One of benefits of doing food shopping online is you can track the amount of inflation over time - today’s exorbitant rise is Cadbury’s Dairy Milk multi-pack. In November 2021 it was £2.50 for 10 x 29.3g bars, today it was £3.20 for 7 x 27.2g bars - effectively a doubling of the price per gram 🤯
November 16, 2025 at 11:21 AM
One of benefits of doing food shopping online is you can track the amount of inflation over time - today’s exorbitant rise is Cadbury’s Dairy Milk multi-pack. In November 2021 it was £2.50 for 10 x 29.3g bars, today it was £3.20 for 7 x 27.2g bars - effectively a doubling of the price per gram 🤯
The government is delusional if it thinks these companies are going to build them 1.5m homes before 2029 - they'll be asking to make houses out of sticks and straw next.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Britain’s biggest housebuilder urges government to support first-time buyers
Taylor Wimpey chief Jennie Daly calls for revival of help-to-buy equity loan scheme to revive property market
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:49 AM
The government is delusional if it thinks these companies are going to build them 1.5m homes before 2029 - they'll be asking to make houses out of sticks and straw next.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
For the life of me I can't understand why GitHub hasn't got an option to retry the job here and instead I'm forced to click through to the job details page and do it there
October 31, 2025 at 7:20 AM
For the life of me I can't understand why GitHub hasn't got an option to retry the job here and instead I'm forced to click through to the job details page and do it there
Obviously in honour of the World Series, the Rails Core team throws a curveball and releases 7.0.10, 7.1.6 and 7.2.3, which everyone else assumed were only getting security fixes and broke a bunch of checks in the ruby-advisory-db 😂
github.com/rubysec/ruby...
github.com/rubysec/ruby...
Relax version constraints to allow Rails 7.2.3 update by pixeltrix · Pull Request #916 · rubysec/ruby-advisory-db
The ~> operator on the revision triggers a false positive on the latest patch update in the Rails 7.2.x release series.
This should fix the failures that people have been seeing in #915.
github.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Obviously in honour of the World Series, the Rails Core team throws a curveball and releases 7.0.10, 7.1.6 and 7.2.3, which everyone else assumed were only getting security fixes and broke a bunch of checks in the ruby-advisory-db 😂
github.com/rubysec/ruby...
github.com/rubysec/ruby...
My bet is that HMRC knew these errors would happen but went ahead anyway because of the potential savings. Even at a 5% error rate you'll save tens of millions if not more, and it's not like they'll be worried about their reputation.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
HMRC cuts child benefit for 23,500 families based on incomplete travel data
UK tax agency apologises after flagging people as having emigrated, often when they return via different routes
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:50 AM
My bet is that HMRC knew these errors would happen but went ahead anyway because of the potential savings. Even at a 5% error rate you'll save tens of millions if not more, and it's not like they'll be worried about their reputation.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Always great to see an abuse contact in the RIPE database for tens of thousands of ip addresses be undeliverable 🙄
October 26, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Always great to see an abuse contact in the RIPE database for tens of thousands of ip addresses be undeliverable 🙄
Is there anything more kafkaesque that the UK train ticket pricing - cheapest advance tickets for a journey tomorrow are £126 but by splitting at Rugby and Milton Keynes I can use off-peak returns for only £50 total and still have some flexibility that I don't with advance tickets 🤯
October 20, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Is there anything more kafkaesque that the UK train ticket pricing - cheapest advance tickets for a journey tomorrow are £126 but by splitting at Rugby and Milton Keynes I can use off-peak returns for only £50 total and still have some flexibility that I don't with advance tickets 🤯
Given that it's taken more than 6 months to sort out a simple fuck-up by my ex-accountant about not filling the HICBC and pension contribution tax relief correctly on my SA where it basically cancels each other out I'm sure this will be fine and not cause case loads to rise exponentially.
This Making Tax Digital thing where freelancers will have to file four times a year….do they want me to hurl myself off a cliff
October 15, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Given that it's taken more than 6 months to sort out a simple fuck-up by my ex-accountant about not filling the HICBC and pension contribution tax relief correctly on my SA where it basically cancels each other out I'm sure this will be fine and not cause case loads to rise exponentially.
Ruby Central dropped the ball here on securing the root account and effectively lost control of it for 11 days - however, that's nothing compared to changing the root password. If an ex-employee did that to me I'd be calling the police.
Here’s a note from our Executive Director regarding our recent security incident.
rubycentral.org/news/rubygem...
rubycentral.org/news/rubygem...
Rubygems.org AWS Root Access Event – September 2025
As part of standard incident-response practice, Ruby Central is publishing the following post-incident review to the public. This document summarizes the September 2025 AWS root-access event, what…
rubycentral.org
October 9, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Ruby Central dropped the ball here on securing the root account and effectively lost control of it for 11 days - however, that's nothing compared to changing the root password. If an ex-employee did that to me I'd be calling the police.
Looks like I've got to do some WordPress in the near future - will be good to get a break from all the drama 😅
September 28, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Looks like I've got to do some WordPress in the near future - will be good to get a break from all the drama 😅
Got an uptime alert for petition.parliament.uk - seems like there was a glitch in the european internet for a few minutes at 10:15 UTC 🤔
September 16, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Got an uptime alert for petition.parliament.uk - seems like there was a glitch in the european internet for a few minutes at 10:15 UTC 🤔
Monitoring petition.parliament.uk because of everything and noticed a large number of constant cache invalidations in the Ruby VM stats. Turns out that the the Loofah gem used by Rails calls Kernel.extend by way of Nokogiri's decorator feature fives times for every sanitize call 😭
September 15, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Monitoring petition.parliament.uk because of everything and noticed a large number of constant cache invalidations in the Ruby VM stats. Turns out that the the Loofah gem used by Rails calls Kernel.extend by way of Nokogiri's decorator feature fives times for every sanitize call 😭
It's ridiculous that I have to spend 10-15 minutes buying 4 separate tickets to travel from Coventry to London for a total of £73.60 whereas buying a single ticket costs £178. Even a non-refundable advance ticket is £95, whereas the separate tickets I've bought are either anytime or off-peak.
September 3, 2025 at 8:24 AM
It's ridiculous that I have to spend 10-15 minutes buying 4 separate tickets to travel from Coventry to London for a total of £73.60 whereas buying a single ticket costs £178. Even a non-refundable advance ticket is £95, whereas the separate tickets I've bought are either anytime or off-peak.
Learnt today that whilst you can get cover for one hour but the police insurance check only works by date. The driver who hit me took cover out for a short period during the day but it had expired by the time of the crash - seems like a massive loophole in the system 🙄
bsky.app/profile/pixe...
bsky.app/profile/pixe...
Got rear-ended at god knows what speed tonight - driver left the scene before the police turned up 😡
September 1, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Learnt today that whilst you can get cover for one hour but the police insurance check only works by date. The driver who hit me took cover out for a short period during the day but it had expired by the time of the crash - seems like a massive loophole in the system 🙄
bsky.app/profile/pixe...
bsky.app/profile/pixe...
A warehouse development has started near me and despite their planning permission saying they should drive in forwards here they are just reversing in with no care for the other traffic - just a 'might is right' attitude.
September 1, 2025 at 10:51 AM
A warehouse development has started near me and despite their planning permission saying they should drive in forwards here they are just reversing in with no care for the other traffic - just a 'might is right' attitude.
Local newspaper posts AI slop from a PCSO's neighbourhood alert that contains AI slop generated from the local newspaper's original reporting in 2020 but has been misidentified as 2025 by ChatGPT.
The usefulness of the internet as an information source is dissolving day-by-day with this nonsense.
The usefulness of the internet as an information source is dissolving day-by-day with this nonsense.
August 25, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Local newspaper posts AI slop from a PCSO's neighbourhood alert that contains AI slop generated from the local newspaper's original reporting in 2020 but has been misidentified as 2025 by ChatGPT.
The usefulness of the internet as an information source is dissolving day-by-day with this nonsense.
The usefulness of the internet as an information source is dissolving day-by-day with this nonsense.
There's a special place in hell reserved for those companies allowing 07XXX numbers to be used for sales calls in the UK. Also if you're a direct marketing operation, calling people in the UK on their mobiles when it's a bank holiday weekend isn't going to win you many orders.
August 23, 2025 at 9:55 AM
There's a special place in hell reserved for those companies allowing 07XXX numbers to be used for sales calls in the UK. Also if you're a direct marketing operation, calling people in the UK on their mobiles when it's a bank holiday weekend isn't going to win you many orders.
Finally got a chance to take the bike up on to the moor proper this holiday
August 17, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Finally got a chance to take the bike up on to the moor proper this holiday
Dependabot updating jbuilder, rails from 6.1 to 8, dotenv-rails, activerecord-postgis-adapter, slim, and rgeo-proj4 is probably the most optimistic auto-generated pull request ever 😂
(only 39 out of 586 examples failing - is that good or bad 🤔)
(only 39 out of 586 examples failing - is that good or bad 🤔)
August 11, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Dependabot updating jbuilder, rails from 6.1 to 8, dotenv-rails, activerecord-postgis-adapter, slim, and rgeo-proj4 is probably the most optimistic auto-generated pull request ever 😂
(only 39 out of 586 examples failing - is that good or bad 🤔)
(only 39 out of 586 examples failing - is that good or bad 🤔)
But if this petition were acted upon it’d prove petitioning does do something 🤔
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Petition: Shut down the UK Government and Parliament Petitions system
Stop funding the UK Government and Parliament e-petitions system and shut it down. We believe it's a waste of taxpayer money, that it consistently ignores public feedback, and that it enacts not enoug...
petition.parliament.uk
August 9, 2025 at 7:43 AM
But if this petition were acted upon it’d prove petitioning does do something 🤔
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
"you can't be creative if you use GenAI" is giving me "you can't be creative if you use a computer" vibes from the 90s - it's a tool, how you use it is whether its creative or not.
August 3, 2025 at 9:38 AM
"you can't be creative if you use GenAI" is giving me "you can't be creative if you use a computer" vibes from the 90s - it's a tool, how you use it is whether its creative or not.
I'd ask everyone to bear in mind this is a Reach PLC website who's whole business model is now just clickbait - they're also running a story titled "Exact message you'll receive on UK phones during Armageddon alarm test" for the next nationwide test of the GOV.UK Alert on September 7th.
VPN use is so high that the Labour party MPs are proposing to ban them.
www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland...
www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland...
UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets
Labour could ban the use of Virtual Private Networks after use skyrocketed in recent days.
www.birminghammail.co.uk
July 28, 2025 at 7:58 PM
I'd ask everyone to bear in mind this is a Reach PLC website who's whole business model is now just clickbait - they're also running a story titled "Exact message you'll receive on UK phones during Armageddon alarm test" for the next nationwide test of the GOV.UK Alert on September 7th.
That feeling when you've spent ages removing use of 'unsafe-inline' from the Content-Security-Policy header and then the client gives you a Google Tag Manager script that requires 'unsafe-eval' 😭
July 28, 2025 at 7:49 AM
That feeling when you've spent ages removing use of 'unsafe-inline' from the Content-Security-Policy header and then the client gives you a Google Tag Manager script that requires 'unsafe-eval' 😭
HMRC told me to wait 72 hours after making some changes to my account before trying to claim a refund online again - I can only think their servers are in a gravity well like the water planet in Interstellar 👨🚀
July 21, 2025 at 4:20 PM
HMRC told me to wait 72 hours after making some changes to my account before trying to claim a refund online again - I can only think their servers are in a gravity well like the water planet in Interstellar 👨🚀
@coventrycc.bsky.social according to the permit on the one.network website, National Grid are meant to provide an alternative route but as you can see they haven't done so. They could've diverted people onto Momus Boulevard at the entry/exit points close by but there is no signage for that.
June 30, 2025 at 6:42 AM
@coventrycc.bsky.social according to the permit on the one.network website, National Grid are meant to provide an alternative route but as you can see they haven't done so. They could've diverted people onto Momus Boulevard at the entry/exit points close by but there is no signage for that.