David Green

Dad, .net & java developer and writer of occasional ranty blogs. Also

[Tim Bray @timbray]

Spinning up a Fediverse node? Read this first. All of it.

And thank you so much to the author.

[Bee Rowlatt @BeeRowlatt]

York to KX on @GC_Rail - no seats anywhere, floors and corridors completely blocked & one of my kids is in the luggage rack. This trip cost £182.94

[Jeremy Vine | Here, on Tiktok, Insta & Facebook @theJeremyVine]

Horton Grange Road, West Yorkshire. How does the driver fail to see him?
https://t.co/bVuxIYbnVW

[michael wave @michael___wave]

i don’t disagree but it’s interesting i think that by this point this isn’t a man dressed badly in a professional space, this is a man dressed in a particular business uniform that communicates certain values precisely the way a suit would in another context

[Ben Sprung 🇺🇦 @bgsprung]

mind blown by a YouTube comment of all things

[Samantha Ruddy @samlymatters]

Netflix making a TV show about blockbuster is straight up bullying. It’s like if a meteor directed Jurassic Park.

[Ehud Lamm إيهود 🟣 @ehud]

If you sign up for mastodon and put your mastodon handle in your Twitter bio, your followers can find you automatically using https://t.co/Bpca5MTShf

Try it. All the cool kids are doing it.

[GOTO @GOTOcon]

Pull requests. Invented to manage large open-source projects, currently wrongly seen as a way to conduct code reviews. Why is it the general advice to not do them?

🗣 Join @davefarley77 in his exploration of pull requests and their alternatives.

https://t.co/2EVgDbukK2

[SwiftOnSecurity @SwiftOnSecurity]

Starting off the workday without enough sleep

[Dan Grover @DanGrover]

Wow!

[Paul Andrews @PaulAndrews2043]

@oneunderscore__ Best. Ever.

[Count Binface @CountBinface]

#PMQs just isn't the same since they moved to this new format of rotating guest Prime Ministers every week.

[Uberto Barbini @ramtop.bsky.social @ramtop]

Why are we using Kafka? It just works!

[Gary Lineker @GaryLineker]

Boris pulling out. That might be a first.

[Rob Sansom🐟 @Sansom_Rob]

Following current trends, the next PM will be in office for approximately minus 200 days

[Emily Finch @DrEmilyFinch]

Ok folks. It’s time we talked about eels.

I’m a geologist but I recently learnt about eels and… wow.

Since then, I’ve been greeting strangers with ‘DO YOU KNOW ABOUT EELS?!’

Well, consider yourself a stranger in my path.

Strap in. It’s a 🧵

1/so many

[Prof Shafi Ahmed PhD FRCS @ShafiAhmed5]

Not all experiences are good in virtual reality. VR soccer.

[Count Binface @CountBinface]

Retweet if I’d be a better PM than Truss.

[John Harris @johnharris1969]

Latest from me: If you want to understand the tortured, weary public mood in the UK & where it might lead, let's talk about Brexit - the future that 17 million voters bought into six years ago has now collapsed into its precise opposite https://t.co/2hjsmi6uVp