Robert Elliot

A little worn in places and hard to read.
- TDD, DevOps, CD, Kotlin

[Robert Elliot @RobElliot266]

@dcsandbrook @DAaronovitch To (centre rightish) me the UK vs Britain thing has come out of nowhere from right leaning Twitter. I'm pretty sure people used them interchangeably and without any signalling involved for most of my life (say 1985-2025).

[Robert Elliot @RobElliot266]

@teaforpterosaur What about people who say "methinks"?

[Robert Elliot @RobElliot266]

@Ticketmaster @RFU Ugh, disabling the @LastPass chrome extension fixed it.

Don't know if that's an @LastPassHelp bug or an @Ticketmaster bug but one way or another it's pretty shit that one of the most popular password apps breaks the payment page on the largest ticketing site.

[Robert Elliot @RobElliot266]

@Ticketmaster @RFU I cannot enter my payment details to pay for tickets to the Red Roses game against New Zealand - the fields are disabled. Have done a hard refresh of my browser. Console shows payment.js:1 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading 'options')

[Robert Elliot @RobElliot266]

@dcsandbrook @MDalfort @bookclubpodhq The great thing to remember is that the Athelstan who, judging by his comments, positively loathes all your output is still paying £250 a year to listen to it

[Robert Elliot @RobElliot266]

@dcsandbrook @MDalfort @bookclubpodhq This is what I've always suspected, but I'm a little astonished at the idea of being in permanent essay crisis mode without vacs for 6 years with no end in sight.

At least you don't have to do exams periodically...

[Robert Elliot @RobElliot266]

@The_Real_Stien Pretty sure the S J Parris Giordano Bruno novels are heavily set in this period

[Robert Elliot @RobElliot266]

Seems relevant to the interests of @holland_tom , @dcsandbrook and @TheRestHistory

[Matthew Sproule @MatthewSproul13]

"On July 31, the Czech president Petr Pavel surprised his compatriotes by declaring "that he saw no problem with the Czech Republic becoming a parliamentary monarchy." 1/4 👇 #monarchy #monarchie #Habsbourg 👑🇨🇿

[Robert Elliot @RobElliot266]

@atotalposer Isn't "the french cabinet maker of Kandahar" also pretty popular?

[Robert Elliot @RobElliot266]

@teaforpterosaur And in response, '[Cave] said he recalled being “genuinely moved” by Flea’s words and thinking “what a classy guy Flea was”'.

People. Sometimes not so bad.

[Robert Elliot @RobElliot266]

@exhaustdata Because he's not actually seriously contemplating suicide; he's replaying an old argument against suicide because it mirrors the argument against killing Claudius, conscience turning action to inaction. A good actor should wryly acknowledge the irony of that sentence.

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

Fundamentally, this poll does not show what Patriotic Millionaires say it shows.

It just shows that people at all levels of wealth think people wealthier than them should pay more tax.

Who knew?

[Tom Chivers @TomChivers]

@whippletom https://t.co/mxrD77CHhR

[Robert Elliot @RobElliot266]

@kotlin You said nickname had type String not type String?, so it should always evaluate to nickname because nickname cannot be null.

It's really disturbing when the official Kotlin account posts questions like this and gets the answer wrong.

[Robert Elliot @RobElliot266]

Be quite interested in @TomChivers take on the advice currently being broadcast by @SkyCricket to lie to your GP if they are reluctant to give you a PSA test. Not much mention of Bayes' Theorem.

[Robert Elliot @RobElliot266]

@FrxgHat @holland_tom I haven’t heard @dcsandbrook say “it’s our podcast, we’ll do what we like” for a long time, but it seems appropriate here…

[Robert Elliot @RobElliot266]

@holland_tom Solid few day’s work that!

[Robert Elliot @RobElliot266]

@bbctms @finnysteve Monumentous is an excellent portmanteau

[Robert Elliot @RobElliot266]

@thetimes a modal preventing me reading on your app?! Do you want me to cancel?!

[Robert Elliot @RobElliot266]

Oh, and the eurostar iPhone app currently never gets past the loading screen. Good work kids. Good work.

[Robert Elliot @RobElliot266]

@Eurostar just cancelled our train to go on holiday. Didn't even warn us! I only found out when I logged in to do my API!

Train travel; I can live with expensive and slow, but unreliable is just utterly unforgivable.