Simon Archer 

@archy_bold
56 Followers
50 Following
216 Posts

Manchester-based web dev, founder of digital music delivery platform Watamusic.

I like boring things like football, music and social justice.

My Sitehttps://archybold.com
GitHubhttps://github.com/archy-bold
Mediumhttps://medium.com/@archy_bold
PronounsHe/him
Simon Archer Jul 28, 2023
Oh wow, my first ever tip on ko-fi for a script I wrote to transfer Wordle state aaaaages ago. ❤️ that really made my Friday! https://Ko-fi.com/home/coffeeshop?txid=beaefac2-600a-41f9-8bca-236b2e96718f&mode=public&img=ogsomeoneboughtme
Tom just bought Simon Archer a Coffee on Ko-fi! ❤️

Ko-fi lets you support creators you love with donations, memberships and shop sales!

Simon Archer May 6, 2023
I think about this moment in the run up to the 2019 election any time the royal family are in the spotlight and despair.
Corbyn: the monarchy “needs improvement”
Johnson: they’re “beyond reproach”
https://youtu.be/A1aorgM1VV8
Corbyn Says U.K. Monarchy Needs `Improvement'

YouTube
Show threadSimon Archer Apr 28, 2023

To be fair, Spotify gave lots of notice, just other priorities get in the way until that becomes an immediate priority!

Apple, however, can do one!

Simon Archer Apr 28, 2023
Wife is off away for the weekend, leaving me with the little one, and I’ve had an insane week with both Spotify and Apple making breaking changes requiring immediate action. I’ve literally just finished pushing and production testing as she’s preparing to walk out the door. Feel like I need a beer already!
Show threadSimon Archer Mar 31, 2023
HOWEVER, while I was waiting for my new features to deploy, I deployed a #MachineLearning natural language classification model I’d built earlier in the week using #google #vertexai. If you’ve got training data ready, it’s a surprisingly easy, if slow, process. And it only bloody (mostly) works!
Simon Archer Mar 31, 2023
Oof, the last couple of days has been fun, kid with probable chickenpox and trying to figure out how to get Apollo GraphQL's caching policies to handle nested pagination. Not sure which is worse.
Simon Archer Mar 16, 2023
In 2021 I vowed to stop taking my bike to the repair shop and learn to fix everything myself. Inspired by that I’ve been trying to get better at repairing electronics. Repaired a few switches, smaller appliances, replaced a laptop keyboard. But today I replaced a screen and stripped a digitiser from another laptop. Whoop!
Simon Archer Mar 9, 2023
arnicasMar 9, 2023
Guardian article on UK protest game Duke Smoochem https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/mar/08/game-dystopian-mirror-uk-dan-douglas-duke-smoochem?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other #games
‘Keir Starmer just ordered an alpaca airstrike!’ The game that holds up a dystopian mirror to the UK

Dan Douglas started Duke Smoochem as a Twitter joke. Now the project has spiralled into an epic portrait of a declining nation – with everyone from Matt Hancock to GB News in its satirical crosshairs

The Guardian
Show threadSimon Archer Mar 2, 2023
We may be cash-poor, but we’re ostrich!
Simon Archer Mar 2, 2023
We’re almost certainly living in a time of enforced changes to our plates due to rising costs, climate change, terrible Brexit trade deals that favour foreign farmers over our own. Once the lower classes dined on fresh lobster, next up it’s South African ostrich. Claim your Brexit dividend now!