Freelance full-stack web application developer and architect. Ruby on Rails, JavaScript etc. Also @mhw@ruby.social
Joined July 2007
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Mark Wilkinson retweeted
27 Jul 2020
We have a joke about allotments but it will take some people up to two years to get it.
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Mark Wilkinson retweeted
5 Jun 2020
40000 is a 747 (carrying full 524 in two class set-up) crashing every day since UK lock down on March 23
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I'd rather spend $3000 on someone who can use it than wasting it on Twitter ads, so here we go
🎉New Year's Giveaway🍾
I'm giving away a new 🍏MacBook Pro 16" to a random person who retweets this tweet
👩🎨 Make something cool w/ it
(you have to follow because I want followers)
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Mark Wilkinson retweeted
24 May 2019
I was an immig lawyer during the entire time @theresa_may was Home Secretary. Here are a random selection of tears:-
Radiographer. Resident for 6 ys. Wife & 5 kids (all at school here 6 ys). Refused settlement for £70 traffic fine. It meant they all had to leave the UK.
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Mark Wilkinson retweeted
22 Mar 2019
1. Last night, I was invited to be on the BBC show ‘This Week’. I thought that Davos was a bewildering experience, but this beat everything.
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Mark Wilkinson retweeted
1 Feb 2019
Here's why people lose faith in politics. Even when this stuff is exposed, nothing changes. Brexit is going ahead despite evidence of such deep and widespread cheating that the result of the referendum should be declared unsafe. theguardian.com/uk-news/2019…
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Mark Wilkinson retweeted
18 Jul 2018
This git commit cost $4.3bn android.googlesource.com/pla…
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Beyond UX design, much of the displeasure can be attributed to certain architectural fundamentals that yield material ongoing burdens, such as a) pervasive shared DLLs vs contained APPs, b) pervasive registry magic, and c) lack of simple Unix underpinnings in a Linux server world
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Mark Wilkinson retweeted
4 May 2018
Help Zuzu’s Bakery make delicious, nutritious and interesting bread for ALL budgets! @indiegogo igg.me/p/2370018/twtr/186241…
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Mark Wilkinson retweeted
29 Aug 2017
Almost every time a problem was raised during the referendum “We” could fix it. They were all "trivial" problems with "simple" solutions.
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27 Jun 2017
Fantastic contribution to the Rails community x.com/rbates/status/87974228…
27 Jun 2017
Announcing: RailsCasts Pro and Revised episodes are now free! Anyone can watch them without a subscription at railscasts.com
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Mark Wilkinson retweeted
12 Jun 2017
Utopian nonsense from me in today's @thetimes thetimes.co.uk/edition/busin…
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Mark Wilkinson retweeted
9 Jun 2017
Bullying front pages are a turn-off to voters. It’s not a game any more.Grow up and do some real – useful – journalism 4/4
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