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Michael Ward

@michaelward.uk
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Web dev since ‘02. ❤️❤️Love Elixir. 😩Tolerate JavaScript & PHP. Your choose the pronouns. I’m happy with any of them.

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Michael Ward @michaelward.uk · 05/02/2025
Well done, always good to be recognised 👍
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Michael Ward @michaelward.uk · 13/01/2025
Ooh, hark at you 😂 (I’m insanely jealous)
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Michael Ward @michaelward.uk · 12/01/2025
And today I read this! kottke.org/25/01/want-t...
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Want to Wear a Tiny Apollo Guidance Computer on Your Wrist?
A British company is selling a wristwatch that’s a shrunk-down replica of the Apollo Guidance Computer interface that the
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Michael Ward @michaelward.uk · 09/01/2025
I got a smartphone from AliExpress that is powered by the original Apollo computer system. Doesn’t last a day before it’s out of rocket fuel and I can only call someone named Houston. Some tech just refuses to die!
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Michael Ward @michaelward.uk · 31/12/2024
Surplus of hashtags needed using before new year?
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Michael Ward @michaelward.uk · 31/12/2024
As always, the Aussies have gone early on the new year celebrations. Christmas in summer and new year at midday. What’s their game?
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Michael Ward @michaelward.uk · 28/12/2024
Dear Tim Apple, Please do not rotate the display while I’m swiping on the keyboard. Sent from my iPhone whilst lying in bed
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Michael Ward @michaelward.uk · 25/12/2024
Adobe Flash integration 🤞
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Michael Ward @michaelward.uk · 23/12/2024
Little teary taste bombs.
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Michael Ward @michaelward.uk · 18/12/2024
The first to really integrate this type of workflow (my preference would be through Github) will be on to a winner IMHO.
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Michael Ward @michaelward.uk · 18/12/2024
It's a decent workflow, but context loss is still sometimes an issue and it eats credits at a high rate. I'd like AI coding tools to adopt ways to maintain enough context about projects that they don't get lost easily.
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Michael Ward @michaelward.uk · 18/12/2024
I was able to get Windsurf to interface with GitHub tasks + projects using Github CLI, which helped me use AI to plan whilst maintaining context that often gets lost as a project progresses, as well as creating documentation that the AI can utilise.
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Michael Ward @michaelward.uk · 17/12/2024
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a little girl is sitting on a couch and making a face .
Alt: a little girl is sitting on a couch and making a face .
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Michael Ward @michaelward.uk · 15/12/2024
Sending my best wishes that you don't exit the mortal plain as a result of boredom 😝
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Michael Ward @michaelward.uk · 15/12/2024
Snarky was not the correct word to describe your post. What I feel you've done is blithely ignore the difference between communicating an idea effectively to a wide audience, versus the value of academic economic theory. Both can change the world, but from very different starting points.
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Secret Agent Number Six @designationsix.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
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Michael Ward @michaelward.uk · 15/12/2024
You’re not the first to post a snarky comment on the socials. Others have been doing it with much more panache for quite some time.
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Michael Ward @michaelward.uk · 15/12/2024
It’s still true, if you shop for durability and not for a label. Price isn’t the guarantee it once was, however.
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Michael Ward @michaelward.uk · 15/12/2024
The linter refuses to deal with the code.
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Michael Ward @michaelward.uk · 10/12/2024
Google's new quantum chip looks interesting, but quantum's big flaw is that if you look at the chip then it will never work again. 🤷‍♂️
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Michael Ward @michaelward.uk · 08/12/2024
Could do with one of them golden mace things.
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Michael Ward @michaelward.uk · 02/12/2024
It is an IEx helper. Wouldn’t imagine it would have much use in production code, but the functionality could be ripped from IEx source if needed. hexdocs.pm/iex/1.17.3/I...
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IEx.Helpers — IEx v1.17.3
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Michael Ward @michaelward.uk · 02/12/2024
Useful, wasn’t aware of the i function 🕺
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Peter Ullrich @peterullrich.com · 02/12/2024
🚨 New Blog Post 🚨 I wrote a tiny blog post about: 1. how to print out the type info of an #ElixirLang variable and 2. how to allow regexes in NimbleOptions definitions peterullrich.com/parse-regex-...
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Parse a Regex with NimbleOptions
Learn how I discovered that ~r-sigils return Regex structs and how to include regex patterns as valid input in NimbleOptions.
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Michael Ward @michaelward.uk · 09/07/2023
No pattern matching feels like lots of time wasted.
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Michael Ward @michaelward.uk · 08/07/2023
Not sure I’ve fully grokked how to utilise it, but any programming language that is tolerant of failure by design is a language that I’m going to enjoy. Thanks to the BEAM VM and the elixir programming language.
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Michael Ward @michaelward.uk · 08/07/2023
Programming with Elixir has made me feel a great deal of angst when using other, more popular, languages. Pragmatic FP for the win!
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