h2g2bob @h2g2bob@mastodon.dbatley.com

In the April edition of Highways Magazine I ask for a reinvigoration of national research projects, with an independent commissioning body. We're missing out on spreading good practice.

The digital edition is free as ever.

https://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/html5/reader/production/default.aspx?pubname=&edid=128bc491-e1cb-43fe-b578-6f0eb30c54f5

in an uncertain world, take comfort in the routinely reliable mundanity of functioning sewers.

Chrome just opted you into a load of ad tracking bullshit. Don't forget to go in and turn it all off, if you're a #Chrome user.

Happy CSS Naked Day to all who celebrate!
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/04/this-blog-strips-off-for-css-naked-day/

Happy Easter. Here’s an article where I interviewed the first programmer to ever hide an Easter Egg in software way back in 1968:

https://www.acriticalhit.com/make-love-not-war-first-software-easter-egg/

Newspeak House in that London are looking for resident fellows for their next cohort! If you're interested in tech and making things less bad, think about applying! Scholarships available: https://newspeak.house/residency

Now that WebGPU is shipping(!), I want to share some thoughts on the API.
Please note that as an editor of the spec, I'm literally as biased as you can get. So take my words with a massive grain of salt, but my intent is to encourage people to try the API for themselves, not accept my opinion verbatim. #WebGPU
https://developer.chrome.com/blog/webgpu-release/

They’ve figured out the secret of ancient Roman concrete’s durability! And it’s really cool! https://news.mit.edu/2023/roman-concrete-durability-lime-casts-0106

Open source software is free and enables people to do great things with it. This is the #opensource software/data I've been using to create maps, process images, make animations etc. related to #NASA's #Mars2020 mission:

#GIMP : https://www.gimp.org
#Geogebra : https://www.geogebra.org
#ImageMagick : https://imagemagick.org
#QGIS : https : https://www.qgis.org
#Stellarium : https://stellarium.org

@kevinmgill's and @stim3on's flats: https://github.com/kmgill/mars-raw-utils-data/tree/61a3b4477b541d4749c66b348c2098a931369d93/caldata

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Just as "serverless" means you are using more than one server, see "driverless"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-65175447 “They will have two members of staff on board.
A safety driver will sit in the driver's seat to monitor the technology, and a so-called bus captain will help passengers with boarding, buying tickets and queries.”

Our first Bleak Weekend was a great success. I can thoroughly recommend staying in a motorway service station for a weekend https://rowanmanning.com/weeknotes/127/ #WeekNotes

🗳️ Local elections are taking place across England and Northern Ireland this May.

🙋 8,519 councillors are to be elected, the largest number since 2019.

📝 Nominations for England close on 4 April. Our volunteers will be collecting these over the following days and publishing them for voters on WhoCanIVoteFor.co.uk.

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https://democracyclub.org.uk/blog/2023/03/02/whats-up-for-election-in-2023/