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Tim Foster

@timfoster

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I write build tooling these days and still enjoy making developer's lives easier. I spent 21 years at Sun Microsystems, Inc, working on and around Solaris, and then a while at Joyent.

I do miss the old days a bit, but rose-tinted glasses and all that... I now use FreeBSD on my personal systems where I can. I have many hobbies, one of which is keeping my old Series Land Rover running.

Co. Down, Northern Ireland

#nutanix #joyent #sun #LandRover searchable

Joined	26 Apr 2022
blog	https://timsfoster.wordpress.com
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Tim Foster 7h ago

Tony Finch 1d ago

i love the way philip prince teaches geology with ms paint and sand models (dunno how normal his live drawing skills are amongst geologists) - this time about the tectonic context for the earthquakes in venezuela, and the practical ways that geologists study faults in order to learn their histories and anticipate their futures

https://youtu.be/U2LrEG_CCYY

Venezuela earthquakes: What happened, and is geologic study really worth anything?

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Tim Foster 2d ago

Car numerology:

I'd managed to convince myself that no, I don't need to be looking at other sports cars, and decide to get in the Boxster to get petrol. Looked at the odometer, mileage: 85944.

Gah!

I got home and looked at the odometer again, mileage 85951

Even worse! I'm taking this as merely a coincidence, and should in no way influence bloody anything. Right?

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Tim Foster 6d ago

> In the past the British used to joke about Italy being a country where prime ministers kept changing all the time. These days Italy looks like a beacon of stability, and Britain has become the place never that far from another bout of political turmoil.

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Tim Foster 6d ago

> After Cameron was forced out by the result of his own referendum, another three Tory PMs were forced out by their own MPs (Theresa May, Boris Johnson and Liz Truss) and another was forced out by the electorate (Rishi Sunak). Keir Starmer has been PM for less than two years, but he is about to become the sixth PM forced out within a decade, being replaced almost certainly by Andy Burnham.

Tim Foster 6d ago

From the Guardian in their live-stream intro:

> Good morning. Tomorrow is the 10th anniversary of the referendum to leave the EU, which means that Wednesday is the 10th anniversary of the day David Cameron announced he was resigning as PM.

Tim Foster Jun 19

Paul Jun 17

As a kid I learnt to say the alphabet backwards thanks to a trick in a book called "The Whizzkid's Handbook". Adult me taught the trick to my nieces and they loved it... now I've just discovered that the book has been scanned into the Internet Archive and so I can share it with you lovely bunch.