Ashley Ward

Principal Developer at @transformUK

[Ashley Ward @ashward123]

@Gamingtronium This is so stupid I hope it’s a joke. Probably just engagement farming though.

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@codepo8 Whats worse than the fact that people are using these passwords is that a company with 2.5TB of user data (so probably a large company) is clearly still storing unhashed, or at least unsalted, passwords.

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@MajellaODea @ciaranmartinoxf @MacGillSchool I feel that security risk assessments do have a tendency to focus on the bad actor risks (and sometimes just box-ticking security theatre) and ignore the real risk of introducing complex, closed software into incredibly trusted positions, often integrated deeply into the OS.

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@Jago20122 @jessphillips Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth. I reckon that looks pretty decent!

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@VaughnVernon @functionaltypes I like TS, but you have to be aware that it's just JS under the covers and there's no runtime type safety. I've seen devs think that type assertions are type casts and come a cropper (and the number of tutorials that describe them as the latter too is quite worrying).

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@c_stonebridge @NHSBT I’m more than happy with either, but given the choice between either (as I did yesterday) I always go for the orange ones!!!

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After a lengthy absence, @NHSBT have got Club biscuits back in the after-donation refreshments. This might be the greatest thing that’s happened in recent times!

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@bikechick1969 @NHSBT Ah yes, but these ones were special because I’d earned them (quite literally with my blood!)

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@ciaranmartinoxf I appreciate the use of the BASIC not-equal-to operator too!

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Attempting to pay for some parking with @RingGo_parking but their entire service is completely fudged! I feel for their tech staff who are probably having a very bad day...

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@JonnyHorsepower @CountBinface I'm glad they translated 'Croissant' otherwise I wouldn't have known what it was.

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@VaughnVernon One important lesson in JavaScript: if you’re doing anything that matters, use TypeScript.

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@Zolo1981 @NASAVoyager @erikotn What is MS-DOS? 😉

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@sharonodea I suppose I’m thinking that they have an agenda to get more people commuting to improve their readership?

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@daraobriain Is it wrong that my first thought was that it’s an awfully rude email because my brain automatically filled in the blanks with a swear?

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@QuinnyPig Not sure I see the problem for production workloads. Is this not roughly equivalent to the cost of a 2 node 1GB ElastiCache cluster?

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Somethings it’s really badly implemented (on purpose?) and it just redirects you straight back to the article, which is particularly annoying!

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I’ve noticed quite a few sites do some kind of ‘back-jacking’ technique where if you follow a link to an article and then click the back button it takes you to the site’s homepage rather then your original page. I can see why they do it, but it feels like bad web-etiquette to me.

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@rem We’ve got one of the kids thermal printer cameras - the ‘photo creator instant camera’. On the face of it you’d think it would be a bit naff, but it’s actually great fun and costs almost nothing to run.