Andrew White

CTO at @ubxd (he/him)

[Andrew White @pixeltrix]

@nxcoventry These roadworks are still in place - is the termination at Oban Road still in effect as I saw a bus come down Wilson's Lane last night (not quite sure how it made it through the roadworks).

[Andrew White @pixeltrix]

@nxcoventry These roadworks are scheduled until the 17th November and then there are Cadent works from 20th November until January 12th, 2026. Also there are works planned on Pickards Way/Longford Road roundabout lasting a year. Is the 20B terminating at Oban Road forever now?

[Andrew White @pixeltrix]

@sainsburys like a lot of other people I'm having problems logging in to update the order for tomorrow - can you just cancel tomorrow's order?

[Andrew White @pixeltrix]

@greennuneaton @BicycleBenUK I suspect there's a lot of pressure to get it through quickly as the junction is required for construction access - they wanted to use Wilsons Lane but are only allowed to do the STW diversion. Even that has been dangerous as you can see here: https://t.co/s7gU2NGYyM

[Andrew White @pixeltrix]

@greennuneaton @BicycleBenUK Right, but the plan here stops at motorway:
https://t.co/wpnxasr57x

The roundabout plans don't link up:
https://t.co/L0aMq4DvlB

The cycle lane from Wilson's Lane stops at the crossing and the plans talk about tying into the existing cycle lane but there isn't one.

[Andrew White @pixeltrix]

@greennuneaton @BicycleBenUK Is this separate to the B4113 Longford Road corridor improvements? Those stop at the motorway bridge from my understanding and say that it will tie into roundabout improvements but there's no link round the right edge of the roundabout on the s278 plans.

[Andrew White @pixeltrix]

@nateberkopec If you're mainly working in public repositories 80% of zero is zero - hard to argue to a Delivery Manager you want to use up two weeks of the project's budget on saving GitHub money especially if CI only takes 5m due to parallelization.

[Andrew White @pixeltrix]

@anon_opin I recommend you travel in coach A on an Avanti Pendolino train then - tiny toilet with a manual lock and walls so thin that the people in seats 1&2 can hear everything.

[Andrew White @pixeltrix]

@TomPMarshall @veronica_humble @Sam_Dumitriu Nothing noted about that in the active travel technical report. It seems that they've marked it low because the study identified didn't measure the affect on obesity rates, only the amount of exercise.

https://t.co/GOKjqZxhsI

[Andrew White @pixeltrix]

@Madz_Grant It also resulted in broken travel-to-work areas - train ticket from Coventry Arena to Leamington Spa is more expensive than one to Wolverhampton.

[Andrew White @pixeltrix]

@coventrycchelp Thanks, just for the record it was broken going the other direction on the way home last night as well.

[Andrew White @pixeltrix]

@coventrycchelp the sensor on Binley Road cycle lane at the junction with Biggin Hall Crescent when heading into the city centre appears to be malfunctioning. I waited for three complete cycles of the traffic lights and there was never a phase for the cycle lane.

[Andrew White @pixeltrix]

@maxtempers Lots of schools staff like dinner ladies, teaching assistants, etc. aren't paid outside of term time - their salaries are pro-rated and spread out over the 12 months makes it seem like they do, but that's not the case.

[Andrew White @pixeltrix]

@owenboswarva Yeah, that paper is very nebulous and I can't see anything on GitHub that resembles anything as described - if GDS were engaged it must have been killed before any code got written.

[Andrew White @pixeltrix]

@owenboswarva Was the portal just pulling together existing transparency data?

There's a transparency document type in the https://t.co/eCJv847HxY content store: https://t.co/000NTTfwOg

and pulling out the content is just an API query:
https://t.co/Etz7JZMZMB

Seems like it's mostly done?

[Andrew White @pixeltrix]

@WebDevLaw In 2014 went to Facebook HQ to mentor students for the weekend in contributing to OSS as part of their Open Academy project on a ESTA waiver. FB picked up the tab and they said I didn't need a visa - would not trust that now.

[Andrew White @pixeltrix]

@bradgessler @_swanson @User As long as your models follow REST naming you can use arrays with link_to to remove the need for url helpers, e.g.

<%= link_to "Delete", [:admin, user], method: :delete %>

Works with form_with as well, e.g.

<%= form_with(model: [post, comment]) do %>

[Andrew White @pixeltrix]

@thomasforth At uni a friend lived nearby and we went to the Woolpack for a drink - there was a horrible stench from the sewage works over the other side of the hill which hopefully has been fixed now. I was impressed that the actors could hold it together whilst doing their scenes

[Andrew White @pixeltrix]

@Sam_Dumitriu I guess Coventry CC will be back in court over this objection for a completely different cycleway 🙄

https://t.co/IO4zVARKgN