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grshorwich.bsky.social
Dad to two cats, Unix sysadmin, C/C#/C++ coder, Android dev, vintage calculator enthusiast, linguist, mobile tech enthusiast. Based in NW England. Views are my own and not those of my employer.
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1/2: Well, I've had this thing for a couple of weeks now. I have to admit that I'm very impressed with it. There are a few things that Windows can do easily and macOS not, and then there are things that macOS does far more easily. The big take-away for me is that Android Studio does indeed work...

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Some cats look really intelligent, and some...

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

The infrastructure here crumbles if there's a bit of snow. Power has been up and down like a bridesmaid's knickers this morning and this isn't even a rural part of the UK.

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

"Where's my breakfast? You're late, hooman!" - Livvy, approximately 4 seconds after her breakfast time.

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

😂😂😂 (They're fine just embarrassed)

submitted 55 days ago • 35 comments

1/2: What have I done?!?! 😱 I swore I'd never buy an Apple product because they're (generally) overpriced and underperformant. Yet, here we are. The M4 Mac Mini has made me rethink that position and I have just ordered a 32GB/512GB one.

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment

When you buy a new office chair and the cats waste no time in deciding that it's theirs...

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In my time zone we're about 3½ hours away from kicking 2024 into the long grass and ushering in 2025. 2024 has been utter dog sh*t with upheaval at work, illness and pig-headed neighbours to deal with to name but three problems. Here's hoping 2025 isn't just going to be more of the same.

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

Working on UTF-8 multibyte text stuff at the moment. Read this on Wikipedia: "...This rule is often ignored as surrogates are allowed in Windows filenames [...]. UTF-8 that allows these surrogate halves has been (informally) called WTF-8" WTF-8 🤣🤣 Sounds about right for Windows...

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can I code fast? no. but can I code well? also no. but does my code work? alas, no

submitted 88 days ago • 414 comments

So true!

submitted 90 days ago • 46 comments

Hahahaha Musk’s platform flagged this right wing account for using CIS as an acronym. Guess the “Center for Immigration Studies” is screwed! Hahahaha. He’s such a CISsy snowflake.

submitted 90 days ago • 237 comments

Want to maximise your savings in the Black Friday sales? Here's a pro tip: SAVE 100% when you stop buying junk you don't need just because it's in a sale!

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

@robertpicardo.bsky.social Glad you made your way over here!

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

Dead on my feet and it's not even 9pm yet. Trying for an early night, assuming the neighbours will actually shut the f**k up and let me sleep. Earplugs to the rescue...

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