Keith Williams
@keithwilliams.bsky.social
CTO, gardener, sometime artist, lives in Old York. Really just here to read interesting threads and articles!
Art
26%
Communication & Media Studies
16%
“So close to Rawcliffe but just don’t look at the houses behind us on Water Lane”
The mental model problem is what I ran up against when we tried to vibe code a full app - the result was a lot of re-writing!
Had a temp job at York Council planning enforcement; they said “we have a project to build a database of enforcement cases in Word.”
“Why not Access?” asked I, remembering GCSE-level IT.
“Oh we haven’t been trained on that!” said they.
“I’m sure I can figure it out” I said.
“Why not Access?” asked I, remembering GCSE-level IT.
“Oh we haven’t been trained on that!” said they.
“I’m sure I can figure it out” I said.
Different narrator for the various stories IIRC
Hot mug of tea and a water bottle for that man
Even just replace it with “I’m not certain, but…”
Give your IT meaningful glares for doing their jobs
I never approve requests for ReSharper until I have seen them using the full range of automated refactoring already available in VS (so far I’ve signed off on one copy in 20 years)
Vicarious cats are the way to go, there’s a pair of white Persians who occasionally visit the garden. Sorry to hear about your cat, it sounds like they had a good run too
Saying goodbye to this gentle, ridiculous animal tomorrow. He’s had a good run, 15 years, 14 of them with us. I understand now why my parents didn’t want to go through this again after their last cats went.
This is not comforting.
Very few - I suspect people view the final sum arriving in their banking app and then don’t look any closer unless that changes.
News article about a house that’s been upgraded to Passivhaus spec… and they’ve paved over the front garden
“Gone on fire.”
Someone made the point that the big frustration is that politicians don’t seem able to actually get anything done.
So this strategy aims to reassure people by… sowing them we can’t get anything done
So this strategy aims to reassure people by… sowing them we can’t get anything done
Certainly the Georgian buildings were, but the upper floors have been mostly dusty store rooms. Quite interesting reading the heritage reports when they’re up for change of use
There’s some tentative steps in York - turning empty upper floors of shops into flats.
9 year old: “It’s no good, I’ve watched everything. It’s emergency measures.”
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Me: “Oh, ‘That Christmas’ - has it come to that?”
9yo: “I said it was desperate times”
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Me: “Oh, ‘That Christmas’ - has it come to that?”
9yo: “I said it was desperate times”
Alaska can come too…
Found a bunch in Bristol city archives whilst researching my dissertation 20-odd years ago - “bawdy-house” seemed to be the phrase in the 1830s
We’re almost able to solve some of the problems caused by using our software in the first place.
Hadn’t heard of that, will take a look!
“System of—“
“Head slapping.”
“Head slapping.”
Built by Lord Armstrong, of Vickers & Armstrong fame. He did a lot of other stuff, but he made a lot of money selling arms to Japan, Persia, and others.
Love visiting Cragside in the autumn (whilst awkwardly hmm-hmmming away the arms dealer money that built it all)
Finally, some good news
Keith Williams
@keithwilliams.bsky.social
· Oct 22
My sympathies from the world of procurement tech!
Keith Williams
@keithwilliams.bsky.social
· Oct 22
I don’t think I could have managed that