Phil Ashby @phlash@mastodon.me.uk
Joined Apr 2022
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#introduction time!
Hi, I'm Phil, aka Phlash (it's a long story or a plausible abbreviation of my real name).
I've recently retired from a fairly complex career mainly in software engineering, with a bit of electronics and people engineering on the side!
I'm a Dad (6 grown children), Grandad (4 times so far..), UK resident, musician, sailor, holiday enthusiast :)
Bio (ish): https://www.ashbysoft.com/articles/phlash
Techie bio: https://dev.to/phlash909/hi-im-phil-ashby
Nice to be here.
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My favourite swipe typo of the day: "Norse cancelling headphones". Presumably that means Bluetooth is turned off.
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To be honest I never realised she had such an eclectic taste in music!
Personally I think the highlight would be that long-anticipated collaboration between Bonnie Langford and Napalm Death.
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i read a thing recently that blew my mind a little.
went something like:
people can imagine time travel to the past and one little act making massive differences in the timeline
but in their present they think even the greatest effort they can put in will not make any difference to the future
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And the Lord did speak, but His followers could not hear.
And His followers cried out to him, "Lord, Thou art on mute."
And the Lord did try to press the button to go off of mute, and did actually share his screen.
And his followers did see his open tabs, and were much dismayed.
Credits to neuroecology@twitter.com and travisgoodspeed@twitter.com, this is an actually great Reddit thread on the wholly electronic logic Pong game: https://www.reddit.com/r/EngineeringPorn/comments/ul49zt/the_original_pong_video_game_had_no_code_and_was/ - love it!
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SRB - Bringing the crazy! Love it 😀 #Eurovision
POL - That suit seems very out of place with the water nymphs.. #Eurovision
UK - Falsetto entry - wow! #Eurovision
AUS - Ru Paul has entered the building..., great voice though! #Eurovision
Moldova - Eminem vs The Sex Pistols with hill billy backing.. #Eurovision
Iceland - heavy ABBA vibes #Eurovision
#Eurovision Quite pleased to have started early on the toffee vodka...😂
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Someone carved the alphabet into a tree and let it deform for five years and made a font out of it: https://bjoernkarmann.dk/occlusion-grotesque
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"It'll all get better in the next 6 months because they're rolling out a new procurement process" #OverheardInCoffeeShop
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tbh if you're writing c code then you should probably start by writting a fuzzer harness instead of a test harness. find the crashes early and the actual logical bugs become easier
Joined Apr 2022
