Ian Partridge

@JWHallBaritone Tavener - The Lamb

Let's play a game: tell me your favourite carol and I'll tell you why you're absolutely correct to say it's Adam lay y bounden by Boris Ord. 😁

I'm very excited to be conducting this fabulous production of the iconic musical CHESS in a few weeks 🎶

With few exceptions, you should NEVER start generating new ideas in a group - always start with people writing ideas alone and only then move to a group setting. (We've known starting with groups is worse for 50 years, but people still keep doing it since it feels more creative)

@edjgeek This looks like an awesome feature, but I can't help smiling at any sentence that includes the words "simply" alongside "configure the CORS" 😀

Hey #serverless this is a HUGE one. Lambda Function URLs. The simplest way to add a public endpoint to a Lambda function. Simply check the box, and configure the CORS. Read more here -> aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/anno…

One of the things that surprised me following last week's Jepsen report on Radix DLT (jepsen.io/analyses/radix…) was seeing both blockchain/DLT people *and* the database community go "Hang on, 16 transactions per second can't be right"--and expecting wildly different figures.

Fantastic deep dive on the UK Covid Dashboard! techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-datab…

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.@HodderBooks has pre-empted world rights in two non-fiction books from Olympic chess champion @JenShahade aimed at fans of the popular Netflix series "The Queen's Gambit", starting with Chess Queens: bit.ly/3H1FFE1

@knolleary @github I think it's possible to use GitHub Actions to auto-label PRs against a branch, then you can filter on the label.

As a software developer, you may be called upon to perform some of these tasks in your career. How well a CS degree prepares you for these tasks (and whether it even should prepare you for these) is left as an exercise to the reader. 🧵 1/

@Samfr Seems sensible but I haven't seen any data.

@alfa I think that you can still assume the booster will make a big positive difference.

This is really encouraging. Pfizer say the booster gives as much protection against Omicron as two doses against the original virus. But only 36% of people are boosted. Everything needs to be focused on getting that number up in the next two weeks. pfizer.com/news/press-rel…

@JWHallBaritone You only need to play the B in the last verse of Oh Come, All Ye Faithful. All other pedal notes are optional.

I’ve decided my main survival technique for playing the organ on Christmas Day is to pull out all the pedal stops and then use one pedal exactly as I would on the piano… to disguise all the wrong notes. 😁

What is the most mind-blowing AWS service, you ask? It's not EC2. It's not S3. It's IAM. 500 million API calls EVERY SECOND 🤯... Imagine that.

RT if you were part of that tiny 1993 bar. (via @markrendle)

Neat library for defining and running abstract state machines in Go. cc: @Lukasaoz who loves a good state machine and I haven't spoken to in far too long 😀 developers.redhat.com/articles/2021/…

@DaddyCheese Sorry I missed you at the end! Great night!!

Btw @alfa tried to catch up with you last night to say hi after the fab concert, but you were either dealing with your legion of doting fans or dashing off to line up Sanatogen shots for the after-party… :o) See you in Jan!

@spoole167 @DevoxxUK Too Many Zoos!!!!!

Yep @DevoxxUK is back

@dokun24 I'm confused. You look the same as usual.

@StephenKinder Thanks! It's on lichess where the ratings are a bit inflated. I'm probably about 1600

@alfa wow 2080 ELO... remind me not to play you... I'm struggling to get out of the 700s. Good on you.

Decent performance in tonight's local #chess tournament 🏆😎

Dress rehearsal tonight!