Kerry Buckley

Computering, running, cats and general incompetence.
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[Kerry Buckley @kerryb]

I’m over at https://t.co/m598rsW2Ni these days, in case anyone wondered.

[Kerry Buckley @kerryb]

Stay alert. Control the monarchy.

[Kerry Buckley @kerryb]

@JokesWithMark I realise your podcast isn’t “non-comedians send in their attempts at jokes”, but this came into my head while listening to an episode …

I thought I had a joke about an off-peak train, but I couldn’t get it to work.

[Kerry Buckley @kerryb]

It’s easy to underestimate the difference in magnitude between numbers in millions and billions, but this is like being fired from a £40k/year job, then learning that you’ll get up to a pound every year for your birthday.

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

I thought this was a parody account. It’s not! It’s the Governments trade minister proudly announcing its latest deal “could be worth up to £1 million over five years”

We’ve just heard Brexit is costing the Government £40bn a year in lost tax revenue! Heaven help us!

[Richard K Herring @Herring1967]

The championing of the NHS to win Brexit, by people who knew they were going to dismantle the NHS is fraud to the level of criminality. And I am sure those buses convinced (at least) 500,000 to vote Leave which is, as it turned out, all they needed. Sickening.

[Kerry Buckley @kerryb]

Weeknotes 2022-52 (and/or 2023-01): more running, more drinking, more car trouble and a brief dip in the sea.

https://t.co/h83He8tBYZ

[Kerry Buckley @kerryb]

@jobsworth @dgwbirch I guess there could be privacy issues if everyone had a single, trivially cross-referencable identifier for everything.

[Kerry Buckley @kerryb]

https://t.co/0S2on4SeUu

[Quite Interesting @qikipedia]

In the French Republican calendar, every day was named after something important to rural French life.

28 December was the day of manure.

[cats being weird little guys 👅 @weirdlilguys]

liquid mode activate

[Kerry Buckley @kerryb]

I know it’s a bit late now we’ve all mostly left for Mastodon, but just use a third party client (Tweetdeck etc). No algorithm; no promoted tweets; no trends; no ads.

[Kerry Buckley @kerryb]

You shouldn’t believe everything Pinocchio tells you, you know.

[Quite Interesting @qikipedia]

Men with larger noses also have larger penises.

[Kerry Buckley @kerryb]

Weeknotes 2022-50 – mostly running and drinking.

https://t.co/84gIVkp5hI

[Kerry Buckley @kerryb]

@jasongorman Or (assuming git) put it in .git/hooks.pre-commit (git will have created a sample file in that directory for you to start from).

[Kerry Buckley @kerryb]

Weeknotes 2022-49: running, drinking, Advent of Code, a viral reel and two badgers.

https://t.co/kF4GkR3HUZ

[Kerry Buckley @kerryb]

Seems an odd reason. Normally people strike over pay or conditions.

[BBC Breaking News @BBCBreaking]

UK Border Force staff to strike over Christmas at Heathrow, Gatwick and several other airports, PCS union says https://t.co/zt227kHl4x

[Kerry Buckley @kerryb]

Misleading, as it presumably includes lots of people like me who now primarily post on Mastodon, but follow people who are still here too.

[Quite Interesting @qikipedia]

98.4% of Twitter users who announced they were moving to Mastodon are still on Twitter.

[Kerry Buckley @kerryb]

@CheerfulPodcast @Ed_Miliband @GeoffLloyd @carysroberts @IPPR @TorstenBell @resfoundation I was slightly surprised by the way the desirability of never-ending economic growth seemed to be tacitly assumed in this discussion. What happened to the doughnut?

[Kerry Buckley @kerryb]

Weeknotes 2022-48: lazer [sic] tag, hipster Christmas dinner, cross country and a fox chasing the cats.

https://t.co/2qM56XHtsz

[Kerry Buckley @kerryb]

@pentacent_hq @elixirlang At first sight that looked surprising, but then I realised I match on struct names like “%Date{} = var” all the time, which is basically the same.

[Kerry Buckley @kerryb]

If whether I tell you is a boolean then it can’t be both true and false. Unless it’s one of those database booleans that can be null too.

[Darcy DeClute | Scrum | Python | GitHub | Java | X @scrumtuous]

Tell me you’re a developer without telling me you’re a developer?