Yes well, my garage & back garden did flood again & worse than last time.
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Yes well, my garage & back garden did flood again & worse than last time. I’ve taken pictures & emailed my housing manager, hopefully it’ll be dealt with properly this time. Silt, dirt & debris everywhere
️. It’s going to be impossible for me to clean it all up myself, I can do some but not the fine crap in the garage. I can’t wear anything on my feet when I come into the house from the garage either due to the silt. What a mess. I’ve emailed community housing, just waiting to hear back. I estimate it came up at least 15cm as the overflow gully drain was topped with a pile of litter.
#SummerStorm #Flooding
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Yes well, my garage & back garden did flood again & worse than last time. I’ve taken pictures & emailed my housing manager, hopefully it’ll be dealt with properly this time. Silt, dirt & debris everywhere
️. It’s going to be impossible for me to clean it all up myself, I can do some but not the fine crap in the garage. I can’t wear anything on my feet when I come into the house from the garage either due to the silt. What a mess. I’ve emailed community housing, just waiting to hear back. I estimate it came up at least 15cm as the overflow gully drain was topped with a pile of litter.
#SummerStorm #Flooding@feather1952 Oh no - what an awful return home. It's hard to keep the rest of the house in good nick when you're walking through that. Wishing you a speedy & long term resolution with the housing manager so you don't have to worry about flooding again in the future.
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Yes well, my garage & back garden did flood again & worse than last time. I’ve taken pictures & emailed my housing manager, hopefully it’ll be dealt with properly this time. Silt, dirt & debris everywhere
️. It’s going to be impossible for me to clean it all up myself, I can do some but not the fine crap in the garage. I can’t wear anything on my feet when I come into the house from the garage either due to the silt. What a mess. I’ve emailed community housing, just waiting to hear back. I estimate it came up at least 15cm as the overflow gully drain was topped with a pile of litter.
#SummerStorm #Flooding@feather1952 What a shock to find that, you were hoping you had been spared. Hope it’s fixed soonest.
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Yes well, my garage & back garden did flood again & worse than last time. I’ve taken pictures & emailed my housing manager, hopefully it’ll be dealt with properly this time. Silt, dirt & debris everywhere
️. It’s going to be impossible for me to clean it all up myself, I can do some but not the fine crap in the garage. I can’t wear anything on my feet when I come into the house from the garage either due to the silt. What a mess. I’ve emailed community housing, just waiting to hear back. I estimate it came up at least 15cm as the overflow gully drain was topped with a pile of litter.
#SummerStorm #Flooding@feather1952 Oh gosh, what a blow. So sorry, Heather. I hope they get it sorted as soon as possible xx
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@feather1952 Oh gosh, what a blow. So sorry, Heather. I hope they get it sorted as soon as possible xx
@teadrinker
Me too. Some Chiltern friends have offered to help with the clean up & they’d have all the gear. I’ll see what community housing come up with. -
@feather1952 Oh no - what an awful return home. It's hard to keep the rest of the house in good nick when you're walking through that. Wishing you a speedy & long term resolution with the housing manager so you don't have to worry about flooding again in the future.
@Goimbla
I can manage the back garden area myself with hose & can get rid of some stuff out of the garage too. My mind is already looking for solutions of how to deal with it. It’s going to be a busy week. -
@feather1952 What a shock to find that, you were hoping you had been spared. Hope it’s fixed soonest.
@treleanor
Thanks Trish. I think I’ll be having a glass of wine tonight. -
Yes well, my garage & back garden did flood again & worse than last time. I’ve taken pictures & emailed my housing manager, hopefully it’ll be dealt with properly this time. Silt, dirt & debris everywhere
️. It’s going to be impossible for me to clean it all up myself, I can do some but not the fine crap in the garage. I can’t wear anything on my feet when I come into the house from the garage either due to the silt. What a mess. I’ve emailed community housing, just waiting to hear back. I estimate it came up at least 15cm as the overflow gully drain was topped with a pile of litter.
#SummerStorm #Flooding@feather1952 Oh no, Heather, sorry to hear this! 🫂
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@feather1952 Oh no, Heather, sorry to hear this! 🫂
@caity
Thanks Caity. I couldn’t have done much about it even if I was here - in fact if I had been I’d have freaked out even more. -
Yes well, my garage & back garden did flood again & worse than last time. I’ve taken pictures & emailed my housing manager, hopefully it’ll be dealt with properly this time. Silt, dirt & debris everywhere
️. It’s going to be impossible for me to clean it all up myself, I can do some but not the fine crap in the garage. I can’t wear anything on my feet when I come into the house from the garage either due to the silt. What a mess. I’ve emailed community housing, just waiting to hear back. I estimate it came up at least 15cm as the overflow gully drain was topped with a pile of litter.
#SummerStorm #Flooding@feather1952
Bugger!
Been flooded a few times in my life (a long time ago) and I know what it’s like.
Not good.
Hope there’s not too much damage. -
@feather1952
Bugger!
Been flooded a few times in my life (a long time ago) and I know what it’s like.
Not good.
Hope there’s not too much damage.@RaymondPierreL3
Twice in 3 months - not happy. I feel a bit calmer now though as things are being set in place to clean it up. Still waiting to hear back from community housing. This was wasn’t just here, there could be issues elsewhere as well. -
Yes well, my garage & back garden did flood again & worse than last time. I’ve taken pictures & emailed my housing manager, hopefully it’ll be dealt with properly this time. Silt, dirt & debris everywhere
️. It’s going to be impossible for me to clean it all up myself, I can do some but not the fine crap in the garage. I can’t wear anything on my feet when I come into the house from the garage either due to the silt. What a mess. I’ve emailed community housing, just waiting to hear back. I estimate it came up at least 15cm as the overflow gully drain was topped with a pile of litter.
#SummerStorm #Flooding@feather1952 what a bummer Heather. I hope they get onto it quickly
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@feather1952 what a bummer Heather. I hope they get onto it quickly
@dropbear
Thanks - & I’ve just realised after all this time - I don’t have a name for you - so thanks Bear
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I was feeling pretty overwhelmed earlier, but I’m ok now & know what I’m going to do. I’ll have to wait & see what housing has to say. The glass of wine I’ve just poured is helping - I’m pretending it’s Friday. -
@AnnonBudgie
No real smell at the moment. I’ve removed the mats from in front of the doors into & out of the garage, they’re hanging over the corner of the line, but I’m only keeping one, the other two are going in the bin. I have a wooden shower thingy but was going to get rid of it. It’s now my mat to take my thongs on or off as I go in or out of the garage.
I do have something like a tarp, I’ll have to see how big it is. The back area I can sort out, I would use the tarp thing to enter the garage from the unit & to the back door & vice versa. Good thought, thank you
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Yes well, my garage & back garden did flood again & worse than last time. I’ve taken pictures & emailed my housing manager, hopefully it’ll be dealt with properly this time. Silt, dirt & debris everywhere
️. It’s going to be impossible for me to clean it all up myself, I can do some but not the fine crap in the garage. I can’t wear anything on my feet when I come into the house from the garage either due to the silt. What a mess. I’ve emailed community housing, just waiting to hear back. I estimate it came up at least 15cm as the overflow gully drain was topped with a pile of litter.
#SummerStorm #Flooding@feather1952 So sorry, that is horrible, and physically exhausting. Hoping you get decent help and attention from Community Housing so it does not happen again.
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@AnnonBudgie
I’m sorry you’ve gone through it too. It’s horrible.
Good idea & definitely keeping it now. -
@feather1952 So sorry, that is horrible, and physically exhausting. Hoping you get decent help and attention from Community Housing so it does not happen again.
@RHW
Thank you
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@AnnonBudgie
I really appreciate what you’ve told me
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Yes well, my garage & back garden did flood again & worse than last time. I’ve taken pictures & emailed my housing manager, hopefully it’ll be dealt with properly this time. Silt, dirt & debris everywhere
️. It’s going to be impossible for me to clean it all up myself, I can do some but not the fine crap in the garage. I can’t wear anything on my feet when I come into the house from the garage either due to the silt. What a mess. I’ve emailed community housing, just waiting to hear back. I estimate it came up at least 15cm as the overflow gully drain was topped with a pile of litter.
#SummerStorm #Flooding@feather1952 good luck with it Heather. I hope the housing folk can get busy with remediation very soon.
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@feather1952 good luck with it Heather. I hope the housing folk can get busy with remediation very soon.
@smitjo
Thanks John, I appreciate it.
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AI is the Ultimate Expression of Open Source
Someone left this comment on my blog last week:
“I swear am not making this up… I tasked Claude with making a Web Cam App on OS X because I couldn’t find one that was easy to use and handled what I needed (Zoom in/out, Colour, Saturation). I noticed a lot of its web searches centred around Celluloid and JakeSpurlock.com… and wow, you’re further ahead of me, in fact I don’t need an app any more.
However, you might get a cheeky PR in the next week or two as one feature missing from Celluloid (that I can see anyway) was a Vignette slider. I like a nice subtle vignette.”
Read that again. Here’s what happened:
I built Celluloid — a macOS virtual camera app — using AI toolsAlan tried to build the same thing using AI toolsClaude’s research surfaced my workHe didn’t need to build it anymoreHe left a feature suggestion — a vignette sliderI added it to the appThe loop closed. We’re both further ahead.
The FlywheelOpen source has always been about this: someone builds something, shares it, others use it, some contribute back. The commons grows. Everyone benefits.
But there was friction at every step:
Building required deep expertise and timeDiscovery meant knowing where to lookContributing meant understanding someone else’s codebaseAI removes that friction.
Creation: I shipped six apps working nights and weekends. Not because I suddenly became a better programmer, but because AI let me move faster. Ideas that would have stayed in my head became real software.
Discovery: Alan didn’t find Celluloid by searching GitHub or Hacker News. He found it because Claude — in the process of trying to help him build a webcam app — kept pulling up my code and my blog posts as reference material. The AI discovered the existing solution while trying to create a new one.
Contribution: The vignette feature Alan mentioned? I built it five days later. It’s already merged. The feedback loop between “I wish this had X” and “here it is” has collapsed.
This Isn’t HypotheticalI’m not theorizing. This is my actual workflow.
Recently I shipped:
Today — an RSS reader for iOS and MacScriptStrip — local transcription for macOSJewel Case — Spotify album art displayCelluloid — virtual camera with filtersDraft Night — Little League draft software (open source)WalkUp DJ — walk-up music for baseball and softballAll built with AI assistance. All open source or indie. All feeding back into the ecosystem that made them possible.
The models that helped me build these apps were trained on decades of open source code. Now my code becomes part of what trains the next generation. The flywheel spins.
What Open Source Promised, AI DeliversThe original dream of open source was democratization. Anyone could read the code. Anyone could learn. Anyone could contribute.
In practice, “anyone” meant “anyone with the time and expertise to understand a complex codebase.”
AI changes the denominator.
When Claude helps Alan understand my code well enough to contribute a feature, that’s not cheating — that’s the promise of open source finally being delivered. The knowledge isn’t locked behind years of experience anymore. It’s accessible.
More builders means more software. More software means more training data. Better training data means better AI. Better AI means more builders.
The commons grows faster than ever.
The Skeptic’s Objection“But you’re just generating slop with AI!”
Look at the results. Celluloid works. People use it on Zoom calls. Alan found it useful enough that he didn’t need to build his own — and valuable enough that he’s contributing improvements.
The quality bar is the same as it ever was: does the software solve a problem? Does it work? Will you maintain it?
AI doesn’t change those questions. It just lets more people attempt answers.
Where This GoesI don’t think we’ve fully internalized what’s happening.
Every open source project is now more discoverable — not through SEO tricks, but because AI assistants will surface them when someone tries to solve the same problem.
Every contribution barrier is lower — not because standards dropped, but because understanding code got easier.
Every builder has more leverage — not replacing expertise, but multiplying it.
Open source always had network effects. AI supercharges them.
Alan tried to build a webcam app. He found mine instead. His suggestion made it better.
That’s not a bug in the system. That’s the system working exactly as intended — just faster than we ever imagined.
The vignette slider is live in Celluloid. Thanks for the suggestion, Alan.
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