Month: March 2022

Dear Anneliese Dodds, I learn from the BBC (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/58888451) that “The UK is to phase out Russian oil by the end of the year” and “Russian imports account for 8% of total UK oil demand”. 8% is a small amount and the end of t…

Dear Anneliese Dodds, I learn from the BBC (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/58888451) that “The UK is to phase out Russian oil by the end of the year” and “Russian imports account for 8% of total UK oil demand”. 8% is a small amount and the end of t…

Version control system migrations are a fact of life for developers in any longer lived codebase. In fact, I’ve had a hand in quite a few migrations as newer, more workable version control systems became available. Also, like a lot of developers,…

[Updated 2022-11-17 based on the new draft of the MSC, notably removing backwards compatibility and the abbreviated forms.] (Background: Matrix is the awesome open standard for messaging that I get to work on now that I work at Element.) The Extensible…