Media Analytics. Scope: UK residents, full time Location: Hybrid (1d/week in London) Salary: £65-75k (35 hour week) Closes: 2026-03-18 (apols, I just found out) The team builds & runs our Media Analytics (logs, stats) service which runs on AWS & processes 10s of billions of data points per day inc. realtime stream telemetry from iPlayer/Sounds. Shares/Qs welcomed h...

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  I just found 4x responses in our server logs which have a `content-type` of `image/html`. Even better, turns out they're `301` redirects. #WebDev #HTTP

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  Google Cloud Storage now has a batch operations API. I've not used it but you basically feed it bucket name(s) and prefix(es) or object names and the operation to run and it'll go away and do it for you - apparently across "billions of objects". Super handy for e.g. adjusting permissions/metadata/compression across an existing collection. There's Terraform support: https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/google/latest/docs/resources/storage_b...

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  "...two malicious versions of the widely used axios HTTP client library published to npm: axios@1.14.1 and axios@0.30.4...[which installs] a `postinstall` script that acts as a cross platform remote access trojan (RAT) dropper, targeting macOS, Windows, and Linux" My `package.json` files across 4 projects: ``` "axios": "1.14.0" ``` https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/axios-compromised-on-npm-malicious-versions-drop-remote-access-trojan #NodeJ...

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  I've had to deploy a spare laptop for my cat to sleep on. He was on my work laptop and managed to turn it off whilst I was mid-work. #CatsOfMastodon #Cats

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  Hidden Agenda: Is it love? Super chilled D&B track from the mid 90's (on one of my "for work" playlists). Warning: YouTube Music (because I never found anything with better privacy that has the content) https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=82SJvmuqg5c&list=PL5ghxDVI5u92razjwAxVqhquIM-7PGtrd