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Tobias Brandt @snth.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

President Drumpf signs $300bn war guilt clause at Versailles in front of European powers.

Tobias Brandt @snth.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

I've cancelled my @filmandseries.bsky.social subscription. "Sorry kids, but that orange 🤡 on TV is why we can't have nice things." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Tobias Brandt @snth.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

How do you pronounce Biemlfdlkk? www.economist.com/business/202...

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Tobias Brandt @snth.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Watching the F1 Grand Prix at Monza, Italy this weekend, i was struck by how much the Parabolica resembles one half of the Circus Maximus. Le plus ca change, le plus c'est la meme chose!

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Tobias Brandt @snth.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

* Rome's Senate approved sweeping constitutional changes on the Ides of February, allowing for an indefinite dictatorial term and extending it to a lifetime appointment.

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Tobias Brandt @snth.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Was just looking into some #vim history - I thought the key choices came from the Lisp Machine but it turns out it was the ADM-3A. ➕TIL that: The Home key on the ^ key may have additionally led to the establishment of the tilde ("~") as the representation of the home directory in many #Unix shells.

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Tobias Brandt @snth.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Are you ready to revolutionize your coding workflow by skipping years of learning and debugging? Introducing Essential Copying and Pasting from ChatGPT—the ultimate survival guide for developers who live life at "Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V" speed.

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Tobias Brandt @snth.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Found a neat hack yesterday and got @duckdb.org installed and working in #PythonInExcel! Still checking with the #Excel team whether this is kosher but working fine so far. 😁

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Tobias Brandt @snth.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Amiga 500 That's Workbench and you know it. Great graphics and sound compared to the 16 color EGA PCs of the day.

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Tobias Brandt @snth.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

FWIW I've settled on Hasklug (github.com/ryanoasis/ne...) for actual work. So clean! 💘

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Tobias Brandt @snth.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

DepartureMono (github.com/ryanoasis/ne...) is also great for a retro feel and I find more legible on my screen. I could possibly use this for work. Probably going to reserve it for presentations and demos though.

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Tobias Brandt @snth.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

The font for Leisure Suit Larry is BigBluTerm437 Nerd Font Mono (github.com/ryanoasis/ne...)

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Tobias Brandt @snth.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

I was wrong, it wasn't LSL that it reminded me of but rather the LucasArt SCUMM engine games like Indiana Jones ...

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Tobias Brandt @snth.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I just discovered GohuFont on nerdfonts (www.nerdfonts.com/font-downloads). Not sure how practical it is for doing actual work but it looks so cool! 😎 Feel like I'm playing Leisure Suite Larry on a C64 😅

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Tobias Brandt @snth.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

#Excel TRIMRANGE 📈 Ever wished you could get a Dynamic Array reference to a range that resizes dynamically? Enter the TRIMRANGE function! Unfortunately this is currently only available to 50% of users on the Beta channel😢 For those that can't wait I implemented it as a LAMBDA in Excel Labs. 1/2

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Tobias Brandt @snth.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Appears to be fixed, to you can track directories now.

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Tobias Brandt @snth.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I love #PixelArt like this. Need more! Best AI to generate this style? dataengineeringcentral.substack.com/p/duckdb-ins...

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Tobias Brandt @snth.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

🦋User: #27,968, Registered: 19 Apr 2023 twexit.nl/profile/tobi...

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Tobias Brandt @snth.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

That Daily New Registrations chart is quite something - just short of 1M registrations on the 14th and going to cross 20M total registrations today or tomorrow! 🦋

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Tobias Brandt @snth.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Just this morning my 2 year old illustrated the mark-and-sweep algorithm. The diaper change routine I was running at the time got suspended as I had to sweep and collect all the wet wipes. Looking forward to him learning about RAII and automatic resource cleanup. #GarbageCollection

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Tobias Brandt @snth.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

You have no voice and you must scream 😱😭

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Tobias Brandt @snth.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

Hey, that's math, not Excel.

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