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#72pencils arranged into four intersecting hexagonal prisms. Took me a bit to figure out how to assemble it after seeing a picture. Original design by mathematician/sculptor George Hart. #Geometry #Pencil

Good explanation of how energy prices are set in UK and why we pay same price as gas for renewal energy which are fraction of the price of gas.

goodenergy.co.uk/why-does-the-

“𝘞𝘦 𝘩𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘵’𝘴 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵.”

Has to be the dumbest Tweet in the universe when you consider around 80% of its customer base is Opensource folk who historically have been very uneasy with police forces around the world.

#raspberrypi

Shared by my Daughter
"I need privacy, not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgement and intentions are"

In response to "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear"

Me, 20 years ago: "HTML is fine, with some light CSS. I don't need a bunch of JavaScript."

Me, 10 years ago: "Look at all the jQuery I pumped in this page! It's so sparkly! And Bootstrap makes it look great everywhere!"

Me, at present: "HTML is fine, with some light CSS. I don't need a bunch of JavaScript."

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Went to see Aussie Floyd on Monday at Symphony Hall in Birmingham. Excellent gig, great music and amazing light show and animation. Would really recommend for any Pink Floyd fan out there.

Boost this toot if you're planning on sticking around Mastodon whether or not it becomes more popular than the birdsite.

I've always considered applications using the 'postgres' default database not to be best practice, especially when they are authing as the 'postgres' user.

Do other people agree with that?

Last day (this Sunday) to submit your talk for FOSDEM PGDay and the PostgreSQL Devroom!

Please note that the event takes place in Brussels, no pre-recorded talks are considered at this point.

#FOSDEM #PostgreSQL #FOSDEMPGDay #Conference #CfP #Brussels

2023.fosdempgday.org/

Which programming paradigm, do you enjoy writing?

#programming #functional #oops

On-site with a client doing PostgreSQL stuff for the first time in far too long. It felt good and looking forward to helping them.

Almost 180k new users joined #mastodon yesterday, a new record. This third #twitterMigration wave happened after Musk's Twitter 2.0 ultimatum to #Twitter workers. Each wave is stronger than the previous one. Here is my updated plot showing the three consecutive waves.

Really happy to see so many people from the other place appearing on Mastodon.

It's great to see you 👍🏻

Automattic is one of the most important companies on the Internet.

They make Tumblr, WooCommerce, Akismet, LongReads, WordPress—among others.

WordPress alone powers ~44% of the world's websites.

More interesting: despite being such a large, dominant company, few people hate Automattic.

Why is this? 🧵

What we think improves productivity vs. what actually does.

It's often easy to feel like you’re only productive if you are working hard non-stop. That’s a misnomer. Breaks are vital for boosting productivity and deterring burnout. Make time to re-energize,
get rest and enjoy life in between.

Illustration by Liz Fosslien

#softwareengineering

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Time for a cuppa... Earl Grey please!