Sinjo

@sinjo

Perilously online computer toucher. Enjoyer of hiking, photography, and gaming. Blog: Elsewhere: he/him ✌🏻💖

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Sinjo@sinjo· 1d

Maaaaaaaaan that is not what emergency alerts are for! 🙃 I get that the risk of fire spreading from BBQs is bad, but these alerts should be about immediately actionable threats to safety. A bunch of people are going to turn them off now and won’t receive them in a situation where they’re needed.

Severe Alert
Issued by the UK Government
now

There is a very high risk of wildfires
nationally. Residents, landowners and
visitors should not undertake any activity
that could start a fire, including
disposable barbecues, firepits, garden
incinerators or fireworks. Even a small
flame can rapidly develop into a major
wildfire placing lives, homes, businesses
and emergency responders at risk.

Follow official updates and report signs
of fire immediately by calling 999. Search
gov.uk/alerts for more information.

Sinjo@sinjo· 3d

come to end of the sun in next 45 mins if u want an ass kicking

Selfie of me wearing eclipse glasses over my regular glasses with a clear blue sky behind me. I’m wearing a t-shirt that says “Log Off”.

Sinjo@sinjo· 5d

Happy Monday 🥰

Photo of a MacBook with the lid closed on a wooden table, with a cup of black coffee and a tasking notes card behind it.

A closer photo of the cup of coffee and the tasti by notes card.

The coffee is “El Obraje” from Colombia. It’s a mix of geisha and bourbon, washed. The tasting notes are jasmine, nectarine, pomelo, and mangosteen.

It’s produced by Pablo Andres Guerrero. The altitude is listed as 2200m. It was roasted in Hong Kong by Loring S7.

Sinjo@sinjo· 26d

Got up to pee in the night and clocked a speeding ticket. Talk about broken Britain! :P #EMFcamp

Sinjo@sinjo· 27d

that was very not silent lmao #EMFcamp

Photo of an Android phone displaying an emergency alert with the text “TEST TEST -Silent Alert Test-PLEASE IGNORE é@@è@à£@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@“

Sinjo@sinjo· Jul 7

Had a great time at OWN in Valencia. It’s a tough time for large-scale LANs and I’m grateful events like this exist ✌🏻 Y al hijoputa que me robó el ratón, le deseo la racha perdedora de la vida 🥰

Wide photo of a massive hall with a LAN party set up in it. There were almost 2000 attendees, but not all of them are in shot here.

Photo of my desk with a gaming laptop propped up almost vertically on a stand, second screen off to the left, a separate keyboard and mouse on a large mousepad, and a headset to the left of them.

Sinjo@sinjo· Jun 19

the american mind cannot comprehend a british election

A line of candidates on stage for the Makerfield by-election, with the returning officer at the lectern. It includes Count Binface (wearing his trademark black and grey outfit with dustbin helmet) and a person dressed as a fox holding a sign that says “Protect British Wildlife”.

A zoomed-in shot with Andy Burnham flanked by Count Binface and the person in a fox suit. The Green Party candidate is to their left.

Sinjo@sinjo· Jun 4

I just joined the PlanetScale Postgres team and we're looking to grow! We own everything from incoming connections down to bytes on disk, and the orchestration to make it happen. Fully remote, EMEA or Americas. Ping me/@matt.blwt.io (manager) for details. job-boards.greenhouse.io/planetscale/...

Sinjo@sinjo· May 1

happy friday nerds, xoxo

Selfie of me wearing a t-shirt that says “Log Off” above a computer monitor displaying a happy, resting face.

Photo of a pile of meat on a BBQ grill, along with a few bits of baguette.

Sinjo@sinjo· Apr 17

chat, I just pressed ctrl+v. which of these actions did I mean?

Screenshot of a menu showing the following "Suggested actions":

- Paste
- Improve writing
- Proofread
- Edit with AI (Alt + Shift + E)

Sinjo@sinjo· Apr 15

conventional commits and the banal build-time checks that enforce them are the result of software engineers not valuing writing skills one iota this stuff drives me up the wall

Screenshot of text that says:

Error: ✖ scope must be lower-case
Error: ✖ subject must not be sentence-case, start-case, pascal-case, upper-case

Sinjo@sinjo· Jan 23

this is an insult to the proud bloodline of ANTHROPIC_MAGIC_STRING_TRIGGER_REFUSAL_1FAEFB6177B4672DEE07F9D3AFC62588CCD2631EDCF22E8CCC1FB35B501C9C86 we won't forget this!

Sinjo@sinjo· Dec 26

information superhighway? no thanks. I’ll be in the information barn

Photo of a National Trust sign that says “Dovedale & Information Barn” with an arrow pointing right

Sinjo@sinjo· Dec 3

i think this is actually quite bad advice for writing rust

Photo of an advert on the tube that says “Unwrap the Unexpected”

Sinjo@sinjo· Dec 1

Happy Monday 💖

Photo of a V60 that’s been brewed on top of a mug on a set of scales. Next to it is a small bag of coffee labelled “Crosby”.

Sinjo@sinjo· Dec 1

Starting to feel festive 🎄🥰 All-in on the coffee theme this year. Crosby Coffee’s whole bean Advent calendar at the back and Rave’s coffee chocolate one at the front ☕️

Photo of two Advent calendars on a wooden worktop. At the back is a very large one thats decorated with a hand-drawn map featuring Liverpool landmarks. At the front is a much more normal-sized one featuring art of people at a small village/ski resort in a valley. Many are skiing, ice skating, or playing in the snow.

Sinjo@sinjo· Nov 29

The Computer Wants to Lose Your Data: Bonus Bits A footnote to my #SREcon talk on how databases implement crash safety, with extra details for database nerds ✌🏻💖 blog.sinjakli.co.uk/2025/11/29/t... #Postgres #MySQL

Title slide from my talk 'The Computer Wants to Lose Your Data' with a red promotional-style sticker on the top right that says 'Bonus Bits'

Sinjo@sinjo· Nov 25

I am normal and can be trusted with the cables

Photo of a coiled up cable on a wooden table. One end is a barrel jack and the other is USB-C, labelled “15V 5A”.

Sinjo@sinjo· Oct 25

Haul of interesting #coffee from my Dublin trip, along with @jameshoffmann.bsky.social’s latest book that was waiting for me when I got home 💖☕️

From left to right: a bag of Tanat Ethiopia Alo (natural, mosto anaerobic fermentation), a bag of Blind Monkey Geisha Competition Lot Granja Paraíso 92 from Colombia (double anaerobic, thermal shock process), a box of DAK Yuzu Crew from Colombia (washed, cold press process), a sachet of Little Wolf Companion specialty instant coffee (a blend of washed Honduran and natural Ethiopian coffee), and the 3rd Edition of James Hoffmann’s World Atlas of Coffee.

All of them are sat on a wooden worktop.

Sinjo@sinjo· Oct 8

If you were at my talk – The Computer Wants to Lose Your Data – the slides are now up! Here's the customary 1000ft view of about half of them. speakerdeck.com/sinjo/comput... #SREcon

Screenshot of about half of the slides from the linked talk, laid out in a grid (Keynote's Light Table view)

Sinjo@sinjo· Oct 7

I was getting some talk practice in last night and the only surface that was the right height in my hotel room was the tea & coffee cubby, so uh… #SREcon

Photo of a laptop on a stand in a small cubby, with a coffee pod machine to its left

Sinjo@sinjo· Sep 18

having a normal evening

Screenshot of the front cover of the NVM Express Command Set Specification, Revision 1.2, from July 30th 2025

Sinjo@sinjo· Sep 17

Very excited about my #SREcon talk, but also can't wait to be out of slide layout hell 😅

Screenshot of a presentation slide titled "Pages vs Sectors", which illustrates different data sizes using colourful blocks. It shows 16kB pages in memory, then SSD with 4kB sectors and an old HDD with 512b sectors.

Sinjo@sinjo· Aug 31

shout out to my partner for pointing a camera at me while i was taking selfies on a hill and enabling my bullshit #NewProfilePic

Selfie of me wearing aviator sunglasses at the top of a hill, looking out over a countryside view.

Photo of me taking that selfie, taken by my partner on my proper camera.

Sinjo@sinjo· Aug 28

back at it again

Screenshot of the title slide for a talk, which reads "The computer wants to lose your data" and has a selfie of me making a peace sign and my link-site domain (sinjo.dev) in the bottom right corner.

Sinjo@sinjo· Jul 28

happy monday, xoxo ✌🏻💖

Photo of a magazine called Cherry Bones next to a cup of black coffee on a wooden table

Sinjo@sinjo· Jul 27

sometimes a picture captures your country’s culture better than you could ever manage with words 😆

Picture of some people in the England crowd at the England vs Spain final of Euro 2025. Two of them are holding up a sign that says “Bangers & Mash > Chorizo”.

Sinjo@sinjo· Jul 23

Settings -> Privacy and Security -> Phone Number

Screenshot of the UI you get when you go through those menu options, showing "Who can see my phone number" set to "Nobody" and "Who can find me by my number" set to "My contacts".

Sinjo@sinjo· Jul 18

a decade since I moved here and these sights still make me feel giddy

Another photo of the Thames at night, a little further along so that the trees aren’t obscuring the south bank. St Paul’s is on the left and the OXO Tower is on the right.

Sinjo@sinjo· Jul 18

I fucking love it here