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Generally, this has been harder than it needs to be because there’s quite a lot of out of date information out there.

One thing that really threw me was trying to work with responsive layouts. I kept seeing this:

Parent.Width *  
    Switch(Parent.Size,  
        ScreenSize.Small, 0.5,  
        ScreenSize.Medium, 0.3,  
        0.25)

Well, Parent.Size just didn’t want to work for me. I did eventually find out why: Size is a property of Screen controls. So, if you have a Screen control called “Main” Main.Size will get what you want.

Obviously if you’re working with a control that has a Screen as a parent, Parent.Size will work. So, while Parent might be useful shorthand when you’re writing… it’s not when you’re learning.

They’ve changed the worksheet tabs in excel and it’s like someone I have always know with a beard has shaved

Today, in the UK, we’ll find out if it’s OK for humans to continue to die in intolerable pain, the likes of which it would be illegal to inflict on an animal.

Read Microsoft starts boiling the Copilot frog: It's not a soup you want to drink at any price by Rupert Goodwins

I work with data in the UK public sector. For me, the accuracy of that data is paramount. I’ve certainly been in roles where the accuracy of the data was an unwelcome fact. While that’s not the case in my current role, I do have general concerns about the employment of AI in this area. This is along the lines of:

“We know it’s not completely accurate, but we also know no-one is really looking at it too closely, so what is the value of being accurate?”

Read Folklore is thriving on social media, says Charlie Cooper
The Bafta winner speaks about his new show and why young people are getting interested in folklore.

I like to think of it as a backlash against commercial and globalisation. It’s a popular refrain from the right that we’ve lost our British identity. I’m not sure which identity that is, though, and people that say it also seem to struggle to define it. Presumably an ideal from some point in the 19th century, when “red tape” and “wokeness” didn’t stop people making money. I can understand why reaching back before the “Age of Discovery” for some shared identity would appeal to people.

I feel similarly with paganism and the import of Christianity. When you consider the population of the UK was already 75% immigrants circa 400-800 CE/AD and you consider that Stonehenge was completed circa 1600 BCE/BC, it’s tricky to track down your cultural heritage.

The only sane response to the trolley problem is to do nothing. If you can be (philosophically) responsible for deaths by inaction, then we’re all guilty of that anyway.

eBay sent me an email detailing things I could improve in the listing. Said the descrption was no good… their AI wrote it.