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Dom Barnes @dombarnes.com · 23/06/2026

I currently have no strong feelings about Andy Burnham. I don’t know a ton about him. But I do think his potential grasp for PM should be contested, if only so that there is a choice. Wouldn’t it be funny if Corbyn and Millibamd threw their names in the hat too tho

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Dom Barnes @dombarnes.com · 20/06/2026

When she is dozing off and gathered enough energy to utter one or two more words before she’s asleep ❤️🥰

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Dom Barnes @dombarnes.com · 08/05/2026

Wild split in the Brum elections. 6 remaining to be called. Labour didn’t do themselves any favours this year with all the bin strikes.

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Dom Barnes @dombarnes.com · 03/05/2026

When I’m building UI I try and start with raw html, but when building tables you inevitably need sorting and pagination. I’ve got a decent StimulusJS setup but I feel the resistance in having to go and add to every table I have.

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Dom Barnes @dombarnes.com · 24/04/2026

The kid is reading herself Fox in Socks at bedtime. Top choice.

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Dom Barnes @dombarnes.com · 25/02/2026

My kid has picked out a name for the cat. The cat we don’t have yet. So I guess we’ll be getting a cat soon 🐈‍⬛

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Dom Barnes @dombarnes.com · 17/02/2026

Think I’ve finally got the fix for a redis instance maxxing and just flushing all its entries. Web host pings / every minute or so to keep processes alive (and health checks) and each time, new session, new cache entry. Let’s see what the charts are like tomorrow.

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Dom Barnes @dombarnes.com · 09/01/2026

Big feature release today over @trilbytv.co.uk Been a long project but our new calendar view is now available for your planning and organising your digital signage. This has been the big work we've been doing for months, starting a migration to a new frontend framework

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Dom Barnes @dombarnes.com · 07/01/2026

I swear bsky seems to follow new people for me. Am I subscribed to something that does it for me? Was it one of those starter packs? How would I know. 196 following today for the record.

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Dom Barnes @dombarnes.com · 24/12/2025

Kids asleep. Santa dropped off the stocking. Time for the Christmas Eve Baked Camembert, my new tradition

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Dom Barnes @dombarnes.com · 17/12/2025

Just had to email my kids school cos their newsletters (maybe via their pupil management tool) is being sent via sendgrid (maybe via their SIM system) and no one did the domain validation so all the emails head right to spam. 😢

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Dom Barnes @dombarnes.com · 17/12/2025

TIL about browser System colours while debugging some blue UI elements on iPad blog.jim-nielsen.com/2021/css-sys...

blog.jim-nielsen.com

CSS System Colors

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

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Dom Barnes @dombarnes.com · 06/12/2025

Are there any good free tools for user product usage monitoring? Use clicks, Interactions etc.

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Dom Barnes @dombarnes.com · 14/11/2025

Cmd T go to file Cmd R go to symbol Cmd shift P command palette Everything else is probably wrong

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Dom Barnes @dombarnes.com · 01/11/2025

@ihnatko.bsky.social just caught an episode of MythBusters featuring a comment from an “ihnatko” about punching out of a paper bag and thought “could it be the famous Andy himself?”

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Dom Barnes @dombarnes.com · 27/10/2025

Watching LLMs try to reason with and lint Stimulus controllers is funny. Lots of “sorry let’s try another way” before it ultimately fails.

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Dom Barnes @dombarnes.com · 25/10/2025

I love Docker I hate Docker

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Dom Barnes @dombarnes.com · 24/10/2025

Thank goodness for @marcoroth.dev’s Herb linter finding SO many broken bits of html. Just goes to show how much work the browser does to fix your janky code

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Dom Barnes @dombarnes.com · 18/10/2025

Built a neat little solution for company signatures today. Until now we just had a bunch of html files I made by hand. If we change the format, every file changes. Gross. New system uses a json file with an html template and moustache placeholders and an array of data to fill in

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Dom Barnes @dombarnes.com · 12/10/2025

Problem solving with ChatGPT is great. Found some rails/redis expires_at/expires_in misconfig that explains why redis keys never cleared (think we swapped redis gems at some point) Unrelated, considering adding some redis cleaning web admin tools.

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Dom Barnes @dombarnes.com · 09/10/2025

I’m way behind on listening to Do By Friday and it took me a long time to realise that I kept getting 5 min previews of the after show from their Patreon feed. And it took me even longer (over a month) to realise my sub ended cos my card got spoofed and the payment details changed. In April.

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Dom Barnes @dombarnes.com · 05/10/2025

“We ruined the country for 14 solid years and now look at it” Not even an original idea in their heads.

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Dom Barnes @dombarnes.com · 04/10/2025

> superversive (adj.) — Said of a person: one who seeks to uplift, ennoble, and inspire others, affirming meaning, beauty, and virtue rather than undermining them. Let that be you. *unless you wanna dunk on someone you feel went against you

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TrilbyTV @trilbytv.co.uk · 01/10/2025

Black History Month is here! Celebrate with our Black Pioneers slides – easy to add on TrilbyTV or download for your school to use all year round. Check out our blog to access our resources! 👇 eu1.hubs.ly/H0ntn-W0 #BlackHistoryMonth #EdTech

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Dom Barnes @dombarnes.com · 30/09/2025

Virtue signalling works both ways. Depends on your perspectives.

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Dom Barnes @dombarnes.com · 27/09/2025

If tech is turning on “wokeism” what is it returning to? What are the ideals that aligns to? Hopefully acceptance, acknowledgement, understanding, reasoning, discussion. If it’s just coded talk for being sexist and racism and offensive, I’m not sure I’m interested in that community.

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Dom Barnes @dombarnes.com · 25/09/2025

Reached the point where I need to make a way to send a copy of every email in our systems for testing. I’m up to 41 in the list so far. And that’s skipping a bunch too.

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Dom Barnes @dombarnes.com · 22/09/2025

Got a weird case with Prosopite suggesting I add an includes to a query, and when I do and run it, the query doesn't make 1bn db calls, but prosopite tells me to remove the query and when I do, it makes 1bn db calls.

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Dom Barnes @dombarnes.com · 18/09/2025

OK now Bsky added bookmarks how do I find all the stuff I wish I’d bookmarked.

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Dom Barnes @dombarnes.com · 18/07/2025

Are there any good oauth solutions for custom providers for @nuxt.com ? Found one that seemingly has no use and doesn’t seem like it does oauth properly. And another that only supports a given list of providers, not custom. Probably need to GPT my own.

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Dom Barnes @dombarnes.com · 12/07/2025

Dear @bsky.app and other app makers, make sure your login works nicely with password managers and iOS’s 2FA code auto discovery plz

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Dom Barnes @dombarnes.com · 03/07/2025

Lost most of the day to an unexplained bug with some azure functions. Ones that used to take 10-16s now timing out after 10 mins. No obvious reason. Had deployed updates 26hrs earlier. Something just stopped.

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Dom Barnes @dombarnes.com · 12/06/2025

Doing a bit of cleanup on some old Vue components built a while ago with fetch, nice to strip out 40+ lines of code and drop in one useFetch to clean it all up. Sorting out bugs I’ve been meaning too for weeks

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Dom Barnes @dombarnes.com · 10/06/2025

Nice to get some database maintenance stuff in place. Cut the size by~80% (not that I did any of this). All these cleanup tasks buried in documentation that cause db’s to swell in size.

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Dom Barnes @dombarnes.com · 21/05/2025

Started my solo playthrough of Ghosts of the Deep dungeon. I forgot how annoying the water traversal is. Got to the boss room tho. Sounds like it’s just gonna be frustrating. #destiny2

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Dom Barnes @dombarnes.com · 19/05/2025

Is there anyone who does free hobby DB’s still? Just wanna get a personal project syncing data.

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Dom Barnes @dombarnes.com · 04/05/2025

Installing apps on the old iPad for the kid and hitting the nostalgia with some of these old defunct apps. Echofon? Fuzzle? Enigmo?

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Dom Barnes @dombarnes.com · 03/05/2025

how do i see what starter packs i clicked into

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TrilbyTV @trilbytv.co.uk · 02/05/2025

Join the #TrilbyTV team at 10:00 (BST) on Wednesday 21st May for an inspiring panel discussion with #UnitedLearning, where we’ll reveal how to run a successful, in-depth review of #DigitalSignage across your #MultiAcademyTrust 👇 buff.ly/EKOGTJV #Webinar #EdTech #MAT

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Dom Barnes @dombarnes.com · 25/04/2025

Wondering if it’s a good time to bust out some classic stickers #newrelic #ember #twitter

Photo of stickers for Chrome, Twitter, Stripe, Basecamp, New Relic and Ember

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Dom Barnes @dombarnes.com · 22/03/2025

TIL what the slot on the back of a #pentax camera was for. My dad had (has) one from when ie as a kid. Staple of every family trip

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Dom Barnes @dombarnes.com · 21/03/2025

There’s an irony to Birmingham Council sending out a leaflet with my council tax about new recycling bins (now theres 4/5) when our current bins haven’t been collected in 2 months?

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Dom Barnes @dombarnes.com · 21/03/2025

Using ChatGPT to create macros for Google Sheets docs to save a bunch of manual work is exactly how AI can replace my job. Not my whole job, just bits of it so I can do other bits of it.

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Dom Barnes @dombarnes.com · 11/03/2025

TIL Service workers on installed apps on iOS work a little differently when installed. Updates are processed behind the scenes and your sw registration may be in installing mode. stackoverflow.com/questions/55...

stackoverflow.com

ReactJs PWA not updating on iOS

I'm building a ReactJs PWA but I'm having trouble detecting updates on iOS. On Android everything is working great so I'm wondering if all of this is related to iOS support for PWAs or if my

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Dom Barnes @dombarnes.com · 11/03/2025

I might have to sort out that one job with unsafe args so I can get off Sidekiq 6!

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Dom Barnes @dombarnes.com · 10/03/2025

Yo, what happened to Chris Pirillo?

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Dom Barnes @dombarnes.com · 10/03/2025

Seeing the stream of comments on the BLM Plaza videos on X is just depressing. There’s a lot of folks posts I enjoy on there but everything outside the tech sphere is just full of negativity.

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Dom Barnes @dombarnes.com · 07/03/2025

TIL PagerDuty is built on Rails. I guess not a shock given when they started up.

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