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Release - Search Router Version 1.0.0

No release notes were included for this release.

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// Published 2026-04-18, with 8 words.

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Release - Tools Version 1.0.0

What’s Changed

  • Add Activity Plan page with 4-week hourly tracker by @Copilot in #12
  • Add Links to external tools
  • Add Link to new Search Router

Full Changelog: https://github.com/thechelsuk/uk.thechels.tools/commits/1.0.0

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// Written by thechelsuk
// Published 2026-04-18, with 33 words.

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Video - Shortkeys app for multi-line text replacement

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// Written by thechelsuk
// Published 2026-04-18, with 4 words.

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Blog - Announcing Nuchronic.uk

Link to Nuchronic.uk ⇗ The webring for the chronically ill on the indie web. A dark-mode hacker news style site that aggregates content from a variety of sources, including blogs, podcasts, and YouTube channels, all focused on the blogs and lives of people with chronic illn...

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• Quoting Simon Owens

Linked - Stop treating your newsletters as glorified RSS feeds

Generally good advice, but in defence of RSS feeds, one can create them so that they contain more than just a link to the source, of course. Subscribe to find out. I’m consistently surprised by how many publishers still treat their newsletters as glorified RSS feeds, in ...

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Video - ME is In our blood, not our minds.

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// Written by thechelsuk
// Published 2026-04-16, with 4 words.

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Film Review - Beneath the Storm

Beneath the Storm (2025)

Rated: 3/10

Added: 2026-04-14

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• Quoting Chris

Linked - New tax year, new plan

Love seeing finances talked about on the indie web. Money market funds for the win. Worth a reminder cash ISA limits for under 65s drops to £12k next tax year from £20k this year. one can still use the overall £20k by using a stocks and shares ISA. For day to day expens...

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Rss - Pompidou section 3 - Refactor post types

After setting up collections on my Jekyll blog for various post types I’ve refactored to use post.type in the post front matter instead of collections. The main reason is to pump all the content into the _posts folder. The idea here is that by default everything will be loa...

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Film Review - Meg 2: The Trench

Meg 2: The Trench (2023)

Rated: 2/10

Added: 2026-04-12

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Film Review - A Line of Fire

A Line of Fire (2025)

Rated: 1/10

Added: 2026-04-11

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Ways - How to use ways

Ways are a slash pages format for documenting processes, workflows, and procedures. They are designed to be easy to read and follow, on how to do things. They happen to include a link to the official manual or service where possible, but there should be enough detail to foll...

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Release - Thechels.uk Version 1.9.0

What’s Changed Fix: Added to and improved RSS feeds, Chore: Switched from collections to post type front matter Fear: Added post type archive pages Feat: ingest feeds for YouTube, Mastodon, Bluesky to data pages Feat: add support for IndieNews webmentions [ImgB...

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• Quoting The I

Linked - £400 plug-in solar panels to be sold in UK

Interesting, might be worth some to go on the garden shed. Plug-in panels do not require installation, so the only upfront cost is the purchase. Panels are currently on the market from about £400. The Government estimates that a typical UK home could save £70 to £110 ...

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• Quoting The Verge

Linked - Amazon is ending support for older Kindles and Kindle Fires

Jailbreaking may violate the terms of service of your device but may keep it out of landfill. Amazon has announced that starting on May 20th, 2026, Kindle e-readers and Kindle Fire devices released in 2012 and earlier will “no longer be able to purchase, borrow, or downl...

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• Quoting Terry Godier

Linked - Language for when the body is broken

On the flip side to Terry Godier’s recent post about the (body) language of communication, where the time is on the creation. People need time on receipt to understand, contemplate, and act. If the outcome is to act and the action is to reply, then the clock restarts. For p...

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• Quoting Homebridge

Linked - Homebridge 2.0 Launch

Homebridge 2.0 Launch We’re launching Homebridge 2.0 on May the 4th and yes, we absolutely planned it that way. Beyond improvements to the core HAP-NodeJS code and the removal of long deprecated code, the headline addition in 2.0 is the initial groundwork for Matter...

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• Quoting Stuart Breckenridge

Linked - The BBC RSS Feeds are garbage

This must be due to the unique way the Beeb is funded. I stopped subscribing to all BBC feeds because of this very reason, many, many moons ago. I love RSS and more so given my accessibility needs so to see and be reminded of how it is abused this way is frustrating Du...

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• Quoting CSS Naked Day

Linked - CSS Naked Day

Nice idea, I don’t think I have the energy for this year. Reminder set for 2027. April 9 is CSS Naked Day! Join us for the yearly festivities on April 9 of going nude on the Web! The idea behind CSS Naked Day is to promote web standards. Plain and simple. This incl...

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• Quoting Sky Sports

Linked - UEFA backs officials after Chelsea's Sonia Bompastor criticism

Oddly the BBC match report suggested McCabe picked up a yellow card for the hair pull, She did not. It was not even a free kick. They implied a “should it have been a card” as if it was debatable. Whilst previously they reported about a hair pull in the men’s game and explai...

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Video - Version 2.0 of Hiyd out now

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// Published 2026-04-02, with 4 words.

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• Quoting The Guardian

Linked - Disabled people face lower benefits if not lifelong

Ludicrous. As if pushing people into poverty is any indication of improving health outcomes. Hundreds of thousands of severely ill and disabled people making new claims will have their benefits cut if the government assesses that their condition might improve, charities ...

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Ways - How to use Ollama from the terminal

Just for testing LLMs locally to see what the fuss is about, here is a short cheat sheet on using Ollama in the terminal. For this example I’ve used the Qwen 3.5 4B model, but it can be replaced with any model one has installed. For more details, see the Ollama documentatio...

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Blog - A Review of ME specialist provision on the NHS

Context Just a quick summary on my ME onset for context. It started with a sudden onset in October 2022 and I’ve not felt the same since, I was able to get back to work after what felt like a nasty virus for after few weeks, but since then it’s been a gradual decline during...

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• Quoting 9to5Mac

Linked - Apple discontinues and has no plans for the Mac Pro

RIP giant cheese grater.

Apple has confirmed to 9to5Mac that the Mac Pro is being discontinued. It has been removed from Apple’s website as of Thursday afternoon.

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// Published 2026-03-28, with 29 words.

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• Quoting Apple

Linked - Apple Maps will have Ads

Naively I’ve had this belief that Google was the data company and used Ads on that data to make money, whilst Apple were the software and hardware company that made money by selling at a premium for quality. I believe that users who pay the Apple One bundle should be free o...

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Rss - Dorking - Search Commands and Operators

Search dorking tips and tricks and how to the best from your search engine. Documented for archive purposes before AI takes over. Precision Operators site: — Limits results to a specific website or domain (e.g. site:gov vaccine) -site: — Excludes a specific site fro...

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• Quoting Wikipedia

Til - TIL - Centipede game theory

In game theory, the centipede game, first introduced by Robert Rosenthal in 1981, is an extensive form game in which two players take turns choosing either to take a slightly larger share of an increasing pot, or to pass the pot to the other player. The payoffs are arr...

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• Quoting xyproblem

Til - TIL - The XY Problem

What is it? The XY problem is asking about your attempted solution rather than your actual problem. This leads to enormous amounts of wasted time and energy, both on the part of people asking for help, and on the part of those providing help. User wants to do X...

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• Quoting The Verge

Linked - Apple’s iOS 26.4 update adds age verification in the UK

My account is old enough to verify my age, so this was pretty seamless and didn’t require sending any information Apple didn’t already have. However, I am not a fan over the continuous tightening of access to information caused by regulations for those who will not or canno...