Random but I'm looking for a heating engineer (electrician maybe?) in #manchester who specialises in smart heating (Wiser) who I can pay to help me debug my system. Any recommendations/retoots would be appreciated!
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Go vote! Fuck Reform.
Spent the day at a big 3 hosting provider. Most of it was spent internally screaming. If I hear the letters AI again I'm going to projectile vomit. What happened to doing proper work?
Some initial thoughts on the Kobo Clara Colour:
* It's a bit on the small side
* The bezel depth is huge and reflects light on the screen in a wierd way
* The back is nice
* The power button is on the back which kinda makes sense
* There's a lot of backlight bleed
* The plastic finish isn't as premium as the Kindle
* It's quicker than the Kindle
* I think I like the smaller form factor
* Installing KoReader was as simple as running a script - much easier than kindle.
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/cc @neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk @ben@mastodon.bentasker.co.uk
My hotel room number is 404 I find this quite satisfying in an odd way. Had to explain it to my partner though.
The amount of spoons I posses is currently lower than the morals/ethics/braincells of Trump. That's to say I'm exhuasted and it's only Wednesday.
[Backrest](https://garethgeorge.github.io/backrest/) is super cool. Trialing it out with Backblaze B2 to backup my Immich instance. I already use Restic to backup my ForgeJo instances but wanted a GUI for my homelab.
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@bloor@bloor.tw that's really impressive. I followed your migration toots and it's making me very tempted to move to my own servers.
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@interpipes@thx.gg I think it's an issue with the wiring in our airing cupboard, I'm 99% sure Wiser is doing exactly what it should do but there's something up with either the three way valve/water tank. I'd also like them to re-do a few bits of wiring as well to clean up years of bad plumbers trying their "best". Thanks for the offer though!
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@badambassador@social.vivaldi.net That'd be awesome, I'm 99% sure it's not Wiser related but need someone with the experience just in case.
Lilly gets it
The Google Pixel 10 Pro XL is a damned nice phone but the way it shoves AI down your face is annoying as hell. Slowly disabling as much as I can. Still the build quality and screen is fantastic.
40 it is.
Accidentally ran the entire test suite instead of focusing it. Time for lunch I guess.
Just when you think #firefox is doing a bit better
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Homelab Update March 2026
https://mikebell.io/posts/homelab-update-march-2026/
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Rebuilding my digital library
https://mikebell.io/posts/rebuilding-digital-library/
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@ben will take a look at the kobo plugin, I'm pretty happy with my KoReader and OPDS setup at the moment. I do recommend giving Calibre-web a go even if you bounce off it, it has a really nice UI.
I love the fact that the RAF have leased an A330 from Airtankers and it has jet2.com plastered on the side. Nothing beats an RAF holiday!
Aircraft: G-VYGL
Check out playback of aircraft G-VYGL from Brize Norton to Bardufoss on Flightradar24. https://fr24.com/data/aircraft/g-vygl#3edf06d9
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@badambassador@social.vivaldi.net thanks so much will get in contact with him next week.
Todays been a pretty hard day for so many reason but my anxiety tics have been really bad. The tics are something I've always had but only just started to understand. It's been really tough coping with it.
Watching my friendship group slowly fall apart due to every situation possible is not how I'd planned 2026. I can't see it getting any better any time soon. Can't wait to be back in the UK tomorrow to give my fluffy ones all the love I can muster at the moment.
`failed with exit code null`
you and me both goreleaser, you and me both
I've tried to vibecode an app using local LLMs and it failed miserable. I spent more time getting frustrated with trying to get the setup working than actually creating anything. When I got it working it came back with a gibberish cli command.
I'm sure this is why copilot and claude are the "better" tools but I was trying to do this as ethically as possible.
ok #traefik people I have 2 working routers provided by docker but new ones are not working with `Filtering disabled container` I have no idea why, I've tried copying working config and changing the router name but no luck. I've disabled file provider and my old routers still work. I have no idea what's going on, I have traeifk 2.0 on another server which works fine, 3.0 has been problematic.
Everything about the Nine Inch Noize set at Coachella is awesome shame I had to pirate it because there's no legal way of watching it anymore. I get there will be an album on the 17th (which I'll buy assuming DRM free).
My forgejo instance has reached it's limit now trying to compile arm64 docker images. I have so much spare compute in my homelab I'd love to run some runners on there but it's locked down and I'm not sure I want to setup a VPN between the two.
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Using Goreleaser with ForgeJo
https://mikebell.io/posts/goreleaser-forgejo/
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Tuning my renovate config
https://mikebell.io/posts/2026-04-10-tuning-my-renovate-config/
I built something and it worked - https://sundaylunch.club/
For a long time me and some friends have been doing a Sunday lunch club around Manchester. This is our attempt to start documenting it.
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Life at 40 seems pretty grim
https://mikebell.io/posts/life-40-pretty-grim/
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Thoughts on the Kobo Clara Colour
https://mikebell.io/posts/thoughts-kobo-clara-colour/