mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06A movie-loving, bike-riding, full-stack web developer from the UK.
I love writing HTML, CSS & JavaScript as well as PHP and MySQL. Laravel and Tailwind are my frameworks of choice.
🍿 New #movie watched: Tuner (2026) ★★★★☆
A gifted piano tuner's meticulous skills for tuning pianos lead him to discover an unexpected aptitude for cracking safes, turning his life upside down.
An incredibly well-produced movie, with great performances. I loved the sound design.
🔗 New #link: Radicle
An open source, peer-to-peer code collaboration stack built on Git. Unlike centralized code hosting platforms, there is no single entity controlling the network. Repositories are replicated across peers in a decentralized manner, and users are in full control of their data and workflow.
NBD (New Bike Day). A pink gravel bike.
🔗 New #article: Owning your data
> Owning your own data is hard. I've been trying to own as much as I can, and my site has become a reflection of that process, both in what I display and discuss. As difficult as it is, there's a freedom in owning as much as you can.
I've been enjoying my new gravel bike this week – https://www.trovster.com/life/things/van-rysel-grvl-af
🔗 New #article: Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work
> In all of the debates about the value of AI-assistance in software development there’s one depressing anecdote that I keep on seeing: the junior engineer, empowered by some class of LLM tool, who deposits giant, untested PRs on their coworkers—or open source maintainers—and expects the “code review” process to handle the rest.
🍿 New #movie watched: Secret Mall Apartment (2025) ★★★½☆
In 2003, eight Rhode Islanders created a secret apartment inside a busy mall and lived there for four years, filming everything along the way.
https://www.trovster.com/movies/id:4498/secret-mall-apartment
🔗 New #article: On Programming with Agents
> Focus on the thinking and let agents do the typing. Use the three rules to guide your workflow: plan first so you know what you're building, stay engaged so you never lose the thread, and review the output so you can stand behind what ships. The craft is the same as it's always been. We just have more time for it now.
🍿 New #movie watched: Project Hail Mary (2026) ★★★★½
A science teacher wakes up alone on a spaceship. As his memory returns, he uncovers a mission to stop a mysterious substance killing Earth's sun and that an unexpected friendship may be the key.
🔗 New #link: The Lounge
A modern, responsive, cross-platform, self-hosted web IRC client.
🔗 New #article: Personal Blogging
> Personal blogging is the antithesis of what these gamified platforms have become. Blog posts tend to be long-form, thoughtful, personal. There's no algorithm to please, no incentive to game the system or perform in a way that's not you, no draw towards outrage or controversy. It's a place you can be yourself.
🍿 New #movie watched: Ali & Ava (2022) ★★★½☆
Ali and Ava, both lonely for different reasons, meet and sparks fly. A deep connection begins to grow, despite the legacy of Ava's past relationship, and Ali's emotional turmoil at the breakdown of his marriage.
🍿 New #movie watched: Adult Life Skills (2016) ★★★½☆
Anna is comfortable living in her mom's garden shed making funny videos all day, but as she approaches 30, she starts feeling the pressure to move on and "grow up" without compromising her youthful spirit.
🍿 New #movie watched: The Colony (2013) ★★☆☆☆
Forced underground by the next ice age, a struggling outpost of survivors must fight to preserve humanity against a threat even more savage than nature.
🔗 New #link: Get Shit Done
A powerful meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven development system for reliable AI development.
🍿 New #movie watched: Young Ones (2014) ★★½☆☆
Set in the future when water is hard to find, a teenage boy sets out to protect his family and survive.
🍿 New #movie watched: The Endless Summer (1966) ★★★½☆
Fllows two young surfers around the world in search of the perfect wave, and ends up finding quite a few in addition to some colorful local characters.
🍿 New #movie watched: Aporia (2023) ★★½☆☆
Since losing her husband, a woman struggles to manage grief, until a former physicist reveals a secret time-bending machine, and she is faced with an impossible choice.
🎵 New #music Highlight: Vampire by Bombs for Breakfast
Listen at https://open.spotify.com/track/0T0fhpivnGOfDIAUJCcqJC
🍿 New #movie watched: The Beach Bum (2019) ★★½☆☆
An irreverent comedy about the misadventures of Moondog, a rebellious stoner and lovable rogue who lives large.
🍿 New #movie watched: Hoppers (2026) ★★★½☆
A 19-year-old animal lover uses technology that places her consciousness into a robotic beaver to uncover mysteries within the animal world beyond her imagination.
🍿 New #movie watched: Jules (2023) ★★★☆☆
A flying saucer lands in the backyard of an elderly suburbanite with memory problems, who forms a bond with the scared alien inside.
The Aquabats were so much fun supporting Less Than Jake on the Winter Circus tour that I decided to see them again, this time headlining in a much smaller venue.
Again, it was so much fun, with the inflatables and crowd. There were plenty of young kids there, some even dressed up in full superhero outfits. One even crowd-surfed on a giant pizza. #music
🍿 New #movie watched: The Moment (2026) ★½☆☆☆
A rising pop star navigates the complexities of fame and industry pressure while preparing for her arena tour debut.
🍿 New #movie watched: Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2026) ★★★★☆
A "Man From the Future" arrives at a diner in Los Angeles, where he must recruit the precise combination of disgruntled patrons to join him on a one-night quest to save the world from the terminal threat of a rogue artificial intelligence.
https://www.trovster.com/movies/id:4496/good-luck-have-fun-dont-die
🍿 New #movie watched: The Artifice Girl (2023) ★★★★☆
A team of special agents discovers a revolutionary new computer program to bait and trap online predators. After teaming up with the program's troubled developer, they soon find that the AI is rapidly advancing beyond its original purpose.
🎵 New #music Highlight: THPS2 by The Crease Rule
Listen at https://open.spotify.com/track/3OCiCv9iEczSMZ25qfg6ud
My February 2026 movie blog post is finally out. I watched one a day, and the month was full of Oscar best picture nominations and some other good movies.
Marty Surpreme (9/10) was my favourite of the month, Hamnet (7/10) had some stellar performances, and The Secret Agent (8/10) looked incredible.
https://www.trovster.com/blog/2026/03/movies-in-february-2026
🔗 New #link: Polyscope
This app lets you run coding agents in parallel, you architect the big picture, and review what they build. Your IDE was a copilot – this is the new cockpit.
🍿 New #movie watched: Send Help (2026) ★★★½☆
When an employee and her insufferable boss become stranded on a deserted island, the only survivors of a plane crash, they must overcome past grievances and work together to make it out alive.
🔗 New #link: Photopea
Free online photo editor. Transform your photos with professional-grade tools in a free online photo editor that works right in your browser. No downloads, no hassle.
🍿 New #movie watched: Skyman (2020) ★★☆☆☆
The story of Carl Merryweather who believes he experienced an alien encounter at 10-years-old and is now trying to reconnect with the UFO as the same location.
I got a bit wet on my gravel ride today.
My lunchtime walk was windy AF. I was nearly blown into the river and almost lost my earbuds. Strangely, the two wind turbines weren't going round… I wonder if they turn off the solar panel farm to save electricity during the day.
Here are my March #statistics
I watched 31 movies with a runtime of 53 hours.
I published 1 blog post, containing over 2,823 words.
I posted 23 new photos.
I completed 44 activities and walked over 102 miles.
I linked to 8 online resources and quoted 6 interesting articles.
I listened to 2,880 tracks!
🍿 New #movie watched: Band Aid (2017) ★★★★☆
A couple who can't stop fighting embark on a last-ditch effort to save their marriage: turning their fights into songs and starting a band.
🔗 New #article: Unsung heroes: Flickr’s URLs scheme
> It was a beautiful and predictable scheme. Once you knew how it worked, you could guess other URLs. If I were typing an email or authoring a blog post and I happened to have a link to your photo in Flickr, I could also easily include a link to your Flickr homepage just by editing the URL, without having to jump back to the browser to verify.
https://unsung.aresluna.org/unsung-heroes-flickrs-urls-scheme/
🔗 New #link: cmux
A Ghostty-based macOS terminal with vertical tabs and notifications for AI coding agents.
