Francis 🇾🇪 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @francis@greenplenty.social

Here we are,

https://justtreatment.org/news/2025/3/26/spring-statement-2025-austerity-20-unleashed-our-nhs-amp-health-will-suffer

What are Starmer and Streeting doing with our NHS?

https://leftunity.org/what-are-starmer-and-streeting-doing-with-our-nhs/

Well, that didn't help!

Automatic for the people?

A prescription for AI 'mainlined into the veins' of government is a bad metaphor for a dangerous policy

https://helenbeetham.substack.com/p/automatic-for-the-people

@calum

I'm wondering what domain to buy for my word puzzle site. What do people think would work?

Just shipped the first iteration of my word puzzle helper:

https://the-werds.fly.dev/

Lots more things to come

I honestly thought Baddiel had no conscience whatsoever. This is a genuine surprise, and I'm happy he does seem to have one.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/sep/15/columnists-quit-jewish-chronicle-gaza-conflict-stories

@farah I keep meaning to read it. It features in the TV series Person of Interest and I've always been curious. TY for reminding me.

New post on my programming blog

Returning to Elixir/Phoenix

https://francisfish.com/returning-to-elixir-phoenix/

@tanepiper

I tracked down the post, and yeah. My word he's been mainlining the cool aid. It's not surprising after what happened a few years ago, when questioning things got folks fired.

I love working with Rails, pays the bills. Gonna hafta hold my nose.

Well, rebuilt my RUby Gem Werds in Elixir, and this time put some comments and tests in. In the process realised the code I wrote originally wasn't the best.

https://github.com/fjfish/ex-werds

Still got some bureaucracy around putting it as a library, which I will do when creating juices are running low.

Next plan is a Phoenix app to put the library to use helping people with word puzzles.