Ian Smith @ids Twitter profile

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Ian Smith

@ids

2 years

Well, this is new…

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2 years

babe ist alles okay du hast den kaffee aus der @ids tasse noch nichtmal angerührt

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Odd Twitter thing with some German speakers who think that @ids is an hilarious abbreviation for AIDS. Lots of spam that I can’t understand.

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Happy New Year everyone :)

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@ClutterGoth It’s just me.

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Do you remember when you joined Twitter? Good grief! #MyTwitterAnniversary

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9 years

Very fed up with the German language AIDS jokes filling my mentions feed. Working up to go on a major blocking spree again. Makes me tired.

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@JanHemme @republica I am thinking about writing about it. It’s an odd blend of funny, sweet, frustrating and annoying.

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9 years

Auch dies wird vorübergehen.

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So this Wordle contained a huge leap for me from just two letters in the wrong positions to the right answer. Turns out that I got lucky. A few lines of code and I found 14 other words that I could have chosen. Wordle 207 4/6 🟨⬛🟨⬛⬛ ⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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I have noticed that #Skyrim is having its tenth anniversary year. I wish it would come out on iOS so that I could play it again. I absolutely loved that game. Oh,and while I am wishing for the very unlikely, please can it be without any of that tackly mobile micropayment crap.

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I am attesting that this twitter handle @ids is linked to the Tezos account tz1asQ8b5uNc4KwGWGyd8JFdtuJ4yfEMfvqz for @tzprofiles sig:edsigtfve9KGC7ed9y8rqvS1zaRQPko2NGLqj4Cuwhzr3veP9fWR8W1XEHhqddUnJjmM53CiA15c7JVmy9rsPXSEpSyrJ8TaV3P

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Wordle 212 2/6* Ok, I have to share this one! #hardmode ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Now learning @Blender in order to look at creating content that I can use with the new Oculus Quest 2. In the spirit of starting somewhere, I now have a pink doughnut. Sorry Internet. Thanks, though, to @andrewpprice for the brilliant tutorial!

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Apple Photos has just shown me a video comprised of pictures that I’ve taken of food I’ve eaten over the years. Now I am hungry.

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@JanHemme @republica and you were doing so well!

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Playing Where’s Boris on @what3words

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3 years

Is this a spoof? It sounds like something that a comedy show panel would invent if they were given the picture and asked to make up an amusing fake movie concept to explain it.

NewOnNetflixUK -fan-

@NewOnNetflixUK

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Two (2021) 1hr 11m [15] (European Spanish) Two strangers awaken to discover their abdomens have been sewn together, and are further shocked when they learn who's behind their horrifying ordeal....

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3 years

Do you put your plastic waste in to recycle? Well, apparently the UK sends 90% of it overseas where it is often burned or dumped. Well done, us.

Greenpeace UK

@GreenpeaceUK

3 years

What’s the UK government’s plastic policy? Dump it on other countries! Less than 10% of our plastic recycling is actually recycled in the UK. The rest is sent overseas where it’s often burned or dumped, fuelling health and wildlife emergencies. RT to expose. #Wasteminster 1/5

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3 years

Not a Christmas Special.

WhatALotOfThings

@WhatALotOfThing

3 years

★ Just published a new episode of What A Lot Of Things: Episode Eight – The Metaverse and You Build It You Run It. Listen:

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@JanHemme @republica About what, exactly?

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@MartinSLewis “Your call is important to us, but not so important that we’d hire enough people to answer it.”

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Trying out Glass, which seems like a really nice platform for photographers who are tired of all the data mining and influencing on Instagram. I have a few queue jumping codes if anyone needs one.

Near Lower Lanshaw Dam on Ilkley Moor.

Ian Smith on Glass

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Very interesting start to the #uncertaintyexperts documentary with @SamConniff , Katherine Templar Lewis and team. Really looking forward to experiencing this as it develops.

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3 years

This is the best thing I’ve read about “web3”.

Moxie Marlinspike

@moxie

3 years

Wrote some notes summarizing my first impressions of web3:

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1 year

Is it just me, or does anyone else wonder why the current AI fuss isn’t driving UBI to the forefront of political policy discussions?

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3 years

Rage-cancelling @NOW TV subscription. I was already fed up with them because of the awful custom playback controls in their tv app. No scrubbing, no Siri “What did they say?”, no iPhone PIN entry. However, now I am suddenly getting ads. From a subscription service. Just no.

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2 years

This might be good on a a number of levels. For example, Removing AWS’s subsidy of Amazon retail might limit some of the damage they are doing to our local high streets.

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@timbray

2 years

11/11 Damn, I wish they’d spin out AWS. It would clarify so much.

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3 years

It would be so nice if we could just trust apps that have been produced for us by the NHS in the name of public health. There are enough fake trust issues in this area, can’t the government try and control themselves enough so that we can avoid creating real ones?

Alec Muffett

@AlecMuffett

3 years

HT @family_martyn

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3 years

Very excited to be back after a short break!

WhatALotOfThings

@WhatALotOfThing

3 years

★ Just published a new episode of What A Lot Of Things: Episode 6 - The Hard Thing About Hard Things and the State of DevOps Report, 2021. Listen:

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3 years

A brilliant walk with @ADanellsBewley this morning has set me up for the day. In other news, I don't have a two-hour recording of it to edit, so that's nice too although I am proud of our #NationalWalkingMonth episode :)

Mrs DB

@ADanellsBewley

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Great walk up to the moor this morning with my podcast buddy @ids & #officedog Arthur. Check out our recent @PodcastOfDays for #nationalwalkingmonth to hear us rambling on about rambling along

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Lovely new episode of What A Lot Of Things is now out for your delight and delectation, including the ultimate explanation from @northern_tester of the difference between the Semantic Web, Web 3.0 and #web3 . What A Lot Of Things: The podcast gift that just keeps on giving.

WhatALotOfThings

@WhatALotOfThing

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★ Just published a new episode of What A Lot Of Things: Episode Nine – The Great Post Office Scandal and Moxie Marlinspike's Web3 Article. Listen:

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3 years

Some ice.

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2 years

@medus4_cdc I’ve heard that if you’ve not “grown up” by the time you’re 50 you don’t have to.

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3 years

Two years later, and I am still being scuppered by @ulyssesapp not supporting tables in documents. It breaks both my heart and my brain to be forced into Google Docs for things, but sometimes I really *really* need to write something containing a table. Please, please fix this!

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Hi, @ulyssesapp , please add my vote for Markdown tables support. Paying subscriber, but having to abandon Ulysses as I simply can't live without the capability for my current project.

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2 years

I really like the idea of a pirate code for local government!

BeMorePirate

@BeMorePirate

2 years

Quickest pirate code ever created at #NotWestminster @jonjalex @AlexandraBarke1

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9 years

Dear blocked people. Please don’t be offended, it’s not personal. You don’t really want to talk to me, and I can’t understand German anyway.

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3 years

Really looking forward to this…

Ilkley Chat

@IlkleyChat

3 years

Something new for Ilkley is taking place on Saturday, the Ilkley Live Garden Music Festival.

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Ooh, it’s #NationalWalkingMonth and we’re BACK (and out for a walk)!

Days Podcast

@PodcastOfDays

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★ Just published a new episode of Days: National Walking Month. Listen:

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@elonmusk It sad how polarising it is. The choices seem to be complete disengagement or a war footing where it is not permissible to admit that the other side has any valid perspectives. People who broadly agree with each other about many things end up in positions of mutual hatred.

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3 years

I hope everyone’s enjoying today’s International Day of Yoga. Worryingly, I think that I might now be on record agreeing to… to do some yoga! Oh dear. Watch this space.

Days Podcast

@PodcastOfDays

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★ Just published a new episode of Days: International Day of Yoga. Listen:

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2 years

This really is quite extraordinary.

LBC

@LBC

2 years

'Stop it now, get up from your desks, walk away, no more.' In an extraordinary call this serving civil servant urges his colleagues who are facilitating Boris Johnson's 'lies' to quit. @mrjamesob

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This is the story of yet another national tragedy. Sewage sleuths: the men who revealed the slow, dirty death of Welsh and English rivers | Rivers | The Guardian

Sewage sleuths: the men who revealed the slow, dirty death of Welsh and English rivers

The long read: A tide of effluent, broken laws and ruthless cuts is devastating the nations’ waterways. An academic and a detective have dredged up the truth of how it was allowed to happen – but...

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3 years

+1 from me on that.

Climate Action Ilkley

@ClimateIlkley

3 years

Hello @_RobbieMoore climate pledges aren't climate policy. It's time to swap words for action. Let's back the #CEEbill and face the climate and nature emergency with legislation, not promises. #G7 #mindthegap via @tweet_your_mp

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2 years

Reading a lot of Tweets from our local MP campaigning for the local elections. He wants to break us away from Bradford council. It feels like a sort of crap version of the Brexit campaign. Why do we always want to break things up? I wish we wanted to build things.

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2 years

I signed up for this too. Charging costs will just be part of my electricity bills.

Duncan Anderson 🍃🔋⚡️🤖

@duncsand

2 years

I really like what @OctopusEnergy are doing, helping to build the new sustainable energy economy. I just signed up for their @_OctopusEJ - a single way to charge your EV across many different charge networks.

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This will be too late at night for me to attend, but a recording is promised in the thread below this tweet and I can’t wait to hear it.

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Ahem. It's Not Because of Brexit! | Spitting Image via @YouTube

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Is it me, or does this seem a tiny bit heavy handed?

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@Bev_Hilton Embarrassingly, I am still in bed :-)

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Wondering exactly how grateful my family members really are for the daily @CARROT_app citizen weather report videos that I am now providing on our family WhatsApp group. Well, I think they’re great anyway.

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2 years

Boris Johnson: Stop the privatisation of Channel 4 - Sign the Petition! via @UKChange It would be great if an electorally significant number of people signed this.

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2 years

Oh come on, @BBCSounds - please just let us listen as we want to without trying to herd us into your app. I know that the BBC is under threat, but isn’t it too soon to start behaving like some tech giant with VC investors breathing down their neck demanding more “engagement”?

Alec Muffett

@AlecMuffett

2 years

Wow: the BBC and @BBCSounds are going to start treating RSS feeds and third-party podcast channels as (what can only be described as) "second-class" content distribution methods. This is horrific.

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2 years

Well, this is a great pity. A narrow loss for Ros Brown, the Green candidate.

Bradford Council

@bradfordmdc

2 years

Ilkley Conservative - Gain #BradfordVotes #LocalElections2022 Latest results can be found here:

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3 years

I wish I had thought to make a time-lapse video of the tractor pushing snow around Tesco’s car park this morning.

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4 years

Happy book launch day to the @BeMorePirate crew, @AlexandraBarke1 and @SamConniff - can’t wait to read it!

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2 years

Wow. I’m sure Russian cash is not the only factor that influences this, but it’s a pretty compelling picture.

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3 years

I always look forward to getting together with @northern_tester to record one of these, or even just to go for a walk. I always find the resulting conversations to be interesting…

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4 years

I think it might be autumn, now.

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3 years

Should have listened to @northern_tester ...

WhatALotOfThings

@WhatALotOfThing

3 years

Cast your mind back before COVID to January 2020... it feels like a long time ago, right? That is the date when @ids confidently predicted Episode 6 of our podcast would arrive. So only 584 days late, then! You should have listened to @northern_tester , Ian.

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Fun fact, @northern_tester and I release episodes of @WhatALotOfThing on average every 111 days.

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9 years

@AnonHurensohnRU the ‘@‘ notation was not invented when I created this Twitter account.

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9 years

Listened to Du Hast by Rammstein this morning. It was faintly reminiscent of my Twitter feed at the moment.

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4 years

I've published an article on Medium about podcast editing. It's mostly not about the tools, but I obviously plug @wooji 's fantastic Ferrite Recording Studio. Skip my learning curve and give it a read. How To Edit Your Podcast:

How To Edit Your Podcast

Each podcast is different, but here’s what you’ll want to consider when you’re thinking about editing.

link.medium.com

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2 years

Much though I heartily wish that we were still in/rejoining the EU; if you agree with the desire of EU regulators to force large messenger apps to be interoperable, then you should read this.

Alec Muffett

@AlecMuffett

2 years

Messenger #Interoperability in the #DMA is drafted in the assumption that all messenger apps are essentially the same, having the same purpose, as analogue telephones did. That assumption is fundamentally incorrect in several ways: @EFF @OpenRightsGroup

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This is new too…

CSJ Dog Food

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2 years

Teams from the four nations will compete in sheepdog trials at the @greatyorkshow in Harrogate from 12-15th July. Organised by International Sheep Dog Society @IDS . #sheepdogtrial

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Last day. On my way to hand in my badge. End of a 23.5 year era. Short, compared to the Mesozoic Era, but it felt like a long time to me.

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1 year

UK people - nominate your favourite local indy shop!

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2 years

I’m interested to try this: Sign up for Post Prod!

Post News

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3 years

I love every song on this playlist. Just saying.

Practically Perfect Pieces by Ian Smith on Apple Music

Playlist · 19 Songs

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2 years

I wish this didn’t ring so true. Politically, I suppose, we are reaping what we have sowed.

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4 years

@jimfinnis @the_karenhardy Quite a bit - between Iain Duncan Smith, all the organisations with the acronym and the German rap people who are excited that @ids might spell AIDS.

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I’ve started using the amazing @marvis_music app to listen to my @AppleMusic playlists, not least because it supports @lastfm scrobbling. Shame that only takes PayPal, or I would buy that too.

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@ashleyljames I've noticed this also.

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Super.

Jerry Hicks

@JerryHicksUnite

2 years

New Zealand television is completely mystified by the amazing #Brexit trade deal @trussliz boasted about They can’t understand why she would want to make British farmers poorer & theirs richer Even the winning side can’t fathom it #Brexit #ToriesOut

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4 years

Many blog posts: “How to implement <features annoying to website visitors> using <expensive technology>.”

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3 years

I have a special dislike for apps that insist on auto-starting at boot time despite all efforts to prevent them. I’m looking at you @MicrosoftTeams . I’ve made so many attempts to stop this heinous app from elbowing its way to the front of my attention in this way. Please stop!

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3 years

@_RobbieMoore If you were to really believe, as XR do, that our way of life and even our existence is threatened by the climate emergency, then their actions make sense. Our leaders are not doing enough - as your constituent, I would love it if you would take another look at the CEE Bill?

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2 years

@MartinSLewis How many millions of lightning cables will be heading to landfill as a result of this. It’s just silly.

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2 years

It makes me sad that @Apple is doubling down on selling ads, first in the @AppStore and apparently in Maps too next year. What happened to “values don’t change” - it used to be a point of pride that their products didn’t have them.

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2 years

Curiously, participants in the “reinstate Trump” poll have voted to reinstate him by the same margin as our referendum had in favour of Brexit. At least the Trump decision will easily be reversible if it turns out to be a catastrophe.

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@_RobbieMoore I am genuinely surprised at all this campaigning against clean air and lower speeds in built up areas. Drivers breathe too, and they are also pedestrians. Surely everyone benefits from breathing in less carbon monoxide and fewer brake pad particles?

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@HughSykes @iainjwatson @BBCNews @channelfournews @cathynewman Don’t worry - it’s preferable to the armies of German people who think that the funniest thing in the world is that @ids looks a bit like AIDS.

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10 years

Not a fan of the news, so therefore surprised when Twitter shouts at me in the mistaken belief that I’m the UK Work and Pensions Secretary.

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4 years

@SoVeryBritish 2015 back.

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3 years

I had always wondered where they sampled that from…

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2 years

This is nuts. I mean, wonderful, but nuts!

Building A Virtual Machine inside ChatGPT

Unless you have been living under a rock, you have heard of this new ChatGPT assistant made by OpenAI. Did you know, that you can run a whole virtual machine inside of ChatGPT?

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4 years

Rainbow outside my window today. @ Ilkley

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2 years

I think that this is an excellent summary of why I feel so negative about the world right now.

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2 years

Asking this for a friend. @flexibits - my friend would love to get a warning when they schedule a Zoom meeting with no attendees. My friend has accidentally done this several times. Not me, obvs.

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7 years

@Grady_Booch Brexit, Trump, and now spaces. Democracy sucks!

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4 years

Podcasters, you might find this useful. I wrote an overview of how I use Notion to manage the production of @PodcastOfDays episodes, and keep on top of all of the details for each episode, even when working on more than one at once.

Using Notion to Manage Your Podcast

How to keep track of all the podcast things…

medium.com

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3 years

@NickyDanino So I’ve been a user of vim since it was called vi, but for coding projects I am now 100% VS Code.

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Writing my first automated test framework, using Python and pytest to test a GraphQL API built using AWS Amplify and Appsync. It's been... interesting. The tests are probably wrong - I mean what on earth do I know about testing? Still, feeling quite pleased with myself anyway.

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4 years

Dear @BloomsburyBooks , I just read an interview with Susanna Clarke where she mentioned three music playlists that she listened to while writing Piranesi, along with three of the most meaningful songs from them. Do you think that she could be persuaded to share the playlists?

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2 years

Hi @ulyssesapp - should I be able to use variables in a PDF export style to have numbered and nested headings? Something that would produce: 1. This would be an h2 1.1. This would be an h3 2. This would be a second h2 2.1 And a second h3 2.1.1. An h4 2.2 And a third h3...

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