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Software engineer, reformed type junkie, side-project magpie, reluctantly ai-pilled, part-time trad coder. Husband to the amazing @Dr_H_Fermor. Father.

Leeds, England
Joined July 2015
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Frontline London Hackathon registration is open. and it's almost at capacity. Excited to meet existing friends and make new ones. Comment with what you'll build, for a priority application review 😃 luma.com/mgwpj5jn Westmister, London, UK 15th August 2026, 9AM to 9PM
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After being acquired, a good part of Hopin and StreamYard staff are being let go. Here’s a list of 40+ software engineers (senior, staff), engineering managers, product managers, product designers and other tech professionals open to work and ready to be contacted (cont’d)
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Simon Peyton Jones’ work to deliver outstanding computing education is recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours ahead of the Platinum Jubilee celebrations. 👏🎊 Read more: computingatschool.org.uk/new… #PlatinumJubilee #Congratulations #OBE
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Today I learned you're not supposed to delete expired subkeys from your GPG keyring. RIP my "verified" commit history.
$ curl thornbridgebrewery.co.uk/elu… > pint.glass $ drink pint.glass Permission denied $ sudo drink pint.glass Yum!
Better believe it! Superuser is going to be phenomenal @ElusiveBrew
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I’m so sorry for this awful attempt at a joke, but I love the name and this came to mind. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudo
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I always enjoy Adrian’s talks. It is sure to be full of poignant yet practical tidbits.
I'm streaming a tour of a #serverless Slackbot build tomorrow. I'll be touching on single table #dynamodb design, AWS #cdk, API Gateway, Lamdba, and TypeScript. Sign up here: tech.infinityworks.com/ldf21…
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I'm streaming a tour of a #serverless Slackbot build tomorrow. I'll be touching on single table #dynamodb design, AWS #cdk, API Gateway, Lamdba, and TypeScript. Sign up here: tech.infinityworks.com/ldf21…
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Celebrating the wonderful @Dr_H_Fermor‘s birthday at our favourite local restaurant @cultoitalian
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Sadly I’ve recently noticed that “pragmatic” has become a similar weasel word. Much harder to argue against pragmatism. Even though it usually means “cutting corners with absolutely no intention of paying down the technical debt after the feature is delivered.”
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Skulls are smiling friends who live in your head. We all have one, too. You're never alone with your grinning bone friend.
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I’ve been so happy since you reopened!
Sun shining ✅ Doors open ✅ Beer flowing ✅ Open til midnight 🌞🍺
Great brewery and taproom. A hidden gem. Still waiting on news of their canning line!
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This will be a great guided journey into learning JavaScript from some great engineers, and it's completely free!
Expanding on our recent sessions of building a twitter clone; in our next session we will be adding some JavaScript! If you are interested in learning #javascript then this event is not one to miss! eventbrite.co.uk/e/introduct…
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Objection! A Language Lawyer Story 🔊 for my awful voice acting
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Some sports are slower. More about the strategy.
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Git tip I wish I'd discovered ten years ago: if you `git config --global diff.noprefix true` it removes the silly `a/` and `b/` prefixes so that when you double-click select one to copy, you get a usable filename instead of a mangled path.
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Verifying myself: I am djrollins on Keybase.io. XRSP9SXHkRvrjLFMtx2uI0qu4zRNDBeiIeq5 / keybase.io/djrollins/sigs/XR…
therapist: and what do we do when we don't like the syntax? me: monkey patch the grammar with a babel plugin therapist: no
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