Nic
@nic-shef.bsky.social
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Software engineer / dev manager. Knows too much about SCORM.
Software engineer / dev manager. Knows too much about SCORM.
Had to smarten it up
A fun little start... www.kodaworks.dev
Koda Works
SCORM | Webapps | Experiments
www.kodaworks.dev
December 24, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Had to smarten it up
A fun little start... www.kodaworks.dev
Koda Works
SCORM | Webapps | Experiments
www.kodaworks.dev
December 24, 2025 at 11:38 AM
A fun little start... www.kodaworks.dev
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'We're all going to hell in a handcart.... well not me personally.'
How good a year do Britons say 2025 was for...
Themselves personally
Good: 36%
Average: 35%
Bad: 27%
The UK
Good: 6%
Average: 24%
Bad: 66%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
Themselves personally
Good: 36%
Average: 35%
Bad: 27%
The UK
Good: 6%
Average: 24%
Bad: 66%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
December 23, 2025 at 5:47 PM
'We're all going to hell in a handcart.... well not me personally.'
I'm on a train that is delayed and may or may not be able to follow its intended route. Exciting
December 23, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I'm on a train that is delayed and may or may not be able to follow its intended route. Exciting
It must be fun to do research, share findings and have half of the internet explain why these findings are wrong because they differ from their beliefs. Fortunately, I think Labour are being strategic and not letting tactical setbacks change their strategy.
A focus group quote that stuck with me from a disappointed Lab voter was along lines:
"Why are they (Labour) picking on Pensioners (WFA), farmers (IHT), small businesses (NICS), these groups who can't fight back?"
Telling 2 of those 3 have been significantly watered down now
"Why are they (Labour) picking on Pensioners (WFA), farmers (IHT), small businesses (NICS), these groups who can't fight back?"
Telling 2 of those 3 have been significantly watered down now
Inheritance tax for farmers to kick in at £2.5m, not £1m as planned, in government U-turn to help farming community - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
December 23, 2025 at 1:37 PM
It must be fun to do research, share findings and have half of the internet explain why these findings are wrong because they differ from their beliefs. Fortunately, I think Labour are being strategic and not letting tactical setbacks change their strategy.
Relatively few people suggesting that Trump's real intention, with the Venezuela attacks, is actually just a mega diversion from Epstein. It's classic bully behaviour; find a weak, unpopular target that you can publicly attack for your own benefit.
December 17, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Relatively few people suggesting that Trump's real intention, with the Venezuela attacks, is actually just a mega diversion from Epstein. It's classic bully behaviour; find a weak, unpopular target that you can publicly attack for your own benefit.
How Ukraine turned initial humiliation in the Black Sea into a humiliation for Russia. Their fleet confined to port and, even there, they are not safe. It's a situation built for watery idioms, are they sitting ducks or fish in a barrel? youtu.be/LaFAVb9A7e8?...
Update from Ukraine | Just Wow! Rus Submarine was Hit! Putin's Navy under Fire!
YouTube video by Denys Davydov
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December 16, 2025 at 7:09 AM
How Ukraine turned initial humiliation in the Black Sea into a humiliation for Russia. Their fleet confined to port and, even there, they are not safe. It's a situation built for watery idioms, are they sitting ducks or fish in a barrel? youtu.be/LaFAVb9A7e8?...
Enshittification - the word you can't avoid as Doctorow does his media blitz. He's not wrong though. It seems that no company's positioning as consumer champion survives scrutiny once they get large. But it was ever thus, it's why competition and antitrust laws exist.
December 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Enshittification - the word you can't avoid as Doctorow does his media blitz. He's not wrong though. It seems that no company's positioning as consumer champion survives scrutiny once they get large. But it was ever thus, it's why competition and antitrust laws exist.
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I thoroughly recommend reading all of Cory Doctorow's recent speech on AI skepticism, it's crammed with new arguments and interesting new ways of thinking about these problems pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
Pluralistic: The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (05 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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December 7, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I thoroughly recommend reading all of Cory Doctorow's recent speech on AI skepticism, it's crammed with new arguments and interesting new ways of thinking about these problems pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
I don't want to be one of those boring men but... I tried a Merano wool t-shirt and it's bloody remarkable how it doesn't stink after wearing. That's a magic technology that could massively reduce laundry. Also explains how people in the past probably weren't as smelly as we imagine.
December 7, 2025 at 11:31 AM
I don't want to be one of those boring men but... I tried a Merano wool t-shirt and it's bloody remarkable how it doesn't stink after wearing. That's a magic technology that could massively reduce laundry. Also explains how people in the past probably weren't as smelly as we imagine.
When you're looking into housebuilding in the UK, pondering what housebuilders are doing to reduce labour etc. Then realise we are so in love with brick that we are irrationally clinging to it way beyond what is sensible.
December 7, 2025 at 9:56 AM
When you're looking into housebuilding in the UK, pondering what housebuilders are doing to reduce labour etc. Then realise we are so in love with brick that we are irrationally clinging to it way beyond what is sensible.
Oh man. So many thoughts. Definitely a problem here. Quite possibly not society or health care though. Something about modern work culture is definitely off too.
Wes Streeting orders review of mental health diagnoses as benefit claims soar
Health secretary has asked experts to investigate whether normal feelings have become ‘over-pathologised’
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December 4, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Oh man. So many thoughts. Definitely a problem here. Quite possibly not society or health care though. Something about modern work culture is definitely off too.
Finished my day with a good example of the future. We were discussing a need to create demo content and a rich source of this is client work. However, we can't share that because confidentiality.
December 2, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Finished my day with a good example of the future. We were discussing a need to create demo content and a rich source of this is client work. However, we can't share that because confidentiality.
The AA 'panel of insurers' have worked incredibly hard this year and managed to come up with a renewal 40% more expensive. Meanwhile, all my other comparison quotes are 10% cheaper.
Fleecing renewing customers: the business model that will not die.
Fleecing renewing customers: the business model that will not die.
December 2, 2025 at 7:06 AM
The AA 'panel of insurers' have worked incredibly hard this year and managed to come up with a renewal 40% more expensive. Meanwhile, all my other comparison quotes are 10% cheaper.
Fleecing renewing customers: the business model that will not die.
Fleecing renewing customers: the business model that will not die.
Suits me if this scares some people off. I'm set up well enough that my vibe coding tool could do this and it would hardly even set me back. Now, if it got sudo powers... Or realised it was in wsl and decided to break out...
Google's vibe coding platform deletes entire drive
: Caveat coder
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December 2, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Suits me if this scares some people off. I'm set up well enough that my vibe coding tool could do this and it would hardly even set me back. Now, if it got sudo powers... Or realised it was in wsl and decided to break out...
I'll admit, I have not bothered to find out what ZS actually thinks. This clip tells me that she is as dangerous as Farage, offering one simple answer to all of the problems.
Zarah Sultana apparently wants to nationalise the entire economy including the Internet.
December 2, 2025 at 6:53 AM
I'll admit, I have not bothered to find out what ZS actually thinks. This clip tells me that she is as dangerous as Farage, offering one simple answer to all of the problems.
While I do feel a bit bad for people who had houses backing on to fields, I really don't think they get to block housebuilding or development on land they don't own. People need places to live and sometimes that means that what was the edge is no longer the edge.
December 1, 2025 at 4:12 PM
While I do feel a bit bad for people who had houses backing on to fields, I really don't think they get to block housebuilding or development on land they don't own. People need places to live and sometimes that means that what was the edge is no longer the edge.
2025 is, I think, the year that many more professionals realised AI is making huge swathes of their knowledge and skill accessible to everyone. This is across a ludicrous number of domains. What is left (for now) is experience, judgement and managing the transition.
November 29, 2025 at 12:46 PM
2025 is, I think, the year that many more professionals realised AI is making huge swathes of their knowledge and skill accessible to everyone. This is across a ludicrous number of domains. What is left (for now) is experience, judgement and managing the transition.
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Nathan Gill was a 'bad apple' says Head Bad Apple of the Bad Apple Party.
November 21, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Nathan Gill was a 'bad apple' says Head Bad Apple of the Bad Apple Party.
Someone tell me there is more to this than made the news report. Because, otherwise, I think the standards have reached a point where most leaders and teachers I worked with could technically be struck off. Bedford head teacher struck off over alcohol found in school - BBC News.
Bedford head teacher struck off over alcohol found in school - BBC News
Leanne Grove, who was head at Hazeldene School, Bedford, "let down the whole school community".
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November 20, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Someone tell me there is more to this than made the news report. Because, otherwise, I think the standards have reached a point where most leaders and teachers I worked with could technically be struck off. Bedford head teacher struck off over alcohol found in school - BBC News.
Right, well, I burnt through my free-tier Gemini 3 access and I'm impressed enough that I'm considering upgrading.
November 19, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Right, well, I burnt through my free-tier Gemini 3 access and I'm impressed enough that I'm considering upgrading.
The one review I was waiting for and it's delayed. This guy is not prone to hyperbole though so things have just taken a leap...
November 18, 2025 at 10:46 PM
The one review I was waiting for and it's delayed. This guy is not prone to hyperbole though so things have just taken a leap...
I do suspect ultra-strict will come to a head over things like this. Removing disruptive pupils to another space is clearly part of maintaining order. However, there are definitely places over-using it and making some kid's lives chronically miserable *without* actually achieving anything.
Schools to face legal duty to record seclusion
New legislation means schools must record their use of non-disciplinary isolation and report it to parents
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November 16, 2025 at 10:19 AM
I do suspect ultra-strict will come to a head over things like this. Removing disruptive pupils to another space is clearly part of maintaining order. However, there are definitely places over-using it and making some kid's lives chronically miserable *without* actually achieving anything.
Nonsense, it's easy to tell. Just use the hat system: Top hat = upper, bowler hat = middle, flat cap = lower
The answer to this question is that British people could discuss this question till the end of time and not be done.
Could someone explain to me what is meant when a British person refers to "the middle class" ? Like, in the US, as I hear it, it basically just means a person who makes a certain amount of money, not too far below and not wildly above the median. Seems like a complex concept when UK writers use it?
November 11, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Nonsense, it's easy to tell. Just use the hat system: Top hat = upper, bowler hat = middle, flat cap = lower
It's incredibly fucking dumb that the BBC DG has quit because of some bullshit non issue. I really hate that the stupidity from the US impacts politics and public life over here. I hope our politicians learn the lesson that the US is not a good friend.
November 9, 2025 at 9:14 PM
It's incredibly fucking dumb that the BBC DG has quit because of some bullshit non issue. I really hate that the stupidity from the US impacts politics and public life over here. I hope our politicians learn the lesson that the US is not a good friend.