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digitalwestie.bsky.social
Freelancer. Building digital products for fun and profit 👨‍💻. Likes creative and civic tech.
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Something I've wanted forever across any social media is a sampling dial so I can tone down the more trigger happy of posters. Are there any settings/extensions I should be trying out? #lazyweb

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UX people battling for ages to let everyone know UX and UI are separate disciplines and practices. Meanwhile, on their profile: 'UI/UX designer'

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This Tuesday 11th Feb we are talking feature sliced design. Here are @jamiemchale.com and Kristina Volk with the details! Remember to RSVP in the meetup group 👇 www.meetup.com/glasgow-java...

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I have legit whatsapp operational testing needs and I've gone down a rabbit hole that's lead my last search to be "clickfarms for hire"

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My (historic) fencing club is open to new members. #Edinburgh see here for details: renaissancefencing.wordpress.com/our-classes/

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Fun last 10 minutes, walking to the cafe via high school yards and there's a bomb disposal van. Now the cafe I'm in has a new robot to collect used mugs/plates.

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I've been delivering training on #opendata & policy to public sector in IRE. We covered the EU #OpenData directive. It came out 2019, and it's pretty much fully implemented now. That includes the new "request for reuse" system. 📊 This means you can request raw data from any public body in EU.

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

Does JS suck? It does now.

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

TIL the password manager popping up kills extension content behaviour. What a pain!

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

Question in the @scottishtechnology.club Discord - do you think it is possible or likely for a junior dev to land their first role as a remote job?

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Gave my terminal a makeover with rootloops.sh

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Hah, pretty accurate. I don't know why X gets all the flak for being unsavoury when Facebook is, as far as I can see, full of the most torrid, unsolicited nasty shit .

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okay... so what's the deal with rails 8's new command generating a useless .gitignore file?!

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

Anybody built an extension using WXT? wxt.dev

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After reading somewhere about chatbots taking part in whatsapp group chats I decided I'd like to experiment with it myself. Unfortunately, all research so far says this isn't possible. Was I dreaming? Or is there something out there?

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I'm am dreading the amount of work and expense this is going to require for BLUF.com, which only has around 5,000 users, is run entirely by volunteers and relies on donations and merch sales for funding. Even to age verify every user would be about 1/3 of this year's gross income.

submitted 73 days ago • 1 comment

*Sips wine*

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Enjoying the kid's busy board as much as him. I wouldn't mind a version I could hook up to my laptop and map keyboard shortcuts.

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The Christmas Tree in Space...

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is everyone ready for 2025, the year of the linux desktop

submitted 72 days ago • 83 comments

Mucked about making a simple git commit visualiser for your terminal: gist.github.com/digitalWesti...

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cool cool

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Great to see @adrienpoly.com and @marcoroth.dev with Ruby Video trending on trending on HN today after the Ruby Concurrency talk by @jpcamara.com hit the top spot yesterday. Ruby’s having a good run right now and it’s not even Christmas yet!

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

Make your own daft autoposting app for Bluesky and Mastodon dev.to/glitch/autop...

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Wowzers! "On a mission to index all Ruby conferences" www.rubyvideo.dev

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

Bot development not going to plan.

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Has anybody else's FB algorithm become a Stewart lee joke?

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

Almost burnt myself badly running cli commands intended for localhost on my ssh tab. Added a change background printf to .bashrc so I've a visual cue in future: if [ -n "$SSH_CONNECTION" ]; then printf '\e]11;#111111\a' fi

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

Hahah, excellent stuff, a reminder on better error messages too via - www.reddit.com/r/meirl/comm...

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

I'm with Joel, been using nullable dates for things as suggested in last few projects and it's working out well

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

First ever bit of garden maintenance at my new place. Tree had to come down so I've made a den out of the remains. Dadpilled.

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Top bants. If I had a moment I'd put together a rugpull leader-board so we can check in on the antics of our favourite grifters. Maybe call it "rugpullmarketcap" or something?

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