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Website builder. Cyclist. Recovering musician. Anti-social socialist. Corporate lackey.

London
Joined July 2009
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do any #a11y specialists have opinions about cinemagraphs? i.e. "subtle motion that plays in a short, never-ending loop, while the rest of the image remains still" blog.flixel.com/what-is-a-ci… autoplaying video seems a bad idea, but does the subtlety of the motion make a difference?
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The more people are in a meeting, the lower the quality of discussion Has someone already got an eponymous law that states this? If not, can I claim it? What's my prize?
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why do @brightdome have a policy of 1 drink per customer? I get that nobody wants lairy drunk punters, but surely buying a round is a thing, especially at a gig, where your friends want to carry on watching the show while one of you goes to the bar
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I used to think that SAFe, though not in the least agile, was better than chaos. I'm beginning to reconsider that last part.
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Sometimes I feel bad for being an accidental landlord, but when I read stuff like this I think I’m probably not part of the problem
What’s the wildest thing you’ve ever had your deposit charged for by a landlord? I’ll go first. £150 for ‘dust on lampshade’
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Massive kudos to @meyerweb for being able to publish this phrase, never mind all the other good things he’s done for the web in his career: “I was probably wrong about that” meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2…
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Malcolm Young retweeted
The majority of software development seems to be figuring out how to *think* about a problem. And then expressing that (hopefully clearly).
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In case you needed more reasons not to buy things from Amazon:
I'm the author of the best-selling book System Design Interview-An Insider’s Guide. 11 days ago, two fraudsters hijacked the "Buy Now" button on Amazon, fulfilling all orders with a different book. I'm helpless to do anything. A sad story on self-publishing: a thread.
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3. “Never put a skunk on a bus.”
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Not sure about the value of the "lyrics" feature in Spotify for some songs...
seeing as I finally got round to finishing a blog post I started drafting four years ago, I might as well tweet for the first time in a few months to promote it: capgemini.github.io/developm…
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anyone who thinks Jira is terrible clearly hasn't tried to manage a project using Azure DevOps
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True story
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I guess we’re going to see lots of this kind of gaslighting in an attempt to suggest there are real benefits to Brexit. Tampons have been zero rated in Ireland - which last time I checked is in the EU - for decades. The UK gov chose not to do the same. – at Amsterdam, The Netherlands
One of earliest benefits of Brexit: The ‘tampon tax’ is abolished. And this goes to the core of sovereignty - the British Parliament was unable to cut VAT on tampons because VAT is an EU tax and reductions generally prohibited, only increases. Most of proceeds of VAT paid to EU!
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Yes, this is a beautiful library, but I have questions about how practical these bookshelves are.
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Malcolm Young retweeted
What we learned in 2020? That oil is worthless in a society without consumption. That healthcare has to be public because heath is public. That 50% of jobs can be done from home while the other 50% deserve more than they’re being paid. That we live in a society, not an economy.
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