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Richard Shea | @[email protected]

@shearichard

Software solutions whipped up before your very eyes! Increasingly interested in Digital Identity 🆔. Python+SQL - what I'd take to a desert island 🏝️.

 Wellington, New Zealand
mainlydata.kubadev.com
Joined February 2009
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Screen grab showing the following quote "There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.". The quote is attributed to C.A.R. Hoare, 1980 ACM Turing Award Lecture

ALT Screen grab showing the following quote "There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.". The quote is attributed to C.A.R. Hoare, 1980 ACM Turing Award Lecture

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Amazingly, to me at least, 80% of antibiotics are used on farmed animals. The overuse of antibiotics leads to antimicrobial resistance, a situation which takes us back to the pre-antibiotic world, something few alive today can remember. theguardian.com/global-devel…
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"Mr Pascal" - Niklaus Wirth has died, aged 89. This obituary provides many interesting details about a very accomplished life theregister.com/2024/01/04/n… #pascal #modula #oberon #turingprize

RIP: Software design pioneer Niklaus Wirth

Evangelist of lean software and devisor of 9 programming languages and an OS was 89

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Dear @duolingo , a simple question, I hope. How much does Super Duolingo cost on a monthly basis ? 1/n support.duolingo.com/hc/en-u…
Duolingo - Learn a language for free @duolingo

Duolingo - Learn a language for free @duolingo

Learn languages by playing a game. It's 100% free, fun, and scientifically proven to work.

duolingo.com
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The app is constantly suggesting I might like sign up but trying to find a price on your website is challenging at best. In your answer please do not mention "Free Trial" because, I'm not interested in free trials, I want to know the price. 2/n
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A lesson on the greenhouse effect with Carl Sagan. 🎥: Carl Sagan testifying before Congress in 1985 on climate change
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Bike racks on buses are a good idea and providing a way to practice getting on is a great idea . metlink.org.nz/news-and-upda…
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Amazing that @nzpost can secretly decide they're not going to deliver somewhere but that they get to keep what they've been paid to do so. Not a lawyer, but what sort of contract is that ? rnz.co.nz/news/national/4912…
NZ Post dropped service to quarter of world – and no one knew

NZ Post dropped service to quarter of world – and no one knew

NZ Post has, with little or no warning, stopped sending mail to 34 countries; there are another 21 that aren't sending mail to us. That's a quarter of all nations. Covid is one cause, war another....

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Original art by @kohei1975_tw, from Japan. Instagram: instagram.com/kohei1975 Twitter: teapaw.org/kohei1975_tw
Image from Kohei Yoshihara 吉原 宏平 (@kohei1975_tw)
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Wabi sabi #mentalhealth #wellbeing #mindfulness #japan
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It's strange and then it gets stranger 🤔
Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) profile pictureMassimo
@Rainmaker197328 Mar 2023
In 1951, Adelbert Ames created the mind-boggling ‘Ames Window’. It’s so effective that even when you know how it works you can’t break the illusion [video from The Curiosity Show: buff.ly/36DvRNs]
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rnz.co.nz/national/programme…

300,000 cases of long Covid: study

New research conducted for the Ministry of Health estimates around 300 thousand New Zealanders may have Long Covid, and reccomends the establishment of dedicated long Covid clinics around the...

rnz.co.nz
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Replying to @WgtnCC
@WgtnCC some work has been done on footpath approaching Victoria Tunnel from Basin Reserve side. Three metal pipes have been left sticking up from the tarmac. The largest is perhaps 10 cm proud of the tarmac. This is a safety hazard for those on foot and even more so ... 1/2
A road with the pedestrian walkway beside it. Three metal pipes sticking up from the tarmac are outlined in red.

ALT A road with the pedestrian walkway beside it. Three metal pipes sticking up from the tarmac are outlined in red.

Image from Richard Shea | @shearichard@mastodon.nz (@shearichard)
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... for the scooters and bikes coming out of tunnel who would not be able to see the pipes until they were very close to them. Would you get some cones/signage around these until they are cut off properly please ? 2/2
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Replying to @Bitbucket
@Bitbucket In the past fifteen minutes I've had 10 spam issues on one repos. On each the user was 'User Deleted' - the repos arrived a few minutes apart from each other. I've marked each issue as spam and then deleted it but I'm puzzled how they're being created at all ? 1/2
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.... it seems like this is a defect ? If so is it a well established one ? 2/2
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If @Meetup is not the slowest site of its size I would like to know what is . If I discovered it was running on a dial-up I would not be surprised. It's not just today, every time I go there there's always plenty of time to relax between screen refreshes.
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"you will feel your breathing improve in a matter of days" ... yes folks it's 1920's Cigarette advertising all over again 🤦‍♀️.
J u h a (@juhasaarinen) profile pictureJ u h a@juhasaarinen5 Mar 2023
Sex and lies are used to sell vapes online. Even we were surprised at the marketing tactics we found theconversation.com/sex-and-… via @ConversationEDU
Sex and lies are used to sell vapes online. Even we were surprised at the marketing tactics we found

Sex and lies are used to sell vapes online. Even we were surprised at the marketing tactics we found

Vapes were marketed as healthy, sexy, sleek and environmentally friendly. It’s time we clamped down on these dodgy claims.

theconversation.com
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'They've lost everything': Ni-Vanuatu Kiwis' concern amid cyclone Kevin. "Two consecutive category 4 cyclones with a 6.5 magnitude earthquake" stuff.co.nz/national/3008221…

'They've lost everything': Ni-Vanuatu Kiwis' concern amid cyclone Kevin

Ni-Vanuatu communities in New Zealand are worried about friends and family back home as tropical cyclone Kevin lashed the island nation on Saturday morning.

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Bialatski started campaigning for Belarusian democracy forty years when Belarus was still part of the USSR. He's still trying but, in many ways, you might say that Belarus is still part of the "new USSR".
Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) profile pictureAl Jazeera English
@AJEnglish3 Mar 2023
BREAKING: Belarus sentences Nobel winner Bialiatski to 10 years in prison aje.io/o6icc9
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My floppy disk has an old friend on it #floppy #pyportal #gif #CircuitPython @MarkKomus @Adafruit #maxheadroom
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This is crazy and I love it.
Anne Barela (@anne_engineer) profile pictureAnne Barela@anne_engineer22 Feb 2023
A hint of what I'm about to demo Wednesday on @Adafruit #ShowAndTell. A floppy disk with a working file display?! And, yes, there will be a tutorial on making your own #Floppy #CircuitPython #PyPortal #restomodding
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