Mastodawn

Kafka is alive and well in our corporate IT processes. I got an email today “escalating” the fact that I hadn’t reviewed registrations on the email relay service. Unfortunately (a) the “review” only allows you to confirm that an entry is still required, not indicate that it isn’t; (b) it says it’ll be disabled if I don’t review it by three weeks ago; and (c) because apps have four kinds of owner, and I’m all of them, the “escalation” involved CCing me three times on the email.

Kerry Buckley 3d ago

Weeknotes 2026-18 – RIP Nobby cat.

https://www.kerrybuckley.org/2026/05/04/weeknotes-2026-18/

Weeknotes 2026-18 « Kerry Buckley

Kerry Buckley 6d ago

Passenger 6d ago

I am writing this on Tusky, which is free software that someone had to write. It is running on an older Android phone, which someone had to assemble from components that other people had to make from raw materials that still other people had to produce.

You are reading this because it was transmitted via a sophisticated international communications system which someone had to design and someone else had to make from raw materials that someone else had to produce.

The electricity also had to be produced by someone, using machinery made by someone else.

Happy May Day, y'all. The world is nothing without our labour. Our masters know this; we should too.

Kerry Buckley Apr 27

Weeknotes 2026-17: the correct number of bikes is N+1.

https://www.kerrybuckley.org/2026/04/27/weeknotes-2026-17/

Weeknotes 2026-17 « Kerry Buckley

Kerry Buckley Apr 23

Amazing UX design from Apple, where you can put a MacBook to sleep by pressing the touch ID button, but if you use a finger with a registered print and leave it on there for a fraction of a second too long, it wakes right back up again.

Kerry Buckley Apr 22

Fun fact: I was born less than a month after the first packet was sent over Arpanet, but also over a month before the beginning of Unix epoch time.

Kerry Buckley Apr 21

Reading a motivational Instagram post from a psychologist that says “Don’t think [20 miles into a marathon] ‘can I finish?’, think ‘why am I doing this?‘”. I can’t help thinking that this only works if you have a plausible answer for the latter question!

Kerry Buckley Apr 20

Voline Apr 20

Zarah Sultana MP entered this into the public record by saying it in the House of Commons on 14 April 2026. Today it remains illegal for UK media to report on this. It can only be published in Hansard or the Parliament's own video service.

https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2026-04-14

#UK #Palestine