@DP7478 @BuildsWeAre It was, for a long time. I did events in there every now and then.
It really is a shame the way it's been left to rot
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Chris Morris
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Chris Morris
@ModgeChris
Professional Geek; interests include my research, trains, software, stage lighting and learning Italian. Also available on: https://t.co/3GK7UFlH6O
Birmingham, England Joined Ağustos 2012
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Grade II listed, 119 year old Rowton Hotel in Digbeth. What a statement this would make in Birmingham if brought back to past glory. Anyone know the plans for this historic build? #LookUpBirmingham
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I fear Birmingham might be the last city on earth to adopt this, but @LizClement this may interest you?
nation.cymru/news/cardiff-s…
It's certainly something I'd love to see
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@dieworkwear You can't just let me read stuff like that whilst I'm at work!
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You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it — pure cotton, pure wool, some Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn. The buttons are sewn with a firm, stiff shank. You put the jacket on. It fits beautifully. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable.
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@Bubblejet @anon_opin Apart from the good people of Birmingham:Mom their accent.
Gotten can get to fuck though
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@anon_opin British people who say "gotten" or "mom" should be locked in a room with a set of Jane Austen books until they repent.
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UK businesses using American English in their advertising should be liquidated and the proceeds given to charity.
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@jordanbhx Definitely worth making the trek to the Wulfrun every now and then.
And JDs back in the day
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It’s a short tram/train ride there and back - Londoners will spend more time travelling to and from similar events in their city region - but I’m jealous of Wulfrunians living in a city whose councils invests in culture and the NTE!
Kirsty Bosley@Bozzers
When gigs are in Wolverhampton and not Birmingham I want to cry because it feels like 292727 miles away on a week night 😂😭
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@ChShersh @noah_vandal I'm not sure dev's even qualify as mid if they can't do sql tbh, at least if they want to do anything vaguely database related
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@noah_vandal They introduce extra accidental complexity without any benefits.
Dmitrii Kovanikov@ChShersh
ORM was created so mid devs who don’t know SQL still can make CRUD apps
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Several, actually:
1. Mocks are bad.
2. ORMs are bad.
3. PHP + SQLite is fine.
4. Microservices are fine, but only when monoliths don't work.
5. A solo dev can use any tech stack they want. There's no limitation.
Product Hunt 😸@ProductHunt
what tech opinion are you defending like this
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@ChShersh Speaking as one who wasted half of yesterday chasing down a bug caused by my usage of sqlalchemy, that I simply wouldn't have had had I stuck to vanilla SQL, I'm well with you on ORMs.
I swear I spend as long fighting them as I save, though EF is nicer when I'm in .Net land
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@anon_opin being half the reason I bother checking here these daysAnnoyingly there's just one or two people who have yet to migrate to bluer skies.@jordanbhx and @thomasforth are most of the reason for my checking back in here periodically
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Investigations into the Twitter/X user base has shown that 75% are bots. Imagine refusing to leave that platform, every day becoming more isolated in a sea of bots, like a polar bear on a shrinking ice block, roaring impotently at the empty sky.
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@StuartHumphryes I sort of feel like @dieworkwear with his interest in Military uniforms for fashion would find this really interesting. I certainly do and I'm not really "into" either military history or fashion
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Not a re-enactment; not a movie scene, this is WWI war-photography at its most immediate. I've cleaned-up this remarkable auctochrome by Stéphane Pessat, taken 110 years ago on Saturday 24th July 1915. It depicts French soldiers from the 98th battalion at an artillery observation post in the trenches at Les Loges, near Conchy les Pots, France. It is original colour, not colourised.
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@jordanbhx I really like clean kilo Bournville, get there most weeks
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This was in 2018.
Imagine how different the city would be after 7 years of reduced food and plastic waste, better quality produce, people supporting grocers on their nearest high street, no more drives to big Tesco, an accompanying circular composting system. Economics of scale
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I like this idea, not least because years ago I wrote up a proposal for BCC to put a Clean Kilo on every high street in the city using empty property it owned.
Would we still need weekly bin collections if everyone had a local plastic free grocers? theguardian.com/environment/20…
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@theAliceRoberts You might be interested to know we actually have a rail research group at Birmingham, dedicated to answering that sort of question @bcrre.
Fortunately for me my work is very much applied rather than that sort of high level policy question
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Needed to do some work on the train home so shelled out for a first class ticket. Where I’m sitting on the floor! Honestly, I travel the world by train and so many countries get it so right. Why can’t we? 😢
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@dieworkwear Are city boys gay in America?
I the UK it implies working in the city of London, in finance and being outrageously wealthy.
Does imply a suit though. Probably a blue one
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Have been called gay countless times for criticizing Sec Hegesth's outfit. But once again, it's worth reminding, that many homophobic conservatives today dress like the "metrosexual" "city boys" they use as a cultural punching bag. Hegesth's outfit is a bad version of 2010 mens fashion, which itself is a child of slim fit, twee tailoring once derided as "gay" in the early 2000s.
HittersDad@PinHitterDad
@dieworkwear @SteveJacob28883 Try not to be so gay, city boy.
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@jordanbhx A few traffic light and junction enforcement cameras could genuinely be revenue earners for the council
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It can be done. And it could fix bham’s finances. A tax on tossers.
Glasgow City Council@GlasgowCC
After issuing pavement parking warnings over the past month, we are now moving to full enforcement. To ensure safety for vulnerable road users, anyone pavement parking, double parking or dropped kerb parking is now liable to be fined. Find out more 👉glasgow.gov.uk/pavementparking
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@jordanbhx @alexfenlon @RichParkerLab I've often thought that Harborne, despite being remarkably posh, has very poor public transport. Sending the tram down the Harborne walkway (formerly a rail line) would massively improve options for getting to the centre, which are otherwise bike (how I did it), or sit in traffic
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@alexfenlon @RichParkerLab I don’t believe in ‘either/or’ thinking.
Both have a solid BCR. It would be economically illiterate not to just build both.
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@Onebiskuit @_ryanruby_ As a native of Birmingham, my attempt at an Alabama accent will horrify you.
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@40PercentGerman I once worked an event with pizza hut (I think) in the UK and they did similar. It felt enmourously cringe and I was glad to be seperated from them by a flight stairs and door they didn't have access to (I was doing tech, predictably)
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In 1997, Walmart tried to enter the German market, and became a case study in failure.
My favourite story from this period was that staff were trained to be friendly to customers, which freaked out some shoppers, but made others think staff were hitting on them.
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@WoodinRivers Blue sky is starting to take off
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@dieworkwear Great thread.
If I may contribute a useless fact, the UKs current prime minister, Keir Starmer was named after Keir Hardie by his very political parents
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When Keir Hardie, founder of the Labour Party, was elected as MP, he showed up to his first day of work in a suit. Proper MP uniform at the time was a frock coat and silk top hat, but Hardie wore a suit to signal his allegiance to the working classes. The press was scandalized.
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Clothes have long been political. 🧵
Jimmy Bynum@BynumJimmy
@dieworkwear Even clothes have to be political. Ridiculous.
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