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Craig T

@igobycraig.uk
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Tech gopher. Developer. Musician. Cyberpunk. Semi-rural Scot. Github: github.com/JockByTheSea

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Shaundai Person @shaundai.com · 13/08/2025
Every single time I get a rare, quiet moment to myself, I use it to remember something embarrassing I did a long time ago
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Craig T @igobycraig.uk · 13/08/2025
Folks who don't use music streaming services: where do you discover new music and curate playlists? Thinking of binning Spotify
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Craig T @igobycraig.uk · 13/08/2025
Thus starts and ends my clinical ADHD journey in Scotland, because I'm not desperate enough to kill myself and am, therefore, not worthy of help from the NHS
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The Register @theregister.com · 08/08/2025
Prohibition never works, but that didn't stop the UK's Online Safety Act
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Prohibition never works, but that didn't stop the UK's Online Safety Act
Will someone think of the deals politicians are making? Opinion  You might think, since I write about tech all the time, my degrees are in computer science. Nope. I'm a bona fide, degreed historian, which is why I can say with confidence that the UK's recently passed Online Safety Act is doomed to fail.…
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Craig T @igobycraig.uk · 07/08/2025
I would like to get off the Growth At All Costs ride please. If we could spend some time on the Ticking Along Nicely Making Cool Stuff attraction instead, that'd be swell
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Keff 🍊 @kefyor.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Every UK petition is like this
Mockup drawing of a UK parliament petition where the petitioner has asked for "good thing please" with description "we think the UK needs this".
Government responded: "No."
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Alastair Παν 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇷🇪🇺 @alastair-pandelus.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Electricity transmission costs across the UK, note they are negative in the south of England, most expensive the north of Scotland. Yet zonal electricity, which might redress some of this, has been rejected. This is holding Scottish industry back, and consumers will ultimately be paying for this.
Electricity transmission charges UK
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Julian @fettstorch.dev · 17/07/2025
Just learned that in Vi you can use 'zz' to scroll the editor view so that the cursor is centered. So i immediately remapped {,},n,N to always center the cursor after a 'jump'. Feels great! I'd be happy to hear about your favorite vimrc configs! #vi #vim #vimrc
shows a snippet from a .vimrc file with the following instructions:
" Center the view after jumping to the previous/next paragraph
nnoremap { {zz
nnoremap } }zz

" Center the view after jumping to the next/previous search result
nnoremap n nzz
nnoremap N Nzz

this remaps the {,},n and N actions in normal mode to just also execute zz
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henry ✷ @strange.website · 15/07/2025
i've been hacked?!!! someone keeps spending all my money on vintage furniture and motorcycle parts
The author, a white man wearing a baseball cap, looking over his shoulder, distressed, as an offscreen person threatens him with a gunThe offscreen person with the gun revealed to have been the author all along.
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William Duguid @williamduguid1.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
'The current energy pricing system doesn’t work, and zonal pricing is the only option on the table that would fix it. There is no other plan - as can be seen by them scrabbling around now to try to cobble one together.' via Common Weal www.commonweal.scot/...
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The failure of the UK Government to adopt zonal pricing plays politics with power — Common Weal
Ed Miliband is reported to have ruled out switching the UK’s energy transmission and distribution network (“the Grid”) to a system of “zonal pricing”, according to the Guardian . If this is your first time hearing about this, the current grid system is largely based on reliance on coal and gas. It
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Philip Drobar @philipdrobar.northsky.social · 28/11/2024
Had to bring this banger over from Mastodon.
Crying Wesley Snipes meme (he's aiming a revolver off screen). Caption reads: " When the nice indie software begins to tell you how to "supercharge your productivity" and a sparkle icon appears
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Craig T @igobycraig.uk · 30/06/2025
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a man in a space jam jersey stands on a court
ALT: a man in a space jam jersey stands on a court
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Kasey Kagawa @punkey.org · 19/06/2025
So Starship Ship 36 just detonated *before* the static fire test - fueled and waiting for the test. Looks like the top tank lets go and sets off the whole stack. It would be bad enough if it let go during the static fire test, but it just blew up. And it's cooking off the fuel tanks on the pad.
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Craig T @igobycraig.uk · 15/05/2025
Where are we on the, hypothetical, Mass tech layoffs to Cyberpunk dystopia pipeline?
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Large Heydon Collider @heydonworks.com · 01/12/2024
The real problem with AI art is it is all one specific genre. Theoretically it's a really broad concept: art that's created by an artificial intelligence rather than an organic one. In practice, it's oversaturated pictures of people with freckles who look like they've been dipped in cum.
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Jorge (he/him) @motoridersd.pug.ninja · 14/05/2025
An article titled "How the Web Became Unreadable", posted on Medium. There is a soft paywall asking you to sign in, covering most of the article.

Screenshot found on Mastodon https://beige.party/@mayintoronto/114497234942335666
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henry ✷ @strange.website · 12/05/2025
i think it’s Good for a person to occasionally scroll feverishly on one of the Attention Apps for multiple hours, ideally until they’re dehydrated and their eyelids and teeth ache. it replenishes the spirit, the Salt of a man. our bodies and minds were designed, nay: honed, for just such a purpose
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Craig T @igobycraig.uk · 10/05/2025
Such a nice day that I went onto the balcony to play video games. It's such a sun trap I basically cooked myself in the 15 minutes I was out there lol lmao even
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Max Böck @mxb.dev · 10/05/2025
Publish your sites directly from Figma! Let AI write your blog posts! Vibe code your authentication layer! Eat protein paste instead of food! Stop showering and shit your pants! 🎉 Path of least resistance 2025!
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Craig T @igobycraig.uk · 09/05/2025
Great post by Andy here. Designing in the browser forces you to consider state. Recently I've seen things like cart buttons with no design for what happens when you click it. Does it open a modal? Navigate away? Prototypes in the browser bring this to the fore. piccalil.li/blog/the-tim...
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The time for designers to learn to code is now
With design tools further commoditising and sanitising expected creative output, the time for designers to be able to stand out is very much here. I think for some, learning to code is a good route fo...
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Richard Rutter @clagnut.com · 09/05/2025
"you can stand out as a designer by learning to code. I’m not talking about writing production code with developers here. [...] I’m talking getting a good understanding of How Things Work" Wisdom (as ever) from @bell.bz piccalil.li/blog/the-tim...
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The time for designers to learn to code is now
With design tools further commoditising and sanitising expected creative output, the time for designers to be able to stand out is very much here. I think for some, learning to code is a good route fo...
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John Aggs @johnaggs.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
I would recommend the TOTAL METAL exhibition, on the history of Swedish Metal, at kulturhuset in central Stockholm. It’s super fun, even if you’re not a metalhead.
A costume for some pope ghost guy i dunnoA tank with miniguns and a drumkit attached because hey, why notA stage outfit of a famous swedish metal band that i shall embarrass myself by not knowing the name of. Please don’t deport meAn expertly recreated bedroom of a teenage swedish metalhead in which you can practically smell the hormones and encrusted socks
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cool molly @rainforests.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
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Craig T @igobycraig.uk · 08/05/2025
It's a self-facilitating media node kind of day.
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a woman in a yellow shirt is walking down a sidewalk next to a man in a blue shirt
Alt: a man in a yellow shirt is walking down a sidewalk with flip-flops attached to his head. Another man rides a tiny bicycle down the street
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Craig T @igobycraig.uk · 07/05/2025
TIL you can actually uninstall facebook from Android phones and not just the updates
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henry ✷ @strange.website · 07/05/2025
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Craig T @igobycraig.uk · 06/05/2025
Born to irradiate my noggin. Forced to DIY a solution
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konnaire @konnaire.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Me after commenting 'ship it' on a Jira ticket that's been outstanding for 8 weeks
Dark image of a man holding a coffee and smoking
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Craig T @igobycraig.uk · 01/05/2025
Considering responding to LinkedIn ragebait about AI from some venture capitalist and then deciding not to, followed by realising LinkedIn is a content farm of shit opinions is very freeing, emotionally.
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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
I dunno, man, the "you guys are being too mean to the plagiarism machines that stole all your work and were created to try to replace you so rich people don't pay you a tiny fraction of their wealth for it" posters popping up are pretty funny
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Craig T @igobycraig.uk · 25/04/2025
In my lane. Centered. Moisturised. Happy. Vibin' Then Andy happens
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Vladimir, STAHP omg lol I'm so sick of you 💀 you're so annoying DONNNNT lol no really like cut it out lol u always take it too far anyhow you wanna play cod later lol
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dash. @dashiellwood.com · 24/04/2025
The UK has got to be the only country in the world that is politically held hostage by like 15 newspaper columnists that basically nobody reads
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srrrse @without.boats · 23/04/2025
I know a lot of the misconceptions about LLMs are just political conflicts playing out, but I wonder if we couldn’t have avoided some of the bullshit if we had understood this technology as “guessing” rather than “answering”
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Hey! Presents @heypresents.com · 04/03/2025
All Day Hey! 2025 Tickets and schedule out now: heypresents.com/conferences/... 📅 Thurs, 1st May 2025 ⏰ 09:00 - 17:00 BST 📍 Everyman Cinema, Leeds, UK 👥 Developers, designers, and technology leaders 🔖 Curated single-track programme 🎙️ 8 industry-focused talks 🧃 Post-event networking with social
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Craig T @igobycraig.uk · 22/04/2025
"Your parcel has been lost to The Void"
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Joe Lanman @joelanman.com · 19/04/2025
If a job ad doesn't have the salary, I don't share it. I know many others do the same, so frustrating that this practice continues
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henry ✷ @strange.website · 17/04/2025
"we're using tailwind to solve our CSS problems" very cool i'm using cigarettes to solve my stress problem
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Craig T @igobycraig.uk · 15/04/2025
*stumbling in, caked in grime, clothing frayed and with a thousand yard stare* It's bad news. This still isn't the year of Linux on the desktop
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henry ✷ @strange.website · 15/04/2025
we may never recover from the irreconcilable brain damage dealt to us by the leaden fist of Agile Methodology
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Ana Tudor @anatudor.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Nobody wants to install your stupid app. Have a functional website instead.
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Trey Bastian @treybastian.com · 13/04/2025
We live in Scotland, there is no reliable voice assistance.
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a bald man with braces on his teeth is looking up at the word eleven
ALT: a bald man with braces on his teeth is looking up at the word eleven
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Janelle Shane @janelleshane.com · 13/04/2025
1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but 2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but 3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So 4. Now the LLM code points to malware.
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Craig T @igobycraig.uk · 08/04/2025
Should probably just stop looking at my pension app for a bit tbqhwy
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Craig T @igobycraig.uk · 08/04/2025
What a week, huh?
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
At this rate MAGA will only be able to afford to rent the libs.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 04/04/2025
just one more recession bro i swear i can stop whenever trust me just let me have one more recession
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