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Mathew Robinson

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My non-programmer friends describe me as a "Whizbang Programmer".

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"The operation of venetian blinds should be done with caution." - My new lease 2017


When you're like "it'd be cool if this software I wrote had this feature" only to find out it already has that feature.

chasinglogic's tweet image. When you're like "it'd be cool if this software I wrote had this feature" only to find out it already has that feature.

Nix is simultaneously one of the coolest and most painful technologies I've ever had to learn. But this blog series does a good job of covering it so far: ianthehenry.com/posts/how-to-l…


Not without issues but Pokémon Scarlet was an absolute banger.


If you need a vertical monitor for programming your text files are probably too long. Consider refactoring.


I love finding old well written articles about software development that are still relevant today. Here’s a good one I just found: paulgraham.com/gh.html


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This is how you introduce a mini gun mechanic in your fps game. #prodeus


Rewatched Scott Pilgrim over the weekend. I still think it’s a bad movie with fun fight scenes. Not sure why it’s so highly regarded.


The #mtg arena ladder seems to have forgotten that mono white is still a good deck.


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Ed Balls


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RuPaul's LAD Race.


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Every Bank Ad.


I still can’t tell if NFTs are a joke or real.


Unpopular opinion: I find plain JS + React much easier to work with and understand than TS + React. Especially as a relative new comer to frontend.


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The sentience you’re experiencing right now is illusory. Your natural state is non existent blackness. You’ll still be dead when the sun explodes & forever after that. You think it matters that you farted in the elevator today? You’re irrelevant. No one loves you Eat Arby’s


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If you include Deadpool’s cocaine rider, this is the most expensive reaction video ever made.


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Word of the day is ‘bloviator’ (19th century): one who loves the sound of their own voice, who talks at length but ultimately says very little.


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As a... – user I want to... – jump through the hoops of a gate-keeping chatbot with a human-yet-quirky name like Ruby, who will confront me with a wall of links to unrelated FAQ pages, while asking for feedback on her incompetence so that... – support fields fewer calls

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– user
I want to...
– jump through the hoops of a gate-keeping chatbot with a human-yet-quirky name like Ruby, who will confront me with a wall of links to unrelated FAQ pages, while asking for feedback on her incompetence
so that...
– support fields fewer calls

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As a... – user I want to... – have paste disabled on a password field So that... – the form feels secure

ShitUserStory's tweet image. As a...
– user
I want to...
– have paste disabled on a password field
So that...
– the form feels secure

YAML engineer is my least favorite job.


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