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Im trying to get back into drawing again. This is a mosque in saw in Antalya while I was on holiday last week.

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Repost with the first album you bought with your own money

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Don't you ever get fed up of #code failures in production? Don't miss @simonpainter.bsky.social 2-day, hands-on #workshop "Write Code that NEVER Fails - Functional Programming With C#" at #NDCOslo. #Earlybird offer ends Friday, February 14. ndcoslo.com/workshops/wr...

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Rewatching Disney's Sleeping Beauty with the girls. Some observations: * amazing animation that's aged very well * it's really funny! * when did Malificent stop being green? Turns out she's actually light grey or something

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Today's productivity brought to you by Julianna Barwick's album The Magic Place. It's odd, ethereal & minimalist. Amazing album & perfect for working to

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If anyone would care to see it, my talk from #dotnetliverpool on 100 years of movies about computers is online now: www.youtube.com/live/n9KD--3...

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I have decided to teach myself to knit, but why is casting on so hard!

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I'm appearing in liverpool tonight at #DotNetLiverpool to talk all about the last 100 years of film history & how they have portrayed computers and techies in general. Its a fun talk & im quite proud of it. Do come along if you're in the area!

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Today's productivity brought to you by classic 70s album "Hergest Ridge" by Mike Oldfield

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Thank you, @sessionize.com . I'm fairly sure there are plenty of folks doing more than I do, but I'm honestly just grateful to be still able to do this 7 years on!

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Has there been a data breach on Ancestry, does anyone know? I'm finding logging in isn't working from many locations, and it's determined to make sure i start using 2-factor authentication suddenly. Has something happened? I have no inside information, I'm just speculating.

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I'm back to one of my passion projects at the moments - computer films. I've just watched one of the very earliest and one that escaped my attention until now - Hot Millions from 1968, Starring Peter Ustinov. Expect a blog or podcast discussion of this at some point in the near future!

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Today's productivity brought to you by the album "Il Viaggio" by the amazing Belgian jazz musician, Melanie de Biasio

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I've got kid duties tonight, so I won't be watching live, but you folks all have no excuse at all not to be there!

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It's been a bit, but if anyone's interested, I've written a new blog article. This one's about how to not only fix Dictionaries in C#, but also turn them into a powerful tool for improving the efficiency of your algorithm: www.thecodepainter.co.uk/blog/2024121...

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It's only taken me 8 months to realise this, but my talk "A Developer Goes to the Movies" which was a keynote at AppDevCon earlier this year is up on Vimeo! It's a look at 100 years of cinema history, and how they've portrayed tech. I'm quite proud of it! vimeo.com/936241705

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Today's productivity brought to you by Miles Davis' soundtrack to "Ascenseur pour l'echafaud" (elevator to the gallows). Not a terrible film by any stretch, but the soundtrack is a million times more worth your time.

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Finished Day 11 of the #AdventOfCode in #FunctionalCSharp. They said it was insane, but I did it and they were _right_. I had to create a custom dictionary class with an added extension method, and do some fairly crazy recursion, but by 'eck I did it. github.com/madSimonJ/Fu...

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Day 10 of the #AdventOfCode done in #FunctionalCSharp. This was a rare example of part 2 being easier than part 1!! This aside, I'm quite proud of my solution to this one. github.com/madSimonJ/Fu...

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I'm taking a break from reading Blake's 7 novelisations to something more appropriate to the season. Nothing Lasts Forever - which was lovely adapted in the early 80s as Die Hard with Bruce Willis. It doesn't get much more christmassy than this!

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Bit of a slog today; but I finally finished day 9 of the #AdventOfCode in #FunctionalCSharp. github.com/madSimonJ/Fu...

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I've had a busy few days; but just caught up with the #AdventOfCode in #FunctionalCSharp. Day 8 looked tricky at first glance, but there's a simple trick to it. I learned a neat couple of features of MoreLinq for part 2! github.com/madSimonJ/Fu...

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We had a family cinema trip today to see wicked. I was a bit dubious of seeing a musical adaptation of Gregory Maguire's book, but honestly - I enjoyed it a great deal. I'm looking forward to part 2!

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I'm a liberal, accepting person who's happy for anyone to live any lifestyle they like (so long as it's all consensual!), but many times per day on the _other_ social media platform I get notifications because some nut job wants to spout transphobia or racism. That can't be coincidence, can it?

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Finished day 5 of the #AdventOfCode in #FunctionalCSharp. Part 2 of this had me stumped for a while, until I remembered there's a handy built-in C# feature that does all of that for you! github.com/madSimonJ/Fu...

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Just completed Day 4 of #AdventOfCode in #FunctionalCSharp. I ended up doing this twice, when my first idea for an approach didn't work out. I found the best way was to create Masks, like they do in image processing. github.com/madSimonJ/Fu...

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My first properly finished #CrossStitch. A Christmas card for a member of my family. My next plan is going to be much more ambitious!!

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