Hello, I'm Stephen Rushe and I drink tea, love cats, and provide sarcasm-as-a-service. I’m also responsible for Cricsheet, a project to provide ball-by-ball data for cricket, and the Cricket Scorecard Accuracy Project, a year-long experiment to check the accuracy of cricket scorecards.

You can also find me elsewhere:

• Sourcehut
• Mastodon

Recent entries

• In reply to: John Girvin at November 7, 2023 11:06am

  I know it’s early, but I got some chips from the Chinese.

  You know a pun is top quality when it invokes a simultaneous laugh and groan. 👏

• In reply to: Paul McBride at September 13, 2023 10:35pm

  The Micropub spec is fascinating. I might build a server in Go to try it out. Are there any good micropub clients? #IndieWeb

  I tend to lean towards Quill (https://quill.p3k.io/) as a client. If you’re planning to play with Micropub do make use of the excellent “Micropub Rocks!” site (https://micropub.rocks/). I found it a great help when working on my server.

• After deleting all of my posts from Twitter I’ve also updated my site to remove the associated syndication links. That site is now dead to me.

• Playing with SwiftUI over the last while has resulted in me looking at #WWDC2023 announcements and thinking things like “I must watch that video on Swift Data” later. It’s a slippery slope.

• Hours of debugging, many lines printed to the console, and 1 infinite loop finally leads me to the solution to the bug I was seeing. The end result? A single changed line and React is suddenly happy. Isn’t Javascript fun!

• Reposted a post by Stephen McCullough:

  I wrote a thing. A bit deeper than normal but hey ho, those the punches I guess. https://www.swm.cc/articles/losing-momentum

• I’ve made the mistake of mentioning to Michèle the idea of a Penguins of Madagascar and Judge Dredd crossover, and she now desperately wants to see “Penguins of MegaCity One”.

• I finally saw Charlize Theron wading through her golden pool, so that means we’re officially in the #Christmas period. I’m kind of relieved, I was getting worried that she was missing.

• Reposted a post by Stephen (Cricsheet):

  Thanks to a kind email pointing me to Cricket Australia ball-by-ball commentary for the 2011 Women’s #Ashes Test I’ve finally been able to resolve the discrepancies in the data, meaning that later today I’ll finally be able to add the match to the site.

  This is only the 10th Women’s Test match I’ve been able to source, but does mean I’ve managed to get 10 of the last 12 Tests. I’ll keep digging on the others. #cricket #data

• Not often you think the words “Thanks Gianni Infantino”, but this morning he’s managed to kill off any thoughts I’d been having about watching some of the #WorldCup after all. No, I was right in wanting nothing to do with it.

• Given the latest Twitter news I figure it might be sensible to mention that if you follow me there you can also find my wittering at my site (https://deeden.co.uk/), or on Mastodon (@srushe@nitech.online).

• Feel free to ignore the next few messages as I experiment with syndication to Mastodon.

• Reposted a post by Stephen (Cricsheet):

  A couple of weeks ago I was muttering about being annoyed with the @ICC. Well I’ve finally managed to put my vague… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1548966114172059654

• The problem with the ICC and cricket data

  On the 11th of June 2022 Renata de Sousa of Brazil was bowled by Asmita Kohli of Germany while playing a T20 International in Rwanda. The scorecards on both Cricinfo and CricketArchive agree on this, as does the commentary on Cricinfo. The problem is that it isn't true. Kohli did not bowl de Sousa, she had de Sousa caught at cover. The scorecards are incorrect (not for the first time), and nobody seems to have noticed. Continue reading…

• I hate it when I have a revelation about a personal project late at night and I then have to wait until the following evening to actually investigate it. Pesky job that pays my salary!

• It’s entirely possible to walk away from supporting a sports team when the situation becomes untenable for you. I’ve done it before (though it still breaks my heart) and I’m sadly having to do it again. #Browns

• In reply to: Stephen Rushe at February 17, 2022 7:03pm

  Local independent comic shops not having a local artists newly released comic available to buy on their websites is a tad frustrating. Maybe they’re back to expecting in person business. 😩

  I thankfully found a (relatively) local shop selling what I’m after online, so at least a Northern Ireland store is benefitting from the sale. Result!

• Local independent comic shops not having a local artists newly released comic available to buy on their websites is a tad frustrating. Maybe they’re back to expecting in person business. 😩

• A workman has just left and I’ve suddenly realised that I never offered him a cup of tea. I’m now mortified, and hope my family don’t disown me. Please think of me at this difficult time.

• So the last day of the fantasy football season and I’m in the awkward position of being 1 win from taking the Championship for the company I’ve just left. Muwahaha!!!

• Boosted! 💉Just in time to have any side effects on the first day of my new job. Still a good deal. 👏

• Just lost access to work email and slack. I guess that means I can knock off early on my last day then!

• This is an experimental post from a Swift App I’m hacking on. I don’t necessarily expect this to work but here’s hoping 🙏

• I see “Chigs” trending on Twitter and get excited for Space: Above and Beyond news.

  Damn you Bake Off! shakes fist in anger

• Today, after more than 20 years together, I discovered that @manyhues didn’t know the correct lyrics to “Where’s Me Jumper” by the Sultans of Ping FC. I’m not sure what I can trust in anymore.