Tim Dobson

My 99yro grandma's first climb: Me and Greta were interviewed on The One Show last night

@Tada1973 listening to an old interview on Ep12 of the @fearlessidzine pod and around 52:00 you said. "There's a small number of people who confuse resilience with ego" -> I manage a small sports club and found this quote helpful to me today - thanks for sharing it back then :)

@vprot @msanromanv @ay8s @hamstu @buffer @joelgascoigne @msanromanv for reference - I've used pablo to create over 360 shareables in my time, and whilst I can tell you where it lacks and where it is overbuilt, it really is a fantastically useful tool for me.

@msanromanv @tdobson @ay8s @hamstu @buffer @joelgascoigne Really keeping fingers crossed for this collaboration! I already miss Pablo & haven't managed to find any alternatives so far; it seems that it left a huge gap behind it. 🥺

@msanromanv @ay8s @hamstu @buffer Is there any chance you could open source the code behind pablo.buffer.com ? So I'm a junior dev, and I jolly well love Pablo, but I hear that it's not a key focus for y'all to say the least.

@vprot @msanromanv @ay8s @hamstu @buffer @joelgascoigne @msanromanv just want to note that I did obviously look through buffer's github for the codebase, and I'm well aware of all the fantastic code that is on there - which is why - whilst it is cheeky to ask - it hopefully isn't cloud-cookoo-land-cheeky

@vprot @msanromanv @ay8s @hamstu @buffer @joelgascoigne The alternatives (like canva) entirely miss the usecase - which is Getting It Done Real Fast, with minimum fuss. This is the demo I created to help me get through pablo going away. socialmedia-image-creator.pages.dev

@msanromanv @ay8s @hamstu @buffer @joelgascoigne My demo sigte: socialmedia-image-creator.pages.dev is pretty rubbish, and - as you can see fairly awkward and desktop centric and the opposite of optimised. I can and probably will polish it, but I'd prefer to be refactoring Pablo's codebase than painting from scratch <3

@tdobson @ay8s @hamstu @buffer @joelgascoigne Hey Tim! That’s an interesting idea, and I’m definitely open to consider it and see how/if we can release it under an open source license and when do we have the bandwidth to do so. I would love to hear more about your personal project and how you would use it, too!

@msanromanv @ay8s @hamstu @buffer @joelgascoigne Thank you Mike. I'd want to a) update it (there's obviously technical debt in it) b) simplify it (it doesn't need as many features - eg no unsplash) c) Streamline it This is basically how I'd use it: socialmedia-image-creator.pages.dev I'd happily help in any way I can

@FlokiNETehf enjoyed your talk at ccc :)

@msanromanv @ay8s @hamstu @buffer @joelgascoigne Now Pablo has been retired😭 and is no longer available - would you mind releasing it as open source? <3 😘

I'm super happy with licences like AGPL etc - and of course, you're well reasonable to say no, or point out how it's somewhere near the doormat in priorities - but I just wanted to voice that love for it exists, and "you are not alone".

@MrBButterfield do you have any comment about the appearance of this sex icon at Glastonbury? youtu.be/-66fWsPnG_U?t=…

@lproven I'm blaming you for me listening to youtube.com/watch?v=C1LP2g… on repeat now. #earworm ;)

Is there a train times app, that lets you "avoid" a station? eg can I request to travel from EUS to MAN avoiding Birmingham New Street - for example. Use case: travel A-> B avoiding known disruption at point E,

@JSimpsonjourno loved your article theguardian.com/business/2024/… let's not forget that that @LordPeterHendy got @GarethDennis fired from @SYSTRA_UKIRL for saying the exact same thing, in as many words. source: railtech.com/all/2024/09/03…

thanks to @haveibeenpwned it is now possible to see that Prince Harry was likely researching his family history on @MyHeritage prior to 2014. src: telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/06/2…

If anyone is after a BBC Master Microcomputer manual, and lives near manchester - there appears to be on on @ilovefreegle at present ilovefreegle.org/message/106760… PDF: microcomputer.org.uk/documents/manu…

@brushingboots interesting to reread inews.co.uk/news/long-read… in the context of theguardian.com/uk-news/garric…

@spbail manchestermill.co.uk/p/keys-money-l…