Edd Miles
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Edd Miles
@i.am.eddmil.es
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
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
Well that's weird as hell, the avatar and the header are there as blobs; I can find the reference to them in my accounts sqlitedb, but they're sat in the `blocks/tempt/<did>` folder, and don't ever seem to be getting processed into the main `blocks/<did>` folder. No errors in the pds logs either 🤷‍♂️
December 24, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Yeah, the blob store in the backup looks correct, so I'm not sure what's not working, but that's a tool I'd not heard of, so I'll give that a go and see if it fixes anything!
December 24, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Good to know posts are still working, but I can't set or change my avatar, Header image, or profile text :/
December 24, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I don't know about the others, but for Google Cloud at least, they don't tell you when they're out of GPUs. You have to click the button to actually start the instance, wait for it to process and cross your fingers that it decides to start instead of returning an error that it doesn't have capacity.
December 15, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Tbh "it received no development past its initial 0.1 release" is probably a good metaphor for the long term health of the AI industry.
July 27, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Phill's Doom (doomwiki.org/wiki/PDoom) will not accept this AI libel.
PDoom
PDoom (short for Phill's Doom) is a source port created in 1998 by Phill Harvey-Smith (Aurigae) based on DOSDoom v0.2. It received no further development past its initial v0.1 release.
doomwiki.org
July 27, 2025 at 8:29 PM
...And I still have to enter a TOTP code when I log in with a passkey, so let's knock another star off for that and go negative.
May 19, 2025 at 9:37 PM
This has to be the most reluctant repost I've ever given, but if I had to suffer that pun, everyone else must as well.
May 17, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Better photo, also cropped
March 29, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Sadly, I doubt it's that many. Most people don't use ad blockers anyway, and of those who do, most will get by with uBlock Origin Lite.
March 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Thinking back to a number of college and uni lectures that I failed to pay attention to, well. I definitely could have done better had I been diagnosed earlier. Still, better to find out now than wait *another* ten years.
March 6, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Why can't my brain think of these things *before* I deploy my overly elaborate contraptions?
February 26, 2025 at 7:57 AM
The one time my hometown club gets mentioned by John, and it's because we're 2-0 and a red card down 😭
February 11, 2025 at 8:36 PM