Chris Birchall

@cb372
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@mooseallain.bsky.social Allain key technology
@tpolecat for some reason I know they’re called うろこ雲 (fish scale clouds) in Japanese but I wouldn’t know what to call them in English
@lloydmeta Netlify was a dream to work with. Felt like Heroku back in the good old days. Note the total lack of terraform/CDK in that repo :)

@lloydmeta nice! I love things like this.

Reminds me of this little anagram solver I wrote to help me with cryptic crosswords. Dataset is embedded in the binary; runs for free on Netlify (which is Lambda under the hood).

https://github.com/cb372/dusty-study

GitHub - cb372/dusty-study: Anagram helper. Rust, Yew, WASM, deployed to Netlify.

Anagram helper. Rust, Yew, WASM, deployed to Netlify. - cb372/dusty-study

GitHub

@TheBreadmonkey My local museum has not one but two books bound in human skin. Recommended if you’re looking for a fun day out with the family.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/15/book-bound-in-the-skin-of-a-19th-century-suffolk-murderer-goes-on-display?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Book bound in the skin of a 19th-century Suffolk murderer goes on display

The book about the trial of William Corder, publicly executed and dissected after being convicted of murdering his lover, is bound using his skin

The Guardian
@NicolasRinaudo @ross not to be confused with the `tracked` keyword, which is a completely different obscure Scala 3 feature!

Inspired by @NicolasRinaudo, I played around with Scala capture checking enough to convince myself we could make Cats Effect’s Resource safer.

No idea what I’m doing but I achieved my goal of stopping the naughty code from compiling.

https://github.com/cb372/capisce

GitHub - cb372/capisce: Playing around with capture checking in Scala nightly

Playing around with capture checking in Scala nightly - cb372/capisce

GitHub
Old master painting looted by Nazis spotted in Argentinian property listing

Dutch newspaper AD says it has traced Giuseppe Ghislandi’s Portrait of a Lady to house near Buenos Aires

The Guardian
@ross I’d never heard of a betta fish until my daughter drew one this morning
@ross the obnoxiously sycophantic apologies are more vexing than the hallucination