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Django and Elm developer. One half of https://teapaw.org/t.co/SgE7yMq1iB and https://teapaw.org/t.co/oay18PtGxg with @keira_may. He/him.

Joined December 2018
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We need to worry about not just what non-biological intelligences might do to humans in the future, but also what humans might do to them: redandblack.io/blog/2020/art…. This article was partly inspired by the Imperial Radch books of @ann_leckie.
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Does anyone need a @BSidesLV ticket or two? My partner and I have two tickets that we're no longer in a position to use.
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I recently found out that @DuckDuckGo search result pages have #vim-like navigation. Really useful!
Even though #kawaiicon is still a few days away, we have a Friendli instance for it up, and you can start using it now. Some people already are :)
Replying to @kawaiiconNZ
If Slack isn't your thing, @redandblacktech are kindly standing up an ephemeral instance of their app: goodchat/friendli. It is a privacy-first, open-source, and not-for-profit app for finding and meeting people specifically at Kawaiicon: kawaiicon.friendli.io/
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Proud and excited to announce that Meetniq is now available for businesses and freelancers! If you want to have faster, better meetings, and send automated task reminders to your team, check it out at meetniq.com
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After last year, the expression "hindsight is 2020" has become a bit confusing.
Life is so much easier when your server clocks are set to your home timezone! Do that and all of a sudden log timestamps make sense because you don't have to convert them from UTC in your head.
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If you ever want to know anything about foxes, ask a rabbit.
This is the first Python package that @keira_may and I have released together. It takes a lot of the rough edges off #selenium testing. And the docs include have tutorials for using it with #pytest and #behavebdd so it's easy to get started.
The first release of elemental is now available for your #python testing pleasure. It's a wrapper for #selenium that smooths our some things we didn't like. Check it out! Docs: elemental.readthedocs.io Package: pypi.org/project/elemental
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If you're a #python programmer and haven't come across NumPy style docstrings yet, give them a try. They changed my life. The Sphinx project has a great set of examples to learn from: sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usa…
You can see the unintended consequences of #Hacktoberfest even on this *inactive* project: github.com/braziljs/conf-boi… Last release: 2015 Last commit to master branch: 2017 PRs for a pointless change to the docs in the last 18 hours: 14
Ugh, oh no, October is starting. Prepare for a month of spam pull requests... whatwg/html has already been hit hard, at 5 in the last 3 hours. @hacktoberfest, please please stop this annual tradition of wasting maintainers' time. You are a net negative for the world.
If the Victorian Premier ever starts a band, he could call it "Daniel Andrews and the Four Reasons". #springst #auspol
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Patching is even *more* important when things are chaotic. Don't delay!
Calling stun grenades "flash bangs" takes the focus off the fact that they are, actually, grenades. They're explosive devices intended to cause temporary blindness and deafness. Although designated as "less-lethal" weapons, they can still cause permanent injury and kill.
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I probably should have retweeted this when the article was actually on the HackerNews front page, but better late than never I suppose.
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Sick of seeing ads in the browser and apps of your Android phone? Go to Settings > Network and Internet > Advanced > Private DNS. Select "Private DNS provider hostname", enter "dns.adguard.com" then tap SAVE. It's that simple.
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Do you have a poorly organised digital music collection? I did too until i stumbled across @b33ts / beets.io a week or two ago. It's fantastic.
My heroes right now are the people working around the clock in airline call centres around the world. They're providing an essential service in a chaotic time, getting people home to their friends and families. My thanks in particular to the workers at @Qantas who've helped me.
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Sometimes troubleshooting can be a bit humbling. ☺️
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