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Allotmenter, cooker, fermenter, tinkerer ("maker"?), hacker of things and code. Posts will ebb and flow between all these and more. Generalist sorta Software Engineer to pay the rent (spanning from C/C++ systems/networking to Python/PHP web malarkey.) Grew up in South West Australia, on Wadandi Noongar land, now living in England's West Norfolk Fenlands… due to the oddness of life 🤷🏻‍♂️ now tied down by an # allotment 🌱🍅🍆🌽🥔🥕🧄🫑 CW: Can be bit sweary (I speak En.Au), haphazard with CWs, try my best with ALTs. This is /var/log/yvan — I am here mainly for myself, for my own record. # noindex # nobot

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Allotmenter, cooker, fermenter, tinkerer ("maker"?), hacker of things and code. Posts will ebb and flow between all these and more. Generalist sorta Software Engineer to pay the rent (spanning from C/C++ systems/networking to Python/PHP web malarkey.) Grew up in South West Australia, on Wadandi Noongar land, now living in England's West Norfolk Fenlands… due to the oddness of life 🤷🏻‍♂️ now tied down by an # allotment 🌱🍅🍆🌽🥔🥕🧄🫑 CW: Can be bit sweary (I speak En.Au), haphazard with CWs, try my best with ALTs. This is /var/log/yvan — I am here mainly for myself, for my own record. # noindex # nobot

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@yvan@toot.ale.gd · Mar 05, 2026

Popped into my usual #ramsons spot on the way home today... needs a bit more cookin'... should be pretty good by the end of March. (Location: South Cambridgeshire... I saw a very recent utoob of someone picking decent looking leaves, but they're down Bristol way.)

Nice little handful of sweet pungent leaves.

#WildGarlic #Foraging

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Allotmenter, cooker, fermenter, tinkerer ("maker"?), hacker of things and code. Posts will ebb and flow between all these and more. Generalist sorta Software Engineer to pay the rent (spanning from C/C++ systems/networking to Python/PHP web malarkey.) Grew up in South West Australia, on Wadandi Noongar land, now living in England's West Norfolk Fenlands… due to the oddness of life 🤷🏻‍♂️ now tied down by an # allotment 🌱🍅🍆🌽🥔🥕🧄🫑 CW: Can be bit sweary (I speak En.Au), haphazard with CWs, try my best with ALTs. This is /var/log/yvan — I am here mainly for myself, for my own record. # noindex # nobot

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Allotmenter, cooker, fermenter, tinkerer ("maker"?), hacker of things and code. Posts will ebb and flow between all these and more. Generalist sorta Software Engineer to pay the rent (spanning from C/C++ systems/networking to Python/PHP web malarkey.) Grew up in South West Australia, on Wadandi Noongar land, now living in England's West Norfolk Fenlands… due to the oddness of life 🤷🏻‍♂️ now tied down by an # allotment 🌱🍅🍆🌽🥔🥕🧄🫑 CW: Can be bit sweary (I speak En.Au), haphazard with CWs, try my best with ALTs. This is /var/log/yvan — I am here mainly for myself, for my own record. # noindex # nobot

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@yvan@toot.ale.gd · Feb 20, 2026

Kat has taken it upon herself to try "beading" QR codes. Apparently it involves something called "square stitch". Yes, this actually scans... though often not super speedy. Google (boo hiss) Lens scans it faster than Binary Eye seems to manage, the latter particularly struggles in low light. Does anyone know where you can buy beads that are more square in dimension...? Also, Kat is a software developer looking for a job. If you'd like to employ the sort of UK-based nerd who would try to make a QR code out of beads then look no further. 😅 She's starting to bead rude word QR codes now too.

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Allotmenter, cooker, fermenter, tinkerer ("maker"?), hacker of things and code. Posts will ebb and flow between all these and more. Generalist sorta Software Engineer to pay the rent (spanning from C/C++ systems/networking to Python/PHP web malarkey.) Grew up in South West Australia, on Wadandi Noongar land, now living in England's West Norfolk Fenlands… due to the oddness of life 🤷🏻‍♂️ now tied down by an # allotment 🌱🍅🍆🌽🥔🥕🧄🫑 CW: Can be bit sweary (I speak En.Au), haphazard with CWs, try my best with ALTs. This is /var/log/yvan — I am here mainly for myself, for my own record. # noindex # nobot

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Allotmenter, cooker, fermenter, tinkerer ("maker"?), hacker of things and code. Posts will ebb and flow between all these and more. Generalist sorta Software Engineer to pay the rent (spanning from C/C++ systems/networking to Python/PHP web malarkey.) Grew up in South West Australia, on Wadandi Noongar land, now living in England's West Norfolk Fenlands… due to the oddness of life 🤷🏻‍♂️ now tied down by an # allotment 🌱🍅🍆🌽🥔🥕🧄🫑 CW: Can be bit sweary (I speak En.Au), haphazard with CWs, try my best with ALTs. This is /var/log/yvan — I am here mainly for myself, for my own record. # noindex # nobot

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@yvan@toot.ale.gd · Feb 18, 2026

We managed to nip out to the #allotment this work-from-home lunchtime... it has been a while, about 1.5 weeks I think.

I was glad to find the greens seedlings we had planted out in the polytunnel were not dead parched husks. They seem OK. We watered them.

The ume trees are pretty much in full glorious bloom, I was glad to have seen them. The paler one smells wonderful.

Apologies for crap alt tags... right now... I am at the end of my tether after a very long day and gotta make dinner and get to bed.

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Allotmenter, cooker, fermenter, tinkerer ("maker"?), hacker of things and code. Posts will ebb and flow between all these and more. Generalist sorta Software Engineer to pay the rent (spanning from C/C++ systems/networking to Python/PHP web malarkey.) Grew up in South West Australia, on Wadandi Noongar land, now living in England's West Norfolk Fenlands… due to the oddness of life 🤷🏻‍♂️ now tied down by an # allotment 🌱🍅🍆🌽🥔🥕🧄🫑 CW: Can be bit sweary (I speak En.Au), haphazard with CWs, try my best with ALTs. This is /var/log/yvan — I am here mainly for myself, for my own record. # noindex # nobot

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Allotmenter, cooker, fermenter, tinkerer ("maker"?), hacker of things and code. Posts will ebb and flow between all these and more. Generalist sorta Software Engineer to pay the rent (spanning from C/C++ systems/networking to Python/PHP web malarkey.) Grew up in South West Australia, on Wadandi Noongar land, now living in England's West Norfolk Fenlands… due to the oddness of life 🤷🏻‍♂️ now tied down by an # allotment 🌱🍅🍆🌽🥔🥕🧄🫑 CW: Can be bit sweary (I speak En.Au), haphazard with CWs, try my best with ALTs. This is /var/log/yvan — I am here mainly for myself, for my own record. # noindex # nobot

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@yvan@toot.ale.gd · Feb 18, 2026

Inspired, for work reasons, to dig out my old DSLR kit. I was never more than an very-amateur photographer, I kinda inherited the "bug" for it from mum, and enjoyed the photography module I did at school (we were lucky enough to have darkroom facilities at that school, which I continued to use a bit post-course)... but it wasn't until my late 20s, the late 2000s, that I got my own first SLR camera and of course by then it was a D-SLR... this EOS40D, bought near-new second-hand, did quite a bit of travel with me. I still look back on the photos I took with it back then and find the quality "feel" of them is far better than snaps taken with my higher-megapixel phone camera today, they have something about them which the tech/optics on a phone-camera just does not seem capture. The EOS beats a Samsung S23 even at a mere 10MP, and with certainly not the fanciest lenses (that 70-200mm L-series lens was my pride and joy, but I never got the good 50mm low-f prime I always wanted.)

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Allotmenter, cooker, fermenter, tinkerer ("maker"?), hacker of things and code. Posts will ebb and flow between all these and more. Generalist sorta Software Engineer to pay the rent (spanning from C/C++ systems/networking to Python/PHP web malarkey.) Grew up in South West Australia, on Wadandi Noongar land, now living in England's West Norfolk Fenlands… due to the oddness of life 🤷🏻‍♂️ now tied down by an # allotment 🌱🍅🍆🌽🥔🥕🧄🫑 CW: Can be bit sweary (I speak En.Au), haphazard with CWs, try my best with ALTs. This is /var/log/yvan — I am here mainly for myself, for my own record. # noindex # nobot

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@yvan@toot.ale.gd · Feb 07, 2026

Top tip to really harvest a rich crop of English glares: walk the wrong way around an IKEA 🤣

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Allotmenter, cooker, fermenter, tinkerer ("maker"?), hacker of things and code. Posts will ebb and flow between all these and more. Generalist sorta Software Engineer to pay the rent (spanning from C/C++ systems/networking to Python/PHP web malarkey.) Grew up in South West Australia, on Wadandi Noongar land, now living in England's West Norfolk Fenlands… due to the oddness of life 🤷🏻‍♂️ now tied down by an # allotment 🌱🍅🍆🌽🥔🥕🧄🫑 CW: Can be bit sweary (I speak En.Au), haphazard with CWs, try my best with ALTs. This is /var/log/yvan — I am here mainly for myself, for my own record. # noindex # nobot

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@yvan@toot.ale.gd · Sep 30, 2025

A key highlight of this time of year is having trays of beaut super ripe tomatoes lying around. Absolute wealth. We're stinkin' rich in tomatoes. It is basically an obscenity.

Instant pasta sauce — just blanch, skin, squish, and simmer. Well, OK, a little bit more going on than that, but that's the core of it, the oozing juicy red beating heart.

#allotment #gyo #GrowYourOwn

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