Andrew Merrell

Architecture & Engineering 💼 at Peacock TV 🦚 & NOW. Not your typical geek 🤓. Love a superhero movie 📽️. Can always be heard laughing 😆. Let’s go Dodgers.

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Peacock NFL Exclusive stream for Kansas Chiefs v Miami Dolphins complete, bed time!

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I used to like the simplicity of InfluxDB on v1, versions since have increased complexity.

Any suggested alternatives? I’m not running large HA cluster, simple IoT home metrics.

The HTTP write protocol was super convenient to get running, looking for similar.

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@antony @andrewjclare iPhone XS, 5 years old. 76%

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@steventey @nextjs You can add https://t.co/SEectkeE9C, help site ✅, checkout ⏳and account ⏳ landing later this year.

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@kitsonk @antony Not on the same vein as Notion and Obsidian, but on a self hosting kick at the moment, for simple notes (brain dumps) I like https://t.co/g4PRPImroQ

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@Jake_Daniels11 well done, can’t have been easy, it’s brilliant from this day forward you can bring your entire self to everything you do, personally and professionally, and I hope you give courage to others!

[Sky Sports News @SkySportsNews]

Blackpool’s Jake Daniels talks about being the UK's first male professional footballer to come out publicly as gay since Justin Fashanu

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Hearstopper is a heart warming show, I hope it supports a younger generation to be their whole self - be kind

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Back at Heathrow for the 3rd day in a row, this time it’s for personal travel, excited to return to Sweden, last time I was there this virus named Covid was just hitting the news!

[British LGBT Awards @BritLGBTAwards]

Jon Holmes is a Sky Sports Editor, and now also a ⚡ @JustEatUK Outstanding Contribution to LGBT+ Life ⚡ nominee!

Congrats Jon 💕

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It’s dark, and 3 am, why are the birds outside my window tweeting!

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Home for Christmas and Dad fixed the heating, it’s gone from not working to roasting hot, 28c inside 🥵

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@jonboy79 @Cougarmania @MrRypod @JTSportsMedia1 That kit is on point, super pride 🏳️‍🌈

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Keep moving forward, soon it will be summer, we’ll be vaccinated and this will all be behind us. I’m really looking forward to seeing everyone again!

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@TeamMCS Most of it was moved years back, we had some journeys for partnerships we never rebuilt, but those are gone now!

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Marking the end of the original NOW TV website, nearly 9 years on user-web received its last request to origin today. It served us well, moving from groovy, grails and angular to static and SSR react apps supported by micro services.

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@antony @simonecasc @doodlemoonch @ck1125

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@antony Haha, if you want all the syntax sugar gone you could write it in coffee script 😂 and I’m sure someone’s created some decorators too

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@antony jestjs has the closest with describe and test(it) tables, that I’ve seen https://t.co/ZCUOD2YW2a not quite as clean as Groovy!

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One thing I love about Snow in London is the stillness and quiet it brings to a busy city