Software developer, fell runner, caver.
Interested in the outdoors, environment, software maintenance, and copious photos of stiles and industrial heritage.
| Website | https://tecnocode.co.uk |
| Pronouns | he/him |
Bought gig tickets from a company which wasn’t Ticketmaster because everything about Ticketmaster is awful. Turns out this other company subcontracts its ticketing to Ticketmaster, and now I have *two* Ticketmaster accounts and a high blood pressure.
aaaaaaaaaargh enshittification
I think this post from @kusma resonates quite well with my thoughts about LLMs
https://kusma.xyz/blog/2026/03/26/open-source-and-ai/
It’s a well written post, but if there needs to be a tl;dr for a toot, then as applied to my point of view the tl;dr is: I don’t care how good Claude seems to be, I’m not using it on ethical grounds.
Due to the fire on Union Street, the old carriage entrance has been opened up to provide an alternative way into Central Station in Glasgow. This gives a chance to see some of the massive girders which support the station's main concourse. Looking very much like parts from a giant meccano set, they've been holding up the station for well over 100 years.
#glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #centralstation #engineering
if you like Auroras and Bobby and want to help bring my design work to other #FOSS projects, I’m looking for sponsors. :)
This week I did some more car sharing and blocked up some draughts in a building I help maintain, to reduce its heating bills.
Building a GNOME app? If you follow the HIG and especially if you apply for inclusion in the GNOME Circle, we would love to help you with an icon.
Check out some metaphor explorations from the past two years: https://blog.jimmac.eu/posts/friday-sketches/
Apply here: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Design/app-icon-requests/
"'These proposals would not only have a disastrous impact on the science of #astronomy, they would also hinder the right of everybody on Earth to enjoy the night sky. That is unacceptable.
"The stars above us are a valued part of human heritage – deploying more than one million exceptionally bright #satellites would utterly destroy this and permanently scar the natural landscape.'"
You might remember my distress at not having been able to grab any tiny balancing sheep photos. Went out for a walk today and it wasn't perfect (the pathway is noticeably higher than the field which makes it tricky) BUT VICTORY IS MINE! 🐑 😁
I continue to stand by rubbish-but-real being better than polished-but-fake.
Behold my rubbish-but-real triptych.
Spaceways
This Is My Glasgow
Dark Galloway
Hylke Bons 🥜
Jakub Steiner ⭐
Dr. John Barentine FRAS
eclectech