tosbourn

tosbourn, 5 days ago to random

I'm bad at promotion, but if you need some techie folk to do techie things, we do;

• Ruby on Rails development
• Website maintenance
• Interim / Fractional CTO
• Technical writing
• Training

https://tosbourn.com/hire-us/

Always happy to chat, and if we can be useful, we will try to be!

tosbourn, 10 days ago to random

Quick git tip. If you want to remove any local branches that have since been merged you can run this.

git branch --merged | egrep -v "(^\*|dev|main)" | xargs git branch -d  

I have it as a TextExpander shortcut, but you could also add an alias

It looks for any branch that isn't dev or main (add any you always want to keep around) that has been merged in and deletes them.

This is helpful if you rely on tab-to-autocomplete a lot

#Git #GitTips

tosbourn, 14 days ago to random

Do I know anyone close or near to Belfast that is handy doing repairs on older tech?

A friend wants to replace a battery in a first gen iPod

tosbourn, 14 days ago to random

The English contribution to world culture started with Black Sabbath and ended with Napalm Death.

My mum giving birth to me in between also counts.

tosbourn, 16 days ago to NorthernIreland

NI folk, if you don't know if you're registered to vote;

https://www.eoni.org.uk/Am-I-registered

pro-tip, when it asks for phone number, it pre-fills +44, but it only worked for my wife and I when change to just 077...

#NorthernIreland #Vote #NIPol #GeneralElection

tosbourn, 18 days ago to Tattoos

I think my next tattoo is going to be a wizard.

I have some loose styles in mind (think Discworld) but I’d love inspiration from the Masto Hivemind.

Send me your favourite wizard pics/drawings/creators

Let’s make a really rad thread of wizard inspiration!

#Wizard #Tattoo #Tattoos #Inspiration #LazyWeb

tosbourn, 18 days ago to random

Which biscuit for dunking in to tea could you eat a nearly infinite amount of?

tosbourn, 18 days ago to NorthernIreland

Folk of NI, what do you think it would take for the DUP to be the second largest Unionist party?

Even with what has happened this last while I’m sure they’re gonna be largely in the same position next general election.

I get it; I was brought up to believe a vote not for the DUP is a vote for Sinn Fein (any by extension, for bad things) and I know it’s the same for many from unionist backgrounds.

#NIPolitics #NorthernIreland #DUP #GeneralElection

tosbourn, 25 days ago to ruby

If I had a two pence piece for every time @andycroll's One Ruby Thing acted as my second brain, I'd be able to spend all day in a Brighton arcade on the 2p machines.

https://andycroll.com/ruby/

#Ruby #OneRubyThing

tosbourn, 26 days ago (edited 26 days ago) to random

What are some issues you personally would 100% classify as a bug but others may not?

Off the top of my head;

• WCAG failures
• legitimate 404s
• Poor performance (relative to what you consider "good")
• Schema / JSONLD errors

tosbourn, 1 month ago to random

"I know you're busy, I'll get right to the point"

I mean I can think of 10 words you could delete in the name of brevity, but go on cold email person, go on.

tosbourn, 1 month ago to Eurovision

I was kinda hoping what with it including a country actively involved in genocide that there would be less buzz around #Eurovision online, I’d wrongly assumed folk would boycott it.

I’ve never been interested in it so it’s no skin off my nose to continue to ignore it.

tosbourn, 1 month ago to random

May the first be with you.

tosbourn, 1 month ago to fallout

Just finished the Fallout series. Super fun! Up there as one of the better live action things I’ve seen recently. Already excited for a season 2.

I hadn’t played the games before, don’t let that stop you giving the series a go!

I’ve started playing Fallout 4 off the back of the series. It is so much better than I assumed it would be.

#Fallout #FalloutTV #Fallout4

tosbourn, 1 month ago to random

> Loom is now part of Atlassian, which means we’re supercharging our ability to deliver high-quality performance and innovation.

Atlassian are indeed synonymous with supercharged innovation.

tosbourn, 1 month ago to random

It is almost like having horses in a massively built up and noisy city is a terrible idea.

tosbourn, 1 month ago to rubyonrails

I’m working on a project that has some memory issues with their jobs.

Used a memory profiler, one job made just over 1,000,000,000 memory allocations (billion, with a b!)

I’ve my work cut out, but I think I’m gonna learn a tonne about memory best practice

#RubyOnRails #Performance #MemoryUsage

tosbourn, 1 month ago to fallout

I kinda wanna play some Fallout but I distinctly remember not enjoying the mechanics of one of the games I played at an unknown time and on an unknown device.

Might wait a few months and see what second hand copies are flying around.

#Fallout

tosbourn, 1 month ago to random

Battered > Breaded

tosbourn, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

I have an old Nexus 5 that doesn't appear to be supported by anything these days (which is fair enough!)

Anything cool I could install onto it or do? Or should I wipe and destroy?

#Android #Nexus

tosbourn, 1 month ago to random

A magpie just landed on our shed with a chicken drumstick. Ate some and flew off, leaving the bone on my roof. 🤮

tosbourn, 1 month ago to NorthernIreland

NI folk, you can get a LibrariesNI card for free online and get ebooks and audiobooks.

I’ve been using them for about a month and really enjoying it.

Decent catalog and unless the book is super popular, not long waits to loan out.

https://www.librariesni.org.uk

Do share, because this may not be news to you, but it was to me!

#NorthernIreland #Libraries #EBooks

tosbourn, 2 months ago to writing

I've started down a copy editing rabbit hole and I'm loving it.

I wanted to remove the word "basically" from any old blog post where it didn't make sense. (you don't "basically, do something" you "do something")

As I was going through I kept on finding other examples of words that could be clipped.

• essentially
• probably
• possibly
• just
• you need to
• trivial

This isn't even the full list!

80% of the time the sentence reads better without further edits

#Writing #Editing

tosbourn, 2 months ago to random

@ianRobinson just came across this wholesome video of someone reacting to Bohemian Rhapsody and I thought you’d appreciate!

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGemPv8N1/

tosbourn, 2 months ago to AppleMusic

Anyone use Apple Music?

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

Let’s be friends!

#AppleMusic