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Engineering Manager @Spotify. Formerly @BBC_News_Labs, @BBCiPlayer, @NaSTAAlumni @Brandwatch, @UniofExeter. 🇩🇪/🇬🇧. Takes pics. AKA @niklasRde.

London, UK
Joined September 2009
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I had no idea that sourdough bread is literally just flour and water.
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Ah the German embassy just emailed me to say that there'll be – as an exception to the usual rules due to short timeframes – a special courier from the Embassy to Germany for any postal votes from the UK.
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I think the ballots will be sent (from Germany) from 10 Feb and they need to be at the embassy by 18 Feb which still feels very short. They also recommend "private creativity" to get our ballots to Germany and the relevant constituency office on time. If anybody has ideas, LMK!
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Massive kudos to @CommunityFibre 10:43: I receive my invoice but with an old/wrong contract amount 10:50: I submit a complaint about it online 10:55: I get an apology email, a contract confirmation about the correct amount and a free month service, and my router does a reconnect
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My 2p about @netflix and the live stream and having worked on @BBCiPlayer : We were very proud of having "Live" as a USP. When Amazon announced they wanted to get into live sports, we panicked and did a big project on how to keep an edge.
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The @BBC and the @BBCiPlayer provide an amazing service and I'm proud of all the work we did and maybe there's a bit of glee to see that "we are better". But that's with years' of experience! I have no doubt that Netflix, like Amazon Prime did, too, will learn. Will get better.
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I know the @BBCiPlayer product teams will not rest on their laurels. It's been great seeing @raymosley, @DanTaylorWatt and others reflect on their time at iPlayer about this and please head over to their LinkedIns for their stories about this. Sports Streaming is only growing!
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Bloody hell. The Diplomat. They know how to set up a cliffhanger.
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On the UK iPhone 16 Pro site: 20 mentions of the word "intelligence". On the Irish iPhone 16 Pro site: 2 mentions of the word "intelligence". #brexitbenefits
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I must say, most of the issues I had with the new Sonos app have gone away, particularly with volume of groups. I've had one speaker disappear from my system briefly earlier this week, but they've done an ok job getting the issues fixed.
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Would've been nicer if it hadn't been necessary. Looking forard to have proper Media Sessions API support so I can use my hardware keyboard buttons, maybe with some sort of background handler, too.
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“We are going to start off with an apology as we tend to these days” – Thanks, BA, for the honesty there. 2hr delay to be sat on the ramp now whoop.
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Replying to @f95
Auf geht’s!
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Watch on iPlayer: Behind the Scenes of the election. A lot of people to thank but especially to @bbclaurak @ChrisMasonBBC @AlexForsythBBC @CliveMyrieBBC and @EdThomasNews. And the iPlayer team - particularly David MacNicol, @joshrfalcon1, @jonnymcguigan. bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0…
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Binface really is the Die PARTEI of the UK isn't it
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