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Rifle

 Rifle

After half-full mugs of gritty soup, she was handed a scrap of wood shaped like a rifle. "Don't let anyone get a proper look," the man in the cap told her, "and if they get too close, whack 'em with the fat end.

Caleb Hailey
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What If We Just Stopped?

Say it louder for the people in the back! 📢

Weak Notes — The Everything Feed Supports Webmention
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Blog - I've opened a shop

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...

Weak Notes — The Everything Feed Supports Webmention
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Release - Links Version 1.0.2

About

A link-in-bio clone built using Jekyll, HTML, CSS and Font Awesome Icons

What’s Changed

  • Bump actions/checkout from 4 to 7
  • Moved from SCSS to CSS
  • CSS polish
  • Improved social icons row style, shape and management.

Read more about my projects

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// Written by thechelsuk
// Published 2026-09-24, with 46 words.


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How to copy URLs of multiple Firefox tabs without installing an extension

How to copy URLs of multiple Firefox tabs without installing an extension

It’s easy, once you know you can

Weak Notes — The Everything Feed Supports Webmention
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Release - Shortkeys Version 1.5.0

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...

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Koi Rest

Take a break. Click this link. Thank me later.

🤩🐟

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Australia should sue them to teach them a lesson. All others should do the same. arstechnica.com/ai/2026/0…

Nothing important Supports Webmention
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oh no. there is a leak somewhere… are investors aware? techcrunch.com/2026/09/2…

Nothing important Supports Webmention
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I did not know you can change themes for NetNewsWire dave-atx.github.io/nnw-theme…

Caleb Hailey
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The Kids Will Always Find A Way

I love this story about middle school kids hanging out in the comments section of an @npr.org podcast episode. Why? Because they weren't allowed to use social media.

Life finds a way. 🦖

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If I was 🔗 Ed I would tell Clarkson to back off - this is akin to a Rethuglican campaigning and having Tяump turn up to stump for you.

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Release - Mltply Version 2.2.0

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...

Newsonaut
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A love letter to lower case

I’ve said in the past that I find posts written all in lower case to be hard to read, and I stand by that. I need a few capital letters here and there to get my bearings. But that doesn’t mean I don’t have an appreciation for lower case. In fact I downright prefer it. Capita...

LongevityTortoise Blog
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Tortoise Tales Chapter 2: The Slowbottom Home and the Very Fast Rabbit | LongevityTortoise

LongevityTortoise Blog
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Tortoise Tales Chapter 1: The Shell-Shocking First Day of School | LongevityTortoise

Caleb Hailey
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Today I'm thinking about the reasons why almost every website you visit wants your email address or phone number, but almost none will EVER ask for your social media accounts as contact info. 📇

I feel like that says something about how valuable social media is in terms of actual networking.

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Expense in foreign currency

Expense in foreign currency

The IRS wants foreign spending in dollars, converted at the rate for the day you paid. Not the day you file, and not the day you finally remember the receipt. Expense does that conversion itself now.

The rate is the ECB's daily reference for the expense date, fetched

John's World Wide Wall Display
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Lots of the ivy was alive with hoverflies wasps & bees on Tuesday. Lots of buzzing!

Scripting News Valid
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New example script, shows how to build an RSS feed from a single Mastodon user's account. This is mainly to show past Frontier users how the new product is progressing, not released yet.