Simon Cooper

Software engineer, Lib Dem activist, and musician. Have cello, will travel. Also at @[email protected]

[Simon Cooper @simonmcooper]

@OctopusEnergy I just switched from Bulb - a bit confused about all the tariffs. I currently have a decade-old generation FiT from PV - can I get an export tariff (outgoing or flux) on top of that? And if I change to an agile elec tariff (eg cosy) will my gas stay on flexible?

[Orkney Boreray 🇦🇽 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @OrkneyBoreray]

A really exciting announcement!
We have a cover image for the book being published by @chelseagreen in Sept 2023
I love it! Such a beautiful & thoughtful design by @hollydrawsinink that references so many diverse elements in the story
https://t.co/a5fLLVPbhs
Pre-orders open now!

[Simon Cooper @simonmcooper]

@StarshipRobots always gets stuck here. Any way to tell it to take a different route?

[Simon Cooper @simonmcooper]

Serious 'Trousers of Time' vibes here... https://t.co/0K2Pp3NGNq

[Simon Cooper @simonmcooper]

@greg_jenner Is there somewhere we can submit ideas for things we would like #youredeadtome to cover in future episodes?

[Simon Cooper @simonmcooper]

@virginmedia I hope you'll be publishing the RCA...

[Simon Cooper @simonmcooper]

@RevRichardColes ...is that a typo? 3780 hours? 157 days?

[Simon Cooper @simonmcooper]

Why are we so unbelievable shit at infrastructure projects now?

[Jonny Mood @jonnymood]

Our report today looks at what has been happening at HS2 Euston Station

A short thread of what we found 1/9

[Simon Cooper @simonmcooper]

@BBCNowShow To ask a political advisor whether a work gathering is a party or not.

[Simon Cooper @simonmcooper]

The alternative is to constantly go around worrying about it. I just don't have the energy or headspace for that. Is this wrong?

[Simon Cooper @simonmcooper]

Maybe people in the know about covid can tell me how correct I am - I don't really wear a mask for covid anymore, but I try and stay outside or well ventilated, wear a mask for busy public transport, and avoid big crowds. Covid is a background risk...

[Simon Cooper @simonmcooper]

Just as I could be hit by a car on my commute and end up paraplegic, get a (non covid) virus and end up with ME/CFS, or get bad lung damage from 35 years of air pollution, covid & long covid is a background risk I don't pay much heed to. It could happen, but it is unlikely.

[Simon Cooper @simonmcooper]

@UKPowerNetworks We keep getting weird sub-second power glitches/brownouts this evening, CB1 region. Is anything strange happening with the power grid tonight?

[Simon Cooper @simonmcooper]

@GergelyOrosz I once did a ground-up rewrite. Our initial estimate was '6 months +/- 6 months'. But the code was so unbelievably bad we could not do any more work with it at all.

We did it in 8 months. We were lucky, and I am under no false impressions I will get lucky next time.

[Simon Cooper @simonmcooper]

@OctopusEnergy Do you have an expected date by which everyone on Bulb will be transferred over to Octopus?

[Simon Cooper @simonmcooper]

@alphablocks @numberblocks @Colourblocks_ ... then the next one is musicblocks, surely? Tones, chords, accidentals, major/minor, keys, cadences... so much stuff there.

[Simon Cooper @simonmcooper]

@DrRobgalloway @SteveBarclay @RishiSunak What needs to happen right now?

[Sarah Millican @SarahMillican75]

Because #JoinIn is international, here is the info if you’re not in the UK and your Christmas Day has already started.