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Tom

@ceilingfish
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Joined March 2007
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It's the economy, stupid.
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Just had the most bizarrely dystopian experience. We have a @Google home in the kitchen and apropos of nothing it started playing adverts. That'll be staying switched off then!
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More poetry on talk shows! Haven't seen anything this moving in many years
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R.I.P. Maggie Smith. Seen here on the Parkinson show with Kenneth Williams, reading one of John Betjeman's poems (Death In Leamington) to Betjeman himself.
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No offense to all the YouTubers out there, but god I hate learning from video. I'll take a well-written blog any day of the week.
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I’ve been programming for 14 years, and it still bothers me that sorting algorithms don’t sort. They order.
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Who is sharing camping tables in linkedin?
A listing for a camping table with social links to share including once for LinkedIn

ALT A listing for a camping table with social links to share including once for LinkedIn

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Using llms to code is weird, because I feel like you should thank it when it writes you some useful code.
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I've just got a CV with a table of the candidates skills organised by area and length of experience, and I think this is probably the most useful CV I've seen in years.
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It's gonna be awesome when web 4 comes out, and the general populace are left wondering what web 3 was.
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Hey what's that sound? It's a brand new episode of Darknet Diaries! 👀 🎧 Ep 132 - Sam the Vendor This is the story of how @DoingFedTime became a darknet market vendor. darknetdiaries.com/episode/1…
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Probably the best thing you'll see today. In 2017, a group of developers hilariously competed for who could create worst volume control interface in the world. The results 🧵 1/22
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Retweet if I’d be a better PM than Truss.
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The timing on this is 👌
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Right.
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I found this a really useful insight. I'm lucky enough not to struggle with the cost of living any more, but this reminder of the painful, constant anxiety of having insufficient money for food is good perspective. @JasonMcCartney you should read this.
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For a later thread: please reply to this tweet with questions interviewers have asked prospective candidates. Good, bad, red flags, things you wish you had a better answer for, etc. I'm working on a Thing.
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I just got an email which claims "The metaverse will be the most complicated machine ever built." This is the part where the tech bros all nod and agree, and anyone who knows anything about, say, a Rolls-Royce Trent 900 turbofan laughs so hard that a little bit of wee comes out.
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When did @HarryHill move into tech?
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“Now does he feel his title Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe Upon a dwarfish thief..." Macbeth, Act V, Scene II
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Marvellous work by the folks @NHSDigital, who have got the vaccination booking site up and running again super quickly.
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