Thomas Preece

I've made a Go library for @edent.tel's ActivityBot API - gitlab.com/tepreece/go-... The API is so simple that it hardly needs a library, but it makes the rest of my code neater so it seemed worth doing!

Ĉu mi konas iun, kiu parolas la polan (kaj Esperanton) kaj bonvole pretus helpi min per traduko / sendo de kelkaj mesaĝoj rilate al mia muzik-esplorado?

Today's featured design is our full-page fan chart. With a fan angle of 220°, slightly more than a half circle, these charts fill the entire sheet with a comfortable margin and have curved text following the arc of the fan for a more attractive appearance. artisancharts.com/designs/full...

I'm super happy with all the designs on Artisan Charts, but the idea of displaying a round fan chart in a circular frame is one of my favourites.

Good evening #AncestryHour! It's been an exciting week for me, as my new genealogical charts business @artisancharts.com went live at the weekend. I sell beautiful ancestor charts, designed by human artists (no AI) and printed on premium acid-free 120gsm paper. More details at artisancharts.com

Today's featured design is Solothurn by Rabia Kousar. A modern take on the 18th-century pedigree charts found at the Central Library of Solothurn in Switzerland. We print this chart on premium 120gsm acid-free cream-coloured paper. artisancharts.com/designs/solo...

Today's featured design is Oak by Stephanie Purcell. Featuring traditional English oak leaves, branches and acorns, this ancestor chart has a design that is both classic and contemporary. We print this chart on premium 120gsm acid-free cream-coloured paper. artisancharts.com/designs/oak

My new business went live today. It's been 6 months in the making, and I'm really excited to finally be able to share it!

A repost of my #AATP talks for #AncestryHour 1. Letters of a Musician on HMS Victory, 1808-1812 sog.org.uk/gold-library... 2. Some Victorian Parlour Games sog.org.uk/gold-library...

My second talk for @sogorg.bsky.social #AATP is now live: "Some Victorian Parlour Games" - sog.org.uk/gold-library... There's loads more to say about this topic and I'm thinking of developing it into a full-length talk at some point in the future!

My @sogorg.bsky.social #AATP talk about my ancestor John Whick has gone live. He was a musician on board HMS Victory and wrote letters home to his family. I have another talk on a completely different topic tomorrow too! sog.org.uk/gold-library...

If anyone would like to move away from Substack to (for example) a WordPress blog on your own web hosting package, please get in touch. Depending on your budget, I can do anything from an initial install and a bit of support to get you going right up to a full custom site development.

Oh my: LibreOffice just made "no AI" one of their official features: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09...

Very annoying when a cassette decides it doesn't want to play any more. Oh well, at least it's a mass-produced one this time and not an Esperanto one where there might not even be any other copies anywhere in the world to replace it with!

New video! youtu.be/nFSaRjW7woY Please participate in the study please I want them to have as much data as possible so we can learn about Toki Pona vowels

A short piece on some group research done the other day on Bluesky, about BBC2, snooker, and Red Dwarf. www.dirtyfeed.org/2026/09/a-gi...

I invented a fairy chess piece that can move to any square to which it could not legally move if it were any other chess piece. I called it a Joker, but I now think Cat would be better.

Does anybody know what happened to Gravestone Photographic Resource (gravestonephotos.com)? It was an incredibly useful site but seems to have been down for at least a couple of months now. :( #genealogy

Benefits of learning to play the recorder: If you know "Stairway to Heaven" you will attract guitar players who will come up and ask you to jam. 🎶

Here is a comparison of how Red Dwarf, “Holoship” was first introduced back in 1992 on BBC Two network, and how network, Wales and NI introduced it last night. Forgive my poor editing done at 2am.

Good evening #GenHour! I've not got much genealogy news to report this week, but a friend found my name on a gravestone about 35 miles away from where I live. Unfortunately the rest of the stone is hard to read, so we're not sure when he died - and I can't find him in the parish burial register!

#genealogy Important 🧵on tracing facts back to their original sources. Please read. It's so easy to fall into the "so many trees say this, it must be true!" trap.

🟥 REWIND | Full marks to BBC Northern Ireland Presentation tonight. Announcer: David Gordon.

Today's #genealogy finding: William Nicks married Mary Baker. Their son William Nicks married Mary's niece (his first cousin), also called Mary Baker.

Antaŭ 100 jaroj hodiaŭ aperis la unuaj diskoj de Esperanto-muziko! Legu pli ĉe mia blogo: eomuziko.com/eo/posts/100... 100 years ago today, the first ever Esperanto music records were released! Read more on my blog: eomuziko.com/en/posts/100... #Esperanto #EsperantoMuziko #MusicHistory

Help please - do I know anyone who's good at coming up with names for things? I have a business idea and I'm struggling to find a good name for it!

What's the best practice for recording French republican calendar dates? GRAMPS will accept them and sorts them properly, so should I just enter them as in the record, or convert them to Gregorian? Or maybe put the Gregorian date in the event description for easy reference? #GenHour

This week I found out that FamilySearch has searchable indexes of French BMD records, which makes that part of my extended tree a lot easier than the last time I tried! The transcribed dates are often slightly wrong though, so worth battling through the old French handwriting nonetheless. #GenHour

I still wouldn't be born yet. But in 1926 my great grandfathers were an ironmonger, an inspector in the fire brigade, the manager of a gentlemen's outfitter and a farm labourer.

This record was recorded exactly 100 years ago today. With another disc of "La Espero", it was the first ever released record of Esperanto music. More info: eomuziko.com/en/posts/esp... - another post will follow to mark 100 years after the release date (next Sunday) #Esperanto

Tiu ĉi disko estis registrita antaŭ ekzakte 100 jaroj hodiaŭ. Kun alia disko de "La Espero", ĝi estis la plej frue eldonita disko de Esperanto-muziko. Pliaj informoj: eomuziko.com/eo/posts/esp... - sekvos plia artikolo por festi la 100-jariĝon de la eldondato (venontan dimanĉon) #Esperanto

Looking forward to this! Just got to record my two talks first!

Amazing fact Santon Downham in Suffolk is the location of both the highest and lowest ever June temperatures en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santon_...

A fun feature of doing #Welsh #Genealogy is that, no matter what you do, your work is always considered "too Welsh." I gave a talk once & was told I "used a lot of Welsh words" [pejorative]. How many did I use? 1 single place name. I spend an hour talking abt English culture of family 1/

Getting ImageMagick to do what I want can be exasperating at times, but it's very satisfying once it works!

My new mini-album is out!

Mi tre ĝojas pro la nova albumeto de @martinwiese.bsky.social #Esperanto #EsperantoMuziko

Nove ĉe mia blogo: Ekonomiko de Esperanto-Muziko - eomuziko.com/eo/posts/eko... New on my blog: Economics of Esperanto Music: eomuziko.com/en/posts/eco...

Bonega novaĵo! Mi atendas senpacience!

I spoke at this two years ago and would highly recommend it to anyone who's considering taking part. The only reason I won't be submitting anything this year is that I'm now over the age limit!

A song I wrote (first in a long while not in esperanto) and recorded together with my incredible daughter Inez youtu.be/aNYBNjmDesM?...