Rowan Merewood

@rowan.fyi

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It's rowan.fyi #DevRel with #Chrome at #Google We should improve the web somewhat.

Maintain and update the existing thing everybody uses? Ha, no. Instead: launch something new!
It's eleven o'clock on a Tuesday The RTO crowd shuffles in There's a TLM sittin' next to me Makin' calls with their headphones part in They say, "Team, this task's a priority. I'm not really sure how it goes Yes it's vague, there's scope creep, no way to complete Aren't you excited to see where it goes?" La, la-la, O-K-R La-la, O-K-R, never done Write us a plan, you're the project man('ger) Write us a plan tonight Well, we're all in the mood for a strategy And you've got us feelin' aligned
Cats on top of cats on top of cats on top of cats on top of cats on top of cats on top of cats on top of cats on top of cats.
No, seriously, look: it's the Goodyear blimp. Trust me, this isn't like last time.
An image of a delightfully chubby cheeked tardigrade for the article: Invertebrate of the year 2026 Nominate your invertebrate of the year We’re asking people from around the world to nominate their favourite spineless species for our third Invertebrate of the Year competition.
On the Inference of Discrete Goal-Scoring Phenomena via Non-Line-of-Sight Acoustic Monitoring of Aggregate Spectator Responses in Localized Commercial Venues Rowan P. Merewood MEng/Soft rowan@merewood.org Department of Fermentation Diagnostics & Stochastic Football Metrics The Royal Institute of Pub-Based Acoustics, UK July 1, 2026 Abstract This paper presents a robust mathematical and statistical framework for the real-time reconstruction of association football scorelines—specifically focusing on the England Men’s National Team during major tournaments—utilizing solely non-line￾of-sight (NLOS) acoustic telemetry harvested from proximate commercial drinking establishments. We model collective spectator vocalizations as a multi-class, non￾homogeneous Poisson process, where localized acoustic power peaks map onto discrete state-transitions of the match scoreboard. By incorporating a Bayesian prior calibrated against the historical decay of national optimism and the asymptotic convergence toward penalty shootout heartbreak, our estimator achieves a 94.2% classification accu￾racy. We successfully distinguish valid goal-scoring events from disallowed VAR inter￾ventions, offside narrow-escapes, and near-miss groans. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the high-frequency acoustic signature of pint glasses shattering on safety-laminate flooring serves as a leading indicator of critical defensive failure. Keywords: Pub Acoustics, Non-Line-of-Sight Telemetry, Bayesian Goal Inference, Poisson Point Processes, England Tournament Trajectory, VAR-Induced Despair. Mathematics Subject Classification (2020): Primary 60G55 (Point Processes); Secondary 62F15 (Bayesian Inference), 91F99 (Social and Behavioral Sciences). 1 Introduction Determining the scoreline of an association football match traditionally relies on line-of￾sight (LOS) visual channels, such as a television broadcast or direct stadium occupancy.
The Patching Lodge
Just a worm.
The infographic displays four security categories with their corresponding topics: * Attacks: Clickjacking, Cross-site request forgery (CSRF), Cross-site leaks, Cross-site scripting (XSS), Insecure Direct Object Reference, Manipulator in the Middle (MITM), Phishing, Prototype pollution, Server Side Request Forgery, Subdomain takeover, and Supply chain attacks. * Defence: Certificate transparency, Content Security Policy (CSP), Fetch metadata, Input validation, Mixed content blocking, Operational security, Same-origin policy, Secure contexts, Subresource integrity, Transport Layer Security (TLS), and User activation. * Threat modelling: Threat modeling guide, Example threat model, Threat model for a PWA, and Frameworks and tools. * Authentication: Federated Identity, One-time passwords (OTP), Passkeys, Passwords, and Session management.
Form & autofill failures: 57% Digital wallets & local payment methods: 30% Trust, privacy, and dark patterns: 30% Flaky services: 23% Too many steps: 13%
Bluesky license for Rowan Merewood. Quite a few details, but I'm notably generous. A liberal liker, if you will.
2. What is changing and what’s banned? We plan to use the same model for a social media ban as Australia. Their model included platforms like Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Snapchat, Facebook and X.  We do not intend for messaging services like WhatsApp and Signal to be included in the social media ban.
I had all the settings turned off.
PlayStation 4 browser showing a fascinating, comprehensive, and compelling article on the range and history of web browsers on video game consoles.
Reddit where the ad just says, "BUY".
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3D animation visualising a Bluesky post as a network of replies. You can see the responses and conversation chains explode off the parent post. Likes and reposts bubble off the individual nodes. The end result looks a bit like a dandelion or other strange seed blowing in the wind. This is from a bsky.app announcement post, so it's mostly people complaining there's no edit button.
Luckily I have one post that people actually interacted with, so I didn't have to use someone else's. Anyway, you can see my profile photo at the start and then a bunch of other start popping in connected by a spider web like line. Each one is a reply to the post. Little hearts are bubbling off the posts as they receive likes.
Noted scientist and biology researcher Dr. Frank N. Furter pictured here in the lift up to his laboratory. Photograph courtesy of the Denton Police Department from their files on what the press referred to as, "The Rocky Horror Picture Show".
A bar chart of my scrumptious scrobbles going back to 2007.
Of course, it's Mark Snow's iconic theme to "The X-Files". I want to believe you're going to click like on this. That said, I know the government is suppressing my message.
Episode title card for the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "Smorgasborg".
It's a MIDI rendition of the theme from Terminator which actually sounds damn near perfect given it was on a bunch of synths (ho ho). Man, I'm going to have to watch those again. Just the first two, obviously.
The theme from Star Trek: The Next Generation. #sttng for those of you who like an unpronounceable acronym. Anyway, goosebumps immediately on that opening.
It's the FINAL COUNTDOWN! Doo-do-do-dooo. Do-do-do-do-doooo.
Withnail demands, "We want the finest cat food known to humanity. We want it here and we want it now."
It's a pixelly pixie me!
Oh, daaaamn - is that the pause music from the legendary GoldenEye 007 on the N64? No way!
Ah, Final Fantasy VII - that was a pinnacle.
An anthropomorphic paperclip helpfully interjects, "It looks like you're trying to summon Satan". Its bulging eyes stare deep into your soul, which is incidentally the price for accepting its help.
"YAWL Please drive slowly" says the sign, in an accent that doesn't seem to quite fit in the heart of the English countryside. There are some other traffic signs there, but they're not part of the joke, so just try to imagine the general ambience of a bosky lane at the entrance to a small village.
In England brown and unpleasant land you'll find Foulness Island.
The living embodiment of blob :|
Another fractious fractal deep in the Mandelbrot set. Look at that clean border. How does this all come from one simple equation? Almost feels illegal to see these things. Like when the US classified the DVD encryption as munitions making it illegal to import or export so people started printing it on t-shirts. Wild times. Shows you that institutional stupidity has always been there and this is what happens when someone unhinged starts to harness it. What a world, eh? That's why I do my little math pictures... Just a bit of escapism. Certainly easier than writing the blog about it. Would you read it if I did? Some encouragement is always nice, just let me know!
CHIPSY brand potato chips or crisps, depending on which flavour of English you're down with.
Ancient hieroglyphs on some form of ceremonial display tablet.
Are they eyes? Who knows. It's deep in the Mandelbrot fractal.
Bogger
Sarah Connor in the desert from the second and final Terminator film. She's wearing round black sunglasses with leather sections on the side, which I thought were the coolest thing but literally anyone else wearing them looks like an utter dweeb.
Only the RZA introducing The Mystery of Chess Boxing on the only known 35mm print out out there.
An electrifying view of a deep zoom into the Mandelbrot fractal. It looks like lightning though... how can this be all fun the same formula, you ask. Incredible, I know. It's a Benoit Blanc Mandelbrot mystery. Don't delve too deeply though, it keeps getting weirder.
Swirling black filigree of tentacles, perhaps. It's yet more staring into the void stuff. Sometimes I zoom so deep I wonder if it's legal to see what I'm seeing. What do you think it is? Answers on a postcard... or reply here. That would be nice, to know you're reading this.
Cover of the Men At Work album, "Business As Usual". It's sat on top of a record player playing said album. As to what the cover displays, it's a stylised amp with what looks like a mountain range above it, but there's something of an illusion with an inverted mountain. The photo would have been directly facing the record, but there was an infuriating glare in the early afternoon. Anyway, I shouldn't complain about it being sunny.
Alternate text for staring deep into an alternate universe. I don't know how to describe what I see here. It's a maddening void of swirling non-Euclidean shapes half-formed in a darkness that somehow glows at the same time. From the centre cones the thin monotonous piping of a demonic flute played in the hopes of keeping the blind idiot god Azathoth in its slumber.
Snaking spiky spooky tendrils of something slither seamlessly across another mind-altering void. This is doors of perception territory, buddy. Take a couple tabs of hard maths and enjoy the trip into this fractal fantasy land. Numbers out, a Benoit Mandelbrot mystery.
How do I start describing this? Strange spirals and swirls appear to glow as they float in the void. Flowing lines interconnect but never actually touch. There's an odd warping of the space by the edges; two dimensions, three dimensions, maybe more?
Screenshot of an egg from Minecraft.
It's certainly snowman-shaped, the round white body and a silver hat. There's then a unusually wide blue smile, as cold as the hole where its soul should be. Spattered across the base are blotches of vivid red. What might that be? Cranberry sauce? Or... could it be blood? But who's?
Egon Spengler as portrayed by Harold Ramis in the 1984 film "Ghostbusters". He's behind a CRT terminal with a classic institutional green wall behind. Now, I don't think this is actually the specific part of the film where he says this line, but I think it's relatively close. If you're the kind of person who both reads alt text and has a need for the caption to directly match the image, then please do let me know - I'll correct this. Until then, I'll continue my artistic alignment of images that I feel better fit the quote.
I mean, technically it's just a plant root. I don't want to describe it, because the point is really about what you see. How about you reply if you want to know what I think it looks like?
Netflix states boldly, "Beloved franchises, shows and movies such as The Big Bang Theory, The Sopranos, Game of Thrones, The Wizard of Oz and the DC Universe..."
Word cloud visualization for 2025 showing your 50 most-used words, sized by frequency. Top 10: "code" (12×), "version" (8×), "those" (7×), "noise" (7×), "screen" (7×), "watch" (6×), "finally" (6×), "create" (6×), "verification" (6×), "find" (6×) (from Anisota's Annual Bluesky Harvest)
Inigo Montoya: I do not mean to pry, but you don't by any chance happen to have six fingers on your right hand? Man in Black: Do you always write alt text this way?
A zoom in view of the Mandelbrot set fractal that perhaps looks like a line of crinoid things swaying in their deep sea current. Could be creepy, could be peaceful. Tell me, o' valued alt text reader what you see here.
A cheeky little devil or at least, someone in in a devil costume as they clearly don't have actually goat legs, has a piece of cheese impaled on a small pitchfork. The accompanying text reads verbatim, "I AM NUT OK / HELL OF A CHEESE". Words to live by.