Gareth Rogers

Wierd indie dad, software engineer, technical leader

[Gareth Rogers @gtrogers]

Big data is the practice of using N+1 tools to analyse N amount of data.

[Gareth Rogers @gtrogers]

@OVOEnergy I understand the current round of price increases are (largely) outside of your control but I think this line in your emails is both untrue and insensitive when so many people are struggling to pay for the same, or less, energy than in previous years.

[Gareth Rogers @gtrogers]

Pitch of the day: a Zoom meeting plugin that limits how many minutes of meetings you can schedule per week. Not only will it make meetings more productive it will act as a handy storage currency for when society inevitably collapses.

[Gareth Rogers @gtrogers]

Remember kids... when you gaze long into the abyss, if you gaze as it is being broadcast or gaze into or download the abyss on iPlayer then the law says you need to be covered by a TV licence.

[Gareth Rogers @gtrogers]

Someone needs to make a VR experience that emulates the one afternoon a year where you speculatively decide to wear sunglasses off season and it pays off leaving you feeling like the smartest person in the world...

[Gareth Rogers @gtrogers]

Done with the local takeaway options for a while so batching out sourdough pizza to freeze instead. Hipster life goals?

[Gareth Rogers @gtrogers]

Doing some spring cleaning on our github org, do I really need to go through and update team access for each repo or am I missing something? https://t.co/YYisi4tbQ7 applies.

[Kooth Digital Health @kooth_plc]

Today we're wishing our friends, colleagues and service users, a safe, warm and happy #Christmas. However you're celebrating this year, we hope you find some calm and comfort.

[Gareth Rogers @gtrogers]

Starting to get that 'sort-your-life-out-but-in-a-good-way' holiday feeling.

[Gareth Rogers @gtrogers]

@roryoung Thanks @roryoung I’ll take a look, been wanting to try out Rust for a while.

[Gareth Rogers @gtrogers]

I'm looking for a 'code-based' game engine or framework... Unity and Godot are both cool but I don't fancy learning a new IDE right now. I love love2d but craving some more language features than Lua provides. Any suggestions? #indiedev #gamedevelopment

[Gareth Rogers @gtrogers]

'Tis the season of using browser debug tools to see if delivery tracking websites have more information about your parcel than they let on through the frontend.

[Gareth Rogers @gtrogers]

@WtfDarky @DevMicrocosm No GUI or low-GUI would be nice. Most recently I've been playing with procedural generation for levels so design becomes more about tweaking parameters. In the past I've used bitmaps and text files to represent level layout - I mostly do 2d and tilebased stuff though!

[Gareth Rogers @gtrogers]

Got a 2FA alert on my phone I didn't initiate
Almost click accept by accident (green buttons are so tempting)
Change all passwords to be safe
Check the IP for the failed login attempt
It's my IP
... the hacker is in the building 🙀

[Gareth Rogers @gtrogers]

Has anyone tried appealing to the fish directly? Perhaps we could commission a fleet of subaquatic buses to paint lies on? /s

[Gareth Rogers @gtrogers]

@johnacowie We've used this a few times https://t.co/2fkdGM60G8. It goes a bit broader than values but I think most values sessions end up doing that anyway.

[Gareth Rogers @gtrogers]

I apologise for such a long bash script - I didn’t have time to write a short one.

[Gareth Rogers @gtrogers]

@roryoung In my grand vision it became the dining table... but you make a very good point!

[Gareth Rogers @gtrogers]

Random thought: if I came up with a line of non-fugly sit/stand desk risers would people buy them?

[Gareth Rogers @gtrogers]

@virginmedia your phone line just hung up on me after an hour and a half of mostly being on hold!