Simon Dingley

Experienced Umbraco Developer

[GitHub @github]

We are investigating unauthorized access to GitHub’s internal repositories. While we currently have no evidence of impact to customer information stored outside of GitHub’s internal repositories (such as our customers’ enterprises, organizations, and repositories), we are closely monitoring our infrastructure for follow-on activity.

[Erik Kuna 🚀 @erikkuna]

This is the shot you can’t get from the press site. This camera was sitting a few football fields from the SLS rocket at Pad 39B for days before launch, baking in the Florida sun, surviving rain, humidity, and whatever else the Cape threw at it. No photographer behind the viewfinder. Just a camera, a sound trigger, and a bet.

The way pad remotes work: you set your camera up days in advance, dial in your composition, lock everything down, and walk away. You don’t touch it again until after the launch. The shutter fires on sound activation
with a @MiopsTrigger smart+ trigger. With SLS, the four RS-25 engines ignite six seconds before the solid rocket boosters, so the camera is already firing before the vehicle even leaves the pad. You get home, pull the card, and find out if you nailed it or if a bird landed on your lens two days ago and left your a present and you got 400 photos of soemthing crappy.

There’s no formula for protecting your gear this close. Some photographers build wooden boxes with doors that pop open. Some use plastic bags and tape. Some do plastic or metal barn door rigs on hinges. I tend to leave mine open just in plastic rain covers because boxes limit my composition and setup time, but that means your cameras are more exposed to the elements and whatever energy and debris comes off the pad. You’re basically gambling a camera body every time you set one.

That’s what I love about this genre. There’s no playbook. You make it up as you go. Every time is an adventure.

📸 credit: me for @SuperclusterHQ - Artemis II pad remote | ~1,000 ft from Pad 39B | Kennedy Space Center

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Not AI

[Jamie @GingerPower_]

Here we go again @Cloudflare #cloudflaredown

[Simon Dingley @ProNotion]

@YodasMyDad Interesting, I've not experienced timeouts.

[Keira Connolly @keira_con]

Wise words

“My name’s Frank. I’m 64, a retired electrician.
Forty-two years I spent running wires through houses, fixing breakers, making sure people had light in their kitchens and heat in their winters. Never once did anyone ask me where I went to college. Mostly, they just wanted to know if I could get the power back on before their ice cream melted.

Last May, I was at my granddaughter Emily’s school career day. You know the drill — doctors, lawyers, a software guy in a slick suit talking about “scaling startups.” I was the only one there with a tool belt and work boots.

When it was my turn, I told the kids, “I don’t have a degree. I’ve never sat in a lecture hall. But I’ve wired schools, hospitals, and your principal’s house. And when the hospital generator failed during a snowstorm in ’98, I was the one in the basement with a flashlight, keeping the lights on for newborn babies upstairs.”

The kids leaned forward. They had questions — real ones. “How do you fix stuff in the dark?” “Do you make a lot of money?” “Do you ever get zapped?” (Yes, once, and it’ll curl your hair.)

When the bell rang, one boy hung back. Small kid, freckles, hoodie too big for him. He mumbled, “My uncle’s a plumber. People laugh at him ’cause he didn’t finish high school. But… he’s the only one in the family who can fix anything.”

I looked that boy in the eye and said, “Kid, your uncle’s a hero. When your toilet overflows at midnight, Harvard ain’t sending anyone. A plumber is.”

Here’s the thing nobody told me when I was young — the world doesn’t run without tradespeople. You can have all the engineers you want, but if nobody builds the house, wires the power, or lays the pipes, those blueprints just sit in a drawer.

We’ve made it sound like trades are what you do if you can’t go to college, instead of a path you choose because you like working with your hands, solving problems, and seeing your work stand solid for decades.

Four years after high school, some kids walk away with diplomas. Others walk away with zero debt, a union card, and a skill they can take anywhere in the world. And guess what? When your furnace dies in January, it’s not the diploma that saves you.

A few weeks ago, that same freckled kid’s mom stopped me at the grocery store. She said, “You probably don’t remember, but you told my son trades are important. He’s shadowing his uncle this summer. First time I’ve seen him excited about anything in years.”

That’s the part we forget — for some kids, knowing their path is respected changes everything. It’s not about “just” fixing wires or pipes. It’s about pride. Purpose. The kind that sticks with you long after the job’s done.

So next time you meet a teenager, don’t just ask, “Where are you going to college?” Ask, “What’s your plan?” And if they say, “I’m learning to weld,” or “I’m starting an apprenticeship,” smile big and say, “That’s fantastic. We’re going to need you.”

Because we will. More than ever. And when the lights go out, you’ll be glad they showed up.”

[Simon Dingley @ProNotion]

@cleartheshelf This is the case even if you want to access your own data through the API?

[The Guitarcorsist @ianjoyce1968]

@10DowningStreet The real meaning of 'free'

[Rob Moore @robprogressive]

It’s outrageous that school didn’t teach us anything on personal finance, managing taxes & expenses, mortgages, credit & debt...

…But instead taught us algebra, dissecting Frogs, how many wives Henry VIII had & setting magnesium on fire with a Bunsen burner. WTF

[Voice of Reason @brexitblog_info]

BREAKING

The BBC have launched an urgent enquiry into how this lady managed to infiltrate the usual left wing #bbcqt audience & make the sole worthwhile comment of the whole programme.

Watch as she slams Labour’s wasteful spending.

Clearly the vetting process failed badly…😄

[Ferus @jacobferus]

@elonmusk AWS engineers right now:

- Hey Claude, prod is down fix it!!!

Claude:

[Simon Dingley @ProNotion]

For anyone following me who has been plagued by an issue recently where your Windows theme keeps getting almost immediately reset to Light mode every time you enable dark mode - here is why. It's been driving me nuts! https://t.co/IQPEh4Ulfi #windows #powertoys #darkmode

[Simon Dingley @ProNotion]

@CryptoGovernor_ @therealmissjo I'm a big boy now and bought one some years ago so I could play with it again. I still have it in the loft.

[Rob Moore @robprogressive]

In the UK you get taxed on absolutely everything.

Up to 45% income tax, which you never even see because the government takes it before it reaches you.

Then another 10–12% for National Insurance (and no one really knows what that’s actually for).

Then there’s Council Tax, another 10% of your wage money you’ve already been taxed on.

So that’s about 60% of your income gone already.

If you want to increase your money and start a side hustle, there’s 20% VAT, 25% corporation tax, and business rates that can be over £1,000 a month.

What if you want to invest your already taxed money to make some more?
You’ll be taxed 28% on your investment gains too.

Maybe you’re lucky enough to inherit money or a property your parents worked their whole life for and they’ve already paid tax on it?
You’ll be taxed 40% with Inheritance Tax.

The UK has become a country where hard-working people are farmed for every penny.

Credit cards, loans, and mortgages are thrown at you to ‘solve’ your money problems.

And then you become a slave to the banks and the government for life.

And tell me, what can you even get for your money nowadays?

[Simon Dingley @ProNotion]

@YodasMyDad 100% we do. It's disgusting the way they are haemorrhaging money, our money, and we have no say or control over it. So much money is wasted instead of being invested into services like the NHS who desperately need it but are probably also doing the same.

[Simon Dingley @ProNotion]

@robprogressive @grok Please fact check this abomination and provide sources

[Simon Dingley @ProNotion]

Are @UmbracoCloud Secrets available as environment variables at deployment time? We need to run a postbuild task that needs to make an outbound API request, and that request requires a private API key. #umbraco

[Simon Dingley @ProNotion]

@YodasMyDad Not tried Grok for coding yet. I seem to find Claude better than ChatGPT for coding stuff. At the moment, I am dabbling in a project to build a fully "vibe" coded solution, which has so far taken the following path:

ChatGPT → Claude → Cursor

[Simon Dingley @ProNotion]

@Prathkum Rented with @Avis NYC and expecting a similar experience because I didn't take their unlimited tolls offer and they didn't explain that there is no alternative method of payment as many are now cashless so will be a maximum toll plus admin charge for each one we pass

[Simon Dingley @ProNotion]

@YodasMyDad The whole industry is disgraceful, while it is a for-profit industry I don't see how it can ever work positively.