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Husband. Proud dad to 17yo boy. Codeclub leader, CoG at 3 fab schools. Digital Making advocate. RPi Certified Educator. Delivers bread.
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I am chuffed to be in this amazing list of makers! MagPi 150 @katzcreates.bsky.social @gadgetoid.com @estefannie.bsky.social @jeffgeerling.com @drfootleg.bsky.social Allie Katz, Kids Invent Stuff, Liz Clarke, Tanya Fish, GurgleApps, Phil Howard, Estfianne, Jeff Geerling, Akkie, Dr Footleg tbc

Just posted: Part 2 of my series on developing the Old World gods for WFRP 1st edition. graemedavis.wordpress.com

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Join me on Sunday at 7pm GMT as we look at the Magical @Pimoroni Presto - an impressive RP2350 powered touchscreen display. I've finally made the Weather Station display I created PiChart for! youtube.com/live/9F3R4p2...

Messing around with #nodered on a spare laptop and I can trigger vlc to play an audio file using an HTTP endpoint (an URL). This could be fun :D

We need facts as never before. 3 years after Putin invaded Ukraine, I spent 24 hours with combat medics on the Ukrainian frontline. Their courage, compassion, dedication & skill are astounding. Please read & please never stop standing up for Ukraine. 🇺🇦 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

Worst. Episode. EVER.

Unplugged Tots are back for CamJam! Hannah will have screen-free activities teaching by stealth pre-computer coding skills for 2½ to 8 year olds. See www.unpluggedtots.com for more information. Tickets for CamJam are available from www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1243972107...

Everyday comes another media story designed to make a particular group of people very cross. Last week, The Times, GB News, and the usual Twitter accounts were fuming at the fact that the NHS hires “expensive” diversity staff 🙄 Let’s dig into the article, shall we? 🧵 1/

For anyone that needs a bit of a lift today 😉

So much lovely stuff from @badsquiddogames.bsky.social going on my birthday wishlist. All these lovely sets! If the job situation gets resolved, I’ll treat myself as “reward”!

trillion dollar industry that will revolutionize everything

It's Freebie Friday!! Build this simple #Arduino robot and learn how to program it using my free designs and resources! [1/7]

This looks good. Biomedical Exploration Kit powered by an RP2040 board. www.kickstarter.com/projects/184...

Calling yourself a king doesn’t make you king. Killing your brother and marrying his wife only to be haunted by his ghost and poisoned by his son before you manage to kill him with the poisoned blade and no one is left but some bloke named Horatio is how you become king

📈Today, 21 February 2025, 153 out of the 516 Crown courtrooms in England & Wales will not be sitting. That's 30% of them. #courtstats #CS21022025 courtstats.co.uk

This has made me so angry. Yeah great that they have made an offer. Movement of any kind is welcome. But this is so Brexity, mean mouthed and cheap. There is a perfectly good scheme on offer. Accept and give our kids a treat rather than continue this Bleak Brexit Austerity.

Hey, @ox.ac.uk, how about an honorary degree for this woman pilot with a PhD in aviation safety, whose employer hired a crooked psychiatrist to label her mentally ill after she blew the whistle on safety practices? She fought (for years) and won. www.seattletimes.com/business/boe...

I really wish I had thought of this idea first — but I can’t take the credit. Art is meant to be shared, spread, and inspire. I’m in awe of what was done with one of my shirts. You’ve taken it and poured so much love into it! Create, create, create!

(Boosts encouraged!) Hi! 👋 I’m Kat. I’ve been a professional dev for over 15 years. I maintained the NPM CLI for 5 of those. I sat in TC39. I work at Microsoft. I’m self taught w/a film degree and no formal CS edu. Are you new to tech? What do you wish you could ask some1 like me? Literally AMA

There are lots of wonderful people. They're not loud, or shouty, or demanding. They don't presume their opinions are right, or force you to listen. They don't scream for attention, or argue the toss, or cry and wail when things don't go their way. But they're out there, you just have to find them.

Forces Programme and Home Service listings for 23/02/1941 - Radio Times, 21/02/1941 issue (pages 10 and 11) READ: https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/page/2c8ee16ab9d3450cba431cfd801ec72d?page=10

“Just who is left to fight their corner?” – Ombudsman launches report on fostering for councils www.lgo.org.uk/information-...

Q to James Bond: Customers who bought the spy camera pen also bought the poison dart watch.

It poured down today but the families at our family learning day were amazing so we loved it! 🥰 #outdoorlearning #forestschool

I am looking for libraries to do talks in Oxfordshire on 30th April and Berkshire on 1st May www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/robin-ince...

One danger of embracing generative AI as a learning device and in language assistance is that you're letting the keepers of that AI have power over what you learn and how you write. It will be programmed with biases, unintentional but often *quite* intentional, that you will unknowingly adopt.