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1. Ok Computer - Radiohead
2. B.R.M.C - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
3. See This Through And Leave - The Cooper Temple Clause
4. Vibrate You - King Adora
5. The White Stripes - The White Stripes

You can listen to this as a playlist on Apple Music

Introduce yourself with five albums that have shaped you.

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// Written by thechelsuk
// Published 2026-07-06, with 63 words.

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Last week was nice. I only had to work for two days before we headed off to spend some time with my wife's family. Along the way we visited some National Trust properties and gardens, had a lovely BBQ, and even got in some birdwatcher. I also created a new static photo galle...

The pension debate is misframed as a funding problem when it is actually a question of how current production is allocated and distributed between workers and retirees.

UK spends just 5% of its health budget on prevention, highlighting a significant gap in early intervention. This has contributed to over 2 million people in the UK who are economically inactive due to long-term health conditions, with around 300,000 leaving the workforce ...

This is the uncomfortable feeling when you agree with UEFA. When the certainty of rules is no longer guaranteed by its guardians, the integrity of the game is at stake and the credibility of a competition is undermined. Equally, such decision creates a precedent in the o...

Today's song: "July is dressed up and playing her tune."

James Talarico, Democrat running for Senator in Texas reminds me of Matt Mullenweg, who also happens to be from Texas. He speaks as confidently as Obama, about the right things, wants to run our government like a freaking government. To think that's a campaign issue in the United States of America says why I did not celebrate our 250th on Saturday. I tried to imagine what it will be like when we start becoming ourselves again. ;-)

We just implement Cute Paste in the new product and I keep hitting a limit that it has. I love the feature, in most cases. But here I've set up an <img src="xxx">, the xxx reserving space for the URL that I'm now going to get the URL. When I come back I select xxx and paste, and in its place is the full url in text, linked to itself. I laugh, no feature is free, there's always a tradeoff and sometimes it breaks something that worked before.

I'm doing a big new thing with RSS, and that's got me thinking a lot about where I want to go after the first round of new functionality is out there. I noticed that Andrew Shell came out with a new version of his open source rssCloud hub server, which we use here, that now ...

Puritans Wouldn’t Eat Pussy, So They Invented the Western

gotta say it was the headline that grabbed me. the balance of the article was a rollicking good read. i mean i knew the pilgrims were an uptight bunch, but seriously folks. gotta make the home front somewhat appealing.

i’m not sure what to make of this particular vein of argumentation in the “damsel in distress” trope, but i suspect there’s more going on here than folks would care to admit.

I was on a team that put junior developers into the on-call rotation earlier than we should have. The reasoning made sense on paper - they needed to learn the system, and the senior engineers were stretched thin. In practice, the juniors almost always needed to escalate to s...

When unsure about using an API, leverage an AI client to generate the correct endpoint and parameters. Describe the usage and desired data, stating the provider. This method simplifies obtaining accurate curl commands or code samples, reducing reliance on documentation while maintaining security regarding sensitive information like API keys.

Good Morning, Here is your daily briefing… On Monday, 06 July 2026 The average temperature today is 18.15˚C, With highs of 19.97˚C and lows of 17.2˚C, It may feel like 18.11˚C with overcast clouds The wind speed is 2.24m/s and visibility is 10000m The pressure...

After Ajay's parents were gone, the crows adopted him. It was difficult to bring him all that he needed, even with a dozen of them working together. Ajay did well. He acted as though this was a normal way to live. Of course, there was much the crows

There's nothing wrong with using AI, but in the end YOU are still the one responsible for its output. The code works doesn't mean it's secure. And AI sometimes use a hacky solution, you gotta be able to catch them!

https://charitydotwtf.substack.com/p/ai-demands-more-engineering-discipline

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AI ใช้ได้ แต่ดีหรือไม่ดี ก็ขึ้นอยู่กับผู้ใช้ด้วย

ทั้งนี้ AI ปั้นของที่ใช้ได้ขึ้นมา ไม่ได้แปลว่าของที่ได้จะปลอดภัยไร้ช่องโหว่ บางทีข้างในก็มัดกันแปลกๆ เป็นหน้าที่ของคนใช้(AI) ที่ต้องตรวจทานให้เรียบร้อย (หรือจะไม่ทำก็ได้ แต่ถ้ามีช่องโหว่ ก็จะหวานคนอื่นหน่อย)

https://charitydotwtf.substack.com/p/ai-demands-more-engineering-discipline

My weekly blog post. Links this week include information about a nationwide community art exhibit you are invited to make fabric panels for, the Hello Kitty Lawsuit Tracker and a digital graveyard of websites with a lot of detailed information on the sites, plus a few that are still hanging on by a thread. I've been doing some more postcarding and I talk about my webweaving process (which is scary). Plus, as usual, I listened to, read and watched things.

A full walkthrough of how I wired up Standard.site AT Protocol lexicons into this 11ty blog: from writing a custom publish script to migrating to Sequoia, with code for the link tags, handle verification, and a lastModified filter patch to prevent batch commits from polluting post dates.

It would be typical of England to finally win a World Cup and it be asterisked as the Trump-infected Cup were sporting integrity was lost to personal favours.

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// Written by thechelsuk
// Published 2026-07-05, with 28 words.

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The Brand Ledger | Worse on Purpose

this is the best list i’ve seen of enshittified brands to date. the common theme here … private equity.

I am falling in love with Claude Code, obviously -- and I have said some things that sound pretty dumb reading them back. It has happened before, and I did make a fool of myself. I think that's part of being in love, btw.