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MichaelP

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It is time to see sailing reinstated at the @Paralympic Games Here's why ⬇️ . Hit ❤️ and share if you agree! #BacktheBid #SailtoLA #paralympics #LA2028 @LA28
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RYA Levels 1 & 2 ✅
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Get to Inbox 0 with this one weird trick: start a new job!
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Just read @bellmar's "Kill it with Fire" - a tour de force on tackling the problems of legacy software, both technical and social. Particularly liked the pragmatism in weighing up different approaches and when they work best. Would strongly recommend!
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Managed to get all my icons back instead of little grey boxes! Maybe this will be the year of Linux on the Desktop after all...
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Somebody wasn't content with running Java in a virtual machine...
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Really good insights from @natjpearce on leadership this morning - plenty to think about! #nottstechfast
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Why did we even have that referendum, when Miliband clearly won here? Paper beats rock, after all.
Tides of History (@labour_history) profile pictureTides of History@labour_history23 Jan 2021
#OTD 2012. Cameron says the British people must "have their say" on Europe as he pledges an in/out referendum if he is re-elected Miliband opposes a referendum and says it is "going to put Britain through years of uncertainty, and take a huge gamble with our economy."
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This issue is obviously timely, but the whole series is thought provoking and worth subscribing to:
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A mug of tea, a slice of Christmas cake, and the latest episode of #TheExpanse #TheExpanse505
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Dropped a tiny 0603 capacitor on the floor. Surprisingly I found it. Amazingly it had turned into a completely different component. Even more amazingly, I realised before I soldered it down!
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It's as though he treats everything as a potential Seldon Crisis, but without the benefit of Hari's Plan
Jonathan Pritchard (@jr_pritchard) profile pictureJonathan Pritchard@jr_pritchard20 Dec 2020
This description of Johnson seems spot on (from The Guardian)
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Replying to @mariafarrell
@mariafarrell Just listened to your Singularity FM discussion, which was excellent. I really like how you centre the importance of stories, and hearing you discuss this and related topics over an extended period was really good!
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It made me think about how to create new origin stories, and I realised that some recent political campaigns have been successful not because they contain a new story, but because they refer back to cherry-picked parts of existing ones that we all know.
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I suppose that's basically how language works anyway (cue Star Trek Darmok reference), but I hadn't seen it quite in that light before. Thanks for triggering that thought process!
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That's a remarkable pivot to such a good product-market fit. Maybe.
@chimeracoder.bsky.social 🦦 🏳️‍🌈 (@chimeracoder) profile picture@chimeracoder.bsky.social 🦦 🏳️‍🌈@chimeracoder30 Nov 2020
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Friendly reminder: Myers-Briggs was developed by two white supremacist eugenicists, with the goal of "scientifically proving" the superiority of the white race. When it failed to do that, they remarketed it as a "personality indicator" for the corporate business circuit.
I love how my bank just happens to schedule maintenance over the GMT/BST switch-overs. I wonder if they still have a manual process that they've been meaning to automate, or it is just "an abundance of caution".
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Just finished @nayafia's new book "Working in Public". It's really good and the ideas she teases out suddenly made a bunch of things I've seen make more sense. If you are interested in OSS and wider issues, read it. Also, the physical book is lovely too.
Nadia Asparouhova (@nayafia) profile pictureNadia Asparouhova
@nayafia17 Jun 2020
Hi I wrote a book! It's called Working in Public, and it's the story of modern open source and its implications for online communities and the creator economy. Now available for pre-order on Amazon: amazon.com/dp/0578675862/
Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software

Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software

Open source software, in which developers publish code that anyone can use, has long served as a bellwether for other online behavior. In the late 1990s, it provided an optimistic model for public...

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Just finished reading issue 1. If you are looking for some pointers to interesting and thought-provoking articles and discussions, sign up!
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Looks like @heroku supports pushing to `main`! Not found in documentation, but a typo gave me the error: remote: Pushed to branch other than [main, master], skipping build. A couple of renames later and I'm happily deploying to main instead!
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Really interesting talk on go routines and races from @efragkiadaki - thank you! Great example to use too #gogetcommunity
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