Jonty Wareing

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Jonty Wareing@jonty· 4d

I always suspected a UK government would eventually reverse course on "coding in public". So I've been backing up all government code. For six years. Today I finally generated a report on what has been deleted. Its much worse than I realised. github.com/uk-gov-mirro...

Deleted UK Government code repositories

Total deleted repositories: 1526
Organisations affected: 56

See RECENTLY_DELETED.md for the most recently deleted repositories.

Organisation Deleted Repos % Deleted
hmrc 195 9.8%
nhsdigital 169 33.8%
SkillsFundingAgency 154 22.7%
informatics-lab 154 100.0%
UKHomeOffice 101 7.5%
ministryofjustice 74 2.8%
ONSdigital 66 4.3%
moj-analytical-services 65 75.6%
ukwa 47 46.1%
dwp 46 6.7%
UKGovernmentBEIS 43 27.4%

Jonty Wareing@jonty· 5d

I'd forgotten this until just now - some glorious person installed these in one of the backstage crew composting toilets at @emfcamp.bsky.social this year.

The inside of a composting toilet cubicle. On the wall are three seashells.

Jonty Wareing@jonty· 7d

Feast your eyes on the boots-brand walkman I had as a small child

A very brightly coloured boots "bop-box" walkman

Jonty Wareing@jonty· 9d

Their OWN DATA doesn't agree with this. Hilarious.

Jonty Wareing@jonty· 9d

This is clearly bollocks. Checked all-time last.fm data to remove platform bias and Bad isn't even close to being his top 80's album, never mind the Stone Roses thing.

Jonty Wareing@jonty· 12d

Stickers I should not make

Jonty Wareing@jonty· 13d

Well this is the weirdest scam email I've had in a while

A screenshot of an email titled: Jonty, regarding the free shipment of mouse pad samples for you to experience the comfort of programming

It reads:

Jonty, I noticed that you maintain the airline-route-data open-source project. I am a member of Li Zelong's team, focusing on providing developers with mouse pads that offer a long-lasting working experience. We would like to send you a sample mouse pad free of charge for you to use while programming and working on a daily basis, to help improve the comfort of desk operations during long periods of coding. There is no requirement for any promotion or reviews. Would you like to learn about the specifics of this free trial?

Jonty Wareing@jonty· 14d

The most middle-class littering I have ever seen: Someone abandoned a book about Picasso on our front gate.

A garden gate. On top of the fencepost is a book called "Portrait of Picasso" by Roland Penrose.

Jonty Wareing@jonty· 14d

Who could possibly have seen this coming, except absolutely everyone who thought about it for more than a second

A screenshot of a tweet by @NewsFromGoogle. It reads:

Re: our statement on Image Generation in Google Earth:

"We know that people uniquely trust Google Earth for a reliable view of the world. We've seen geospatial professionals using this feature for a range of useful purposes, however we've also seen people sharing screenshots of generated imagery that appear to violate our policies. So we're rolling back this feature in Google Earth while we work on implementing stronger guardrails. It's important to note that generated images didn't appear in the main Google Earth experience for others to see and were watermarked as Al generated."

Jonty Wareing@jonty· 14d

Extremely useful tool. Marvellous.

An image of the London Eye, which is now a giant eyeball

Jonty Wareing@jonty· 16d

A friend gave me a virtual card for their experimental bank with no credit limit and I would like it on the record that I did not buy a hovercraft or any form of lighter than air transport

A screenshot of a virtual card in a phone app with a mastercard card named "Electromagnetic Field 2026"

Jonty Wareing@jonty· 17d

I spy with my satellite eye, something beginning with E. planetarycomputer.microsoft.com/explore?c=-2... #emfcamp

A satellite photo from Sentinel-2 of Eastnor Castle Deer Park, showing the Electromagnetic Field festival on 16/7/2026 at 11:06am UTC, two hours after the gates opened.

Jonty Wareing@jonty· 20d

The disembodied head:

Jonty Wareing@jonty· 22d

Would anyone like a sticker because I made way too many stickers

An orange sticker with black writing. It reads:

Have you started a PROJECT today?

STOP AND THINK

Jonty Wareing@jonty· 27d

Someone gave me an appropriate sign for the bike #emfcamp

A Strida 5 triangular framed bike, hanging in the middle is a red triangular warning sign with an exclamation mark in it

Jonty Wareing@jonty· 28d

I wonder who made those

Jonty Wareing@jonty· Jul 11

TIL one of the villages at EMF has been running their own entirely independent Call for Participation. www.bodgeham-on-wye-gov.uk/services/par...

Parish Hall

The Bodgeham-on-Wye Parish Hall is a historic building dating back to the reclamation of the Wye Valley by William the Squanderer, in 1453. Although the majority of the original structure was destroyed in the great fire of 1972, the hall has been lovingly restored in gleaming white PVC, and seats 30 people comfortably.

Hold your event in the Parish Hall

The Parish Hall events committee welcomes submissions for innovative uses of the space to bring the local community together. These could be talks and workshops from eloquent orators, cultural and musical performances, or gatherings of like-minded individuals.

To submit your proposal, please see our Call for Proposals.

Jonty Wareing@jonty· Jul 11

This broke me

Jonty Wareing@jonty· Jul 9

This exchange made my day

Screenshot of a fediverse conversation between EMF Phones (@phones@emfcamp.org) and Graham Sutherland (@gsuberland@chaos.social):

@phones@emfcamp.org: 🎥 Electromagnetic Telecom has been innovating greatly in the land of phones, now allowing video calls to be made across the #EMFCamp network! If your SIP phone or app has a camera, it should just work. We challenge you to setup the first video rick-roll number, good luck!

@gsuberland@chaos.social: what's next, WAP support? :P

@phones@emfcamp.org: https://wap.phones.emf.camp/ ;)

Jonty Wareing@jonty· Jul 6

oh great now this is stuck in my head

A slide showing two eggs, one treated with chemicals, above it is text saying "BIGGER THAN BEFORE".

The smaller egg is labelled 2024, the larger egg is labelled 2026.

Jonty Wareing@jonty· Jul 6

An elderly neighbour left a 70 minute butt-dialed voice note on the street chat last night. Its entirely white noise. This is what WhatsApp's "transcribe" feature thinks it says.

_ days Gingrich, ex presidente de la Cámara de Representantes de EE. UU., obtuvo el segundo puesto, alcanzando el puesto. Gingrich, ex presidente de la Cámara de Representantes de EE. UU., obtuvo el segundo puesto, alcanzando el 32 % de los votos. torres alcanzan una altura de 83 m, con un largo de 378 m y dos carriles de 3,5 m de ancho. Gingrich, ex presidente de la Cámara de Representantes de EE. UU., obtuvo el segundo puesto, alcanzando el 32 % de los votos.

minoritarias suelen desaparecer sin dejar rastros históricos relevantes, y no logran ser reconocidas como civilizaciones propiamente dichas.

Gingrich, ex presidente de la Cámara de Representantes de EE. UU., obtuvo el segundo puesto, alcanzando el puesto. you booked your flights and accommodation for 2020 before the postponement was announced, you may have a tricky situation.

Oh. you booked your flights and accommodation for 2020 before the postponement was announced, you may have a tricky situation, Oh. Oh. _ Mm. Ah.

_ Ah, ah,

your flights and accommodation for 2020 before the postponement was announced, you may have a tricky situation Eighty.

Gingrich, ex presidente de la Cámara de Representantes de EE. UU., obtuvo el segundo puesto, alcanzando el 32 % de los votos.

Hey. Eek. Gingrich, ex presidente de la Cámara de Representantes de EE. UU., obtuvo el segundo puesto, alcanzando el 32 % de los votos.

Gingrich, ex presidente de la Cámara de Representantes de EE. UU., obtuvo el segundo puesto, alcanzando el 32 % de los votos. Hm. Hm.

Stupid. Come here. Come here now. Get up. Get up on this bed now. Get up now. Get up. Get up. Get up. Get up. Get up. Get up now. Bit now. Bit up. Bit up now. Bit up. Up. Bit up. I'm still there.

Gingrich, ex presidente de la Cámara de Representantes de EE. UU., obtuvo el segundo puesto, alcanzando el 32 % de los votos.

_ Gingrich, ex presidente de la Cámara de Representantes de EE. UU., obtuvo el segundo puesto, alcanzando el 32 % de los votos. Gingrich, ex presidente de la Cámara de Representantes de EE. UU., obtuvo el segundo puesto, alcanzando el 32% de los votos.

Gingrich, ex presidente de la Cámara de Representantes de EE. UU., obtuvo el segundo puesto, alcanzando el 32 % de los votos. Gingrich, ex presidente de la Cámara de Representantes de EE. UU., obtuvo el segundo puesto, alcanzando el 32 % de los votos.

el Twin Otter había realizado intentos de aterrizaje en Kokoda, como vuelo CG4684 de la aerolínea PNG, pero ya había abortado una vez Gingrich, ex presidente de la Cámara

de Representantes de EE. UU., obtuvo el segundo puesto, alcanzando el 32 % de los votos. right. Gingrich, ex presidente de la Cámara de Representantes de EE. UU., obtuvo el

Jonty Wareing@jonty· Jul 4

Jonty Wareing@jonty· Jul 1

If I could fist-bump this answer I would

Jonty Wareing@jonty· Jun 29

current status

The end scene from raiders of the lost ark showing the infinite warehouse with an arrow pointing at the crates labelled "to-do list items" and another arrow pointing at the man wheeling another crate into the stack labelled "me"

Jonty Wareing@jonty· Jun 29

Until now I'd never considered that I would actually really enjoy doing this

Jonty Wareing@jonty· Jun 27

The algorithm has noticed a pattern and made an adjustment

A screenshot of the Amazon UK listing for a Zanussi pedestal fan, showing the price has increased from £22 to £2606 in a week

Jonty Wareing@jonty· Jun 19

So we've reached that phase have we

Jonty Wareing@jonty· Jun 15

Anyone want to buy an email sending company that can't send emails

$A screenshot of an email titled "Acquisition opportunity - Unosend" The email reads: Confidential · Acquisition Opportunity Acquire Unosend — the full transactional email platform Hi {{first_name}}, I'm reaching out confidentially because {{company}} looks like exactly the kind of operator who could take Unosend to its next stage. We've built a clean, production-grade transactional email platform — "One API. Infinite Emails." — and we're selling the entire business and infrastructure.$

Jonty Wareing@jonty· Jun 14

I really want a version of clippy that pops up with

An image of Microsoft clippy saying:

"It looks like you're arguing with people on the internet.

Have you considered:

* Not doing that"

Jonty Wareing@jonty· Jun 13

I have been given a "gift"