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  Today's #allotment harvest. Under the tomatoes are gherkins, tomatillo and achocha too.

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  It is a whole week since the last day of #EMFCamp and I finally have my #spaceagon actually talking to wifi again (since 2024 lol), updated, keyboard enabled, and otherwise #hexpansion populated. A couple of nice simple blingy new ones added this year, plus a couple of these "bender hats" from 2024 (one modified with a broken rainbow hat I found on the ground and repaired to wire in — just had to resolder this one and get it working again!) I do wish I had had time to hunt down some m...

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  First homegrown eggplants of the year!! 😍

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  Annoyingly there isn't enough UV around #EMFCamp to show off the UV luminescent part of my nail varnish stack. But at least the glow in the dark layers do a thing. Unfortunately my hands and nails are in a bit of a rough state after several days of event build and cellar work! 😅

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  At #EMFCamp still? Look out for our "puzzle" cards, be amused by Python being silly, find the URL, enter your details to be in the draw for a #Pimoroni Tufty badge with STEM kit. Looking for work? Dev, test, QARA, data, physiotherapy... Check us out: https://flok.health/careers — we're Cambridge (UK) based, with 4 days on-site — we're a small mob, recently series A funded, and have our tech deployed with NHS trusts right now, really helping people, and improving waiting lists...

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  Have been wishing I had time for #EMFCamp projects, I'm not short of ideas... just short of time, as ever. But it's fun to vicariously enjoy the projects, exasperations, and hints from others here... and I'll get to enjoy the fruits of these labours next week. So soon. Argh.

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  Right, what DECT phones should we get for #EMFCamp... the Gigaset A170H seems to be the most obvious low-hanging-fruit option. I'd kinda like something more slimline, but I am unsure of the options and don't want to spend >£100 on a pair (I mean, lower the better and and, and I was considering some 2nd hand options from eBay but I just want cheap/quick/reliable do getting a new A170 Duo set seems the obvious call.) I am assuming getting the two handsets from a "duo" set...

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  Eurgh, James Watt in the inbox offering "free equity" in his new beer business to former-BrewDog-equity-schmucks* How/why does he still have access to email the "shareholders" of his prepack-admined failed business... pffftttt... Fucking gall of the guy. I don't drink beer any more anyway lol. (I barely drink full-stop now, only for the sake of trying to optimise my productivity really, and to save the cost, booze is expensive.) * of which I am one, 0th round, 2009, a...

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  Very much an al fresco cooking sorta weather. Powerful flame time. Stir fry o'clock.

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  I do not have a "radio valves" problem. And I do not need one... But just over the way in Peterborough: "Large amount of radio valves stored in containers in shed moving and don't want to go in skip" https://freecycle.org/posts/101911394 I'm not sure what hashtags to put on #radio #valves lol... but yeah, if anyone wants a "large amount of rdio valves", there ya go. The post lacks... detail.

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  Do we have peak #Cambridge #FreeCycle here?

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  Well, the last episode Dead Loch season two is pretty fucking intense. That aside, its a good bit of Aussie comedy, if that's yer thing.

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  So cute! This is 48x lavender plugs from Sutton's (a UK online plant/seed retailer) — 24x Munstead, 24x Hidcote. Cost £8.99 inc delivery, that was mostly delivery. #gardening

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  I am guessing I should probably cull this claytonia before it spunks seeds all over my polytunnel bed... to avoid adding a claytonia problem to my rocket problem. #allotment #gyo

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  Some? None? I think I'm Done... (This is a Rust post... 😅 )

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  Busy WfH day, didn't do a load more than just work really... python yak flaying for an internal product release, and rust bug fixing to break up the monotony. We did pop down the allotment, to experience sun, downpour, and wind. Watered the usual bits. Felt joy at the beginning of the quince blossom. Sowed some mizuna and tatsoi seeds (for the slugs and pigeons?) Did some video, may actual publish a vlog, maybe, maybe not. Never time for it. Priorities! Also squeezed in a little pricki...

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  Uploaded a 4.5GB video file to utoob before I left the house this morning. Four minutes. Done. This used to take well over an hour on the BT connection. (This is a horribly unfair comparison, it isn't shade on BT really, we had an OK connection for what was damp rotten old copper... but the FTTP is like a whole other world by comparison.)

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  Claude is a barrel of laughs. It writes code. You ask it if the code it wrote is any good. It tells you its own code is smelly. The flag is the classic boolean flag argument smell Claude Code... sniffs its own farts.

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  Hm... anyone have to hand the approx number of people at #EMFCamp?

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  Finally managed another "vlog" — aka "allotment postcard" — a bit of an April plot tour, and also a tour of the state of our home seedling growing. https://youtu.be/sS1gmYJtgS4 It's a bit windy I'm afraid! #allotment #gyo

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  Seems to be some a couple of interesting album drops tomorrow. Interested to see what this Nine Inch Noize setup is going to bring. And I heard "the chicken is naked and afraid" today, which has me intrigued to queue up Something is a Shell from Sophia Isella.

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  Well, I guess that's what I am doing this weekend. About half of a VW Fox in these boxes I think.

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  I am hoping this idea improves my seed sowing game a bit. It crossed my mind the other day as I had seeds spread out on the table to remind me what to sow. We used to use the same idea to organise beer keg badges and pump clips. It's just a cheap "shoe organiser" with clear pockets (important!) from Evilzon. I expect it isn't fit for purpose to hold anything but the daintiest slippers, but it is perfect for seed packets! The idea is that the left column is t...

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  Unfortunately the more I use Python the less I like it. 😂 I am not convinced it is all that great a leap upwards from Perl. I miss C++ 🤪 I don't mean I hate Python or anything, it's fine... it's just another high level language, and in my head it's just going into the same bucket at PHP and Perl. I call it the "pee bucket". 🫠

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  Man, that was a bit of a brain-hurt... I just tried picking up #FreeCAD for the first time in many months and just kinda stared at it not even sure where to start. 😂 The task: turn an SVG into a cookie-cutter. A couple of Mango Jelly videos started the old pathways reconnecting themselves... And now, a whole damn 3 hours later, I've sent it to the 3D printer on a wing and a prayer. (Just swapped the ABS for PETG and lobbed the file at the printer, no attempt to calibrate or anything lol....

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  A celebration of weeds! (Weeds being any plant that grew/spread itself... so, yes, "volunteer" parsely is totally a weed.) #bloomscrolling #gardening #weeds

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  TIL: The company name of the Ninja kitchen appliance company is SharkNinja Eurpope Limited. Shark Ninja.

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  Hey, Fedi, throw me your favourite quickish, lowish carb, solidly "Italian" dinner recipes. I kinda feel pasta'd and risotto'd out at the moment. Most of what I can think of is chicken, and I kinda eat chicken every lunch time at the moment... it's not out-out, but it'd need to be pretty compelling. The pre-dinner shopping options are Tesco and a good local farm shop. Vegetarian is absolutely an option. I'm at work and the Italian cook books I'd normally tr...

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  So Italian Night dinner ended up being beans, as inspired by @julianlawson 's reply to my musings earlier. As it happened they have these Italian tinned beans in my favourite farm shop. This is what made my decision in the end. Said farm shop, has also recently started stocking wine including Italian reds — no Tesco needed! (The Bushel Box in Willingham, Cambridgeshire, FYI.) Started with celery and onion in olive oil and butter (I am out of EVOO at the moment, the horror), added fresh...

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  Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't... dark humour in the End Times. Little bits of joy and hope... https://youtube.com/shorts/65VeUJaQMok?si=vV5c5riCfOPj4YHQ