Alex Balhatchet

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Reading, UK · Head of Engineering at CharlieHR · Magic: the Gathering player · 日本語を勉強してる
@andycroll “Invited our junior folks to stay on as permanent employees” - woohoo, congrats to them and to you, so great to hear it’s going well 😄 Happy new year!
@tenderlove happy birthday! 🥳
@r3trofitted oh wow, I’m looking down the episode titles for YAGNI podcast and they all sound brilliant, thanks for the recommendation!
Using iOS shortcuts to try to get into the habit of using Bluesky and Mastodon more 😅
Duke University Libraries are canceling their subscription to Basecamp. Their post explaining the move is very good, and worth your time: https://blogs.library.duke.edu/blog/2023/11/30/why-were-dropping-basecamp/
Why We're Dropping Basecamp - Duke University Libraries Blogs

We at Duke University Libraries have decided to stop using the project management platform, Basecamp, to which we have subscribed for almost a decade. We came to this decision after weighing the level of its use in our organization, which is considerable, against the harms that we see perpetuated by the leadership of Basecamp’s parent … Continue reading Why We’re Dropping Basecamp →

Duke University Libraries Blogs

Someone showed me this today, and it's truly a work of art.

https://tomstu.art/the-dhh-problem

The DHH Problem

@scryfall happy birthday Scryfall! I literally use it every day. This month I’ve been designing custom cards for #mtgmoxtober and all my cards use Magic art from the “art crop” link. I’ve also used art tagger and flavor text searches to look for the daily prompt word to get inspired for my designs. You’ve saved me hours, maybe days, by caring about site speed and supporting search syntax shortcuts so I can do things like “ci:abzan c>1” for my all-multicolor deck. Thank you!!! 💜💜💜
@Schneems we’ve used syntax_suggest in development on a production app since it was dead_end and absolutely love it! It’s helped my whole team find bugs and typos faster and keep momentum/flow when writing code - super valuable, thanks for writing it! 🙏🏻
@hsbt irb is one of Ruby’s best features! みんな、お疲れ様! 👏🏻❤️💎