James Vickery @jmsv.bsky.social · 12/08/2026experience: send a jar of chutney to a bunch of friends with a note saying "you just got chutney pranked" and revel in their confusion and delight 100
James Vickery @jmsv.bsky.social · 09/03/2026how do you periodically fetch hayfever stats? pollem 😎 010
James Vickery @jmsv.bsky.social · 12/01/2026was tempted to build this a while back, technically pretty straightforward but no idea how to get past the chicken/egg meetups/users hurdle 100
James Vickery @jmsv.bsky.social · 02/06/2025everyone talking about the frequency illusion nowadays 030
James Vickery @jmsv.bsky.social · 05/05/2025> Firefox makes up 90% of Mozilla’s revenue and ~85% of Firefox revenue comes from [Google paying to be the default search engine in Firefox] damn 020
James Vickery @jmsv.bsky.social · 16/04/2025I gave it a quick try by stabilising the video (DaVinci Resolve) and averaging the frames (imagemagick) – not quite readable, but feels pretty close for such a basic approach 😄 110
James Vickery @jmsv.bsky.social · 04/04/2025if you're testing a random number generator for a uniform distribution and see too many 7s, don't worry! 7 is the most random number so this is to be expected if it's doing its job properly :) 030
James Vickery @jmsv.bsky.social · 03/04/2025one of my favourite Map Men videos www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg1S...youtube.comWho Owns Antarctica?YouTube video by Jay Foreman 140
Reposted by James VickeryJess Rose @jesslynnrose.bsky.social · 12/03/2025👋 I'm doing another round of free open advice calls for folks in tech or looking to break into tech on Monday, March 17th Want to talk about your job hunt? Your career direction? Or just want to talk through how things are going? DM me for a booking link! 1128
James Vickery @jmsv.bsky.social · 04/03/2025I got the $0.20 plan with the $0.10 add-on and they charged me $0.30000000000000004 160
James Vickery @jmsv.bsky.social · 26/02/2025James' train goes through a tunnel - the message was sent but the ACK was not received 030
James Vickery @jmsv.bsky.social · 26/02/2025sometimes when I use my phone on the train I imagine myself as a character in those Alice/Bob distributed systems examples 150
James Vickery @jmsv.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Digbeth is well-known for its "rewrite it in rust" street art 030
Reposted by James VickeryFusion Meetup @handle.invalid · 17/02/2025Help needed 🙏 Unfortunately we are short on sponsorship for our event on Feb 26th and we're in danger of having to cancel the event. If any companies would like to have a last minute spot of sponsoring the event to save it, we'd love you forever 🫶 #community #tech #sponsor 125
James Vickery @jmsv.bsky.social · 26/01/2025(at least I _think_ that's roughly why onSuccess is being deprecated, but not sure) @tkdodo.eu any chance you have an answer for this use-case? bsky.app/profile/tkdo... 120
James Vickery @jmsv.bsky.social · 26/01/2025was thinking about the same thing yesterday - I used to use useQuery's onSuccess with form.setValue which didn't feel toooo bad but onSuccess is being deprecated for similar reasons to why useEffect is bad, so (ironically) I've switched to useEffect 120
James Vickery @jmsv.bsky.social · 23/12/2024not a biologist, but since it's on Java you could sandbox it to a new JVM instance to be safe 180
James Vickery @jmsv.bsky.social · 02/12/2024you can get far with an Intel Pentium with the added benefit of learning patience 010
James Vickery @jmsv.bsky.social · 02/12/2024even more beautiful than my Inspiron! 😅 I've never had the pleasure of using a ZX Spectrum and tbh I'd have no idea where to start 010
James Vickery @jmsv.bsky.social · 01/12/2024a beautiful machine (until it fell off a music stand) 170
James Vickery @jmsv.bsky.social · 27/11/2024welcome! I did much the same - find a few people and scroll through their following list 😄 bsky also has starter packs which can be handy! here's a great one by @megaslippers.net: go.bsky.app/QbHxYeJgo.bsky.appWest Midland HeroesJoin the conversation 120
James Vickery @jmsv.bsky.social · 19/11/2024media.tenor.coma cartoon penguin with the name james on the bottomALT: a cartoon penguin with the name james on the bottom 040
James Vickery @jmsv.bsky.social · 14/11/20241 week until Fusion! 🩷🩵💛 meetup.thefusionhub.co.uk/events/meetu...meetup.thefusionhub.co.ukFusion Meetup – 21st November 2024 MeetupFusion Meetup: Fusion is a Birmingham-based tech meetup, bringing the community together over great food for a social evening of tech talks aimed to inspire and educate 030
James Vickery @jmsv.bsky.social · 24/10/2024why can I write `color: gray` and `color: grey` but not `colour:` 😤 000
James Vickery @jmsv.bsky.social · 11/09/2024shame, I was just choosing which 808 kick to use for my "Too Much JavaScript" type beat 020
James Vickery @jmsv.bsky.social · 16/07/2024that's all you ever need nowadays you just write `// really good button` and hit tab a bunch of times 010
James Vickery @jmsv.bsky.social · 17/06/2024true, that's probably too early let students make a mess of syncing virtualenvs and node_modules to Dropbox in first year and then teach git in the second year maybe 100
James Vickery @jmsv.bsky.social · 17/06/2024noooo we did good, but just for a smol number of people – it should've been prioritised in the course 100
James Vickery @jmsv.bsky.social · 08/01/2024currently looking at building one 👀 what components did you go for? 110
James Vickery @jmsv.bsky.social · 13/08/2023back in the good ol' days when I got my first laptop, I used this wallpaper that came pre-installed with Windows 7 never knew where it was – nice nostalgic surprise when I stumbled into it one day a while after moving to Birmingham windowswallpaper.miraheze.org/wiki/… 130
James Vickery @jmsv.bsky.social · 07/08/2023it is here sometimes but it keeps switching between platforms 010
James Vickery @jmsv.bsky.social · 03/08/2023seems most API client apps have paid plans for syncing collections, and then make it difficult or impossible to store collections in a custom folder :( think this is true at least for Insomnia and HTTPie, both of which I otherwise quite like 100
James Vickery @jmsv.bsky.social · 08/07/2023engagement hacking on threads already seems worse than it ever was on twitter - some big brain influencer will post "Pineapple on Pizza? 🤣🍍🍕" or something and someone I followed on instagram 8 years ago is debating for their life in the replies 140
James Vickery @jmsv.bsky.social · 05/07/2023Threads™ sounds great because if there's one thing we need right now it's another Twitter 130
James Vickery @jmsv.bsky.social · 26/06/2023my plan is not to advertise codes but gift them to unsuspecting friends 100
