bulstrode-wl.bsky.social
Father; history nutter; language learner; programmer; lover of semicolons;
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I want that TV in my house
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Brilliant episode again, thanks! It sounds like Napoleon really rode his luck in this campaign. I guess the quality of his troops and officers (although diminished compared to 1805) still outshone everyone on the battlefield, in a mirror image of the Royal Navy on sea
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@mikeduncan.bsky.social you’ve covered some very gnarly emperors. Who in your view is Trump closest to?
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Give Zelenskyy an unprecedented three state visits
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From the album *Mars* Audiac Quintet no less!
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Why is ‘need’ in inverted commas on the NHS website?
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The genius of a history podcast is when it takes you on a journey of total indifference to manic curiosity in the space of a couple of minutes. Well done sirs!
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One thing that I find really annoying about camelCase/PascalCase is the inconsistency of it. For example, when testing React Native components you can use the testID prop, and then use getByTestId (note lc ‘d’) in testing library. This wouldn’t be an issue with snake/kebab
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I generally follow language-specific conventions, but I always found snake case the most readable, and IDEs and editors generally prefer it to kebab-case (although you can obviously tweak settings nowadays). But in the languages I mostly code in - Typescript and PHP (PSR-2) it’s not kosher.
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Just had a conversation with my dentist about why they are asking me to pay privately for treatments that should apparently be available on my Band 1 NHS consultation (which lasted 30 seconds). Sounds like I’m one of the lucky ones.
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I think unit tests are best written by the developer (ideally at the time of writing the code), because it helps to catch all the relevant use cases as well as potential bugs at an early stage. End-to-end testing is better done by QA with no knowledge of the implementation.
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Loved it! Now I’m getting into your shows and so many rabbit holes!
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I’d love you to spend the next thirty years conscientiously writing all the works that you reference in your historiographies of the Mars series, a bit like Tolkien did with his Elvish languages and histories
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Great episode! I genuinely didn’t know how it would go so it was gripping listening!
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That’s it
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Rapid prototyping - gets in the way
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English colonialism is a disaster. Talk to anyone from Ireland. I can’t speak about Russian Colonialism but we’re experiencing that now in its fullest, craziest, vilest fom
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I’m not sure what you’re asking, but first of all I support Ukraine wholeheartedly and have lobbied by own government to provide whatever aid is necessary. Ukraine has been abandoned by the west. That is a travesty of justice and international law
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Then they had a revolution in England (properly named the wars of the three kingdoms)
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The union happened over several centuries but started when James VI of Scotland became James I of England
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At the period of the film 13-14th Century, Scotland was a separate state to England (and had been for hundreds of years). In the Saxon times, relations between England and Scotland were pretty chill. The Norman king Edward I messed that up, because he was a narcissist twat
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The British Empire was also a ne negative, and anyone who says “but the trains” are either fallacious or mandacious
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The film Braveheart is a very stirring film about national independence, absolutely nothing wrong with that. But they got so many facts wrong that it turned it into a mess.
I love history and if it doesn’t tie in with my own nation’s narrative I’m not queasy about it.
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It’s very powerful, I admit!
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Completely support you and Ukraine and Bluesky.
I love Scotland and its rich history but Braveheart is a travesty and Mel Gibson should instead be talking to Aboriginal Australians and their land rights.
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He’s a disgrace.
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I did a bad thing. I voted on Bluesky and TwXtter.
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But if it’s preferring modern but well-established technology over new shiny things that change every week, I completely support that position.
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It also depends what ‘old’ tech means. If it means picking obsolete or clunky languages that are unsuitable for the task that they are being asked to do, then there’s every reason to judge, or at least ask a few questions.