Jack Wearden

@lottelydia Protecting themselves from phishing. Increasingly common for spammers to send fake invoices imitating other companies with their own bank details, and amazingly accounts departments pay without checking

Probably my favourite thing about the "Metrolink to the airport" -- "No we mean metrolink to terminal 2" saga is that instead of a multi million pound construction project, you could just give the airport £10k to turn their moving walkways back on

P&R with "Ice Town Costs Ice Clown His Town Crown" inspired me to do this

This is on the hour, the headlines tonight: "top tory tops 'flip-flop' quip with tip-top 'flip flip flop flop' prop flip-flop drop"

@ben_nuttall Keynote speaker summarises "I think we'll have finished our move to python 3 by the end of the year"

PyConUK 1923

I’ve unfortunately joined the “I’ve been made redundant” club! It was my final day last week, so now figuring out what’s next for me. Anyone hiring Engineering Managers? I’m looking for a team where I can manage people (engineers or EMs) and help build an engineering culture!

This new iPhone connector is really surprising

Got a couple of these delivered. Just awesome, teeny tiny little relays. AA battery for scale twitter.com/shelly_IoT/sta…

The Unix philosophy says that if you create small, simple programs that can be piped together, you can combine them in ways that confuse your nemeses for decades

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@makercupboard Amazing, many congratulations to him!!

@_phzn Now I'm thinking about it too. Whenever it comes up I start searching the British Library, on the assumption it was published in the UK and they should have a copy. Do you have a blog post with all the context again? I remember something about a car (current best guess)

Not meaning to brag but

Why does this genuine amazon email look more like a phish than actual phishing emails

Horrified to tell you my local burrito place has caved to the demand for ketchup in the burrito

@MiniGirlGeek Me too 😅

@JackWeirdy Was hoping it would take me 2 hours.

Bored on a train. Gonna be on a train for two more hours. 🥴

I suspect the New York Times online archives are backfilled by OCR (from nytimes.com/1976/12/14/arc…)

Having this fun problem today where I can't reach anything in us-east-1 unless I'm on my work VPN