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Michael Ward

@michaelward.uk

Web dev since ‘02. ❤️❤️Love Elixir. 😩Tolerate JavaScript & PHP. Your choose the pronouns. I’m happy with any of them.

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Well done, always good to be recognised 👍

05.02.2025 16:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ooh, hark at you 😂

(I’m insanely jealous)

13.01.2025 10:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Want to Wear a Tiny Apollo Guidance Computer on Your Wrist? A British company is selling a wristwatch that’s a shrunk-down replica of the Apollo Guidance Computer interface that the

And today I read this!

kottke.org/25/01/want-t...

12.01.2025 06:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I got a smartphone from AliExpress that is powered by the original Apollo computer system. Doesn’t last a day before it’s out of rocket fuel and I can only call someone named Houston. Some tech just refuses to die!

09.01.2025 07:10 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Surplus of hashtags needed using before new year?

31.12.2024 14:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

As always, the Aussies have gone early on the new year celebrations. Christmas in summer and new year at midday. What’s their game?

31.12.2024 14:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Dear Tim Apple,

Please do not rotate the display while I’m swiping on the keyboard.

Sent from my iPhone whilst lying in bed

28.12.2024 13:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Adobe Flash integration 🤞

25.12.2024 17:26 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Little teary taste bombs.

23.12.2024 02:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The first to really integrate this type of workflow (my preference would be through Github) will be on to a winner IMHO.

18.12.2024 17:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It's a decent workflow, but context loss is still sometimes an issue and it eats credits at a high rate.

I'd like AI coding tools to adopt ways to maintain enough context about projects that they don't get lost easily.

18.12.2024 17:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I was able to get Windsurf to interface with GitHub tasks + projects using Github CLI, which helped me use AI to plan whilst maintaining context that often gets lost as a project progresses, as well as creating documentation that the AI can utilise.

18.12.2024 17:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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a little girl is sitting on a couch and making a face . Alt: a little girl is sitting on a couch and making a face .
17.12.2024 01:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sending my best wishes that you don't exit the mortal plain as a result of boredom 😝

15.12.2024 17:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Snarky was not the correct word to describe your post.

What I feel you've done is blithely ignore the difference between communicating an idea effectively to a wide audience, versus the value of academic economic theory.

Both can change the world, but from very different starting points.

15.12.2024 17:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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15.12.2024 04:07 👍 26436 🔁 5891 💬 423 📌 269

You’re not the first to post a snarky comment on the socials. Others have been doing it with much more panache for quite some time.

15.12.2024 14:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It’s still true, if you shop for durability and not for a label. Price isn’t the guarantee it once was, however.

15.12.2024 14:12 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The linter refuses to deal with the code.

15.12.2024 01:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Google's new quantum chip looks interesting, but quantum's big flaw is that if you look at the chip then it will never work again. 🤷‍♂️

10.12.2024 19:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Could do with one of them golden mace things.

08.12.2024 22:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
IEx.Helpers — IEx v1.17.3

It is an IEx helper. Wouldn’t imagine it would have much use in production code, but the functionality could be ripped from IEx source if needed.

hexdocs.pm/iex/1.17.3/I...

02.12.2024 11:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Useful, wasn’t aware of the i function 🕺

02.12.2024 11:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Parse a Regex with NimbleOptions Learn how I discovered that ~r-sigils return Regex structs and how to include regex patterns as valid input in NimbleOptions.

🚨 New Blog Post 🚨

I wrote a tiny blog post about:

1. how to print out the type info of an #ElixirLang variable and
2. how to allow regexes in NimbleOptions definitions

peterullrich.com/parse-regex-...

02.12.2024 11:23 👍 17 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0

No pattern matching feels like lots of time wasted.

09.07.2023 13:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Not sure I’ve fully grokked how to utilise it, but any programming language that is tolerant of failure by design is a language that I’m going to enjoy.

Thanks to the BEAM VM and the elixir programming language.

08.07.2023 02:54 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Programming with Elixir has made me feel a great deal of angst when using other, more popular, languages.

Pragmatic FP for the win!

08.07.2023 02:36 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0