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  I know it’s hardly the worst problem with social media, but it’s annoying how algorithmic feeds (not here) mean that I’m still seeing tedious April Fool posts popping up.

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  Someone should make a Scandi Noir version of that John Thaw detective show, and call it Inspector Norse.

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  I assume there’s not a version of the 25th Amendment that caters for the possibility that the President is mentally unfit but the Vice President is also a psychopath.

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  More confirmation of how old and out-of-touch with popular culture I am, in the form of an “incredibly famous” Taskmaster contestant who I had previously never heard of.

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  Pleased with myself for remembering to put my black and brown bins out last night, then realised this morning that it’s blue bin week. Fortunately they’ve only just come, because after forgetting to put it out a couple of times my blue bin was full up. Hope I didn’t accidentally binfluence any neighbours into putting the wrong ones out too.

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  Just saw an advert for the Land Rover Discovery (priced from £64,810) with the tag line “for everyone”.

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  The strait between North Wales and Anglesey is made of everything that’s wrong with the modern internet: men and AI.

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  Looking at the Facebook page for our 40 year school reunion, and my name isn’t on the lists for “going”, “not going”, “undecided”, “awaiting reply” or “we have no idea where they are”. I shall continue to keep my head down.

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  Weeknotes 2026-13: a friendly sheep. https://www.kerrybuckley.org/2026/03/29/weeknotes-2026-13/

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  First day back at work after the weekend, and this year only one group of failing CI tests for something implemented in the past six months that assumes local time in the code but UTC in the tests.

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  Resisting the urge to bother commenting on an internal “suggested GitLab branching model” that somehow manages to be even worse than GitFlow, while optimistically claiming to be consistent with continuous deployment.

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  Weeknotes 2026-11: a quiz and a half (by which I mean neither a very good quiz nor 1.5 quizzes). https://www.kerrybuckley.org/2026/03/15/weeknotes-2026-11/

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  I wrote up a deliberate process of narrowing down a performance issue using a profiler (with a brief digression into benchmarking tools). Fortunately (given that I was writing the post in parallel with doing the actual work) it turned out well, delivering a 30–40× speedup. #MyElixirStatus https://www.kerrybuckley.org/2026/03/18/zooming-in-on-slow-code-with-profiling-and-benchmarking-tools/

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  Me, a programmer, shouting at a podcast for laughing about how the 64 in “$64,000 Question” is “weirdly random”.

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  I like a good pun, but I swear it was completely accidental that in a discussion about an old bug with infinite scrolling on a page I just said that I “didn’t think we’d ever got to the bottom of it.”

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  Not saying my brain’s full of useless facts, but listening to a few episodes of Radio 4’s The Unbelievable Truth I spotted two truths before the panelists had actually said them.

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  Oh, look, that story the other day about an AI bot writing a whiny blog post after having a pull request rejected was probably fabricated nonsense. I am so incredibly surprised. https://www.404media.co/ars-technica-pulls-article-with-ai-fabricated-quotes-about-ai-generated-article/

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  I popped outside at lunchtime, and it almost feels like a summer’s day. In February. If this is global warning, then IT’S STILL AN EXISTENTIAL CRISIS THAT WE SHOULD BE PAYING FAR MORE ATTENTION TO.

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  Pretty sure it’s the progressive policies more than environmentalism that’s attracting people to the Greens at the moment. This makes about as much sense as their other tactic of adopting xenophobia to attract Reform voters. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/25/lost-species-released-england-labour-greens-election-threat

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  Great news from Gorton and Denton, but it feels like we really need some form of PR soon, before all those claims of “but it’ll give seats to the far right!'” massively backfire.

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  Today’s helpful phone autocorrect*: meant to type “in the polls”, but it came out as “on the pills”. *Or whatever you call the Google drag-your-finger-through-the-letters keyboard thing.

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  Weeknotes 2026-09: temporarily missing cat. https://www.kerrybuckley.org/2026/03/01/weeknotes-2026-09/