Timothy Brown

Yarr, I be programmin' the four seas: C, C++, C#, and SQL. And Java.

Opinions do not represent my employer's, etc

[Timothy Brown @mrtimuk]

Remember thou thy bike lights tomorrow for early cometh the dark night

[Timothy Brown @mrtimuk]

Crew - alarm clocks to manual and cross-check please

[Timothy Brown @mrtimuk]

@Scott_Helme @bertieuk @bulbuk @OctopusEnergy We had gas meter issues; strange thing was readings *did* get as far as DCC. You can check your data in the Bright app with a free acct from Glowmarkt.

[Timothy Brown @mrtimuk]

8 bank hols
Winter: 3
Spring: 4
Summer: 1 !
Autumn: 0

[Dr Iain Staffell @iain_staffell]

Where did Britain get its electricity from in 2023?

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
🔥🔥🌬️🌬️🌬️🌬️🌬️🌬️🌬️🌬️
🌬️🌬️🌬️🌬️🌬️🌬️🌬️🌬️🌬️🌬️
🌬️🌬️🌬️🌬️🌬️��️🌬️🌬️🌬️🌬️
🌬️☢️☢️☢️☢️☢️☢️☢️☢️☢️
☢️☢️☢️☢️☢️☢️🌲🌲🌲🌲
🌲🌲🌞🌞🌞🌞🌊⚫️🇫🇷🇫🇷
🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇱🇳🇱🇧🇪

Let's break that down:

Generation:
🔥 Gas: 32%
🌬️ Wind: 29%
☢️ Nuclear: 15%
🌲 Biomass: 6%
🌞 Solar: 4%
🌊 Hydro: 1%
⚫️Coal: 1% ← yes, coal was the smallest source!

Imports:
🇫🇷 France: 6%
🇳🇴 Norway: 3%
🇳🇱 Netherlands: 2%
🇧🇪 Belgium: 1%
🇮🇪 Ireland: 0% ← GB was a net exporter to ROI and NI

Explore the data for yourself at Drax Electric Insights: https://t.co/IIyCgqk0Us

[Timothy Brown @mrtimuk]

Me: <kicks off deploy>
<goes to lunch>
<gets back>
CLI: Are you sure?

[Timothy Brown @mrtimuk]

Remember when we got catalogues through the door that had a paper form to write your credit card number on and post back? 🙃

[Timothy Brown @mrtimuk]

When you copy-paste from Google

[Timothy Brown @mrtimuk]

Just saw a link to multimap! 😮 Who remembers that?

[Timothy Brown @mrtimuk]

Put the error message in a tooltip -> your users can't copy it 🤦‍♂️

[Timothy Brown @mrtimuk]

BA, BBC and Boots.. Should companies beginning with 'C' start to worry?

[Timothy Brown @mrtimuk]

Whyyy is the year after the time?
"Tue Nov 16 17:10:48 2021 +0000"

[Li Chen @Exocomics]

the daily tradition

[Timothy Brown @mrtimuk]

LinkedIn: "Last week at <your_employer>..."
Me: I know - I was there!

[Timothy Brown @mrtimuk]

Has anyone invented contactless pay-at-the-pump yet?

[Timothy Brown @mrtimuk]

Just used a website that has a marquee tag to warn that IE is not supported 🤦🏻‍♂️

[Timothy Brown @mrtimuk]

@ejcx_ Are passwords not salted to stop this?

[Timothy Brown @mrtimuk]

Odd that Firefox has a File menu, it has very little to do with files. Want a new window? Don't look in the Window menu.

[Hugo Tagholm @HugoSAS]

Keeping fossil fuels underground is the best ever carbon capture & storage system. We’ll never design better.

[Timothy Brown @mrtimuk]

@TheEngineerUK Good idea to use a nice, small plane 😂