James Jefferies
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James Jefferies
@jamesjefferies.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy
Technologist @shedcode - Data Engineer @RewildingB - @jamesjefferies (he/him) - #IrisMurdoch, #TheWeddingPresent, #LFC, #Railways #TheArchers #Canals […]

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Hey folks - I'm looking for a reasonable cost, preferable nice social enterprise in Cambridge who could do some hot drinks throughout a day at a conference, possibly some bakes/biscuits.

Any ideas?
December 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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🎉 Some important #CrossBorderRail news! 🎉

After thinking about the idea for more than a decade (yeah, this is later than a DB train!) I am finally starting to plan building a railway organisation for lobbying work, and @patrick @partim & @redjives are in from the start. We're sort of soft […]
Original post on gruene.social
gruene.social
December 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
@philgyford just reading your last notes - I picked up 4K three colours box set a few months ago and have been trying to find the time for a re-watch - have always said they’re my favourite films, but I haven’t seen them for so long!

Anyway, I’ve been off work with sciatica, sounds like the […]
Original post on mastodon.me.uk
mastodon.me.uk
December 7, 2025 at 11:12 AM
So bogged off with Eurostar today, multiple phone calls with waiting time over months to their advisors to ask whether they will release direct Ams to LDN trains on 4th April - they advised to buy an expensive, changing ticket because they couldn’t say what might happen 🙃

Today I found they […]
Original post on mastodon.me.uk
mastodon.me.uk
December 4, 2025 at 8:29 PM
@roastinghouse love the trussel trust idea, I'm a regular giver though so was going to remove the coupon, but I can't see how - I've attached a screengrab of my basket - thanks!
November 28, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Early inspirational Christmas present for me has arrived!
November 26, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Nice to see @yaxu in the latest “Music in the round” mailout 🤩
November 26, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Urgh, back has been playing up and then easing off, today though got a pain down the back of my leg and now concerned that I’m having my first experience of sciatica 😢
November 22, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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I presented the Consequence Check tool to some digital folks in govt this week. It's a methodology for rapidly QAing tech products against their social impacts, not just their tech specification, designed to help surface trade offs www.careful.industries/blog/2025-11... Someone asked a very good Q
Introducing the Careful Consequence Check — Careful Industries
A step-by-step guide to using the Careful Consequence Check canvas.
www.careful.industries
November 15, 2025 at 12:38 PM
This is a great software bug hunter story 🤩 https://mensfeld.pl/2025/11/ruby-ffi-gc-bug-hash-becomes-string/
mensfeld.pl
November 14, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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Hey UK GLAM friends, I'm super keen to get to the GLAM Labs conference in Edinburgh next June, but I need to find some funding. https://www.glamlabs.io/events/glam-labs-futures-26 Is there anything I could come and do for you around June next year that could help pay my way?
International GLAM Labs Community - GLAM Labs Futures 26
GLAM Labs Futures ● 25-26 June 2026 ● Scotland
www.glamlabs.io
November 4, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Oh no, just started to install ffmpeg with brew and it is currently to downloading and installing the whole internet 😬
November 1, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Went to 6th form college open evening with number 1 daughter - looked at A-level English curriculum - all flippin’ bloke authors apart from a few poems and maybe Mary Shelley. Now, I’m not knocking Mary, but is that it?! It’s an absolute embarrassment.
November 1, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Watched #houseofdynamite - well written, well acted, well directed - but also flipping terrifying.
November 1, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Hot take - new Sabrina Carpenter album is better than the new Taylor Swift album 🤩
October 23, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Darn it, water has been off and now it’s back on, our newest loo will not switch off its fill valve 🧐 what’s worse is that the blimmin’ plumber who fitted it, didn’t fit an isolation valve - git!
October 14, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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👋 I’m on the look out for my next project, I’m an experienced Elixir dev (> 8 years, and > 10 years of Ruby before that + I'm still the maintainer of RSpec), very familiar with Phoenix and LiveView, and have enough CSS / JS knowledge to approach projects from a full stack angle.

I’ve worked […]
Original post on fosstodon.org
fosstodon.org
October 14, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Oh my gosh - this brought a little tear to my eye - hoping there is something in Europe!

https://youtu.be/koiX_Wspatw

#rush
October 6, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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New community gem server from the rubygems team just dropped: https://gem.coop
gem.coop
gem.coop
October 6, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Evicted two slugs this morning & also heard some rustling in the shopping bags which makes me think we might have a mouse in the house 🙃🐭
October 6, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Can anyone recommend a decent battery recharger (AA/AAA) which gives an output on battery capacity and charge?

I’m sure our current one isn’t doing the job 🙁
October 5, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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159 is the number to right if you have suspicious banking things going on - it asks you which bank you are with and it sends you directly to someone who will help, no waiting
October 2, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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Over 40 years, we were collectively told to give tax cuts to rich people.

And we were told that if we did that, wealth would trickle down and everyone would be better off.

Over 40 years, pretty much everything got cut to fund these tax cuts.

Schools. Hospitals. Public housing. Public […]
Original post on gts.sadauskas.id.au
gts.sadauskas.id.au
October 1, 2025 at 12:18 PM