Dave Hounslow

@Thinkfoo
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I have two fediverse accounts this one where mostly I'll bore you with my thoughts on woke liberal lefty politics

if you'd rather be bored with my musings on software development follow me at @thinkfoo @sw-development-is.social

of course if you are a sucker for punishment you can always files both accounts!

semi-retired

he/him

all opinions my own etc.

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Software Engineering#tdd #continuousdelivery #softwareDevelopment #softwareEngineering #agile
Politics#politics #brexit #libdems #ukpolitics
Activities#caving #skiing #hillwalking
Dave HounslowOct 7, 2023
Anyone got a blue sky invite going spare?
Show threadDave HounslowOct 7, 2023
@chrisoldwood got any invites going spare?
Dave HounslowOct 4, 2023

Nothing says long term decisions like overriding a long term decision made by cross party consensus for perceived short term political gain at a party conference

#ShortTermDecisionsForAShiiterFuture

Show threadDave HounslowAug 19, 2023
@rhys reflects rose tinted retrospective views on Corbyn there I suspect.
Dave HounslowJul 29, 2023
Show threadErin KissaneJul 28, 2023

The tl;dr (because TL! it's TL) is that, for this group:

- people feel stressed and anxious when they get yelled at for breaking rules and norms they didn't know about

- it's hard to find people and conversations, and specifically hard to follow people across instances

- people want better organic and algorithmic ways to connect with each other

- instance-picking stresses people out, and a lot of the sign-up and settling-in processes are confusing and/or too much work for unknown returns

Dave HounslowJul 18, 2023
The choice at the next UK general election increasingly seems to be between a Tory party you know is lying to you and a Labour party you hope is lying to you.
Dave HounslowJul 7, 2023
Political Cartoon GalleryJul 6, 2023
Ben Jennings on the UK’s out of touch prime minister #RishiSunak - political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com
Dave HounslowJul 6, 2023
Kim Crayton ~ Her/SheJul 5, 2023

OMG THIS

My ability to get folx, who’d normally dismiss me as just another “angry Black woman”, to start paying attention to the harm they’re inflicted at scale is 100% the result of how this platform used to work

I’ve been on others for years and they don’t come close

Dave HounslowJul 6, 2023
Ok think I've done threads. Same handle as here, but first impressions are maybe I'll look back in a few months. Pretty basic. No where near as advanced as Mastodon at the moment. No lists, no separate timelines, just the global feed and some kind of algo to show followed accounts with higher priority. Not very impressed tbh.
#threads
Show threadDave HounslowJul 4, 2023

@jon @ottocrat yep, threads is going to be the winner, visible from space. Too much ethics around preventing viral threads etc here is what makes it ultimately inadequate as an alternative for people who found pre musk Twitter suited them.

Update: but it's really not very good, so maybe I was too hasty....