Simon Harris
@simondo65
Software engineer at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social, doing research in orthopaedics. Loves model trains, science fiction and vintage microprocessors, doesn't own an anorak. Also likes to cook and take photographs, not necessarily of my cooking.
First Hardle with my new phone. I was expecting it to reset my streak, but no, Apple’s phone transfer procedure copied all the cookies over too, so on we go! Hardle 🟦🟪 #1633 3/8 🟩⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 hardle.herokuapp.com
The matter was settled over 100 years in Parliament. This is Hansard from 1908 "I think it may fairly be stated ... that the Union Jack should be regarded as the National flag, and it undoubtedly may be flown on land by all His Majesty's subjects." api.parliament.uk/historic-han...
I promised myself a new phone to replace my dying 6 year old iPhone when I reached 600 on Hardle. Better not bugger it up tomorrow!
Firstly, grossly understating the length of World War II - it should be 313 weeks Secondly, completely neglecting the war in Ukraine (currently at 220 weeks from the full invasion, much longer if you include annexing Crimea) Thirdly WW1 at 220 weeks is missing. Fourthly 6 weeks? Ahem: 10 perhaps?
There is one at Aalborg Station too (at least there was in September 2024 when I was there)
Hardle 🟦🟪 #1517 5/8 ⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜ 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟩⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 hardle.herokuapp.com Hit a bit of a Hardle milestone today!
Could there possibly be a worse estate agency? (picture from @theguardian.com).
I use Resize It on my iPhone when I want to reduce the size (number of pixels) of a photo. Resize It looks like this in the App Store
This was supposedly cranberry and apple sparkling water. The till receipt had other ideas about its taste.
While on holiday in Portugal a few years ago, I looked up at the hotel ceiling lights and thought 'mmmmm... cupcakes!'
Not a duck, but I remember a penguin in a gas mask was one of the symbols of the Gezi Park protests in Istanbul in 2013.
From Wikipedia the manufacturers are: Aerojet Rocketdyne Boeing Northrop Grumman United Launch Alliance (ULA are Boeing Defense, Space and Security, and Lockheed Martin Space)
Errr … has Trump looked at a map recently? Remind me what that big country is that starts about 50 miles west of Alaska.
The main reason for not upgrading my slowly dying iPhone is not losing my perfect Hardle record!
And one of the information displays at the Paris Eurostar terminal 3 weeks ago.
It was a 4 for me… Hardle 🟦🟪 #1382 4/8 🟩⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟨⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 And my Hardle first anniversary!
for a Z80, if you can make HL point to a byte of scratchpad I think you can use RLD. If I understand it right, if you start with your 4 bit number in A, you’d do LD (HL),A RLD LD A,(HL)
Nor in my local shopping centre. No shopping allowed for ICE in England!
This was happening 10 years ago when I was in Vienna. Why can’t we be more like Vienn?
A bit flummoxed by the timing and the London skyline, so didn’t get to see it in its full blood-moon totality, but at least we got to see some of it.