Hugh

Time for plane no. 2.
I enjoyed the 10 minutes spent landside at Shanghai.
Culturally, even though this is a fairly major international airport, it felt very different to the West.
The sheer number of staff milling around! The immigration agents had a sort of parade with their stamps.
Security felt rather dated in comparison, although certainly effective. My bag was dissected several times!
https://social.crablab.uk/system/media_attachments/files/116/570/605/798/553/381/original/d0fcea0e116fa6f4.jpg
https://social.crablab.uk/system/media_attachments/files/116/570/605/803/956/201/original/38bed4630be3f7ce.jpg

2026-05-13 12:02:34 UTC

Departing London; little bit moist. Shanghai 🔜
Pleased to have an entire row to myself 😁
https://social.crablab.uk/system/media_attachments/files/116/567/159/084/394/907/original/436b84b7dcae290f.jpg

2025-11-28 07:25:37 UTC

Apparently it's normal, in Germany, to have multiple phases to domestic properties? 🤔 Indeed, your oven will expect 2/3 phase.
Is the UK weird in having high-current single phase as the norm?
(3-phase in homes becomes more common as people install car chargers etc.)

2025-11-12 23:21:35 UTC

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Huh; dynamic pricing strikes again.
My breakfast was included in the rate and was not €90 extra.
I would also not pay an extra €90 for breakfast at that particular hotel.

2025-11-12 23:18:42 UTC

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Which hotel are you staying at?!?

2025-11-11 14:34:14 UTC

I think I'll keep my phone permanently in "do not disturb" mode.
It's much less distracting.

2025-10-03 12:21:59 UTC

My team is hiring 🚀
If you're interested in Big Data or Big Compute and enjoy figuring out how to process TBs of data ingestion, transformations & queries on a daily basis, then please consider joining us.
We're a small & friendly team split across London and Tallinn (beautiful city), where this role is based.
Happy to answer any questions 🙂 Boosts appreciated.
https://wise.jobs/job/senior-platform-engineer-analytics-platform-python-in-tallinn-jid-2039
#getfedhired #jobseu #jobs

2025-09-12 19:00:58 UTC

Hard drive neutralised :neocat_gun:
https://social.crablab.uk/system/media_attachments/files/115/192/863/910/081/422/original/68dde707f2f01213.mp4

2025-07-17 21:06:41 UTC

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I'm living in the wrong part of the world 🥺

2025-05-24 16:34:23 UTC

Blinkenlights :neocat_magnify:
https://social.crablab.uk/system/media_attachments/files/114/563/768/974/310/247/original/82a62d89786f4a19.jpg

2025-05-24 10:46:17 UTC

No one comes to visit the UK for the sake of it, they're only coming to take Yorkshire Tea back with them

2025-04-15 00:26:29 UTC

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Hmm maybe I should do this. I'm not sure it's something the NHS does...

2025-04-04 13:53:40 UTC

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I'm not holding my breath (yet) but credit where credit is due: the @npub1sv0…rq9x Ethernet team seem to have corralled CityFibre into: accepting a signed Wayleave, agreeing we've consented to the design documents and accepting that there are now no blockers to the civils work 🎉
I hope to be a very grateful and happy customer shortly! It really demonstrates the importance of small firms who're willing to go the extra mile for their customers - $otherISP just brushed me off.
Thanks again @npub12hz…ynw4 @npub1z23…qh88 🙏

2025-04-03 14:06:59 UTC

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👀 Having a degree of FOMO about not being there! (I'm in Ireland)
May be about on Monday, depending on your location and availability? :)

2025-04-03 12:56:53 UTC

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Oh, you're here for Kubecon? 👀

2025-03-26 11:05:08 UTC

CityFibre are the most useless infrastructure provider.
A year later they've cancelled the @npub1sv0…rq9x order several times, been given the signed wayleave several times (after finally accepting that the freeholder isn't a massive corporate) and I've even sent them *their* design documents they supplied: *3* years old and apparently forgotten.
A&A have been awesome throughout and have gone above and beyond.
However we still have no idea whether CF will even accept the wayleave, let alone install!

2025-03-23 20:50:06 UTC

Could a #Forgejo expert help me understand how the OAuth2 client is supposed to work?
Odd behaviour:
- Despite setting the option to automatically create the account, they're prompted to enter their username & email manually on first login
- HTTP local auth doesn't seem to work with OAuth2. I think it should attempt a PKCE challenge and throw the user out to the IdP in the browser. Instead, they can't login.
Documentation seems to be lacking. Am I doing something very wrong?

2024-12-22 13:17:17 UTC

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Interesting to see your working here, thank you!
Small point: your post appears to have been published in the future 🙂 (2025-12-22)

2024-12-18 22:58:20 UTC

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Hmm, it might be a little tricky in that case - wasn't sure if you'd be around over the weekend and into next week :)

2024-12-18 21:48:23 UTC

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Nice! Welcome back?
Let me know if you have some time and would like to meet up 🙂

2024-12-16 07:23:12 UTC

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Was an image of said bagel shop supposed to be attached? 😅

2024-11-26 23:33:52 UTC

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Interrail works best when you're doing lots of regional multihops or big distances across borders.
Work out the cost per day on your pass. If you're going to the next town over on a day trip, it's probably best to buy a ticket for that rather than spend an Interrail day.
(In case you didn't know, with Flexi passes you activate on the first day, and then on subsequent days within the validity period)

2024-11-26 23:31:16 UTC

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Yeah it really can be unfortunately, and especially in the summer.
Interrail reservations are quota controlled separately to other tickets so they sell out quickly.
SNCF are particularly bad for making everything they can reservation required. The app will tell you, but it's broadly all TGVs and sleepers plus some others.
Anything DB (except sleepers and a couple of cross-border NL ICEs) don't require reservations, same with NS and SNCB. DSB too I believe.

2024-11-26 23:09:04 UTC

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Yes. Depends what you want tips on?
Trains? Reservations? Accomodation?
I strongly recommend https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Nicky-Gardner/Europe-by-Rail-The-Definitive-Guide-18th-edition/31002199 as a starting point for good routes, and things to see on them.
Also Man in Seat 61.
Interrail Pass app is fine for most things.
There's a little known SNCB booking engine for Eurostar reservations which _doesn't_ require a pass number to check availability.
@npub10ra…24jw is permanently on Interrail and can answer most questions 🙂

2024-11-17 20:23:53 UTC

Does anyone have any recommendations for an IdP that isn't as Java-y as Keycloak? Ideally something a little lighter weight.

2024-11-15 21:07:40 UTC

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Does he oppose a bridge? :)
Mastodon != Fedi fwiw.
(Btw this wasn't supposed to be snarky or rhetorical; I genuinely don't know what his position on this is!)

2024-11-15 19:27:23 UTC

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I don't really want to use Bsky directly; I want federation to reach the point where I can interact with folks on there as seamlessly as every other fedi server.

2024-11-11 22:32:12 UTC

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The Dodo pubs in Oxford are solid (Rusty Bicycle, Rickety Press, Up in Arms). Can recommend their cocktail menu too.
If you want quirky then the Mad Hatter does decent pizza and is... interesting. Their website is awful but you can just rock up most nights and there's often live music.
Other pubs available. Fancier dining is also possible but afraid I don't have much more than student recommendations :)

2024-10-24 22:00:15 UTC

I went to see a staging of Waiting for Godot - it's on at the Haymarket.
Overall I enjoyed the play; it's a complex script with some deep underlying messages. At the core, I would say it's a story of unconditional love & friendship.
However, I was disappointed by the staging. It seems everyone goes for a classic, bleak and spartan backdrop.
To me the incongruity of the protagonists with the unrelenting passage of time is key to the central message.
I would set it on a Tube platform.

2024-10-19 07:53:37 UTC

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Is this a suggestion i should join Bsky? 👀
I looked at doing it, but their 'PDS' documentation was poor and it seemed more like a fig leaf for 'own your data' than a serious attempt.
Are the issues you see with Mastodon specifically or fedi as a whole?

2024-10-18 09:05:23 UTC

Has anyone written something that optimizes the cost of commuting Vs the difference in house prices for certain categories?
eg.
an annual season from RDG to PAD is £5600
from EPS to WAT is £2844
From cursory glances the difference in house prices for a 1 bed flat is around £20-30k. So it would take approximately 7-10 years to 'recover' the train fares in the increased house price, however of course that £30k is equity you've gained (minus the interest).
So it seems a worthwhile problem.

2024-09-25 19:48:37 UTC

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If it helps, mine (from MoJ) didn't.
I imagine not, as the font file is rather tightly controlled. You're not supposed to use it on a live service that hasn't gone through the GDS Service Assessment.
And each department has different suppliers for IT equipment, so things like that wouldn't be standard across the board 😅
(There are framework contracts like G-Cloud for stuff like Microsoft licencing and AWS, I don't think hardware goes through that)