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programmer for @bccrypto ; pewsey on #ejb; dad of @george__eaves and Otto. husband of @JoMcElhinney2. contains lethal doses of hyperbole. he/him.

Just a quick reminder that absolutely NONE of your problems in life are because trans people exist.

Get a life, grow up and mind your own effing business. 🏳️‍⚧️

#stoptransphobia #Transgender #translivesmatter

big if true
"AI" is a mechanism for turning VC money and research grants into AWS profits.

@sxh @marick @mfowler @haruki_zaemon

I need your help gentlemen. I remember a quote about XP practices regarding development which was something like.

"As programmers, we promise that the code we deliver today will allow us to write code tomorrow that is no more expensive than it would be to write today".

It was regarding Simplicity, design for today and cost of change curve.

Can anybody point me at the actual quote as I'm sure I've mangled it, or laud me as a thought leader for making up a quotable quote out of my dreams?

I don’t understand the attraction of being able to talk to computers using breezy casual conversational language; I’ve been telling these little digital bastards what to do for decades using extremely precise formalised language and they still get it wrong

A #joke I heard today:

Q: Why are the pyramids located in Egypt?
A: Because they were too heavy to carry to the British Museum.

Things going well.
I'm deleting most of my tweets and I'm mad and sad about it, so I just published "Elon Musk Burned Down Our Treehouse" https://rainofterra.com/elon-musk-burned-down-our-treehouse-3895583f9465
Elon Musk Burned Down Our Treehouse - Terra Field - Medium

When I was in elementary school, a kid I knew had a palatial treehouse. It was 3 glorious stories of what I now am sure was reclaimed plywood and nails. I was always a little jealous of how cool it…

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Wowwww. Tanked an M+ dungeon for @jon_eaves last night and he decided to absolutely destroy me afterwards 😭😭😭 #WorldOfWarcraft #australians

This excellent piece on migrating your account to a different #mastodon instance is from 2019, and suggests changes were coming. Anyone know if this is still accurate or maybe there's a more up-to-date comprehensive guide?

Guide: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/06/how-to-migrate-from-one-server-to-another/

How to migrate from one server to another

With the sad news that KNZK was shutting down we thought it might be useful for people to have a refresher on the features that Mastodon has built in that make moving instances easy and painless. Backing up Your Data Data export If you are moving to a new instance the first thing you will want to do is to get a backup of all of your data. Thankfully this process is painless with the Data Export tab under the “Import and Export” page.