Mark Stott

Solutions Architect, Optimizely MVP at Netcel, Ceroc/Jive Dancer, DJ, Gamer & Roller Skater.

[Mark Stott @GeekInTheNorth]

@netflix taking away the ability to browse the entire backlog is a fundamental mistake. It strips away the ability to discover new and different content and makes it feel like you're presenting me the same dozen items on every line in different orders.

[Mark Stott @GeekInTheNorth]

@LEGO_Group I’ve gotten to Bag 19 of the Lego Star Trek Starship Enterprise and it looks like one of my L shaped bricks is a shapeshifter pretending to be a 4x2 flat black plate. Can you help me out here with my missing brick?

[Mark Stott @GeekInTheNorth]

@pcgamer AI is still too early to be fully embedded, too many security concerns and personal privacy concerns popping up with AI because it’s just not been hardened enough yet.

[Mark Stott @GeekInTheNorth]

First thoughts on @Apple iOS 26 … Do you remember @Windows Vista and its Aero interface of 2006? Yeah we didn’t love or miss that glass interface either.

[Mark Stott @GeekInTheNorth]

Hey @netflix, please add the ability to turn off games. I have consoles and a PC for gaming. You're just pushing the content out of the way that I do want to consume.

[Mark Stott @GeekInTheNorth]

@ODEONCinemas why are there no screenings for Penguin Lessons?

[Mark Stott @GeekInTheNorth]

Finally caught up on @TheTraitorsUK and it basically ended the way I predicted it. #TheSeer being publicly known took away any tension. #TraitorsUK #Traitors

[Mark Stott @GeekInTheNorth]

The @TheTraitorsUK finale feels obvious now. The Seer card in One Night Werewolf works because no one can confirm who the seer was or who they chose to see, and players can lie about being the seer. The Faithfuls have been handed victory on a plate. #Traitorsuk

[Mark Stott @GeekInTheNorth]

The @TheTraitorsUK finale feels obvious now. The Seer card in One Night Werewolf works because no one can confirm who the seer was or who they chose to see, and players can lie about being the seer. The Faithfuls have been handed victory on a plate. #Traitorsuk

[Mark Stott @GeekInTheNorth]

I've just finished #StarTrekProdigy Season Two and this has some of the best modern #StarTrek story telling. For me, it ranks alongside #StrangeNewWorlds and above #Picard and #Discovery. Yes it was designed as a kids show, but it treats the audience with respect and maturity.

[Zach Vorhies / Google Whistleblower @Perpetualmaniac]

Crowdstrike Analysis:

It was a NULL pointer from the memory unsafe C++ language.

Since I am a professional C++ programmer, let me decode this stack trace dump for you.

[Mark Stott @GeekInTheNorth]

@FF_XIV_EN @SquareEnix @SQUARE_ENIX_EU I thought I’d try out Final Fantasy XIV and couldn’t log in. The max length of the ID field on the login screen is shorter than my Square Enix Id … do you even validate your data validation???

[Mark Stott @GeekInTheNorth]

@LaylaCodesIt I would use Mediatr to follow the CQRS pattern and inject the DbContext into the handlers directly as they will already be following the SRP.

[Mark Stott @GeekInTheNorth]

@unclebobmartin Absolutely 100% agree. Half a career ago I was in a team where the business expectations exceeded what was reasonable. So many Sprints where I was running at 125% and an occasional sprint at 200%. I wish I had the strength back then to push back like I would do now.

[Mark Stott @GeekInTheNorth]

@MStrehovsky If you’re creating variables in the razor file, you’re probably mixing rendering and model building logic. Keep your model building logic in model builders. Let your razor file do very basic rendering with minimal logic.

[Mark Stott @GeekInTheNorth]

@dustinmoris JetBrains Rider is free for open source project development, not so good if you work primarily on closed source. https://t.co/Nh59oarSq5

[Mark Stott @GeekInTheNorth]

@KarenPayneMVP It has the potential to create a downward spiral in terms of code quality if it is not scrutinised given where it’s getting its sources from. E.g. each “good enough” entry added becoming reinforced as it’s also put back online into GitHub.

[Mark Stott @GeekInTheNorth]

@DevLeaderCa I use EF Core migrations and migrate on startup

[Mark Stott @GeekInTheNorth]

@xgigglypuff Not any time soon. These things use code that has been put online. Some of it is very old or incorrect. Potentially had code segments removed because of closed source concerns. I’ve not seen anything yet that I haven’t rewritten to be better, or found to be incorrect.

[Mark Stott @GeekInTheNorth]

@wrd83 All of the code that Chat GPT generated for me has either been out of date or rubbish.