John Smith

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@KirstieMAllsopp @elonmusk, how would Starlink perform on trains?

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@p_ch Use WeasyPrint.

It’s a simple library. Great support for modern CSS and HTML (including fancy things like variable fonts)

It was a dream being able to ditch wkhtmltopdf and Playwright

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Don’t you see, farmer, making your business completely unviable is actually an opportunity

[Oliver @OWS1892]

Someone at GBNews fucked up. They booked someone that knows what they're talking about...

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Catch your on noi, ‘lizabeth!

[Ash Preston @TheAshPreston]

I've always wanted to put Jim McDonald from Coronation Street punching people to Motörhead.

Today I did. Enjoy your evening x

[𝙱𝚘𝚋𝚋𝚢’𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚎𝚕 @SalvadorDafti]

Neil Young, walking through the park one day, is stopped by a fan and asked how he plays Cinnamon Girl. Neil sits down, drops the tuning, shows him how, and strolls off to continue his day.

Coolness personified.

[Ewan Chamings @ewan_chamings]

@mac_puck @JustStop_Oil Glad this is getting more recognition.

Desmog covered the details too:

Revealed: Media Blitz Against Heat Pumps Funded by Gas Lobby Group

https://t.co/xbrO0Ersr2

[Catherine Clarke @CathAMClarke]

#Historians have long wondered why so many houses of the earlier twenty-first century have bricked-up windows. This was, of course, so no one could look in and see their #meat, thus avoiding the #MeatTax.

[Andy Fanton @YourPalFanton]

@LaurenLayfield @Phil_Gluvets @HackerTDog I wrote a reference into the Beano recently, drawn by the excellent @VictorianClam!

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@NoContextBrits https://t.co/1OL2dr3i6o

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@clownworld @SongFinderBot

[VeryBritishProblems @SoVeryBritish]

The late great Douglas Adams tells one of the all-time greatest stories

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@bgreysk Congratulations!

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@bgreysk Saw this one the other day and it made me chuckle, first 30s: https://t.co/QFL3IhMkw8

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@bgreysk It was a new company. We chose it for ease of hiring devs. I think if we were choosing now, we’d probably go with TypeScript.

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@bgreysk It’s very opinionated. Be prepared to read the word “idiomatic” a lot.

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@bgreysk 1.HTML
2.JavaScript
3.Visual Basic
4.PHP
5.AS3/AS1 (server-side)
6.C
7.Go
8.Python
9.Bash/Make
10.C#

Go was the most fun. Python makes bad code too easy. PHP remains my favourite (unpopular opinion)

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@pongowaring https://t.co/zzlFZRuSQJ

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Is “hackneyed cliché” a hackneyed cliché?

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@bgreysk The Navigator, D.A.R.Y.L

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Wow.