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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

It’s October 1 — the Maryland Online Data Privacy Act takes effect today! Do you know where the personal data lives in your organization? What tools are you using to track this and maintain records?

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

My absolute favorite thing about gnarly, hard-to-fit thumbbreakers of a bike tire are when you finally get it on and realize they’re directional… in the other direction.

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

lol. Mike & Molly’s needed this sign instead of my dumb ass yelling at people.

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Slightly diminish a band: My Weekend with the Thrill Kill Kult

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Punk rock is DIY; it isn’t DAIY

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Happy flying ant day to those who celebrate.

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

On football sundays, my local bar in Durham would line up the Bloody Mary mixers and at noon sharp would go down the line pouring the vodka. 😅

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

I know right? I’m putting a new BB in — it’s actually BB86, not 386evo but my eye can’t not twitch when I see that standard as if it’s an old intel chip with some accelerator.

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

I’m in bicycle mechanic hell

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Natalie Marleny @nataliemarleny.com · 13/05/2025

Gitlip Launch 🌷🚀 @gitlip.com is an all-in-one coding platform for shipping micro apps 👼💫 It features: 🌷Git repositories, 🤝 collaborative and ✨ AI assisted coding and ☁️serverless deployments. No login required to try out!

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

If you find yourself in Cambridge, HMU for recommendations

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

How different (or similar) was the end result to the ripped up script?

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

I am a smashburger convert. Thank you to @jason.energy for the semiregular social media prompts.

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Down the road from my grandparents’ place in Southern Illinois, a kid brought his black friend around to go fishing. The first time, somebody spray painted slurs on his house. The second time, they burned it down.

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Natalie Marleny @nataliemarleny.com · 08/04/2025

Celebrating by watching @ethomson.bsky.social’s really cool talk on hidden Git features and functionality at NDC London last week youtu.be/DZI0Zl-1JqQ

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You Don’t Know Git - Edward Thomson - NDC London 2025

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Ryan @blog.kilasuit.org · 03/04/2025

Enjoyed watching "You Don't Know Git" by @ethomson.bsky.social from #NDCLondon2025 who I was very lucky to meet on route to Techorama BE in 2019 (oh so long ago) However does Ed know about the amazing things @mrpowershell.bsky.social's ugit #PowerShell module can do youtu.be/DZI0Zl-1JqQ ...?

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You Don’t Know Git - Edward Thomson - NDC London 2025

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I’m feeling very spoiled by this week of drinking midwestern and west coast IPAs in America.

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Boiling out the CO2 so that it’s not just warm, it’s also flat.

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

My Waitrose started carrying them — and if yours didn’t, I have a place in Shoreditch.

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Me in the national security team group chat

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

We’ll be in Chicago for a visit in two weeks; can’t wait for Pequod’s!

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Two great examples; how does a tastemaker scale out from creating a single product to keeping it consistent throughout an entire org? Careful hiring for taste? An iron fist? A little bit of both?

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

What’s an example of a developer tool with “great taste”? And why? What does that phrase mean to you?

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

The job/school applications in UK are a total trip. I’m “White - Other”. 😬

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I went deep (to 2016’s “Oral Tradition…”, if not earlier), but my viewing was not exhaustive. I’ll watch this one tomorrow. 🙏

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

No, thank you for this event. Coincidentally, I recently fell down a rabbit hole of @bcantrill.bsky.social videos from monktoberfest and it made me both want to go to monki gras *and* work for oxide. (Moreso.)

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I’m sorry that I can’t make it this year, but you should. It was *outstanding* last year.

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Laissez les bons temps rouler!

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Haha I know; it’s just punishing to spend time debugging somebody else’s code, fixing somebody else’s code, waiting for the maintainer to finally get around to merging your fix, and then… getting “unknown error”.

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

The new tab page in Safari is … a decision. How does Apple break *mobile scrolling* - didn’t they invent it?

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

I would love that. I’m traveling this week but back home next if you want to chat!

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

I mean, yes, but also, what are you talking about? I remember doing Build with you and the nice lady brought you back to do your makeup and I was like, who needs makeup less than Emily goddamn Freeman?

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

The much newer Cray X1 is a bit more than twice as fast as *that*, at 12 GFLOPS. But it’s also 300,000x more expensive in inflation adjusted dollars, so I’m pretty happy with the performance per pound. 🤣

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Good question; my goal is to set it up like my first work computer at NCSA was configured; a Cray Y-MP running UNICOS. In that case, the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W is about twice as fast (5.10 GFLOPS).

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Update: she’s still at the shop trying to get out; poor girl…

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

It’s the leakiest of fucking abstractions. When you rebase, you (unbeknownst to you, unless you’re a git fucking developer) switch branches and start cherry picking. So you switch branches and cherry pick your original branch onto the other. Because fuck you, that’s why.

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

My favorite is in rebase, where it’s reversed, and ours is theirs and theirs is ours.

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luke karrys @lukekarrys.com · 20/02/2025

whenever i try to use `--ours` vs `--theirs` in git:

bart simpson standing in front of a smoky the bear machine with the text:

YOU PRESSED "YOU," REFERRING TO ME. THAT IS INCORRECT. THE CORRECT ANSWER IS YOU.

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Poor kid hasn’t figured out how to quit vi.

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Martin Woodward @martin.social · 14/02/2025

Sure, chocolates are nice and all but why not show your favourite open source projects how much you love them by sponsoring them today! github.blog/open-source/...

github.blog

Support the open source projects you love this Valentine’s Day

You can help provide much-needed support to the critical but often underfunded projects that keep your infrastructure running smoothly.

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patak @patak.cat · 14/02/2025

send a few chocolates to your favorite OSS maintainer today (as a one-off sponsoring, or some flowers in a post or DM). you've no idea how much they'll appreciate you thinking about them

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

OSS maintainers: don’t sleep on your Copilot Pro subscription; I got mine through @libgit2.bsky.social

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