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Clive Murray @axemonkey.metalhead.club.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

It is a special kind of idiot who goes from not touching a guitar for two months to challenging a mate to see if we can both play Joe Satriani’s hardest song. #CrushingDay #CrushingMyFingersMoreLike #Ouch #WhereDidMyCallusesGo #CDorianForTheWin

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Misinformation-Superhighwayman @damienwise.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Vale Margaret Hamilton. She was a Software Engineer. She was the _first_ Software Engineer because she defined the term, Software Engineering: "When I first came up with the term, no one had heard of it before, at least in our world. It was an ongoing joke for a […] [Original post on aus.social]

A B&W photo of a person standing next to a stack of printed paper as high as the top of their head. This is Margaret Hamilton, at work as a Software Engineer and the leader of a team of extremely specialised programmers who worked for NASA. The photo was taken in 1969, and it shows a physical form if her work since she joined the Apollo project in 1965 (she joined at the age of 29 by my calculation). My interpretation of the expression on her face is a mix of pride and mild amusement. She has glasses, long, straight hair, and neat office attire. Margaret Hamilton has her hands placed gently on the stack of printouts to keep it all balanced upright. The pages appear to be arranged in bundles, ranging from 8-10 centimetres thick, to 20cm thick or more. The resulting stack of printouts is physically impressive for being an unusual feat, and it represents something even more impressive: it's the printed form of the source-code she and the team she led wrote for the NASA Apollo project. Their software ran on the Apollo Guidance Computer that was that on board each Apollo command module and Apollo Lunar Module. The Apollo Guidance Computer onboard the Eagle was an essential flight instrument for Neil Armstrong when he piloted the craft to land on the surface of the moon.

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Clive Murray @axemonkey.metalhead.club.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

My lunch is a 6-egg ham and cheese omelette. Your argument is invalid.

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Clive Murray @axemonkey.metalhead.club.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

This year, let Billie Joe Armstrong sleep. It’s not worth waking up for any more.

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Clive Murray @axemonkey.metalhead.club.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Right. Look. I’m a front end dev, and yes we have our own bigots to worry about, but for fuck’s sake STOP SUPPORTING DHH.

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Clive Murray @axemonkey.metalhead.club.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Mastodon, confirmed. To remind, if you have not read “Service Model” by Adrian Tchaikovsky, you are doing yourself a grave disservice. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_Model #Bookstodon #BookRec

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Service Model - Wikipedia

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Clive Murray @axemonkey.metalhead.club.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

It’s a special kind of disappointment you feel when you have to ban your own son from your own Minecraft server for bad behaviour, while his friends remain.

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ety://glyphscribe @ety.corteximplant.com.ap.brid.gy · 20/02/2026

Hey, you, reader: Ever been browsing someone's blog, website, repo -- even their social web profile -- and thought to yourself "Wow, that's really neat. I love what they did here!" Consider _telling them_! Someone on here made a post a while back encouraging people to do just that, and I've […]

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Clive Murray @axemonkey.metalhead.club.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2025

It’s not finished yet, but if you’re struggling with the NYT Connections puzzle, I’m building a helper at connections.clivemurray.com so you can at least drag and drop things into rows before you guess. @aegir

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Connections Helper

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Clive Murray @axemonkey.metalhead.club.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2025

Today Oi harve mostly bin listening to #SleepToken and #Yungblud The kids are alright. #GetOffMyLawn

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Clive Murray @axemonkey.metalhead.club.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2025

#NowPlaying Yungblud - Idols This guy. He's not metal, but damn he's good. Actually scratch that... his music isn't metal, but they guy himself is metal as hell. I'm hearing Bowie, Blur, Queen, MCR, The Cure, REM... and I'm only five songs in. #Yungblud

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Clive Murray @axemonkey.metalhead.club.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2025

According to my phone, last night I texted my friend (who is on holiday with family) the phrase “FUCK A DUCK”. Sadly, neither my phone nor my memory can tell me why I did this. I have been giggling about this for the last hour.

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Clive Murray @axemonkey.metalhead.club.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2025

Days since last “could have done this in 2 minutes in JS, but my project is TypeScript, and now I’ve lost the morning and most of the afternoon” incident: 0.

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Clive Murray @axemonkey.metalhead.club.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2025

Fuckinell Yungblud can sing. Top work fella.

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Clive Murray @axemonkey.metalhead.club.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2025

Oh great. Making an “in year” secondary school place application (which is technically what we have to do now even though the school year doesn’t start until September) is just as confusing and opaque as all the other processes that have been driving us insane since March.

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