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May 13
Written mostly for UK friends figuring out where to put money: markamery.com/blog/low-coupo…
To my surprise (I always thought they were a terrible deal meant for weird ultra-low-risk investors), UK gilts are just an unambiguously better deal than the best fixed-term savings accounts.
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May 13
(In due course I need to improve my blog styling and add a comments section. For now I'm just trying to build a habit of writing a post, even just an explanation of something interesting and worthwhile that I learned elsewhere, on any topic, once or twice a week.)
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12 Aug 2025
I hate KYC checks. Bad law made worse by corporate ineptitude. @AskNationwide say I'll be locked out of my account in September unless I provide more personal info, but neither I nor their support team can find out how to access the form to do so after "Skip"ing it earlier today.
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12 Aug 2025
Which would be fine if I could actually find a way to get back to the form in order to enter my bank-approved lies into it. But I cannot! So I am seemingly stuck on an unfixable path to losing access to my accounts.
Tomorrow I start work on migrating everything to Natwest.
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12 Aug 2025
Hours spent on this today, and the migration tomorrow will probably take me all day (and involve sending paper forms to various other financial institutions to update my nominated bank account).
Such an infuriating waste of time.
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12 Feb 2025
Until today, I did not realize that a simple regex match with a quantifier like:
text.match(/a b/g);
takes worst-case quadratic time & needs a negative lookbehind to make it linear. How many times in my career must I have needlessly written O(n²) algorithms because of this?
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22 Feb 2024
(Not sure if you've retired the address - in which case may I suggest you scrub the mention of it from your contact page there? - or if it's supposed to be working!)
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4 Jun 2024
I've just deleted my original tweet about it to avoid linking to gambling spam, but FYI @GSpellchecker, it seems you've let your old domain lapse and now your old blog is gone and the domain is instead an advert for some shady Indian gambling site. How depressing!
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5 Feb 2024
I got sufficiently annoyed by the bad coverage I saw of the Laurence Fox libel case last week, especially in Spiked, that I blogged about it. There are interesting points of law involved here, and I wish we had journalists who would properly explore them.
markamery.com/blog/laurence-…
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3 Apr 2020
Experienced web devs in USA: if you're willing to move to Los Angeles for some weeks or months, we can use you at @Curative_Inc to build internal webapps for our lab staff. We want to scale our Covid-19 testing facility from 100s to 10000s tests/day. Message my boss, @ihcturner.
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13 Jan 2020
Shog9 is a damn fine man who is admired by the Stack Overflow community, me included. I've watched him thoughtfully design software systems and thoughtfully defuse interpersonal conflicts with equal skill. If anyone in my small circle is hiring in this space, I recommend him.
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23 Dec 2019
Hey @guillermooo. Not sure if you've seen github.com/guillermooo/subli… yet, but it sounds like it can only be fixed by you. Do you have the time to handle it?
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13 Oct 2019
"Terrorist Erdogan, out of Kurdistan", "Long live YPG", "Long live Rojava", chant thousands of protesters carrying Kurdistan and YPG flags near Piccadilly Circus at 14:43 today. Part 1 of 4.
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13 Oct 2019
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13 Oct 2019
Alternative source, with the full video in one place: youtube.com/watch?v=pMVsmsMN…
#rojava #protest
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26 Sep 2019
Bioinformatics people - anyone happen to have a spare ONT MinIT in or near California that they either no longer want or are willing to lend us for 2-3 weeks? Message me. We'd like one right away - we'll pick up today or tomorrow and pay $$$. #nanopore