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Chris Poole @chrispoole.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Yet more blatant corruption from the FIA today, that should have been a VSC not a yellow all day long. Them and Liberty trying to turn a sport into an entertainment show, driver safety be damned. #F1

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Chris Poole @chrispoole.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

In need of a 32GB SD card for my car to update its satnav maps. Was sure I had some old cards lying around for my more serious cameras. Yeah… it’s been longer than I thought. Must have last used these when dinosaurs roamed the earth.

3 SD cards lined up by size: 256 MB, 2 GB, and 4 GB..!

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Chris Poole @chrispoole.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

@stephenrobles Just bought Kan Do: superb! It’s been an app I’ve toyed with making myself for years but never done it. Thanks for creating it, it’s great! (As a heavy OmniFocus user I wish OF had a similar interface or could mirror and sync with Kan Do, but that’s likely out of scope!)

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Chris Poole @chrispoole.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

Watching @tomscott talk about the stress and strain forces, and interaction between concrete and steel guide wires, thinking, “I hope there’ll be a @drdrang blog post on this…” 😆 www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzM1hpnXux4

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Chris Poole @chrispoole.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

Upgraded my home broadband today. Still can’t spell my actual name eh, Virgin Media? Perhaps I should complain to Richar Branson.

Screenshot of an email from virgin media, spelling my name as “Christophe” since the field has a 10-character limit.

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Chris Poole @chrispoole.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/07/2026

See you next time Italy, you’ve been a delight 😍

Landscape taken from a plane flying over Milan, Italy, over the lakes, with mountains in the distance, looking towards Switzerland.

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Chris Poole @chrispoole.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

Since when has Chrome on Mac been able to do a Split View? Life changing.

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Chris Poole @chrispoole.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2026

A swift death to all those people who post the same message across 9 different company Slack channels. (Apropos of… nothing.)

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Chris Poole @chrispoole.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/05/2026

Cheers to the guy sat in front of me on this 15:20 train who just produced a bottle of red and decanted about half of it straight into his wine glass. It’s been a long day for many of us, I guess.

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Chris Poole @chrispoole.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2026

#Eurovision I think Bulgaria have this in the bag. But let’s see…

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Chris Poole @chrispoole.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/04/2026

What a lovely day: it’s not too hot, not too cold. All you need is a light jacket.

Landscape of a field in England with trees in the background, one more prominent than the others. Clear blue sky.

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Chris Poole @chrispoole.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/03/2026

🔗 [ESSAYS] Software Bonkers craigmod.com/essays/software_bonkers I really like this arricle from @craigmod. I keep a text file titled “app ideas” with a bunch of iOS and Mac app ideas, and it genuinely feels exciting to quickly be able to develop them. I don’t know where this leaves […]

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Chris Poole @chrispoole.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/02/2026

Lovely murmurations yesterday evening, and it’s finally starting to feel like spring. (Hello, magpie.) #birds #birdsOfMastodon

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Chris Poole @chrispoole.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/12/2025

The more I think about this, and the more I do spec-driven development (with Kiro, natch), the more I think that we should only write design and specification documents for any self-contained system. Generated source code, IaC, etc. should be reviewed for changes before pushing to staging (and […]

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Chris Poole @chrispoole.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2025

In a Muse, Citizen Erased, kind of mood today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlKW77GS8Jg (Which is, incidentally, their best song. I’m not taking questions at this time.)

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Chris Poole @chrispoole.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2025

Years after it’s gone and I still miss Yahoo Pipes.

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Chris Poole @chrispoole.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2025

Oasis: a nice way to close out my 30’s!

Crowd watching Oasis play at Wembley Stadium, looking towards the stage. A person is sat on someone’s shoulders.

Crowd watching Oasis play at Wembley Stadium, looking towards the stage. Arms raised in the air, with a red hue from the lights.

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Chris Poole @chrispoole.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2025

It’s somehow been a couple years since I was last in a modern art museum (which itself was wonderful for reasons beyond just the art), but Guggenheim, you had me at the puppy outside. Also reminds me of the need to revisit New York some time; it’s been such […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Flower-covered giant artwork of a puppy outside the Guggenheim, Bilbao.

Brief bio and description of Helen Frankenthaler, NYC-based artist.

Colourful wall in the museum; sunlight shining through a skylight.

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Jess👾 @jesstheunstill.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2025

Hey "seniors": Ask "stupid questions" where your juniors can see you asking them and getting answers from other people. Don't make juniors feel alone in not knowing something and being the only ones asking for help.

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Chris Poole @chrispoole.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2025

England. Football final. Won on penalties. I didn’t realise this could happen… superb! 🏆🙌

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Chris Poole @chrispoole.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2025

Somewhere right now, there’s an electrician working on the wiring for a new hotel contract, thinking “let’s put the bathroom light switch behind this freestanding corner lamp.”

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Tim Bray 🇨🇦 @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 10/07/2025

Mastodon 4.4, now available, has a small setting that’s a big deal. See Administration/Server Settings/Discovery, “Allow external sites to see your Mastodon server as a traffic source”. It means that every time you post a link to a site, that site is going to see as many hits as the number of […]

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Chris Poole @chrispoole.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2025

Think of the environment they said. Take the train to London they said. Now half my train home has been cancelled so I’m stood in a carriage with no AC for an hour, packed in like sardines. SWR, you suck.

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Chris Poole @chrispoole.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2025

Watched the F1 movie last night. As a long-time F1 fan I was sceptical going in, and left pleasantly surprised! It’s a fun movie. Very definitely has that Jerry Bruckheimer feel to it; some of Pitt’s lines while driving felt like they were lifted from Viper in Top Gun. Needed more Kenny Loggins.

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Julia Evans @b0rk.social.jvns.ca.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2025

The reason this zine is called "The Secret Rules of the Terminal" is that I learned more useful things while writing this zine than when writing any other zine, even though I've been using the terminal every day for 20 years. It really left me feeling like the terminal is full of hidden secrets […]

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Sue Smith @sue.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2025

When your head of HR is a triffid

A box of cereal with "plant based diversity" on it

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Terence Eden @edent.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2025

All bikes are folding bikes. If you're not a wimp.

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Chris Poole @chrispoole.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2025

Eat at a local restaurant tonight. Get the cream sauce. Have a cold pint at 4 o'clock in a mostly empty bar. Go somewhere you've never been. Listen to someone you think may have nothing in common with you. Order the steak rare. Eat an oyster. Have a Negroni. Have two. Be open to a world where […]

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Niki @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 21/06/2025

Caterpillar window

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