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Written by Richard Fairhurst on 2025-01-21 at 09:53

It’s a shame America doesn’t have our tradition of performatively getting a song to Number 1 as a response to current events, because https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTs_Q4hEqmA

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Written by Richard Fairhurst on 2025-01-20 at 15:59

In 1973 Charles Osmond Frederick invented a) the British Rail flying saucer and b) every software engineering project ever https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_flying_saucer

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Written by Richard Fairhurst on 2025-01-04 at 11:51

specially for @tomchadwin: þæs oferēode, þisses swā mæg

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Written by Richard Fairhurst on 2025-01-04 at 10:41

bye Elon

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Written by Richard Fairhurst on 2024-12-29 at 12:56

Happy New Adlestrop!

Update to everyone’s favourite sporadic railway map, this time with: the Northumberland Line, HS2, Scotland south of the Central Belt, and the usual host of new stations and corrections.

https://systemed.net/atlas/

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Written by Richard Fairhurst on 2024-12-20 at 17:11

I’ve been experimenting with Loom (https://github.com/ad-freiburg/loom/tree/master) to make an automated tube-style map of the National Cycle Network. Cartographically it’s still fairly rudimentary, but not too shabby for an algorithmically created map, I reckon?

[Excuse cut-off town names… browser SVG renderer 🙄]

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Written by Richard Fairhurst on 2024-08-16 at 11:02

This is probably the only time ever where I prefer JavaScript to C++ or Ruby

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Written by Richard Fairhurst on 2024-08-16 at 11:01

Computer scientists: typed languages are more productive, everyone should use typed languages

Me: loses yet another day to "double a = b / 10" returning a whole number because it turns out b is an int

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Written by Richard Fairhurst on 2024-08-11 at 14:28

A few very brief recollections from OpenStreetMap's early days, on its 20th anniversary: https://blog.systemed.net/post/18

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