Zach Townsend

Start-up guy, Tech Architect, Entrepreneur, Dad, Mobile & Web Dev

[Zach Townsend @ZachThat]

@currys I've just bought a new dishwasher from Currys and it's missing most of the installation screws, brackets, tools. Webchat refuse to help or proccess a return.

[Zach Townsend @ZachThat]

@currys I've just bought a new dishwasher from Currys and it's missing most of the installation screws, brackets, tools. Webchat refuses to help.

[Zach Townsend @ZachThat]

Ever find yourself retyping details from paperwork or PDFs?

With extrapol8, you can simply snap a photo - invoices, delivery notes, receipts, certificates — and get clean, structured data in seconds. Ready for Excel, Google Sheets, or your system https://t.co/k5tt5axAN6

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My personal assistant always buys cakes for the office from a small, local, independent baker.

I like that we spend our money on the little people.

Anyway, a few weeks ago, I found out that this baker was having problems with a rival baker down the...

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So, I get an email. Subject line: "Urgent: Goat Situation".

Intrigued. Concerned. Mildly afraid.

I open it up, and it’s from a company I’ve never heard of, thanking me for “agreeing to consult on the goat problem”... https://t.co/G1A9sxNYs9

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Okay, so, this is going to sound… strange. But bear with me. I have a hamster. His name is Professor Nibbles, and he's… opinionated.

He has very strong feelings about the arrangement of his cage furniture. And, apparently, about the existential...

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When I train up a new software engineer, I have a number of important points I try to impress upon them the first day they start. Think of these as tips for newbie developers.

1. Use Sta...
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@MattWalshBlog I used Grok to write the email saying what I'd done. It wasn't correct, but??

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So there I was, standing in the middle of my local artisan coffee shop, holding two lattes, when I noticed a man staring at me. Not just a casual glance - proper eye contact. The kind that says, I know what you did.

Naturally, I did what any rational ...

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@JazRignall Sad to hear this. He was a legend in the C64 world and Dropzone was absolutely brilliant.

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My brief experience with an Artificially Intelligent chatbot https://t.co/aUPpxG7KkA

[Zach Townsend @ZachThat]

Playing with TensorFlow & mobilenet image recognition https://t.co/UkAzAiWdiK

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@daraobriain It's like a @HelloFreshUK box gone wrong. Better to give a voucher for food or cash rather than inept middle man, surely?

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@elonmusk planning UltraFresh fruit, veg and herbs delivered to your door 24/7 worldwide, basically the best food grown locally with low carbon footprint using hydroponics in every city and town - saves water, reduces emissions, good for the planet and we get fresher food - dm me

[Zach Townsend @ZachThat]

New mobile game Blockdrop https://t.co/xLUq2dN9Pb and https://t.co/pH8eKNTSzc

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@DentReality I'll match @Bertaroo 's offer. I can give you £3.50, half of the money for 1.5% equity.
Not to be diluted, ever.

[Zach Townsend @ZachThat]

@DentReality Or maybe good timing. Online can't deliver for weeks. Supermarkets are packed. Maybe the app could highlight when eggs are back in stock?

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@POferries Hmm, and half the toilets out of action again. You guys really don't give a #$%* about your customers, do you? If u have a problem keeping staff, maybe #1 be a better company to work 4. #2 don't constantly lie to your customers.
Both go hand in hand.

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@POferries Thanks for lying about the 22.05 Calais/dover not running even though we're here at 9pm. We're stuck waiting another 2hrs after the fiasco this am. #poferriesSUCK

[Zach Townsend @ZachThat]

@POferries Thanks for ruining our family day. Missed out on trip to boulogne sea park as ferry this am was so late. now spent half evening in car park wondering when next ferry will arrive while staff say the weather is to blame, which is obviously a lie. #poferriesSUCK are an embarrassment