Peter Yates

@peteryates.graphia.co.uk

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Software developer. Data enthusiast. Rochdale. Build gov.uk stuff. Currently with DfE and x-govuk 🩵

A screenshot of an Android 17 phone with a light background and monochrome icons. The icon labels are white and unreadable - nearly invisible.
Christof, the director of The Truman Show (played by Ed Harris), standing in front of a huge screen displaying Truman's (Jim Carrey) face. Christof is gently stroking Truman's nose as he sleeps.
A screenshot of a complaint confirmation screen on Virgin Media's website where the complaint reference number is ****. There's a sentence that says "your complaint will be a resolved within 28 days" There is purple a 'Track your complaint' button below the confirmation. It doesn't work.
Photo of a beautiful camellia japonica flower, a light pink with lots of concentric petals. It's on a green background of foliage and a hand is holding the flower steady for the camera.
The Euston departure board showing the 1413 to Manchester Piccadilly, with a warning that doors will close 2 minutes before departure.
A garage with rickety shelves, timber leaning against the wall and tools and gardening equipment strewn across the floor. 3/4 of the garage is inaccessible because of the mess.
An Android app grid with boxes around the GOV UK app and the One Login app, both with similar icons being 10 places apart.
A home made Margherita pizza on a wooden garden table with a peel in the background.
A TV in a hotel room welcoming 'His Excellency Peter Yates'
An amber coloured glass mug on a white background.
A man holding a bowl of garlic butter while a young girl spoons it onto a pizza base sitting on the peel. A boy looks on. There's a pizza oven in the background and bowls of ingredients on the table.
A pizza pesto, jalapeño, extra basil and mozzarella, with puffy crusts slightly singed around the edge
Three colourful prints with sunflowers, cactuses and The Palm House from Kew Gardens laying on a desk.
A close up photo of a compost thermometer wrapped in an aluminium sleeve. The red mercury line shows 64°C
Captain Picard from Star Trek: The Next Generation playing his miniature flute from the episode 'The Inner Light'
A yellow Labrador lying on the grass among buttercups in the shade
Sonos 5y stock price. It leaks in 2021-2022 and falls off a cliff 📉
The Sonos UI for my home listing the rooms Bedroom, Office, Living room and Second Bedroom. There's a circular button with a check mark by each and the top two are both checked.
Screenshot of the Sonos UI showing In Our Time, a Radio 4 programme about history and art released as a podcast. The most recent episodes are on Hypnosis and Paul Von Hindenburg.
A night CCTV shot of a back garden with a big lawn. A fox emerges from the right and is greeted by three cubs from the left. The cubs are playful and chase each other while the mum stands guard.
A robin standing on a vertical pallet. It's looking down for bugs in the compost below
A sieve made from wood with a wire mesh sitting on top of a wheelbarrow on a lawn in the sun
A dark red peony in a sea of green leaves alongside a paved pathway.
A dirty outdoor compost thermometer showing 52°C. The background is blurred and brown.
A garden wall stuff hedges behind, in the shade of a horsechestnut tree in full blossom.
Screenshot of Sony headphone settings offering listening history and awards/badges.
A screenshot of diabetes blood glucose monitor software running on a phone. It reads 7.8mmol/L and shows a chart with a smooth curve within the green target area of 4.5-8.2
Overgrown garden with green trees, bushes and shrubs. In the middle is a small table with a bench behind it. There's a boy in a blue jumper sitting at the table.
A screenshot of a blog post with a top ten list showing blocked domains. pinterest.com is number 1 and numbers 2-7 are regional Pinterest domains like pinterest.co.uk and pinterest.de
A magnolia tree in a garden covered in pink blossom, surrounded by smaller green. There's a blue sky with a few clouds in the background
Mobile phone screenshot of a nested table of contents where the lower level headings are stacked on the right of the screen.
A yellow Labrador rolling on her back in the spring sunshine. She's on a lawn with a clothes maiden full of washing in the background. The sky is clear and blue
A screenshot of a terminal window showing a bash session where things are added to and removed from $PATH
Similarly structured posts from different accounts, some in Russian.
Bus back seat with raised floor where the foot space should be.
A bluetit among blooming magnolia blossom
Blue plaque marking the meeting point of the Middleton contingent of the Peterloo demonstration
A round headed plastic super hero in a red cape and blue suit that says "MSDN Webcasts" on the front
A screenshot of a DVLA web form for over 70s to renew their driving license on a mobile phone. The inputs are very small and difficult to read.
Manchester United player Eric Cantona kicking a Crystal Palace fan across an advertising hoarding during a football match.
A metal bridge raised high enough over a very wide canal so that large ships can pass beneath. Photo taken from the middle of the waterway with green trees on each bank. There's a small red car on the left showing the scale of the canal.
A screenshot of an unsent report about the original post saying "sacré bleu"
A close up photo of a robin, facing left with the individual feathers visible.
Movie poster for The Bodyguard (1992) starring Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston.
Photo of the pipes coming out of the bottom of a combi boiler with lagging covering every pipe and insulating covers on the filters.
A bag of Wotsits, a UK cheesy puff snack.
The low end theory album cover. Black with a human figure kneeling painted in red broad strokes with green highlights.
Film poster from 1997's The Game starring Michael Douglas.
A zoomed in shot of a scanned document showing the word 'SIGNED:' follwoed by a zig zag squiggle
A screenshot of a phone settings screen with toggles for Theft detection lock and Offline device lock. The image at the top of the screen shows a cartoon person holding a phone with an unlocked padlock on the screen.
Wordle solved in two attempts, the first 'PENIS' entirely in yellow and the second 'SPINE' entirely in green.
A GOV.UK style screen with the title 'Select a persona'. The characters Velma, Fred, Shaggy and Daphne from Scooby Doo are listed, along with colourful avatars. There is a green sign-in button next to each one.
A home air quality meter with a PM2.5 reading of 39
A brochure for the luxurious Adlington retirement home. It says "Move for free" in a banner at the top left.
A Pacer carriage full of commuters wearing winter coats, standing in the aisle.
The cover of Freespace, a late 90s space combat simulator.
A text editor showing a HTML5 document containing "Hello world!"
Tomatoes on the vine being held from beneath, mostly deep green with a few red ones too.
A rabbit sitting on grass, head tilted slightly towards the camera.