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Good Morning, Here is your daily briefing…
On Tuesday, 29 September 2026
The average temperature today is 22.05˚C,
With highs of 23.2˚C and lows of 21.03˚C,
It may feel like 22.14˚C with overcast clouds
The wind speed is 5.36m/s and visibility is 10000m
The pre...
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Good Morning, Here is your daily briefing…
On Monday, 28 September 2026
The average temperature today is 17.89˚C,
With highs of 18.71˚C and lows of 17.19˚C,
It may feel like 17.28˚C with overcast clouds
The wind speed is 2.06m/s and visibility is 10000m
The pre...
Cheltenham Open Data has really grown in the last week or so with loads of new pages and I discovered I would need to run some activities from my Raspberry Pi rather than GitHub Actions. As one cannot reliably trust actions on a 5-minute cadence, I also noted an hourly job b...
What I’ve been listening to this month.
Snakes In the Bag - Lions of Hazelwood
Don’t Forget Me - Mark Lanegan
Nothing - Drenge
Chicken Bone George - Black Eyed Snakes
Turn Around - Phats & Small
This Is Who I Am - Joanne Shaw Taylor
St. James Infirmary ...
Good Morning, Here is your daily briefing…
On Sunday, 27 September 2026
The average temperature today is 18.16˚C,
With highs of 18.56˚C and lows of 17.69˚C,
It may feel like 18.15˚C with broken clouds
The wind speed is 6.17m/s and visibility is 10000m
The press...
This is a simple static page for embedding YouTube videos from youtube-nocookle.com so that my NetNewsWire themes render inline YouTube videos correctly. Previously the lack of a referrer meant a 153 error.
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Fix YouTube embeds (Error 153) and add the Claudio theme (A Claude AI Cliche theme)
Themes
Claudio
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Fresh
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Guro
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Magda
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Good Morning, Here is your daily briefing…
On Saturday, 26 September 2026
The average temperature today is 16.3˚C,
With highs of 17.65˚C and lows of 15.47˚C,
It may feel like 15.79˚C with overcast clouds
The wind speed is 1.79m/s and visibility is 10000m
The pr...
Good Morning, Here is your daily briefing…
On Friday, 25 September 2026
The average temperature today is 19.36˚C,
With highs of 20.01˚C and lows of 18.75˚C,
It may feel like 19.13˚C with overcast clouds
The wind speed is 1.54m/s and visibility is 10000m
The pre...
If you’d rather shop on Etsy, the Mltply maths workbooks are now there too: thechelsuk on Etsy.
It’s the same set of printable workbooks for Years 1 to 7: Addition & Subtraction, Times Tables, Division, Fractions, and Squares, Cubes & Roots. There are also SATs arit...
Mltply is my free iPhone and iPad app where children practise maths by chatting with Buddy the robot. Plenty of practice still happens at the kitchen table, though, so I’ve put Buddy on paper.
The Mltply workbooks follow England’s national curriculum, year by year. Each one...
AI has moved the bar. Writing code is no longer the hard part of the job, so testing only for code tells you less and less about who will do well on your team.
The Perfect Hiring System is how I hire software engineers now: for judgement, ownership and teamwork. It’s built ...
I’ve opened a shop at shop.thechels.uk.
For years I’ve made free things: iPhone apps, open data sites and a fair bit of writing about managing engineering teams. The shop is where I’m putting the things that took a lot longer to make, as instant downloads.
Right now it has...
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About
ShortKeys is a text-expander multi-line replacement productivity app for people who live in text. Build multi-line snippets, drop them behind memorable keyboard ShortKeys, and fly through forms, support replies, or daily journaling.
What’s Changed
New undo featur...
About
Mltply is the chat maths buddy for kids, in a chat-like interface kids can be quizzed on maths questions in increasing complexity - fully customisable in the settings to target particularly weak areas or simply at the age appropriate level e.g. simple addition 1-10 fo...
Good Morning, Here is your daily briefing…
On Thursday, 24 September 2026
The average temperature today is 16.42˚C,
With highs of 17.05˚C and lows of 15.51˚C,
It may feel like 15.87˚C with overcast clouds
The wind speed is 4.12m/s and visibility is 10000m
The p...
Good Morning, Here is your daily briefing…
On Wednesday, 23 September 2026
The average temperature today is 18.58˚C,
With highs of 19.46˚C and lows of 18.16˚C,
It may feel like 18.58˚C with few clouds
The wind speed is 3.6m/s and visibility is 10000m
The pressu...
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