Simon scarfe
Simon scarfe
@simon.bsky.social
Love to play with software. Some people pay me to do it. Play guitar with little skill or discipline, sometimes it sounds like jazz. But really, all you need to know is that about 80% of my wittering is about #TheTraitors
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I always suspected a UK government would eventually reverse course on "coding in public". So I've been backing up all government code. For six years. Today I finally generated a report on what has been deleted. Its much worse than I realised. github.com/uk-gov-mirro...
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It already sits at 17k+ servers (source: fediverse.party/en/fediverse/) which seems like a fun game of cat and mouse, but what do the government ban when clued up young nerds are launching their own hetzner servers with these things on? entire protocols?
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House to myself last night meant I got to indulge in some pretentious French cinema. Went with 2023’s La Bête - boxd.it/yqmk. Can’t stop thinking about it. Two leads were fantastic, the nods (👀) to mulholland drive, the questions it raises, its prescience wrt/impact of AI…
Remember sneaking into this when I was 15 (just picked the only 18-rated film starting at that time). I don’t know what I expected, but it definitely wasn’t that. Absolute treat.
As the 2026 Cannes Film Festival draws near its end, Travis Woods salvages David Cronenberg’s chaotically horny and subversively hopeful Crash from the smoldering wreckage of its Cannes premiere 30 years ago. https://boxd.it/394
Woke up my old playground project again, started importing strava runs into my site. Massively overengineered, and had a helping hand from an AI overlord, but gives me enough to iterate on - playground.breakfastdinnertea.co.uk/activities/