Damian Cugley @pdc@octodon.social
Australian-born programmer living and working in Oxford, England. He/him
Started the morning with killer lumbago and which really hampered my having to pull a 5-mm glass shard out of my foot
The Kinsey Institute are exploring diversity in sexual and romantic attraction and behavior! If you are over 18, tell them about your experiences in their 20-minute survey here: https://iupsych.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9oWHpRnwe1vCKIB
I have bread for toast but my jam is mouldy and I forgot to get butter but I do have month-out-of-date margarine
Took bus into town today but the thaw was advanced enough I could probably have got away with cycling in after all.
Training a neural network to write Irish folk tunes https://highnoongmt.wordpress.com/2015/05/22/lisls-stis-recurrent-neural-networks-for-folk-music-generation/
Fortuitously booked today as holiday, which is nice because cycling in to work over snow and slush is not much fun, but is giving me all too much time to reflect on the poor insulation of my home
Back from hoop class feeling less broken than I was before which is nice 👍
"Welcome to Earth, Ambassador!"
"I've visited before," the alien said, "and learned your customs."
"Yes?"
"I will not bite my thumb again."
#MicroFiction #tootfic #smallstories
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It doesn't work on everything, not even all websites using Font Awesome (you wouldn't believe how many ways people find to implement the hamburger...) but it occasionally pops up in hilarious places
Let's start this week-end with a good pratice : BACKUP. Time for backup. Not enough backup. And of course, I can restore and I've tested to restore them. So let's time to backup.
Further advices in case your life isn't changed enough:
Show HN: Thanks – See which NPM dependencies are seeking donations
https://github.com/feross/thanks
(submitted by feross)
I could go shopping or I could decide it is OK to have pocky for pudding
My MT3 keycaps arrived so now my work keyboard looks super fancy.
https://flic.kr/p/Emx4mR
https://octodon.social/media/h6U7rY32f6qvFDkj7k4
Off to Oxford Geek Night 45 #ogn45
Now patiently awaiting the inevitable "is your child texting about plums in the refrigerator" tweet.
NULLSQL is the best database with the most amazing write times imaginable. Put all of your data into NULLSQL today!
cat data > /dev/null
IT'S JUST THAT EASY!!!
NULLSQL uses the latest in NULLSQL technology using a combination of WRITE ONCE, READ NEVER (WORN) and Singularity Indexing so reads are fast fast FAST!
TAKE PART IN THE NULLSQL REVOLUTION TODAY!
\o/ ActivityPub is now a W3C recommendation! congrats @cwebber, @erincandescent, @rhiaro, and a whole bunch of other cool people for getting the spec there!
(this message has been brought to you via ActivityPub :P)
Electronic data in my employer's accounts system. Electronic data in HMRC's databases. In between is me digging though last year's correspondence looking for my P60 😢
Susan Kare, graphic designer who created many familiar icons & fonts for Apple, NeXT, Microsoft, and IBM.
Her creations include most of the iconography and fonts which shipped with the original Macintosh, and many icons which persisted in Windows from version 3 until XP.
#SusanKare #iconic #womenintech #design #designers #graphicdesign #Macintosh #NeXT #Windows #vintagecomputers #vintagecomputing
