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James Seconde @secondej.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

when it comes to mastering, nothing beats Chinese Democracy. Nothing. It's so epically not GNR that it makes you wonder what they were doing for 15 years

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James Seconde @secondej.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Lucky to have seen them live in the Jazz cafe only about a year before Gab died

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James Seconde @secondej.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

TLDR; Conferences don't come magically out of thin air. It takes work and money.

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James Seconde @secondej.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I am reminded when a speaker who submitted to a local conference decided, while waiting to hear if the talk was accepted, that the best way to reply to the conference organisers desperately asking for sponsors was to tell everyone on a public Slack that they didn't believe in sponsoring conferences.

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James Seconde @secondej.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

TIL that Lembit Öpik, the Cheeky Girls MP, was expelled from the Lib Dems for giving a speech to Conservatives on how to combat Lib Dems, then joined Reform UK which he defended by stating, "I go where the money is".

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James Seconde @secondej.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I went down a rabbit hole with this, and decided not to retrobrite it. I bloody love this keyboard though

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James Seconde @secondej.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The school holidays are over; it's time to go into fifth gear again. First up: Frankfurt, to speak about how wannabe tech influencers are taking away our humanity.

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James Seconde @secondej.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

PHP Turned 31 this year, so I wrote up a first-half summary of the PHPVerse event which @brenttoderian.bsky.social and Jetbrains put together. developer.vonage.com/en/blog/php-... Features talks from Fabien Potencier, Elizabeth Barron, Nils Adermann, and Jonathan Bossinger.

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PHP Turns 31 and Vonage Watches PHPVerse

Learn takeaways from PHPVerse 2026: covering PHP Foundation updates, Composer supply chain security, WordPress myths, Symfony at scale, and more

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James Seconde @secondej.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I am slowly getting accustomed to MS365, but there are some UX things that are crazy anti-user. This pops up on all my emails. I don't know what it is. I want to read my email. Why is policy showing. The 'i' doesn't show more info. I now don't know if it's US date or not. You can't get rid of it.

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The PHP Foundation @thephpf.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Digital sovereignty is written in PHP. 🐘 Germany's €108M federal CMS migration, 770 EU Commission sites, 300,000 users on Nextcloud. In our latest post we examine PHP in the public sector and the funding gap that exists. thephp.foundation/blog/2026/0...

Image of the Earth at night, focused on Europe, showing the lights from the cities below. Image is from Insaanu Studio via Unsplash.

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James Seconde @secondej.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

My rhododendrons give me more joy than shareholder value. But not when my cat pisses on them. That annoys me.

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James Seconde @secondej.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I am quietly cracking on and pretending it's not happening. Because nobody can do anything. Maybe ten years ago I wouldn't have said that, but the US has just shown everyone we're toast. I like gardening. I do that in my spare time.

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James Seconde @secondej.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I mean, maybe, to be bleak because I feel bleak right now: none of it matters. I wanted to be an actor and trained in theatre. AI CEO types on video who are all classic dystopian fucking weirdos are saying that's out the window too. They're going to reign over the ashes and blame everyone else

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

“There’s a new Mr. Beast book.” You bolt awake in your workshop in Mainz. It’s 1450. You’re Johannes Gutenberg, and you’ve changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Your printing press must burn.

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API Platform @api-platform.com · 26/08/2026

There's a new sponsor in town! Many thanks to @developer.vonage.com for supporting #APIPlatformCon 2026, we're excited to have them back! Come by their booth in September to learn more about their expertise. Get your ticket: api-platform.com/con/2026/tic...

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James Seconde @secondej.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I am not at all raging that last week, to get back into Witcher III on my Steam Deck, I purchased both DLC packs, and today find out a full remastered copy is coming for free with all the DLC included.

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James Seconde @secondej.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I don't think a man who posted a fictional history of London in the 90s being much better because everyone was white is someone who is bothered about codes of conduct.

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James Seconde @secondej.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I don't need the nuclear four minute warning to tell me not to light a disposable BBQ in a park.

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James Seconde @secondej.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Are we saying we need no human element in DevRel anymore? Cos that's kinda my thing

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James Seconde @secondej.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The Dev Radio Live (Episode 19) was broadcast last Friday. Missed it? It's on Mixcloud. Check it out just for the enjoyment of the tracklist. www.mixcloud.com/mrsirrus/the...

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The Dev Radio Live 19 by TheDevRadio

Broadcast Live on Twitch, 2026-07-31

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James Seconde @secondej.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

There is a lot of terrible hiphop. There is also a lot of good hiphop. Post Metallica metal has always been something I've struggled with though. Clicks for everyone I know, but various sub genres have just never done it for me. Industrial is the closest

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James Seconde @secondej.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Surely not, this LP by Kendrick Lamar is an absolute masterpiece! It's the mumble rap shite that makes me want to throw myself out a window

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James Seconde @secondej.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I really do want to see the inevitable conclusion to this because I... No offence here, I hope you know where I'm coming from... Don't want to live in a world where I constantly have to read and take notice of absolutely fucking wild antics in US politics

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James Seconde @secondej.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

A reminder that the most influential people pushing their products onto people using their platform are talking to you as consumers, but will not be doing as they say themselves. (Unless they don't like speaking to their children)

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James Seconde @secondej.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Did not have "writing Kotlin and completing Gradle builds" on today's bingo card.

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James Seconde @secondej.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I've just finished this and I can report back that not a single person in chat commented on me dropping Charlotte Church after a psychedelic trance cover of Let's Dance by David Bowie.

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James Seconde @secondej.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Weirdly enough, pretty much my first experience of France as well. We didn't really have hypermarkets in the UK at that point, so walking into Leclerc was a total wonder

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James Seconde @secondej.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Time to get the retrobrite out.

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James Seconde @secondej.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Well, not in a bad way. She's just crackers

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James Seconde @secondej.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This one is a right banger. She turned out to be a right nutter though eh

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James Seconde @secondej.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I still marvel at my ability to cry every single time I listen to "Sometimes" by James, and there is absolutely no reason behind it.

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James Seconde @secondej.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

It's late and my typo is bad.

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James Seconde @secondej.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

That's..... No, I get you want that to be the case, Centrica, but also because we are humans you know this not the be true

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James Seconde @secondej.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Falla la la la la la, Falla la la la la Meanwhile, Cocteau Twins *mumbles in ethereal voice*

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James Seconde @secondej.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

"ah yes,the Commonwealth games. It was a great institution, my child. An actual sporting event to behold. Alas, the last great games that ever existed was in Birmingham; they crumbled after that"

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Vonage @developer.vonage.com · 23/07/2026

Underestimating the power of our elephant-shaped language is easy. Our latest video is a deep dive into how PHP went from the wild west of the web to a serious, modern language. 🎥 Here is a sneak peek - make sure to check the full interview with @secondej.bsky.social on our channel! #php

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James Seconde @secondej.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I would guess that bucketloads of clickbait and adverts that somehow circumnavigate the rules that class them as adverts, plus local news that isn't local news and the rest of the 3rd party advertising widgets that render any reach site absolutely unusable might have something to do with the drop?

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James Seconde @secondej.bsky.social · 22/07/2026