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tommyp

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i'm a computer guy 🧑‍💻 london irish internet hallion 🇮🇪 posts about #code, #electronicMusic, #videogames

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rgarner, to random
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@tosbourn

tommyp,
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@rgarner @tosbourn I've started playing these games with high charisma and more specifically with FO4 being drunk the whole time to get extra charisma.

Starting conversations with slurred words never gets old.

tommyp,
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@tosbourn @rgarner Eventually I plan to give New Vegas and Outer Worlds a second try. I always thought they were like the Bethesda games and all about exploration but OW seems to be more about actual role playing and leaning into your build.

joelanman, to random
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Another db question! I'm using migration files whenever I make a change to the db. When I'm doing dev, whats a good source of truth for the current structure of the tables (column names, types and so on)? I could app switch to my db admin app but I'd prefer a quick way to reference inside VS Code

tommyp,
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@joelanman Are you using an ORM? Lots of them spit out some kind of schema file which has the full reference of your DB.

tommyp, to random
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Shamefully giving up on . I just haven't had the time at all to write anything. Deleting my post and jealous of others who kept up.

tommyp,
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@hungryjoe Might write a few more posts this month but I see people posting "Day 8" and I managed 2.

Edent, (edited ) to random
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From an artist's point of view, is there any difference between you buying a donated CD from a charity shop and downloading pirated music from a torrent site?

Neither gives the artists, songwriters, producers, publishers, or distributors any money.

Neither reports to a charts authority to show popularity.

Both have the same impact on secondary revenue like gig tickets & merchandise.

Vote now - and please show your workings.

tommyp,
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@Edent This is also why game publishers hated pre-owned game sales.

mekkaokereke, to random
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People on Twitter are debating whether a person using uncommon words like "delve" are trying to sound smarter than they are, or worse, are ChatGPT bots, because "normal" people don't talk like that.

You don't have to get upset, or embroiled in the debate. Not worth the time or attention. But I'll share some important context as your friendly neighborhood Nigerian 🙋🏿‍♂️

Many Nigerians have bigger English language vocabularies and better command of grammar than the typical American or English person

tommyp,
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@mekkaokereke In Ireland, we speak Hiberno-English -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiberno-English

I always describe it as being English words with Irish grammar. Irish has a different sentence structure which comes through sometimes. Instead of saying "I am sad" the translated version is "There is sadness on me". This doesn't come through that often but in Ireland if you're hungover you might say "There is an awful head on me this morning".

I love that post-colonial nations have made British words their own.

tommyp, to elixir
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For any Elixir devs out there - my new job is hiring Full Stack Elixir people. LiveView and Tailwind experience a bonus but not required.

  • 4.5 day week
  • fully remote
  • distributed team but some overlap with EU timezones is desirable
  • good money
  • expenses for co-working, training, books, etc
  • twice a year in person meetups

Is this you? Let's talk. And if not, a retoot would be appreciated.

tosbourn, to AppleMusic
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Anyone use Apple Music?

https://music.apple.com/profile/tosbourn

Let’s be friends!

tommyp,
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@tosbourn Heyo!

tommyp, to random
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Spent some time last night going through my RSS reader and adding a Blogroll to my site. https://www.tommyp.org/blogroll

sdw, to random
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Arrakis.

(airplane window shots descending into Las Vegas. iPhone 15 Pro, pentaprism (5×) lens, @halide ProRAW)

tommyp,
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@sdw The way Las Vegas throws away water at a place in the middle of the dessert is pretty reminiscent of Arakeen in the books.

tommyp, to random
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Given the news going wild in the UK over the Royal Family today, it's always a good time to repost this.

tommyp, to random
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https://www.lingscars.com/scalextric

Web design is over folks. We can all call it a day.

tommyp,
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@robb Please tell me that's online.

tommyp,
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@paddyduke So lifelike

tommyp, to uk
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I was an early supporter of Cuckoo Broadband and just got told that they're selling up their copper line customers. I guess it's time to find a new ISP. What's good and not anti-Consumer like Virgin Media, etc?

atomicpoet, to random

Is "American Jewish English" evolving into a new language?

Based on my experience, yes. If you speak to many American Jews, what emerges is something that's not intelligible with standard English.

This excellent talk by linguist Sarah Benor confirms what I've long believed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isJYtcJSczU

tommyp,
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@atomicpoet In Ireland, we speak Hiberno English.

atomicpoet, to random

It’s weird how people that tend to be into PlayStation and Xbox games have little nostalgia for PS2 and the original Xbox.

tommyp,
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@atomicpoet I'm into both and I have a huge amount of nostalgia. If people don't, I wonder is it the obfuscation of preservation that plays an impact. When a new PC gamer hears about Deus Ex, it's easy for them to see what all the fuss was about. Unless console games get a re-release the backwards compatibility can be buggy or non-existent.

tommyp, to random
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I ended last year at a job where I was the only developer. Here's some things I learned along the way. https://www.tommyp.org/blog/tales-from-a-solo-dev

robb, to random
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Do we have to pretend avatar is a good movie again now we’re taking about 3d movies again

tommyp,
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@robb I don’t think anyone can pretend that Avatar is a good movie

stefan, (edited ) to random
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If a website has an RSS feed, email newsletter, and a social media account (in the fediverse, of course), and they all post the same exact content, for the sake of an argument, do you typically prefer:

tommyp,
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@stefan I picked RSS because I like reading it in my own time. I ignore emails that aren't important and then I just won't see it.

I also despise the culture of always prompting on a website to subscribe to a newsletter.

tosbourn, to random
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Not the best pic, but here is my new tattoo!

tommyp,
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@rgarner @tosbourn Sort of medieval print via Tim Burton or Tim Schafer. I love it!

matthiasott, to accessibility
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I just got asked a very interesting question: let’s say you want to create a really stunning website and part of that is that you change the mouse cursor to various custom cursors, like arrows, pointers, crosses, buttons, whatever, when you move it around or hover over things.

How can you make sure the website is still accessible? Given the website is still fully keyboard-accessible, is there anything particular to consider – like fallbacks, user-specific settings, etc? 🤔

tommyp,
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@matthiasott I can only think of adding a toggle to turn this stuff off. Like using prefers-reduced-motion would stop animation?

pixel, to random
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Finally watched “Room 237”, and although very interesting, I think they’re really reaching on some of their ideas for what the film was about.

tommyp,
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@pixel It definitely could've done with cutting a few sections.

I showed it to my partner who is a massive Shining fan when we were snowed in while staying at an Icelandic hotel, which would've been the perfect environment for it, but the Apollo landing stuff caused her to want it turned off.

tommyp, to random
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I’m sorry to inform everyone but 2019 was 5 years ago.

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