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Phil John @philjohn.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

So much simpler to get into than photoshop, I loved it for how simple yet powerful it was.

Phil John @philjohn.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Not sure but when I helped build the new CRM platform at TripAdvisor I know the email template team worked DAMN hard to get ALL calls to action in that top 120KB

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Phil John @philjohn.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Now how, this could very well be where Ryanair flies to when they say “Brussels” is the destination.

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Phil John @philjohn.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

That’s fair, I’m definitely of the opinion that if something is worth the money, I’m willing to pay. The electro verse app is also decent.

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Phil John @philjohn.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

The real answer is to use ABRP.

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Phil John @philjohn.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Laughs in pager system running in us-east-1 But for real, no longer having to be on call is so damn peaceful.

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Phil John @philjohn.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Ah, this should be simpl…. Oh no … daylight savings time … ah, losing records because fsync takes too long to write … ah … dealing with running out of disk space ………. Oh no ……

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Phil John @philjohn.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

If I’m … board … later I’ll have to check them out.

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Phil John @philjohn.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

I bet he feels like a right plank

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Phil John @philjohn.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Wonder if his flooring business will suffer?

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Phil John @philjohn.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

If you wanted to institute a movement to deliberately damage the UK I couldn’t think of a better one.

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Phil John @philjohn.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Correct - we’re no longer part of a supra national trading and political block and are therefore far more exposed, unlike last time. This is about survival.

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Phil John @philjohn.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Or rather he knows Mandelson is a snake, but he’s the right person for the job. We seem be doing pretty well compared to other nations under the second administration.

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Phil John @philjohn.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Especially as the last death from smallpox was a medical photographer in a lab that still had samples being infected.

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Phil John @philjohn.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

The mass media WANT a reform government. The capital owners have decided they want even more of the pie, and to operate with close to zero regulations and pesky things like “health and safety” or “human rights”. The media is complicit.

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Phil John @philjohn.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Same - regularly get their electric bill, medical appointment (and even test trusts!) emails and more.

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Phil John @philjohn.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Yeah - very well reviewed is the EV6, comfortable, roomy, good handling, super fast charging. The E-GMP platform is fantastic (shared with Hyundai), good range etc etc. Sorry it doesn’t pass your snob test.

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Phil John @philjohn.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Small technical correction, if stored on traditional hard drives (spinning rust) they will be consuming energy and requiring cooling (which uses water) as data center drives typically don’t get spun down. Apart from that, yes, it wouldn’t really make a dent.

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Phil John @philjohn.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

“If we stay quiet she might not notice!”

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Phil John @philjohn.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

I bet they were excited and thought they’d have a fun day at mums work!

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Phil John @philjohn.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

It’s a well known phenomena sadly - we’re so ridiculously busy and running on auto pilot most of the time. Heck - I was half way to work on the train once when I suddenly couldn’t remember if I dropped my child off at daycare. Doesn’t excuse it, but the human brain is pretty fallible.

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Phil John @philjohn.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

“I could take him blindfolded” “And what if he’s not wearing a blindfold?” Just exquisite punnery!

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Phil John @philjohn.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Sorry, Bobby, no sax before a fight.

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Phil John @philjohn.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

The documentary is called “Right Here, Right Now” m.imdb.com/title/tt2645... It’s £1.99 on Apple TV and Prime.

m.imdb.com

Right Here, Right Now (2023) ⭐ 7.2 | Documentary

1h 29m

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Phil John @philjohn.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

No way, Jose! Also love it because it forms a key part of my homeland security with tang and Clevis providing network bound disk encryption of various ZFS pools.

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Phil John @philjohn.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

It creeps up on you out of the blue sometimes, doesn’t it? Coming up to 2 years for me. The best metaphor I found was the grief box and ball hospiscare.co.uk/how-we-help/... Hope you’re able to focus on happy memories to remember him, despite the grief.

hospiscare.co.uk

Why grief is like a ball in a box

The local hospice for the heart of Devon

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Phil John @philjohn.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Three words: Kickass Proxmox Cluster

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Phil John @philjohn.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Finally got around to prettying up the homelab rack. Also great having a child with a 3D printer to replace a missing UPS bezel!

A server rack, from top to bottom UniFi Dream Machine Pro, UniFi USW-48-Pro-PoE, Custom 2U server, APC UPS with 3D printed bezel.

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Phil John @philjohn.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

I remember using “trackers” back in the day, there’s some modern versions floating around like OpenMPT en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenMPT

en.m.wikipedia.org

OpenMPT - Wikipedia

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Phil John @philjohn.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

One thing that stopped me for the longest time was the train to London tilts around fast corners which gave me motion sickness. Thankfully someone came up with a MacOS app that pairs to your phone’s gyro to display motion cues which has solved it for me! A privacy screen is a must though.

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Phil John @philjohn.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Only time I use my laptop as a laptop is when working on the train on the way in and out of work, or taking notes in a meeting. Rest of the time it’s plugged into a Thunderbolt dock and driving 2 monitors and with a physical keyboard and mouse.

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Phil John @philjohn.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

They’re annoyed we’ve not weakened our food standards so our farmers can’t sell to the EU cutting trade with them even more. Brexit uber alles, even if it decimates the fishers, and farmers, and anyone else.

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Phil John @philjohn.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Also a reason not to use smart sockets/plugs with inductive loads - inrush current kills them fast.

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Phil John @philjohn.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Attached a kill-a-watt (or similar) to things to check the power draw? I’ve “only” got a 3080 TI but that thing can spike pretty high.

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Phil John @philjohn.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Can’t go wrong with a Bambu P1S, my 18 year old son has one and the prints are great. A little bit of kerfuffle lately with their security enhancements, but for the happy path it just works. Add in the AMS and you can do some really fun multi colour prints.

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Phil John @philjohn.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

When they got rid of Quip at Meta a load of us were annoyed as hell because it’s just better for writing IMHO. Glad my new employer uses it.

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Phil John @philjohn.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Philomena Cunk writes for the NY Times now?

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Phil John @philjohn.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

It doesn’t fit the talking points of the gas and oil industries … one could draw the conclusion from there.

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Phil John @philjohn.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

You forget that Republicans follow Supply Side Jesus’s teachings and not actual Jesus.

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Phil John @philjohn.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

The same way that EVs have been made political. Monied interests, from the oil and gas industries, sowing discord to prevent their cash cow being threatened.

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Phil John @philjohn.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Yeah, and in the 18th century we were all in on Miasma theory. Times change, and we learn more.

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Phil John @philjohn.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

They saw what the tariffs did to soybean farmers last time and voted for more of the same. At some point people need to learn, maybe second times the charm.

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Phil John @philjohn.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Maybe they’ll have to agree to export limitations to “unfriendly nations”.

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Phil John @philjohn.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I hope you sue ... since their defamation laws are descended from those in the UK they're a lot stronger than in the US. IANAL though.

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Phil John @philjohn.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Also Taft and the “right to work” bill which neutered unions.

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Phil John @philjohn.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

With the opioid epidemic I wouldn’t be surprised if pharmaceuticals are the third leading cause of death. But of course, he just takes that number and tries to claim all medications are bad.

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Phil John @philjohn.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Ah yes - you’re 100% right, I missed the “mr president” line at the start and assumed it was an older conversation. Thanks for the correction!

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Phil John @philjohn.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

That’s exactly how it works. And the poorer you are, the more of your income you have to spend on “stuff”. So it’s explicitly a tax on the poor.

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