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Darren Fuller

@dazfuller.bsky.social
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I write code, mostly C#, Scala, or Python. It’s my job and hobby. Also playing around with electronics on raspberry pi and micro:bit. 3D printer and newbie thing creator. Father of children, Walker of cockapoo, First of his name. He/Him.

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War and Peas 🧿 @warandpeas.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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2000 AD Comics @2000ad.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Day of Dredd is coming! Don't miss creator signings across the UK plus in Prague and Portland! Details here: 2000ad.com/news/the-day...
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Darren Fuller @dazfuller.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I think if men have any kind of fruit growing dramatically from their necks, testosterone is the least of their issues
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Darren Fuller @dazfuller.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If you have a ad blocker and you're running iOS 27, make sure you go into your WiFi settings and disable the "Connectivity Assist" feature (either globally, or per network). This enabled-by-default feature will effectively bypass your ad blocker.
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2000 AD Comics @2000ad.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
#BatmanDay, is it? Ssssounds like a great time to pick up Batman/Judge Dredd: Judgement on Gotham, if you assssk ussss! Almost sold out on our webshop! bit.ly/4A89KxB
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Pull The Plug @pulltheplug-ai.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We just disrupted AI Vision, hosted by Canva in London 🔌 Join us this coming Saturday for an emergency protest in London, demanding that the Minister of AI listen to the public, not Big Tech billionaires. 🗓️Saturday 19th September ⏰1pm-3pm 🔗 Link in bio for more info
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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Where's the lie? The rest of that audience are cowards in their silence. (for the record, Bernie and AOC have been pushing for regulation on this very thing here in the States)
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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Charlotte Wainwright restoring and saving old/ancient books. www.wainwrightbookbinding.com
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Hive.co.uk @hivestores.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Looking for your next read? 📚 This is your last chance to save 10% on orders over £20 with code PAYDAY10 💛 ⏰ Ends tonight at 11:59pm ❌ Excludes digital products and items already on promotion 👉 www.hive.co.uk #Hive #BookLovers #Books #TBR #Gifts #PaydayTreat #BookDeal
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Darren Fuller @dazfuller.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
He’s right, it is a duplicate! So let’s shut down the English one and move power to the Scottish Parliament. He can’t have any issue with that right? No duplicates, saving money. What’s not to love?
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2000 AD Comics @2000ad.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Buy great comics, support real book stores — check out the 2000 AD collections and more on our @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social store bit.ly/3wQbqe7
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Rebellion Publishing Bookshop UK
From world-changing comic books to the finest in genre fiction, Rebellion Publishing is home to the legendary 2000 AD as well as over 130 years of comics history!
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Darren Fuller @dazfuller.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Needed to create a simple app to show some usage metrics with filters and a few charts. Did it all in #aspnet and used @htmx.org so the page doesn’t need to be fully reloaded when the filters are applied. codeberg.org/dazfuller/Co...
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CoPilotUsage
Github Copilot usage collector and web dashboard
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Anna ZenKen Stephens is on Patreon @annasmithwrites.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Barring a few tweaks, the cover for The Sport of Wings is almost done. The incredible Jenni Coutts is prettying up the final details, but if you want vibes, I've got vibes. Behold! #dragonbook #fantasyromance #hybridauthor
Red and black background with the words, The Sport of Wings, and, Can love survive the world's most dangerous game?
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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Did not even last a week. The fact that this made it out the door means the privacy department now works in a basement with no computers and a single stapler. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/t...
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Meta Removes A.I. Feature on Instagram After Days of Backlash
Users and Hollywood agencies raised privacy and copyright concerns about the new tool, Muse Image.
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Anna ZenKen Stephens is on Patreon @annasmithwrites.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Notes on a new deal announcement. Welcome (almost) to the world, you absolute scoundrels anna-stephens.com/2026/07/02/t...
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The Broken Binding publishing deal announced
Sweet Moonlight and the Diamond Prince are coming to steal your hearts – and your valuables It’s official! My next traditionally-published book, AN HONESTY OF THIEVES, is coming for you…
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Darren Fuller @dazfuller.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Don't mind me, I'm going to be over here getting stupidly excited about March then
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Just 3 days until my Evolution Garden is unveiled at Gardeners World Live! www.linkedin.com/posts/univer...
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Alice Roberts introduces the Evolution Garden | University of Birmingham
We are growing something extraordinary at this year’s BBC Gardeners’ World Live 2026… 🌿 Step into The Evolution Garden, an immersive show garden co-created by Professor Alice Roberts, our Professor of...
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htmx.org / CEO of Java Pants @htmx.org · 22/05/2026
happy to announce htmx 4.0 beta 4: github.com/bigskysoftwa... no major changes to core, improvements to some of the extensions including hx-live this is release candidate 2 site is at four.htmx.org enjoy!
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Naomi Novik @naominovik.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
🔎 Deerstalker hats & calabash pipes out! 🕵️ May 22nd is #SherlockHolmesDay & we’re giving away signed paperback editions of BURIED DEEP, which includes a short story featuring one of the few characters to outsmart the iconic supersleuth. See image for giveaway details. Ends on Sunday, May 24.
A white paperback edition of BURIED DEEP standing against a plain white background on top of a dark wooden surface.IMAGE CONTAINS COPY & RULES FOR BOOK GIVEAWAY.
Deerstalker hats & calabash pipes out! May 22nd is #SherlockHolmesDay & we’re giving away signed copies in two paperback editions of BURIED DEEP, which includes a short story featuring one of the few characters to outsmart Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s iconic super sleuth: “I have been beaten four times – three times by men and once by a woman.”

Are you a detective genre/puzzle mystery fan too? We’re always on the lookout to add to our mystery & thriller TBRs! Leave a comment below with your favorite for a chance to win this blue pb edition.

I’ll go first! Here are some terrific recent reads I’d love to rec to any mystery/thriller fan:

* The Claudia Lin series, by Jane Pek
* The Inheritance, by Trisha Sakhlecha
* Breathless, by Amy McCulloch

(And if you’re in London, pop in to the delightful Sherlock Holmes Museum, which is actually located at 221B Baker Street )

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To enter:

1. Follow my account (if you’re not already)
2. Like this post
3. Leave a comment with your favorite detective or mystery novel! (title & author/series, if possible)

Entries are open until Sunday, May 24 at 11:59pm ET

You must be 18 or over to enter.

Winners will be notified and contacted for shipping details via DM by @naominovik.

PLEASE NOTE: Unfortunately, we are only able to ship to the US at this time. We’re very disappointed to not be able to ship to readers overseas; thank you for understanding. 💓
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Solarbird :flag_cascadia: @moira.mastodon.murkworks.net.ap.brid.gy · 09/05/2026
here, nancy said this today, i'm pretty sure i have some followers who will want to know #NoGodsNoMasters #lol #nancy #NancyComics
Nancy of the comic strip Nancy (formerly Fritzi Ritz) wearing her traditional red bow in her hair, in a single panel from the May 9, 2026 comic, framed close up, angry and shouting with a word balloon over her head, "NO GODS, NO MASTERS!"
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Darren Fuller @dazfuller.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
I keep wanting to go to our local car boot, but then I see your hauls and think how much trouble I’d get myself into
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Darren Fuller @dazfuller.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
It's Sunday and I was updating some bits on my Pi Zero 2 and thought, damn thing is a little trooper! So I did a small write-up on it. With all the talk about bigger data centres, more processing power, it's nice to go back a bit and see what you can do with less www.dazfuller.uk/posts/2026-0...
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My hard working Pi Zero 2
I am currently writing this on my iMac. Next to me is my work MacBook Pro, and beside that is an older Microsoft Surface Pro currently running Linux Mint. Behind me is my Creality Ender 3v2 3D printer with a Raspberry Pi 3 connected to it running OctoPrint. Just to the side of me is another Raspberry Pi 3 running my secondary PiHole with Unbound as my DNS resolver (my primary is downstairs wired into the main router).
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Darren Fuller @dazfuller.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
I see a lot about people not knowing SQL or where to start, so I looked into what people can do using as few tools as possible. About a year ago DuckDB released their UI extension, I had a look to see if it's any good and what you get for free (spoiler quite a lot) www.dazfuller.uk/posts/2026-0...
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Exploring DuckDB UI
I had a little time for a change and so thought I’d spend a bit of time exploring something different. One of the things that I find weird is the number of devs who say that they “can’t do SQL”. SQL i...
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Darren Fuller @dazfuller.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Went to a garden centre today, and this lovely lady let me take some pictures while she went about her work
A bee has settled onto flower to collect pollen. The plant is bright and blooming though the background is darker because it’s a rainy day
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Darren Fuller @dazfuller.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Isn’t there some international treaty against doing that to people? And if not then why not!
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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 26/04/2026
Just sent out a newsletter! There's nothing Earth-shattering in it, just a reminder that Radiant Star is out on May 12. buttondown.com/annleckie/ar...
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Radiant Star out soon!
It’s almost time! Radiant Star is officially out on May 12th, and I’m excited for everyone to be able to read it! If you want to pre-order a signed copy, you...
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Askme @askme99.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Note that there's been no threat to sue over this statement. I know I would be suing for tens of millions if I was innocent.
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Darren Fuller @dazfuller.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Could the giant orange rapist please just fuck off. A few days would be nice, but permanent would be better. Maybe someone could throw a cheeseburger off a cliff so he jumps after it
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 12/04/2026
Latest details on the largest wind farm in the world – to power 3.3 million homes – as it prepares to connect to the grid. As renewables saved the UK £1bn in gas imports in March, Reform UK is still saying it wants to scrap Net Zero.
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World’s largest wind farm is getting plugged in
Hornsea 3 – a vast, offshore, wind farm project – has reached Norfolk, as renewables cut costs and reduce reliance on gas
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 12/04/2026
BREAKING: Victor Orban has CONCEDED to Magyar www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
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Hungary election live: Polls in Hungary close in tightly fought election after 16 years under Viktor Orbán
Prime minister has been trailing in the polls to Péter Magyar in race that could have repercussions for Europe, the US and Russia
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Darren Fuller @dazfuller.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
I finally finished writing up my Dapper and Vectors post. I got a flash of inspiration so it goes off a bit talking about FluentMigrator and sqlite-vec as well. But I had fun doing it which is surely the point #DotNet #Vectors #Dapper www.dazfuller.uk/posts/2026-0...
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Handling Vector data with Dapper
It’s been a while since I did something a little bit more fun with C# and DotNet (DROP THE DOT ✊), so I wanted to look at something I’d come across recently with one of the applications I help build, ...
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 11/04/2026
I missed this from @phineas.bsky.social when it originally came out but it sure feels relevant at the moment. Also, you can buy this as a print from the artist here: www.inprnt.com/gallery/phin...
A "wartime" poster that says: "Using Generative AI? You're Prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead! Don't surrender your creativity to the Tech Billionaires' control!"
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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Ok. Who made this? 🤭😅🤣🤣
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Darren Fuller @dazfuller.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Started reading a book recently where in the first few pages the character remembers that distance in the UK is measured in kilometres. It isn’t, and never has been. It’s one of the few things still in imperial (annoyingly)
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Darren Fuller @dazfuller.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
I recently updated my website to include a human.json file, so I wrote a quick post showing which guide I followed, and what I did differently #HumanJson www.dazfuller.uk/posts/2026-0...
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human.json
Recently I came across the human.json protocol, which is implemented to allow humans to assert ownership of site content and to vouch for the humanity of others. Given the proliferation of AI-generated slop out on the internet and seeping its way into other aspects of our lives through ads, TV and more, finding ways of vouching for genuine human content is more important than ever. Whilst the protocol isn’t a guarantee (it’s easy for AI-generated sites to create their own JSON files and vouch for each other after all), having the ability to work out if a site is vouched for by someone you trust can make a difference.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
One flew east, one flew west, one flew over the cuckoo’s nest.
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Prime Minister of Spain Pedro Sánchez: “The Government of Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they show up with a bucket.” 🍿
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Darren Fuller @dazfuller.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
I was updating my human.json file using #GoLand from @jetbrains.com It uses full-line code completion which is actually pretty good Except... It popped up while I was writing into my yaml file with an automatic suggestion for the URL. It's wrong, but I tried it Dear reader. I was rick-rolled!
A YAML file showing a URL, date, and a second URL

The first URL is for https://foosel.net and with a date of 2026-03-21. The second URL is a link to the Rick Astley, Never Gonna Give you Up video on YouTube
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alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social @alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
#Scotland runs temporarily fully on #windpower, generating over 200% of its electricity demand, a remarkable milestone offering a real glimpse into a future where fossil fuels may no longer be essential. #Renewables cheaper then #oilandgas offering independence from stock exchanges and #DoanldTrump
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Darren Fuller @dazfuller.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Just updated my iPhone and FUCK YOU #Apple
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Libro.fm @libro.fm · 27/03/2026
Hi! We're an alternative to Amazon's Audible, & here are a few things that people often don't know about us: 1. We have over 600k audiobooks in our catalog! You'll pretty much find whatever you want to read, other than Audible exclusives (but that's on them, not us)
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Dinsdale Piranha @heptaglemious.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
If you don’t want to be ridiculed as a censorious wanker, don’t remove Nineteen Eighty Four from your library. www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho...
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School book banning escalates in the UK as Greater Manchester secondary school censors scores of books - Index on Censorship
A school librarian faced a disciplinary hearing and scores of books were removed from her school library after she stocked Laura Bates’ Men Who Hate Women
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Darren Fuller @dazfuller.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Don’t try to explain why they shouldn’t be worried as well. I did that and the look of horror and concern made me start to doubt myself
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Darren Fuller @dazfuller.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
I did, mine was 3029084. I miss those days, met some great people through ICQ
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Darren Fuller @dazfuller.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Those things are real!! I saw one on Pluribus but thought it was fictional
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Naomi Novik @naominovik.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
🚨 LAST DAY!!! $1.99 sale for SPINNING SILVER ends tomorrow. Cozy up with this adventure into the lands of a frosty fae king, alongside the dauntless heroine investing his assets. 🎁Add to your library, or give a winter survival gift to a friend! Find your favorite e-bookseller at: lnk.bio/naominovik
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Anna ZenKen Stephens is on Patreon @annasmithwrites.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Certified human: anna-stephens.com/2026/03/18/h...
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Human-authored
In response to the slew of machine-generated books swamping retailers and filling up agents’ and editors’ inboxes, the Society of Authors in the UK has launched the ‘human-authore…
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Darren Fuller @dazfuller.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Wait wait… wait… They’re going to #BringBackFirefly OMG OMG OMG OMG SHINY!!!!!!!
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Hive.co.uk @hivestores.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
From Nigerian-born, London-based writer Kelechi Okafor comes Awakened - a bold, thought-provoking page-turner exploring power, spirituality, and the fight for justice. Check out Hive's Rising Writer page: ✨ www.hive.co.uk/books/rising-writers… #Hive #RisingWriters #Books
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Queen of Grimdark @annasmithspark.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
KICKSTARTER: THE IRON CODE. This July, it will be 20 years since ground-breaking author David Gemmell passed away. This book is published in his honour: 21 stories, over 100,000 words of fiction, and stunning art by Fangorn. The Kickstarter goes live on Monday 16th. Link in first comment below.
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