Ian Bird

Father, Husband, Nerd and bakes too much bread. Engineer, previously @twitter, @plex. Also found @[email protected]

[Ian Bird @IanDBird]

@PolestarCars Any news / updates why delivery estimates for the Polestar 3 have now been pushed back to September? 😢

[Chris Banes @chrisbanes]

🚀 Excited to kick off my 'SwiftUI for Jetpack Compose devs' series!

🔄 Dive into the world of cross-platform development, with the first post on state management.

Check it out 🔗: https://t.co/DTFawUyWLi

#SwiftUI #JetpackCompose #MobileDev

[Ian Bird @IanDBird]

@chrisbanes My best one is super simple... I change the function of my lounge main light switch depending on the time of the day.

During daytime, it just turns on/off the main light at 100%. After 5pm, it comes on at 35% but the lamps in the room also come on (and off). Easy mood lighting

[Ian Bird @IanDBird]

@British_Airways And Qatar do *not* help with support requests for "BA Flights or BA bookings". Why sell tickets you can't support? What do I tell my family why we can't recover our holiday? I'm only asking for an email which says we didn't fly. Not a refund, nothing of value to BA. 😓

[Ian Bird @IanDBird]

@British_Airways I'm really struggling to get help with a simple request of a no fly letter...

My kid was hospitalised the morning of our flight, and we missed what was meant to be a very special holiday. I've filled out forms, called customer care, contacted complaints, but...

[Ian Bird @IanDBird]

@British_Airways But Qatar have stated they can't help me. I paid *you* so it's your responsibility. It's a BA booking, on a flight with a BA flight number, and BA took my money. It should be BA that help me resolve this issue

[Ian Bird @IanDBird]

@British_Airways Thanks, and I've tried, twice. Both times, I've been told "Contact Qatar" even though I've said Qatar won't help me (since it's a BA booking with a flight with a BA code). I even raised a complaint detailing all of this, and was told to use that same form (again). 😭

[Ian Bird @IanDBird]

@dennispilarinos You got this! 💪Keeping an eye out for when you decide to build an Edinburgh office 🤣

[Ian Bird @IanDBird]

nothing.

I booked via BA, it had a BA flight number, but was a Qatar flight. Qatar will not help, since I paid via BA. Every response from BA is "talk to Qatar".

Why is it impossible to get a simple no fly letter?!??! We're at risk of losing our holiday because of this!!!

[Ian Bird @IanDBird]

I've been fortunate enough to see a demo of what Unblocked has been building and it's truly amazing. Definitely a game changer 👏

[Dennis Pilarinos @dennispilarinos]

I’ve started a new company - Unblocked

We’re eliminating the countless hours developers spend in meetings, dealing with interruptions and searching for documents as they look for answers to questions about their codebase.

The details and motivation here: https://t.co/XZd07vhGCP

[Ian Bird @IanDBird]

Trying something new... Like the rest of the internet

[Ian Bird @IanDBird]

@chrisbanes Pretty sure TestFlight works well if you're distributing to small teams. We used to have a nightly alpha build go out to the dev team

[David @DaveBinM]

If anyone’s looking for a Test Engineer, please reach out. I'm a former Sr Test Engineer, with experience in regression testing, functional testing, UX testing, test plans, and stakeholder management.

[Ian Bird @IanDBird]

Incredibly sad to hear that a lot of my old friends and colleagues have been let go. These are some of the most talented individuals out there. Let me know if you're hiring and want any referrals.

https://t.co/UcTO5T1deO

[Ian Bird @IanDBird]

Ridley is an exceptionally gifted engineer. Any company would be lucky to employ her.

[Ridley @ Moved Away @11rcombs]

(crawling back to the hellsite)

welp, if anybody's looking for a staff SWE with expertise in media handling, ffmpeg, C, C++, x86, ARM, reverse engineering, libc customization, network APIs, TLS, and plenty more… hit me up

[Ian Bird @IanDBird]

@mabouza I recognise many of those faces 👋 Hope you're having a blast (that moustache is awesome @blundell_apps , don't let anyone tell you otherwise!)

[Ian Bird @IanDBird]

I asked my kid today if there's anything I could be doing to be a better father... He said I could cook more pizza. Sounds like I've been slipping recently. 🍕

[Ian Bird @IanDBird]

@iateyourmic Congrats Adam 👏🎉

[Ian Bird @IanDBird]

@blundell_apps @ottomate @myenergiuk @OctopusEnergy Yeah, so Octopus Outgoing Fixed would get you 15p / kWh. I guess since it's not currently compatible with an EV tariff, you have to work out which is more important. Buying cheap electricity or getting the best price for your excess.

Probably buying cheaper given I'm in Scotland

[Ian Bird @IanDBird]

@blundell_apps @ottomate @myenergiuk @OctopusEnergy An EV tariff? I was hoping to switch but also read about Outgoing Octopus which states:

>Currently, you can't be on both Outgoing Octopus and any EV tariff at the same time.