Rich Holman

Sigh. This will just embolden Housing Associations to not resolve internal complaints. www.housing-ombudsman.org.uk/2026/10/13/h... Given the HO was basically untenable anyway (I recently waited 18 months for a case to be reviewed) this pretty much breaks the system entirely.

Firefox 159 has landed! This is a pretty big one for web dev stuff: 🎉 CSS scroll-driven animations, both scroll() and view(). 🎉 Scoped custom element registries. 🎉 Streaming sanitization of HTML. And more! developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/M...

caniuse.com?search=anima... So close, Firefox 159 and it's here.

Donnie Darko was released 25 years ago today. A while ago I rebuilt the flash website that accompanied it's opening. An absolute web classic built by Hi-Res! in 2001. dogwonder.co.uk/2024/04/revi...

I was having conversations with journalists just a few months ago about whether democracy was doomed. Look at this year: Orban defeated. Vukic defeated. Bolsonaro Jr defeated. Trump heading to likely defeat in midterms. That’s the beauty of democracy. Voters can respond. Don’t count it out yet.

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Lieutenant Dan: Power my grid.

BIG JET TV IS LIVE, PEOPLE. THIS IS NOT A DRILL. THE STORM HAS HIT LONDON.

We just sent $100,000 to 20 open source projects ($5000 each) that the Syntax team use regularly and depend on. Thanks to all the maintainers for all your time and efforts! Thanks to @sentry.io and @opensourcepledge.com for giving us the resources to do this. blog.sentry.io/another-year...

You know a web vulnerability is a big deal when your mum texts you about it.

Finding funding for a small charity is vital, difficult and time-consuming. I tried Cloudflare’s Clairic and Clef to build a weekly email of opportunities for the charity where I’m a trustee. Here’s how I set it up, and what I learned. Pretty happy with it so far. dgw.ltd/2026/10/21/w...

Cloudflare's security audit skill Sharing because literally everything is getting pwned this week

Finding funding for a small charity is vital, difficult and time-consuming. I tried Cloudflare’s Clairic and Clef to build a weekly email of opportunities for the charity where I’m a trustee. Here’s how I set it up, and what I learned. Pretty happy with it so far. dgw.ltd/2026/10/21/w...

Forgot about my VPS (PHP installed not used) 🙈

Nothing puts the lie to "PHP is irrelevant" like "good morning, 70% of the internet needs to be fixed ASAP".

And this is why I pay what’s seems to be too much for managed hosting. Pressable appeared to take down all sites for a few minutes and applied the patch.

Built a service using a ‘System One’ model. I guess my org is worth billions now?

Joined @stephruhle.bsky.social on MSNOW to talk about the AI bubble, its differences to the Dot-Com Bubble, and how if AI "doesn't work out" it's everyone's problem, with retail investors making up 20% of the market's volume and having over $4.65tn in direct exposure to AI stocks.

I'm sure it's fine that my web host that's not been down for about 4 years is now down.

shitposts aside, this one is serious, my loves: if you’re just waking up and you have any service online running PHP 5.4 to latest, you need to take it down RIGHT NOW and don’t put it back online until after it’s patched absolutely catastrophic vulnerability dropped in the middle of the night

Leaseholder reform at PMQs!

www.lbc.co.uk/article/refo...

I heard COBOL has been rewritten in Rust.

The more interesting point for Liz Truss’ new book is who will be the first human reader?

<Star Wars voice /> That's no ballroom.

Right. On the Cloudflare Workers paid plan now. Here goes, to the edge and beyond.

Credit default swaps. That sounds familiar. www.ft.com/content/6dd3...

As someone that once built an iteration of Preston’s BBC Blog in 2009, I feel somewhat responsible.

Introducing Clairic, from Cloudflare. A System One extraction modeI, capable of extracting, computing, estimating, and forecasting data from unstructured inputs. https://cfl.re/3UcTaMP

Nice try Burnham, bet he's going to post and Amazon affiliate link in his speech about bus music: www.theverge.com/tech/1013320...

Close one with the fantasy prem team today. Forgot to sub off a couple of injured players. The pressure of fantasy football management.

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Big Tech will Win in the AI Crash - @graceblakeley.substack.com graceblakeley.substack.com/p/big-tech-w...

Like I know I shouldn't take the bait but what actual use case is there for a car to flip 20 foot in the air. The everyone is 12 theory of US hegemony is complete.

I've seen various clever things appear in Apple photos / notes recently, but only just became aware they are accessible via their ML models: developer.apple.com/documentatio... a `file.swift` with `import Vision` - `GenerateImageFeaturePrintRequest()` - sums up what the picture looks like

Not sure if this falls under Anthropics harm to AI stuff, but rickrolling an AI agent seemed to be fine:

When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.