Oli Lane
olane.bsky.social
Oli Lane
@olane.bsky.social
Software Engineer, UK
Incredible ratio though
January 8, 2026 at 12:36 PM
Not only the decision but the statement about “reverse discrimination” really made my blood boil. As an alum, extremely disappointed.
January 8, 2026 at 12:33 PM
As an alum, I was quite disgusted to see it was Trinity Hall when clicking through from the headline this morning. It sounds like many of the staff are not on board. I’ve sent a very strongly worded email, not that it will make much difference unless there are many others.
January 8, 2026 at 12:29 PM
Had to turn up my max flow to 60 this week (open therm so it will modulate). Leaky Victorian terrace though. And the big radiator behind the Christmas tree is turned down which doesn’t help.
January 7, 2026 at 10:01 AM
Hah, yes, “the pub scene in Cambridge is poor” can only possibly be read as true within about a mile of Great St Mary’s.
January 5, 2026 at 8:20 PM
I’m sorry but if it’s on BBC One at 9pm on a Friday night you simply cannot call it a podcast, “visualised” or not
January 2, 2026 at 9:08 PM
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just saw a billionaire pack all his things in a bindle and start leaving new york city on foot. he turned and looked at me with tears in his eyes and said “maybe one day when this city is safe we’ll return” before walking away
January 1, 2026 at 6:59 PM
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"Oxford's High Street booming, bucking national trend"

And this in a city where we've removed city centre parking and put in a congestion charge. Almost as if it's people who shop, not cars.

www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2573227...
Oxford high street demand returns to pre-pandemic levels
Oxford’s high street is bucking the national trend, with demand rising and vacancy rates low
www.oxfordmail.co.uk
January 1, 2026 at 10:36 AM
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Answers to the nine most common questions I get about the (now delayed) Leeds tram. tomforth.co.uk/tramquestions/
Tram questions.
Answers to the nine most common questions I've had about the Leeds tram proposals.
tomforth.co.uk
December 31, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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I could not love this transport poster more.
December 28, 2025 at 1:23 PM
They didn’t do this for safety. They did it because there’s now a 3 minute segment in any car review video that complains about things like heating controls, indicators, windscreen wipers etc not having proper buttons.

Touch screens aren’t going away for things like music and maps though.
December 28, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Very true. I have unfortunately found that video is the slowest to succumb to this because I guess the barriers to entry are higher and monetisation is easier. I get most of my reviews from YouTube and TikTok now. Still miss the multitude of anandtech style sites we used to have so many of though.
December 27, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Yeah true. They seem to be very easy to get _something_ out of and very hard to get something consistently good out of as a result. Which goes a long way to explaining all the extremely half baked AI integrations we now have.
December 27, 2025 at 9:39 AM
The best bit is I read some pretty middling reviews for the lower models and convinced myself not that the whole design sucked but that clearly it was worth going for the top of the line models because surely they didn’t have the same issues.
December 27, 2025 at 9:37 AM
On the plus side their text in text out nature makes them so much easier to swap between than you might expect. I’m sure they’re working very hard to fix that though.
December 26, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Oh my god same. How is there so much of a cult around such a shit product
December 26, 2025 at 10:53 PM
I think the UL already meets that description!
December 24, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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December 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Every year, people mock this tree. But I love it anyway.

It reminds us that if we stand together in tough times, we can overcome anything.

Merry Christmas from my family to yours. 🎄✨
December 24, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Yes. We need to stop commissioning so much infrastructure as big bang projects and move to more “X miles per year” style delivery pipelines. Boom and bust inefficiencies built into every step of the process right now.
December 20, 2025 at 12:56 PM
This one made me a bit sad! I don’t know if I’ll keep reading. But I appreciate the candour on the reasoning, and the thought put into it.
December 19, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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Oh
December 18, 2025 at 12:45 PM
I absolutely thought that was another @theonion.com ad page
December 17, 2025 at 12:53 PM
I’m afraid I don’t wonder whether any thought was involved
December 15, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Been paying for an Adobe Lightroom license for 11 years. They quietly upped the price by 50% this month, and have the temerity to demand an £83 cancellation fee just to cancel. This company can get in the bin.
December 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM