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The weather is on the turn, but it was beautiful for my run this morning. Getting some planting done now before the rain comes.

I'm new to the AT Protocol ecosystem (intending to get my blog using standard.site this weekend) but there's an incredible momentum around it. It feels like a much-needed optimistic corner of the tech world.

zeu@zeu.dev

the general bsky userbase being a lil dismissive of the standard.site integration is a reminder that this whole atproto atmosphere ecosystem is a long game. not everyone will be on board, and that's ok! we'll be ready to welcome people into a decentralized social future as big social fades away :)

Watched an episode of a gardening show last night. The entire premise seemed to be beginners having a go at sorting their garden while awaiting a visit from Monty Don. He then arrived to tell them they were doing it all wrong. Like social media in real life.

I took today off work so I have a four day weekend. I'm using it to dig up this layer of nasty gravel, weeds, and clay, and replace it with new weed membrane and nicer gravel.

I miss doing fun things on my computer and then writing about it. What fun things are you all doing on your computers during these trying times?

The weekend is short and the list of house and garden jobs is long. Did however find time to go see an epic bluebell wood.

I try and get out for a lunchtime walk round town, and often return with something interesting from one of the independent shops. Today, the perfect feature plant for a bowl I'm planting.

Trail run at RAF Spadeadam today. I'm kind of broken so was a bit of a run/hike but that gave me chance to take photos of interesting stuff.

I've done something to myself and have to take a few days off running. The upside of hiking instead is I can take a proper camera with me.

I was looking through my copy of the CSS Anthology 1st edition and wondering what a 2026 edition of that book would look like. rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/202...

This seems like the perfect sports nutrition[1], though not sure it would be easy to attach to a road bike. 1. Do not take my advice on sports nutrition. I once ran a marathon fueled by two gluten-free stroopwafels.

Alex@axmdoes.bsky.social

Gordon Ramsey, technical writing, and the importance of people who care rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/202...

Gordon Ramsey, technical writing, and the importance of people who care rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/202...

"The real threat is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing. Not a dramatic collapse. Not Skynet. Just a generation of researchers who can produce results but can't produce understanding." ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...

This long weekend I'm moving my office into the new shed. Today is all about cables and WiFi.

I've been a member of various running groups. Every single group has had a vast collection of local landmarks named after something (usually suboptimal) that happened to one of the members at that location. "We'll meet at Kevin's style." You just need to ask about the story.

This afternoon is me versus a very complicated shelf. This is just the frame, I've got 25 individual boxes and an instruction book that's like a computer manual.

A blustery but beautiful run this morning. Rain held off until I was driving home.

I see LLMs as a useful tool, in the way that I see spreadsheets as a useful tool. I also think that the people who are advocating the use of AI for everything are wrong in the same way they would be if they told me I should use a spreadsheet for everything... rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/202...

Last week I spoke at the very lovely Web Day Out about browser support. One of the things I mentioned was how the data behind Baseline gives you a way to look into the future of the web platform. I've written some more about that on my blog rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/202...