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Random thoughts from a random guy. Christian, Father, Husband, Software Engineer, Geek

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Kefimochi @kefimochi.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Anybody here works at 1Password & would consider giving a referral? 🙌 There is a Rails Developer role that would be an excellent match for my experience! Please share, this could be really helpful after being laid off <3
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colinyates.co.uk @colinyates.co.uk · 16/06/2025
Are you sure though? :-)
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colinyates.co.uk @colinyates.co.uk · 10/06/2025
What harm can a politically biased massive media platform do though, really?….checks US and rise of far right across Europe….oh. Crap
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colinyates.co.uk @colinyates.co.uk · 04/06/2025
That’s what ”champ”, “Buddy”, “mate”, “friend” etc. were invented for :-)
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colinyates.co.uk @colinyates.co.uk · 04/06/2025
Living the reality of spending 1000x more time and effort researching a note taking system than I’ll ever spend actually taking notes.
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colinyates.co.uk @colinyates.co.uk · 09/05/2025
Yep, the punishment for the Gap felling is nowhere near enough - it needs root and branch reform. As for your tree, I’d leaf it alone. #noOpportunityForTerribleDadPunsMissed
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colinyates.co.uk @colinyates.co.uk · 06/05/2025
It’s fine - Trump’s got a magic marker which draws the path hurricanes will follow.
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colinyates.co.uk @colinyates.co.uk · 15/04/2025
The lack of critical thinking in teenagers plus the echo chamber of social media is *terrifying*. We’ve failed a whole generation.
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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 13/04/2025
I'm so used to bar bathrooms with cutesy signs that I had to stop here and ask myself if I was a Mario or a Wario
a sign with an M on it that is definitely Mario adjacent an upside down m, also known as a "wario symbol"
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colinyates.co.uk @colinyates.co.uk · 13/04/2025
It’s such a different experience from “Hollywood” movies. Is it a cultural difference? A technological difference? A creative/production difference? All of the above? Dunno - but it’s awesome.
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Biggie @biggienotsmalls.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
One is made a national story every single week and the other is shhhhh.....
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 09/04/2025
As a criminal defense attorney, the vast majority of my cases were NOT immigrants. So let's stop pretending immigrants are the problem when there's a 34-count convicted felon sitting in the White House. The hypocrisy is outrageous.
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Jeva Lange 🫎 @jeva.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Final_Version_of_Tarrifs_actualFINALcopy_version7_USETHISONE.docx
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colinyates.co.uk @colinyates.co.uk · 07/04/2025
#microsoftHack I’m getting login attempts every few minutes from across the globe on my Microsoft account. *please* use a password manager (bitwarden is great) and turn on 2 factor authentication.
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colinyates.co.uk @colinyates.co.uk · 07/04/2025
STOP IMPLYING BAD DAD-PUNS SHOULD MAKE SENSE! :-)
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colinyates.co.uk @colinyates.co.uk · 06/04/2025
Trump would have locked up and/or expelled your founders for dissent.
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colinyates.co.uk @colinyates.co.uk · 06/04/2025
Vacuum cleaner without a dog really sucks… (Fine! I know it doesn’t work and isn’t funny! I don’t care!)
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Badr @pythops.com · 05/04/2025
One of the best books I have ever read ! A true goldmine. Thanks a lot @mara.bsky.social marabos.nl/atomics/
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Rust Atomics and Locks by Mara Bos
Low-level Concurrency in Practice. This practical book helps Rust programmers of all levels gain a clear understanding of low-level concurrency. You'll learn everything about atomics and …
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colinyates.co.uk @colinyates.co.uk · 06/04/2025
#handsoff on so many things. Rise up.
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colinyates.co.uk @colinyates.co.uk · 05/04/2025
Yes! And no need to put “of the 90s”. The build of the Dum dum dum de dum dum dum de dum dum bass line, then the echoey snare….chills!
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
UK: Brexit is the biggest act of economic self harm any country will ever perform USA: Hold my beer...
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colinyates.co.uk @colinyates.co.uk · 04/04/2025
The most expensive 40 seconds of video - it cost trillions of dollars to make this. Trillions!
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 04/04/2025
Who did this?
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colinyates.co.uk @colinyates.co.uk · 03/04/2025
That massive thud heard around the world was the coin dropping when the MAGA crowd realised *they* paid Trump’s tariffs.
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Heard Island Government @heardislandgov.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
We take tariffs on our beautiful Heard Island very seriously. We will be consulting all mammals and flightless birds and will make an announcement in the near future detailing our response. #heardisland #tariff #mcdonaldisland #trumptariff
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colinyates.co.uk @colinyates.co.uk · 03/04/2025
That’s…chaotic/good. I love/hate it :-)
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colinyates.co.uk @colinyates.co.uk · 03/04/2025
Where does all the money from tariffs go? Into the mythical “trickle down” funnel?
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colinyates.co.uk @colinyates.co.uk · 03/04/2025
All of this. I *know* American’s aren’t this stupid, at least the ones I know aren’t. I just don’t get it. Genuinely. It’s like a genuine mass delusion. Speed running the destruction of America rule of law, soft, and hard power.
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colinyates.co.uk @colinyates.co.uk · 01/04/2025
I’ve stopped using email as a todo list given I had 100s of unread “todo”s. I’m much more organized and now have 100s of neglected Apple Reminders. But yes, the next software I chose will solve the problem…
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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 01/04/2025
ETA to enter UK - Cost: £16 - Lasts: 2 years - Covers: 1 country - Introduction: non-EU citizens already, EU from April 2 - RW papers: silent or supportive ETIAS to enter EU - Cost: 7 euro - Lasts: 3 years - Covers: 27 countries - Introduction: 2026? - RW papers: beside themselves with rabid fury
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colinyates.co.uk @colinyates.co.uk · 01/04/2025
I did an *amazing* “hello world” once. Elegant. Simple. No bugs. It was a one-liner: “println(“hello world”). The pinnacle of Software Engineering, the heights of which I’ll never touch again. Brings a tear to my eye just thinking about that beauty. Those were the days.
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colinyates.co.uk @colinyates.co.uk · 30/03/2025
Happy Mother’s Day, with special space for those who find it particularly challenging. Be loved.
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colinyates.co.uk @colinyates.co.uk · 29/03/2025
Another (well written as always!) interesting view into the chaos that is HTML and CSS :-). The days of “But it’s simple, you can just use notepad to write it” are decades past.
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colinyates.co.uk @colinyates.co.uk · 29/03/2025
kindle “read anywhere” - so why when I try and read a book on my phone does it say I’ve reached the download limit and need to remove it from the kindle I’m reading it on at home? Amazon gets worse each day…
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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
WHATEVER THEY'RE PAYING THE ASSASSIN'S CREED SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER ITS NOT ENOUGH
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
🔑 under-discussed point — why they were on signal:
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colinyates.co.uk @colinyates.co.uk · 26/03/2025
(Last one, promise!). www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJxr...
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Josh Groban - You Raise Me Up (Official Music Video) [HD Remaster]
YouTube video by Josh Groban
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colinyates.co.uk @colinyates.co.uk · 26/03/2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3Yr...
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Aerosmith - Love In An Elevator
YouTube video by AerosmithVEVO
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colinyates.co.uk @colinyates.co.uk · 26/03/2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjD3...
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Yazz - The Only Way Is Up (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by YazzVEVO
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colinyates.co.uk @colinyates.co.uk · 23/03/2025
I played squash earlier today with my overfly-fit, swimming-and-gym addicted 6’5” 15 year old. I hurt everywhere. Everywhere.
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colinyates.co.uk @colinyates.co.uk · 20/03/2025
You should post this on “reddit”…. #terribleAwfulEmbarassingDadPun
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colinyates.co.uk @colinyates.co.uk · 20/03/2025
Somewhere along the line Apple lost the “fun” element and became bland, slow, and unfun. I miss the awesome welcomeAfterInstall screens and fun UIs of yesteryear.
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colinyates.co.uk @colinyates.co.uk · 20/03/2025
And kids these days think they have it tough :-)
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colinyates.co.uk @colinyates.co.uk · 20/03/2025
The universe obviously wants you to build a tree house :-)
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colinyates.co.uk @colinyates.co.uk · 19/03/2025
Has anyone seen the real @teamlabouruk.bsky.social party? Withholding winter fuel, penalising the ill, suppressing jobs, no new safe and legal routes, protecting the rich… I thought the nasty Tory Party lost the election!
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colinyates.co.uk @colinyates.co.uk · 19/03/2025
Why is “no innocent Israeli nor Palestinian should suffer for their leaders” such a controversial view? Killing women and kids is wrong, full stop. “Well what should they?” No idea. Honestly. But I know they shouldn’t do this.
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colinyates.co.uk @colinyates.co.uk · 19/03/2025
@nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social awesome effort on Politics Live. You kept your cool with that awful hypocrite who was the only one “one siding” the argument. October the 7th was a horrific terrorist attack. It’s not a blank piece of paper to do criminal war acts. Palestinians aren’t Hamas.
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colinyates.co.uk @colinyates.co.uk · 17/03/2025
FirstWorldProblem, but I’m appalled at Amazon Prime Video’s adverts, even for paid Prime members. Watching Wheel of Time but it’s ruined by multiple really loud ads each episode, that jar you out of the vibe. Rage inducing. A real crappy move Amazon. Yet another reason to not renew Prime.
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