Trevor Vallender

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Software Engineer
Rubyist
Maker
Tabletop gamer

Homepagehttps://tsvallender.co.uk
Bloghttps://blog.tsvallender.co.uk/
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"Independent bookshops are dangerous because they interrupt us. They do not optimise our curiosity. They derail it. Is that the reason why Germany’s culture commissioner, Wolfram Weimer, is now consulting the domestic intelligence agency before approving funds to bookshops?"

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/10/why-independent-bookshops-strike-fear-in-the-heart-of-germanys-culture-tsar

Why independent bookshops strike fear in the heart of Germany’s culture tsar

First he came for Berlin’s film festival. Now it’s books. Wolfram Weimer seems to be on a mission to curb progressive thinking, says Guardian Europe columnist Fatma Aydemir

The Guardian
The office door is coming along nicely

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@katemorley/116140746891954470

So good to hear _good_ news, I actually made a big loud happy noise while washing up this morning and my daughter didn’t know what was happening 😆

We went from copyright law being shaped by Disney demanding ever-increasing terms, to copyright law being effectively “optional” with OpenAI & co. lobbying so LLM output is not considered a derivative work of its inputs.

A 180° turn.

The law is still shaped by the powerful, but they now have different interests.

I made an app.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ch.pocketpc.nearbyglasses
Nearby Glasses is here to warn you when smart glasses are nearby.

I hope it's useful for someone.

The app is now open source (AGPL-3.0), the app is free and rather simple
https://github.com/yjeanrenaud/yj_nearbyglasses

It's also downloadable outside the Play Store. iOS port is in the making. F-Droid is an option, will have to look into that

I’ve mostly been happy with using @ecosia as my primary search engine, but what on earth?
I think I’ll follow this up with the related topic of the various methods in Rails to avoid N+1 issues, because the difference between them all _still_ throws me sometimes.

Getting myself bloggin again with a new Write Freely instance. I wrote a summary of the various SQL join types, partly to test myself, and surprised myself by actually remembering them all  

https://blog.tsvallender.co.uk/joins-in-sql

Joins in SQL

When learning SQL, one of the first trickier things to get your head around are the various ways to join one table to another. Here, I’m ...

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