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Wednesday 23 June 2021

As an extra special addition to the welcome pack for the new starters I inducted on Monday we gave them a possible casual exposure to Covid 19. πŸŽ‰

Tuesday 22 June 2021

πŸ”– Publishing to Github Nuget Packages

This helped me work it all out considerably more than Github's doco

Monday 21 June 2021

https://blog.waleedkhan.name/git-undo/ seems to go against the spirit of git, which is to as widely as possible distribute the experience of being yelled at by Torvalds for doing c wrong.

Normal person: β€œIt’s solstice, the longest night of the year.”

Me, who has had outages to move production databases between data centres go three+ hours over allowed time, takes drag on durrie: β€œyeah.”

Saturday 19 June 2021

πŸ”– Fitting a FORTH in 512 bytes

Wednesday 16 June 2021

πŸ”– Documentation: How to do it

A Redditor sub-posts a drunken post by a senior engineer, answering the question of how to document

Tuesday 15 June 2021

πŸ”– Things I've Learned as a Senior Engineer

Engineer gets drunk and brain dumps on Reddit. A lot of it is actually very good

Monday 14 June 2021

The cynical translation of Alex Hawke’s press release is they are buying time until everyone gets relaxed and comfortable again and then they’ll quietly ship the family back offshore.

Cynical yes? Accurate? Probably.

Sunday 13 June 2021

πŸ”– An Agile Primer

πŸ”– Brewfile: A Gemfile but for Homebrew

πŸ”– The Architecture of Open Source Applications

πŸ”– Function Programming Course

πŸ”– Finger Farm

Modern finger hosting

πŸ”– Fantasy Consoles

Github repo of Fantasy Consoles

πŸ”– mattmikolay / chip-8

Github repo of Chip-8 resources

πŸ”– Building a Chip-8 Emulator in Go

A run-through of building a Chip-8 Emulator

πŸ”– Octo

Github repo for the Octo project, a web-based IDE and higher-level programming language for Chip-8

Saturday 12 June 2021

He’s great and all….

….but sometimes I listen to Nick Cave lyrics and wonder if the manatees in the Family Guy writer’s room found a sideline.

I now attract keys and cutlery.

Thursday 10 June 2021

I need to find someone new to back channel with anti-corporate shitposts and antarctically sardonic comments during FYIs

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