Matthew Somerville
@dracos.co.uk
I help people report broken street lights, find out their bin day, plan train travel, manage an orchestra, locate the nearest postbox, research old theatre productions, keep time in a choir, and occasionally play board games | https://dracos.co.uk
Ha, if I’d ever used any health thing, but no, I’d forget to wear a watch half the time if I had one. Perhaps yes, something that just checked something I would check. “Has he checked his bank account in the past month”; can’t trust a wordle type thing because I have no consistency there either.
January 12, 2026 at 6:29 PM
Ha, if I’d ever used any health thing, but no, I’d forget to wear a watch half the time if I had one. Perhaps yes, something that just checked something I would check. “Has he checked his bank account in the past month”; can’t trust a wordle type thing because I have no consistency there either.
I do sometimes in my more morbid (or sensible planning?) moments wonder about website succession/handover. Some way of having my website know I am no longer around would be useful. But I would definitely forget to check in. Some form of authenticated process to follow, much like a will, I guess.
January 12, 2026 at 5:18 PM
I do sometimes in my more morbid (or sensible planning?) moments wonder about website succession/handover. Some way of having my website know I am no longer around would be useful. But I would definitely forget to check in. Some form of authenticated process to follow, much like a will, I guess.
Don’t worry, Masalla Merchant will never close while we’re around ;-)
January 11, 2026 at 7:54 PM
Don’t worry, Masalla Merchant will never close while we’re around ;-)
So a child’s drawing of a house? :) Or a square based pyramid I guess, might be trickier!
January 11, 2026 at 2:09 PM
So a child’s drawing of a house? :) Or a square based pyramid I guess, might be trickier!
Seems to be, still meets the legal definition, at least!
January 10, 2026 at 4:16 PM
Seems to be, still meets the legal definition, at least!
There were 22 in the 74g bag, so I assume 11. Good portion, but not sure worth a pound either (my current tactic is to buy Tony’s Chocolonely big bars in bulk and make each last a week ;) ).
January 10, 2026 at 3:09 PM
There were 22 in the 74g bag, so I assume 11. Good portion, but not sure worth a pound either (my current tactic is to buy Tony’s Chocolonely big bars in bulk and make each last a week ;) ).
Those ones don’t appear to be stored in code, but in a database of some sort, so they’ll have to remove those themselves ;-)
January 9, 2026 at 9:24 PM
Those ones don’t appear to be stored in code, but in a database of some sort, so they’ll have to remove those themselves ;-)
The "quietly debuted" link still has a superfluous ] at the end, HTH.
Markdown reminds me of making a smaller version of the UK coronavirus dashboard, one part of which was a client side Markdown parser... dracos.co.uk/wrote/corona...
Markdown reminds me of making a smaller version of the UK coronavirus dashboard, one part of which was a client side Markdown parser... dracos.co.uk/wrote/corona...
Looking at coronavirus.data.gov.uk - Matthew Somerville
dracos.co.uk
January 9, 2026 at 5:56 PM
The "quietly debuted" link still has a superfluous ] at the end, HTH.
Markdown reminds me of making a smaller version of the UK coronavirus dashboard, one part of which was a client side Markdown parser... dracos.co.uk/wrote/corona...
Markdown reminds me of making a smaller version of the UK coronavirus dashboard, one part of which was a client side Markdown parser... dracos.co.uk/wrote/corona...
I put up dracos.co.uk/made/bluesky... a few weeks ago, for actual deleted posts (where you can still get the user, but obviously not the post). Guess I could add blocked posts to that, though bookmarklet makes more sense
dracos.co.uk
January 9, 2026 at 5:48 PM
I put up dracos.co.uk/made/bluesky... a few weeks ago, for actual deleted posts (where you can still get the user, but obviously not the post). Guess I could add blocked posts to that, though bookmarklet makes more sense
Perhaps I’d have made it more fancy looking if I’d known. I’ve added a sunrise ;)
January 9, 2026 at 1:41 PM
Perhaps I’d have made it more fancy looking if I’d known. I’ve added a sunrise ;)
Morrisons in Stirchley has exactly this (well, not 100m away but one in deli, one in dairy, yep)
January 9, 2026 at 7:07 AM
Morrisons in Stirchley has exactly this (well, not 100m away but one in deli, one in dairy, yep)
EC4R 3AE is by the north bank and that’s 100%. SE1 9RQ is by the south bank and that’s only 93% (as not within the historic wall). So I imagine the middle of the bridge would be the same as the south side
January 8, 2026 at 5:48 PM
EC4R 3AE is by the north bank and that’s 100%. SE1 9RQ is by the south bank and that’s only 93% (as not within the historic wall). So I imagine the middle of the bridge would be the same as the south side
If that turns out to be the case, the trick there in case you don’t know - when you arrive at 1a walk down the platform to the other end 1b, and go up the 1b escalator, then you walk straight down to 11b without any ticket gates which there would be if you went up the 1a end
January 8, 2026 at 12:44 PM
If that turns out to be the case, the trick there in case you don’t know - when you arrive at 1a walk down the platform to the other end 1b, and go up the 1b escalator, then you walk straight down to 11b without any ticket gates which there would be if you went up the 1a end