Web developer, Lego obsessive, abusive compère, intrepid space explorer, maker of tabards and flags... He, him, his, YDY.

London, UK
Joined July 2017
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Congrats to @jacobmparis on > 8.5k followers. Seeing the replies on your tech tweets now, rather you than me, buddy!
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This take makes me novosad... 😢
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I haven't actually had to write that in many years. A testament to TDD and good integration testing? @ICooper
DNR, ticket rejected. 🤣
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Not the kind of bird recognition I would expect from Ken...
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Billy Bunion and his Pissy Opinions is my favourite Viz comic strip.
Hot sauce ruins everything it touches.
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They don't care. They just want to attack and destroy all elements of the welfare state, and indeed any part of the state that doesn't serve their selfish, greedy, corrupt aims... All the culture was BS is just serving that same purpose.
Why does nobody who criticises Motability have even the slightest understanding of how it actually works? Disabled people are not given free cars.
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LLMs are NOT search engines, FFS. AI is making people stupid faster than expected...
Dec 2024 spot check: What is your default search engine today? (i will repeat in 1 year)
62%Google
14%Perplexity
16%OpenAI/ChatGPT search
8%other (write in )
3,211 votes • Final results
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My ex bought me a nice (non Disney) Winnie the Pooh a few years back, and stared in horror as I ripped the tags off, oblivious. Then she told me it was a very expensive collectors item...
My oldest got the holiday Barbie and watching all the grown women cringe as she ripped into it was so funny to me. My mom even told her to leave it in the box so it stays nice and c responded with “it’s a Barbie? I’m playing with it” 😂
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I wonder if there's a hidden connection?
should I hang out where all the techies are but no ai discourse, or where all the ai discourse is but getting drowned out by the racism decisions decisions
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I have so much to say about this. None of it polite to anyone involved...
Something I hate when using Cursor is, sometimes, it will randomly delete some of my code, for no reason Sometimes removing an entire feature 😱 I once pushed to production without being careful enough and realized a few hours later I had removed an entire feature ...
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Some people in actually know what they are doing shock. Full story on page 94.
I've been fascinated by a special type of programmer, the devs who don't use IDE features like: -autocomplete/copilot -LSP - go-to-def What allows them to just rawdog text editors? Do they have superhuman coding ability? I asked them and here is a thread of what they said:
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Thinking of all the great artists who died in penury and obscurity... Literally works every time, huh?
The best advice is the same as always, that has worked for millions of people: just do stuff. Make things, code things, write things, tweet things, draw things, whatever. It literally works every time.
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Merry fucking Christmas, ya filthy animals...
So DWP can check the bank accounts of people claiming UC… you know the poorest in society who claim it to top up their SHITTY wages. Yet no one checks the accounts of the wealthy who use tax havens to F*CK paying their fair share. Benefit fraud £1.4b Tax Evasion £5b+
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Some one is mashing up genres. @GreatDismal, what are you up to?
It's actually a wonder to me that more bodies aren't found in the GDS.
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We created the AI and had our first meeting to set up the business using it. 10/10: No notes.
Startup idea: An AI that attends meetings for you and reports back with only the important bits.
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Not one person mentions actual CSS. 😢
unpopular take: I still prefer bootstrap instead of tailwind
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On one level, this is accurate. On another it completely ignores how third parties insert themselves into transactions with a value offering, then, once entrenched, take all the value for themselves, harming (potentially destroying) industries in the process.
An Uber is just a taxi with a slightly different booking system. A podcast is just radio via a slightly different delivery platform. A Deliveroo is just a takeaway. Stop talking about stuff as if it's a specific and new thing when it isn't.
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I... Uh... Yeah. It's shocking that nearly 50% of people are of below average intelligence...
The internet was much better when it was the confine of academics and computer geeks. The general public has ruined it because half of them are total morons. They're getting worked up about milk now.
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