Matthew

@dracos
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https://traintimes.org.uk | https://theatricalia.com | https://www.mysociety.org | http://www.southbirminghamsinfonia.com | https://www.citychoir.org.uk
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MatthewJan 25
I tried out a cryptic crossword clue in Google:
“Endless, crap, odd cereal produce (5)”
It never gets it right, and the fifth time I made it *very* sad
MatthewDec 24

A colleague had made a “sunlight optimism” spreadsheet, another colleague suggested there should be a postcode lookup version, I have the day off, the kid has gone swimming, and so, I present:

The Sunlight Optimism Calculator: https://dracos.co.uk/made/sunlight-optimism/

MatthewJul 8, 2025
I’ve put an HTML version of Volume 1 of the Post Office Inquiry report up at
https://postofficeinquiry.dracos.co.uk/report/
Has all the footnotes, and inquiry documents linked from the URNs, and a nice navigable hierarchy :)
MatthewJul 5, 2025
Followed a link in a message on my phone to legislation.gov.uk, and this time got fed up enough of its desktop-only website to do something about it: presenting https://adlegem.dracos.co.uk which will make a legislation.gov.uk page readable on mobile :)
MatthewDec 5, 2024
The performance of performance.gov is somewhat ironic
MatthewNov 17, 2024

I have made another transcript website, this time for the Lampard Inquiry: https://lampardinquiry.dracos.co.uk/

(The code is an amalgam of Post Office and Covid Inquiries – it has PDFs like Covid, but has videos/HTML like Post Office. The most complex part is “spot new paragraphs” 😂)

Searchable transcripts of the Lampard Inquiry hearings — Searchable transcripts of the Lampard Inquiry hearings documentation

MatthewAug 26, 2024
MatthewAug 23, 2024
Solved a 4D Sudoku puzzle while on holiday, wrote all about it: https://dracos.co.uk/wrote/4d-sudoku/
Solving the 4D Sudoku cube - Matthew Somerville

MatthewAug 22, 2024

There’s nothing I like more than a new feature that makes the page take visibly longer to load, in order to load something that’s the same as what it has already loaded further down.

You may find https://tenbluelinks.org/ useful.

How to Turn Off Google AI Overview and Set "Web" as Default

Ten Blue Links
MatthewAug 20, 2024
@simon Have found a very small niche museum :) Sounds of sparrows and the East Coast Main Line, swallows darting around, and containing memories of the old ferry across the river (which we forded yesterday at low tide)