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Dan Jacka

@danjacka

Englishman in New Zealand. Still believes that computers should do the dumb stuff.

 Wellington, New Zealand
treebrolly.com
Joined December 2010
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I made a game. Accounting with Emma is a keyboard-controlled #tic80 game for learning the basics of accounting. Play in your browser at @itchio: danjacka.itch.io/accounting-…
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A little something we've been working on for the past 2 years in complete secrecy. youtu.be/sahskKAxSCY
Return to Monkey Island | Coming 2022

Return to Monkey Island | Coming 2022

Wishlist Steam: http://devolver.link/RTMISteamWishlist eShop: http...

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Replying to @scannell_aidan
@scannell_aidan I'm making an org mode CV and found your blog post very useful, thanks! But with a fresh git clone of your repo, to get headings to render in your CV I had to remove the star from cvsection*(line 41). Is that a sign my org config is wrong? raw.githubusercontent.com/ai…
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In other words, I had to change my line 41 to ("\\cvsection{%s}" . "\\cvsection{%s}")
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@scannell_aidan Ah hah! It's because I had set org-export-with-section-numbers to nil in my config. Removed that, and now everything's working. 😅
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@tic_computer Thanks for the retweet!❤️
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Here's the story behind the #tic80 game I published last week: treebrolly.com/projects/awe/
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Beth@bethcodes16 Jun 2021
I was taking with someone today that had an incident caused by a 5 year old quick fix that never got slow-fixed. And it led to me telling the story of the speech I give to my product managers when I agree to make brittle-but-fast fixes: “this is a privilege, not a right.”
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Replying to @TathamOddie
@TathamOddie I've updated the Web Forms MVP docs: github.com/webformsmvp/webfo… Would you consider giving me push access to the wiki? I've got a diagram to add and can't do so through the github web UI. I intend docs changes only, not code. Same username as here. Thanks!
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@TathamOddie Figured I can get by through uploading the image to githubusercontent.com.
The extraordinary power of a computer in 1962

"Speed of calculation of these machines is really quite prodigious"

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2021: The year of Linux on the Mars-top spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/…
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The railroads of the world - and only the railroads. #dataviz Source: reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful…
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Discussing Skateboarding w/ Filmmaker Werner Herzog: tinyurl.com/y5veekjt
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📢 NOTABLE IS NOW LIVE 📢 Episode 1: The truth about Bickershaw Festival when Jeremy Beadle brought the Grateful Dead to Wigan PLUS the incredible tale of Leo Theremin - Russian spy, musician and inventor is AVAILABLE NOW @Spotify @iTunes @acast & wherever you get your podcasts.
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Dan Rose
@DanRose9998 Jan 2021
I was at Amzn in 2000 when the internet bubble popped. Capital markets dried up & we were burning $1B/yr. Our biggest expense was datacenter -> expensive Sun servers. We spent a year ripping out Sun & replacing with HP/Linux, which formed the foundation for AWS. The backstory:
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If you missed this last night...treat yourself to it today on ⁦@BBCSounds⁩
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I accidentally wrote a short novel after starting a bug report: "How to open a file in Emacs" murilopereira.com/how-to-ope…
How to open a file in Emacs

How to open a file in Emacs

A short story about Lisp, technology, and human progress.

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Alan Kay answers the question: What did Alan Kay mean by, "Lisp is the greatest single programming language ever designed"? quora.com/What-did-Alan-Kay-…
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I'm pleased to announce that I have released the #Emacs 27 edition of Mastering Emacs. And in the spirit of Black Friday, the book is 27% off this weekend only. masteringemacs.org/book
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Love this clip. Dad was told to distract Buddy while they waited for Sammy to arrive and this happened. It was live television and completely improvised.
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Hey Wellington twitter! If you see a white Subaru Impreza, rego HAT890 could you let me know! Stolen from Wadestown sometime between 5.30 Friday 11th - Midday Saturday 12th September
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Dan Jacka@danjacka7 Apr 2017
7yo: Where do babies come from? Me: <accurate though vague explanation> 5yo: No! The moon puts its bum next to a star!
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