Sam Mesterton-Gibbons

Lover of all things clever and technical, former YSTV-er doing cloud media stuff at BBC R&D. He/Him. né Sam Nicholson (@samdnic)

[Sam Mesterton-Gibbons @samdbmg]

@AvantiWestCoast How we feeling about the snow forecast later today? (Nothing on your website yet) I'm planning to travel after the evening peak from Euston to Manchester: are those trains likely to run, or should I go earlier?

[Sam Mesterton-Gibbons @samdbmg]

@NaSTAAlumni @NaSTAuk Ignoring (almost) all the 2014 Bodge rules, and skipping most of the Saturday sessions to produce the award winning @ystv musical parody https://t.co/uacFkSUZKL. Sadly 2015's One Bodge More (also award winning) seems lost from the Internet. https://t.co/OnlyJS3A68

[Sam Mesterton-Gibbons @samdbmg]

@jayforeman @seatsixtyone In general being able to move around, change and feed the baby and wear him for naps when he wants makes it much easier than driving: highly recommend taking a baby carrier or sling too

[Sam Mesterton-Gibbons @samdbmg]

@jayforeman @seatsixtyone And our Eurostar experience has been fantastic: they've always taken one look at us with the stroller and waved us through the faster queue: less time waiting and the whole luggage x-ray experience is more chill

[Sam Mesterton-Gibbons @samdbmg]

@SwiftOnSecurity I happened across https://t.co/ktOYT3iR1a (@hashnode) which seems to fit that. Not got any further than signing up and a CNAME though! (Only found out about it yesterday!)

[Sam Mesterton-Gibbons @samdbmg]

Want to beat the Eurostar queue? Get the crazy early 05:59 out of St Pancras - it's just like trains pre COVID/Brexit!

[Sam Mesterton-Gibbons @samdbmg]

Ah, that well known "safe place": in the bin. Unfortunately that bin was then emptied, and @RoyalMailHelp can't tell me what it was or who it's from because they don't keep records and didn't fill in the card. Anyone sent me a package about a month ago and not heard back?

[Sam Mesterton-Gibbons @samdbmg]

@SwiftOnSecurity https://t.co/qsP5MGzM6X is a nice little kit if you're game for a bit of soldering - you can use ESPHome to plumb it into HomeAssistant too if you like: https://t.co/za6ZGdGcuc

[Sam Mesterton-Gibbons @samdbmg]

@fooflington Same, except for one @Vultr box in Amsterdam, for which it just keeps working. That's not how I thought @Cloudflare was supposed to work!

[Sam Mesterton-Gibbons @samdbmg]

@DunhamMasseyNT Those deer are very good at queing when they want their ice cream!

[Sam Mesterton-Gibbons @samdbmg]

@Alteralias Yay, I'm not the only one who specifically asked for a sticker 😂

[Sam Mesterton-Gibbons @samdbmg]

@RoyalMailHelp Kindly enlighten me how you've managed to deliver this behind a locked gate? I can only imagine someone climbed over and broke in, because I'm sure you wouldn't throw it over a 7ft gate with no idea what's on the other side?!

[Sam Mesterton-Gibbons @samdbmg]

@fourpurebrewing Wow, that was faster than I expected! Cheers for getting back to me, email sent!

[Sam Mesterton-Gibbons @samdbmg]

@fourpurebrewing I quite like a bit of Hemisphere, but I was a bit surprised the other day to have a can that smelled of milk that's gone off! (Tasted pretty rough too) Which gets me curious: what causes that to happen?

[Emily Calandrelli @TheSpaceGal]

Hey all! I hope you'll consider me for the #Inspiration4contest so that I might be able to take my science communication to orbit :)

To raise money for @StJude I'm offering personalized videos for kids here: https://t.co/Dva2BKzlRN I'll match all donations up to $5k.

Ad Astra🚀

[Sam Mesterton-Gibbons @samdbmg]

@stephen_collins At least there's that happy moment when you wake up, realise you passed those exams, are a successful adult and the one time you started work in bed with no pants on nobody knew about it because your "camera wasn't working"

[Sam Mesterton-Gibbons @samdbmg]

@Monzo Very impressed that you've replaced my card after a merchant data breach! Small suggestion: push a notification (and an email?) when that happens - finding mine frozen/an unsolicited new one in the post had me worried someone had control of my account!

[Sam Mesterton-Gibbons @samdbmg]

@Eurostar You advise your passengers travelling to the UK from the Netherlands to self-isolate (https://t.co/mFETWzO4jh) Is that not "advice on government policies"? I take it since that page says nothing about quarantine in the Netherlands, you believe it not to be required?

[Sam Mesterton-Gibbons @samdbmg]

@Eurostar Any idea if you have to quarantine on arriving in the Netherlands from the UK at the moment, since the direct train stops in at Brussels? https://t.co/SFVQNM8bLX talks about passing through other countries, but only gives examples for driving?