@mjr @kinnison thanks for spotting that: yes, that explains it! (I still can't remember what I bought but hey!)

@zhenech enjoy it while it lasts!

@zhenech definitely, alas, not my only problem: per-diem of 62 EUR for food to contend with as well argh

seems I spent €1 EUR with them on a different day too. No idea what on

@gargle not on purpose. It looks pretty cool tho! Perhaps they were involved in running some of the drinks stalls on the weekend?

@kinnison Yeah perhaps club mate. I think I had one at some point. CERK INFO pointed me at https://cercle-informatique.be/ which is fascinating but possibly irrelevant

#FOSDEM ers, can anyone help me recall what "SUM UP CERKINFO CI DE" might be? €6.70 EUR. I'm guessing a coffee or something like that!

I’ve been enjoying hacking on Pandoc

Fully expecting Starmer to appoint Dominic Cummings now

I didn't think I necessarily had more to write about lavalamps but perhaps I do. I recently bought some new colours/bottles. And a friend sent me this interesting Techmoan video where he reviews some Mathmos ones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipFePT4Z270&pp=0gcJCZEKAYcqIYzv

Some people joke that you need a PhD to understand Haskell’s type system. I actually have one *substantially related to haskell* and I _still_ get stuck

I’ve been off my regular meds for about 2 weeks now (in order to take some antibiotics) and I don’t know if it’s psychosomatic but I generally feel more energetic and “with it”

@andrew_shadura oh nice. Nah the logo on the basic punter tee

@mcc also completely agree with you about the trilogy wow. What a time that was.

@mcc I think it’s just some screw up as the responsible publishers changed hands

@mcc hesitation marks has been deleted from *all* digital platforms at the moment

Is it just me or does this year’s FOSDEM t shirt glow in the dark?

I wonder when the journal of functional programming is coming back…

I utterly utterly utterly HATE trails before bbc radio plays on smart speakers. Some variant on enshittification

@fraggle @bloody_albatross @scy I’ve seen it copied around a lot recently. You just be a proud comment-dad :)