"If that bloody rope breaks, you're dead."

Legendary steeplejack Fred Dibnah demonstrates the art of installing a chimney scaffold at 200ft while trying to avoid "half a day out with the undertaker".

"When I've done it, when I've got all the gear up, to…

Posts and writings by Julian Schrittwieser

If you ever watch someone “coding”, you might see them spending far more time staring
into space than typing on their keyboard.

Apple paid a woman millions to prevent a lawsuit, but it could have avoided all of this if she’d just been able to repair her own phone.

Professional text tools including case converter and word counter. Clean, ad-free interface for content creators.

Baseboard management controller vulnerabilities make remote attacks possible.

We are in the midst of a Ruby drama for the ages. I'm sure a bunch of people figured we were all too old for this shit, but apparently we are not.
This debate…

Technology solutions and open source projects by Red Dot Rocket

We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.

really bad minimal scheme compiler

PostgreSQL 18 was officially released on September 25, 2025. No doubt the most consequential change is the new Asynchronous I/O (AIO) subsystem. However, this p...

I write about nature, but when Milly got sick with a mystery illness, it never occurred to me that a long-forgotten tick bite could be the cause

The Swiss voted on e-ID law and rental tax. Explore the polling results and implications for home ownership taxes.

Plan 9 from User Space. Contribute to 9fans/plan9port development by creating an account on GitHub.

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