Matt Raines

Web developer with an interest in online campaigning. Likes cooking and eating a little too much.

[Matt Raines @mattraines]

@timprater I find both these numbers worryingly high.

[Matt Raines @mattraines]

@GaryGabbles A llama once bit me on the elbow. Right after my daughter had said "careful, that llama might bite you" and I had said "don't be ridiculous". True story.

[Matt Raines @mattraines]

Thank goodness I can no longer be forced to eat Spanish watercress. Unless they call it something else. Or ignore us and keep calling it watercress. https://t.co/pUO0zLTzIk

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@CArmstrongLDN Could be. Luckily, unlike much of me, my arms have stayed a fairly constant size over the years, so I guess I don't need them.

[Matt Raines @mattraines]

Why do shirts for cufflinks all have two holes on the inner cuffs; one which is the right one, and another serving no identifiable purpose?

[Matt Raines @mattraines]

@jayrayner1 Thou shalt not fear cultural appropriation.

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@GaryGabbles Control-Alt-T-nowaitthisisachild'soperatingsystem

[Matt Raines @mattraines]

@AirtelVodafone What are your charges for using my phone while in the Isle of Man?

[Matt Raines @mattraines]

@BromptonHire can't get into the Kings Cross locker to fetch a bike. The keypad isn't working. Nor is your customer service phone number :(

[Kerry Buckley @kerryb]

News just in: databases to be “named and shamed” if they use foreign keys without trying to train local British keys first.

[Matt Raines @mattraines]

Used PHP's flock() function today. I feel like a proper old school hacker.

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.@BurgerBrethren is closed for a week from tomorrow. So @garymarkfuller and I are going back for a second burger tonight. #ldconf

[Matt Raines @mattraines]

Oh. My. God. Just fired every pleasure sensor I have. @BurgerBrethren #ldconf

[Matt Raines @mattraines]

If you're near Kemptown during #ldconf do try @DrakesRest. Set lunch is considerably more polished than the £20 (2 course) price suggests.

[Matt Raines @mattraines]

@benmarks PHP's low cost of entry and remarkable (for the time) online docs allowed me to set up business on my own. https://t.co/Ks3AA6NHIi

[Matt Raines @mattraines]

MySQL 5.7's constant moan as I insert clearly invalid data has made me realise how bad an idea 5.6's quietly letting me get away with it was

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Found a <noscript> tag in one of my older websites. Not to tell you to enable JS, but to MAKE THE SITE WORK WITHOUT IT. Those were the days.

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@thegundocklands Bibble!

[Matt Raines @mattraines]

@BabyBullaz I'm a nerd. I EXPECT things to be in alphabetical order.

[Matt Raines @mattraines]

Got my postal ballot paper. Took me genuinely 45 seconds to find the Liberal Democrats, listed under "C" for "Caroline".

[Matt Raines @mattraines]

Try loading https://t.co/9mNebPII3R with JavaScript disabled. Go on, I dare you.