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  Last boost reminded my of my pictures of serial and parallel ports. #dadjokes #serialport #parallelport #humor #humour

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  Smoke coming from under the bonnet of the car as I arrived at my son’s school to pick him up. Called my local garage who said to get it towed to them. Filled in a form for The AA (provided by my insurer), no problem. Get a text directing me to a website where I can track where my recovery driver is. The website is down 🙃 Guess I’ll wait the old fashioned way, then.

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  Quaffing gin sounds appealing. Alas it seems my wife has beat me to it on a prior occasion. Tea will have to do.

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  A week of - sorting a busted car out - finding and purchasing a new car - Scouts - keeping momentum of new job offer - Scouts expedition preparation - trying to stay sane for my current job - be a present parent - some heavy topics covered in therapy this week - try not to think how much I'm screwing up my health - Aaarrrggh, my second leader is ill - try and find a backup for the weekend - school meetings - sorting out unpaid policies being cancelled thanks to delayed post I think I sa...

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  Today has been a day of adulting. Bought a new-to-me car - the car we wanted to buy last week had issues that haven’t yet been resolved, but unfortunately we need two cars in our life right now. Also resigned from my job after finally agreeing to the terms of employment at AWS.

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  Found pyramid tea bags in a museum.

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  Couple of Scouty evenings. Tuesday I had my first review since starting Scouting. It went well. We talked about where I was happy, where I thought improvement could be made, and any worries. Mostly I requested more financial transparency with the leadership team, and also said I was wary that in 2-3 years time it’s likely I will lose my team as their children age out. I went in as a Scout Section Team Lead, and came out as a Scout Section Team Lead and Trustee 🤣 Wednesday night was a differe...

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  Had some “agentic AI” training at work today. Work are providing us with Cursor and Copilot for coding tasks, as well as Gemini, Atlassian Rovo, and an LLM Gateway for non-coding tasks. Today was mostly getting to grips with terminology. One person walked through installing Opencode, adding an MCP for Atlassian. They then pasted a Jira link into an Opencode agent that planned some work and attempted to implement it. I think everyone was suitably impressed, but it was clear after a few questio...

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  #ScoutingUK Currently our knives are kept in a cardboard box on top of a tall cabinet in the office at our hut. I have been asked to take them on my permit camp, so needed something a bit more secure. A couple of old ammo boxes with padlocks should do the trick! Botched drilling the padlock attachment, but it all worked out in the end - and I still have two hands!

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  My constituency was the first to announce results today in the Senedd elections. 2 seats to Plaid Cymru 2 seats to Reform 1 to Labour 1 to Conservatives If there was a seventh seat the Greens would have had it. Having done the maths, more than happy to have voted for the Greens in this election. Will see what happens but will likely give them my vote in the next National elections.

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  Insanely easy to install #FreeBSD on a @hetzner VPS!

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  Time to process my hessian. Taking 20cm off the height as the stakes will be 160cm or so once hammered into the ground. The cutting the 10cm*10m strip into smaller strips - some will go at the bottom for the stake to thread through, and others will be fashioned into a pocket on the top edge for the top of the stake to sit in. My wonderful wife is helping me, as is Berti Basset.

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  Facebook Memories showing me old posts of the end on uni, fun times going to May Ball mostly. But the first post it showed above all the fun ones is a post I’d have sent out for a revision session. I was, and still am, terrible at revising. Knowing this, in my final year of uni I’d book out a lecture hall for a few hours and invite peers to come along. I’d go through all a modules lectures and recreate slides, ben over the course of 2–3 hours I’d present them. People would call me out on things...

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  Interesting dream that has kept swirling around my head this morning. Not sure of the context of meeting them, but I met two brothers. They had an old gaming rig they were going to throw away - I’ve a feeling it played Minecraft. Somehow I’d managed to view the machine and asked them to show me it. At home I have a fairly small office in the attic, however because this is a dream it was basically a warehouse. They set the rig up - in consisted of a 7x 3 foot wooden wallpapering table. My imme...

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  Listening to an early release of @latenightlinux (ep 381, https://mastodon.social/@latenightlinux/116399523074094970) where Joe says: “There’s this assumption from some people, of the less technical people in management or whatever, that AI and agentic bullshit is a great boon for productivity and speed” It reminded me of my own employer’s messaging around AI. They are saying that these tools we can be “10x engineers”. And I don’t wholly disagree with them, but I do think they’ve made the ass...

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  #ScoutingUK Last night was our first session back after Easter. A lone wandering Cub who had been cast out of his pack for being too old found his way to our meeting place where we welcomed him with a flying up ceremony and a renewal of his promise. After flag break we went over UK knife law, doing the classic table of objects asking whether a given item was legal, illegal, or a grey area. We went over safe knife usage and techniques before giving the Scours a 30cm length of squarish pine af...

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  I hate folding socks for two reasons: 1. Many of them are inside out and need to be pulled outside out. 2. So many pairs do as pictured, one folds itself front to back while the other folds itself side to side. This gives them different profiles and you can’t immediately fold them together.

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  I’m not sure if the amount of joy emptying the dishwasher of an evening over emptying it in the morning brings me is too much, or just enough.

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  #ScoutingUK Tonight we were due to do the DIY badge. Three stations: - Safety and isolating utilities - Practical skills - Change a car tyre, check oil levels, etc. (one of our leaders is a mechanic and wanted to run a bit of a session) However, that did not happen. Two of the leaders pulled out of the season last minute for various reasons. This left us with rejigging the session to make it possible for two people to run, or changing the programme. After chatting to our resident mechanic an...

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  Not a bad office for the day. Through some local enquiries I’ve been put in touch with a project that is developing this land into a safe environment for butterflies, and to attain SSSI status. They are clearing willow from the land which is a very thirsty tree. I’m here to take what I want for pioneering poles before it gets chipped up. #ScoutingUK

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  #ScoutingUK Last night at Scouts we were going to do a DIY session, but the leader who was doing the main bit had to have an emergency dentist appointment, so that’s been postponed. Instead I asked my “predecessor” (he’s still joint Team Lead, but I’ve taken over regular running) to plan an alternative session. So, we kicked off with a paper aeroplane competition - who can get the furthest, most consistently, and look the best. Then we segued into splitting logs with an axe - something we’ve...

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  @hischeekiness @CaroleHeidi Ah yes, that reminds me I have some to get sewn on my uniform before Monday!

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  @CaroleHeidi when I was a Scout I sewed on my (I think) Pathfinder award onto my Scout shirt, I not only sewed the breast pocket together, but also the front to the shirt to the back!

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  Tonight at Scouts we went to a local Scout HQ to do climbing. The group received lottery funding several years ago and were able to purchase an old church next to their HQ and repurpose it - completed last November is a beautiful climbing wall! We have Scouts who really enjoy and embrace this kind of activity, and we have others who have previously been vocal about their fear of heights. Some of those who really don't like heights made attempting to climb to the top a Personal Challen...