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Edd Miles
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Cambridge-based professional nerd, currently trying out self-hosting a Bluesky PDS instance.

This profile is likely to be a mix of tech crap, dog pics, and football rants about my beloved Crewe Alexandra

I am also @[email protected] on Mastdon
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As with many things, I love Terry Prachett's take on this in The Truth, where at the end Mr Tulip understands what it means to actually be sorry for your sins, and Mr Pin... Does not.
January 27, 2026 at 9:54 PM
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I no longer use #Amazon, but I still keep my account so I can access my old purchases; I saw they've got #passkey support now, so I decided to test it out.

0/5 stars. One of these is the default *Android* provider, the other is a Yubikey. And I can't rename them even if I could tell them apart.
Screenshot of the Passkey page of my account on amazon.co.uk. Two passkeys are listed, both with the Apple logo by them, and the title 'iCloud Keychain'. Underneath each is the setup date, both of which are set to today. The only other option on display is the trash can to delete them.
May 19, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Better photo, also cropped
March 29, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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The moon has begun eating the sun! Paniiic!

(Forgive potato quality photo, I'm stuck using a seven year old phone camera through a pair of cheap cardboard eclipse glasses :p)

#Eclipse
March 29, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Me: I can't drink Monster on my new meds, so I'll play a game to keep my mind off the caffeine withdrawal. I know, I haven't played Death Stranding yet, so I'll give that a go.

Death Stranding:
Photograph of my Steam Deck sitting in my lap. On the screen, Death Stranding is being played. The current scene shows a table, and on top of the table are five cans of Monster Energy arranged haphazardly. The player's reticule is over one of the cans, and there is a prompt on screen telling the player to press X to drink a can of Monster.
January 18, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Never let it be said that I write unprofessional documentation.
Screenshot of a subset of documentation being written in Google drive. The text reads: b. Hit the three dot menu again, and choose “Reassign to another project” and move it to the <redacted> project c. Get an error message telling you to wait 20 minutes. d. Wait 20 minutes. Contemplate what you did to make Google hate you enough to make this step necessary.
January 13, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Did I just push a noop change to the git repo backing my website, just so the automated build system would update the copyright date on my website? Yes. Yes I did, 'cos seeing 2025 on there feels like THE FUTURE.
Cropped screenshot of the footer of the homepage of my website, focused on the text reading 'Copyright © 2025 Edd Miles'
January 1, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Merry #Christmas everyone, not getting tooooooo dressed up this year.
Full length photograph of me, a late-thirties white man with brown hair, standing in the kitchen. I am wearing a red suit absolutely covered in Christmas imagery, such as candy canes, gingerbread men, presents, Christmas trees etc. my beard is adorned with 8 beard baubles, coloured red, white, gold, and green. I am holding a glass of prosecco in my right hand. In front of me, two dogs are walking around me, a grey and brown beagle and a brown Labrador.
December 25, 2024 at 2:07 PM