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Pete Goodliffe @petegoodliffe.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Personal highlights: Greece, Bulgaria, UK, Moldova, Sweden, Norway. Our #Eurovision party consensus: UK and Croatia were joint first. Albania, Greece and Moldova were joint third.

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Pete Goodliffe @petegoodliffe.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Austria at #eurovision. Bringing the foodscape to land with pretzels. Good song vibes, and a good performance. Think this will rank highly.

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Pete Goodliffe @petegoodliffe.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Romania at #eurovision. Ciorbo de legume. A rather sour lemony soup. Not winning points here. Moore sci-fi vibes here with the song, but staged better. Rock seems to be making a comeback towards the end of the evening. Song is strong, but we struggle with the lyrical content.

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Pete Goodliffe @petegoodliffe.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Norway at #eurovision. Raspeballer - potato dumplings. Made with raw _and_ mashed potato. Right from the beginning a very strong song. Outfitted as a glamorous sanitation worker is a curious choice.

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Pete Goodliffe @petegoodliffe.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Italy at #eurovision. Ameretti biscotti and Prosecco. Strong food game. But this is a song that your holiday rep sings of an evening in the club bar.

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Pete Goodliffe @petegoodliffe.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Cyprus at #eurovision. Haloumi and Ouzo. Can't go wrong with at least one of those. Euro vibes in the song. Nice use of a table in the performance, but I feel UK did tables better.

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Pete Goodliffe @petegoodliffe.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Sweden at #eurovision. Berry cider. Song is significantly better than the alcopop. Strong light game, banging music. Sweden is definitely Swedening.

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Pete Goodliffe @petegoodliffe.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Lithuania at #eurovision. Tinginys (chocolate cake). 70s sci-fi musical.

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Pete Goodliffe @petegoodliffe.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Poland at #eurovision. Polish cheese and sausage with mint and cherry cordials followed by hazelnut chocolate. Bouncy busters are fun. Not enough musical nonsense.

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Pete Goodliffe @petegoodliffe.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Finland at #eurovision. Pinaattikeito (spinach cream soup). Surprisingly nice soup. Surprisingly nice shoes on the violinist. I feel like Finland has had stronger entries.

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Pete Goodliffe @petegoodliffe.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Moldova at #eurovision. Moldovan potato salad. A quite strong effort. Feels like we're going back to Lazy Town with this song. Go Sporticus!

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Pete Goodliffe @petegoodliffe.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

France at #eurovision. Brie accompanied by wine. Food is a typically effort strong from our chums. Dramatic song, well sung. Not sure it stands much of a chance against the competition.

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Pete Goodliffe @petegoodliffe.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

UK at #eurovision. Yorkshire Pudding and strawberries with Real Ale and Somerset Cider. COME ON SAM!!! Killing it.

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Pete Goodliffe @petegoodliffe.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Croata at #eurovision. Bean stew with spicy sausage. Glad we had subtitles on to follow what's going on here. Lord of the Rings meets Handmaids Tale.

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Pete Goodliffe @petegoodliffe.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Bulgaria at #eurovision. Banitsa (apparently a breakfast foodstuff). Weird zombie vibes here. But the song is good Eurovision vibes. Was waiting for them to ditch the small set.

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Pete Goodliffe @petegoodliffe.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Czechia at #eurovision. More beer. Tech camera error gets him some pity points, but this song isn't doing much for us.

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Pete Goodliffe @petegoodliffe.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Malta at #eurovision. Qassatat Tal-Couscous U Cicri. Not entirely sure what that island but it tastes nice. This song is a nice change of pace and feels like, with more dramatic orchestration, would make a passable James Bond theme song.

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Pete Goodliffe @petegoodliffe.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Serbia at #eurovision. Sauerkraut followed by Baklava. Seems to be a comic book version of The Darkness. I love the swagger, but the song isn't doing much for us.

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Pete Goodliffe @petegoodliffe.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Australia at #eurovision. Freddos. Not sure what the fuss is about this song - bit of a whiney Celine Dion concotion. Key change grants it point extra point.

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Pete Goodliffe @petegoodliffe.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Ukraine at #eurovision. Chicken Kiev and borscht. The song was about as much work as getting through the food.

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Pete Goodliffe @petegoodliffe.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Greece at #eurovision. Lamb kebabs with olives. Strong food play. This is the kind of Eurovision nonsense we came for. Its a 100%terrible song, but everything about this is peak Eurovision, so scores highly.

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Pete Goodliffe @petegoodliffe.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Albania at #eurovision. Ravani (a lemon cake). Strong! Song is a very earnest Bohemian Rhapsody meets horror film.

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Pete Goodliffe @petegoodliffe.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

For #3 at #eurovision, we have a celebration of the boycotting nations, featuring Dutch Edam and Spanish Anchovies with Palestinian Dates.

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Pete Goodliffe @petegoodliffe.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Germany at #eurovision. Pills with a Haribo chaser. We needed a drink to steel us for what's to come. But this performance all feels a bit gentleman's club. (Also... she's lying. she's clearly not on fire!)

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Pete Goodliffe @petegoodliffe.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Denmark at #eurovision. Bacon and Danish Blue. A strong start. Visually a distopean disco. Song is good, but more musical theatre than Eurovision.

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Pete Goodliffe @petegoodliffe.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

We're getting ready for #eurovision right now... having another of our Eurovision dinner parties with a course "from" every country in the final. Anpying updates to come for each round.

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Pete Goodliffe @petegoodliffe.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Small Prophets is a simply glorious TV programme, and massively recommended. Mackenzie Crook's writing on this is awesome. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_P...

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Small Prophets - Wikipedia

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Pete Goodliffe @petegoodliffe.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

ACCU Cambridge meet-up hosted by Roku. You’ve got to love a room full of geeks!

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Pete Goodliffe @petegoodliffe.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

I’m so proud of the talented teams who have all excelled themselves creating our latest product release. The MPC Live 3 is a triumph, fusing next-level hardware with the most performative software system we’ve ever made.

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Pete Goodliffe @petegoodliffe.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Given all the hateful nonsense and nuanced complexity in the world right now, watching Bill Bailey play The Typewriter at the proms was a valuable moment of joy.

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Pete Goodliffe @petegoodliffe.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Embarking on an epic train journey around Europe. Wish us luck…

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Pete Goodliffe @petegoodliffe.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

26 courses prepared. Now just waiting for the music to start. #eurovision

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Pete Goodliffe @petegoodliffe.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Getting ready for our annual #eurovision party. We have a “food course” for every country prepared, and now have a techno score chart to keep us updated in real time.

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Chris Oldwood @chrisoldwood.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

If you enjoyed these puns and are a glutton for punishment, I documented two similar lightning talks I did back in 2016: Continuous Delivery, and Becoming a Bitter* Programmer :o). chrisoldwood.blogspot.com/2016/04/stan... *Riffing on the title of a book by @petegoodliffe.bsky.social

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Stand-Up and Deliver

Tales of a computer programmer.

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Pete Goodliffe @petegoodliffe.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

@matt.godbolt.org heroically implements a speccy at #accuconf Great way to round out ACCU 2025.

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Pete Goodliffe @petegoodliffe.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Three nights of awesome lightning talks completed at #accuconf. Thanks to all speakers, and to everyone who endured my “wonderful” dads jokes 🥸

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Pete Goodliffe @petegoodliffe.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Daisy Holman on coding with LLMs at #accuconf. Best practices with LLMs are basically the best practices for humans. Who’d’ve thought?

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Pete Goodliffe @petegoodliffe.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Khalil Estell takes us through the benefits of exception handling in embedded systems. #accuconf

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Pete Goodliffe @petegoodliffe.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Anastasia Kazakova speaks about LLMs at #accuconf The opening keynote… this conference is a go!

Anastasia presenting the opening keynote.

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Pete Goodliffe @petegoodliffe.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Looking forward to to #ACCUConf next week. Once again, I'm running lightning talks each evening. If you'll be there and fancy submitting a 5 minute session, submit your entry here: accuconference.org/lightning

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Pete Goodliffe @petegoodliffe.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Completed Adolescence on Netflix. Powerful. Wonderful writing and execution.

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Pete Goodliffe @petegoodliffe.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Sat on a Ryan Air plane at BER with 11 more passengers than there are seats. This is an interesting journey.

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