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30 Jan 2019
My 99yro grandma's first climb: Me and Greta were interviewed on The One Show last night
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10 Oct 2024
Replying to @msanromanv
@msanromanv @ay8s @hamstu @buffer Is there any chance you could open source the code behind pablo.buffer.com ? So I'm a junior dev, and I jolly well love Pablo, but I hear that it's not a key focus for y'all to say the least.
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10 Oct 2024
I'm super happy with licences like AGPL etc - and of course, you're well reasonable to say no, or point out how it's somewhere near the doormat in priorities - but I just wanted to voice that love for it exists, and "you are not alone".
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19 Dec 2024
@msanromanv @ay8s @hamstu @buffer @joelgascoigne Now Pablo has been retired😭 and is no longer available - would you mind releasing it as open source? <3 😘
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24 Oct 2024
Is there a train times app, that lets you "avoid" a station? eg can I request to travel from EUS to MAN avoiding Birmingham New Street - for example. Use case: travel A-> B avoiding known disruption at point E,
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27 Jun 2024
thanks to @haveibeenpwned it is now possible to see that Prince Harry was likely researching his family history on @MyHeritage prior to 2014. src: telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/06…
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26 Jun 2024
If anyone is after a BBC Master Microcomputer manual, and lives near manchester - there appears to be on on @ilovefreegle at present ilovefreegle.org/message/106… PDF: microcomputer.org.uk/documen…
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6 Mar 2024
Do any wise friends have any suggestions that might help me gain the audio to this BBC radio programme I was interviewed on a few years ago? bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0512q0…
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22 Dec 2023

22 Dec 2023
To Didsbury, where there is a run on – no, not the banks, but expensive cheese.
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22 Nov 2023
I miss when twitter was good. I searched the handle of someone I feel like I barely know, and discovered enough conversation to suggest we were almost fairly close in the past. Sigh.
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8 Nov 2023
Is the Balmer Peak real? "In April 1977, Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman spent Passover at the house of a student and consumed liberal quantities of Manischewitz wine before returning to their respective homes sometime around midnight. " xkcd.com/323/

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8 Nov 2023
"Suddenly, the mists began to clear and he had a revelation. He spent the rest of the night formalizing his idea, and by daybreak he had effectively written a complete mathematical paper."
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8 Nov 2023
From the story of Public Key Encryption - How RSA came to life: math.uchicago.edu/~may/VIGRE…

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12 Sep 2023
I feel like every new programmer today must go... ... "So I can do advanced magic with literally talking robots, but I can't reliably store a decimal number accurately in my database?" say waaaat?! Today I actually learned.
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12 Sep 2023
just in case there's one person here who didn't already know this, here's the rest of the answer.
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25 Aug 2023
I can't work out if I think this poster is very funny, or very amusing. Somehow it feels like "both"
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10 Aug 2023
Jaiku, Pownce, Plurk, Posterous, TwitPic, App.net, Identica, Gowalla, Ning, Friendster, MySpace, Orkut, Google Buzz, Google , Hi5, Bebo, DailyBooth, Ello, Diaspora*, Meerkat, Vine, Path, Ping.fm, FriendFeed, Jaiku, Plurk, LiveJournal, Ryze, Stickam
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5 Aug 2023
We need more positive masculinity like this: theplayerstribune.com/posts/… / @AaronRamsdale98

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