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Mike Lindsay

@michaelgain

Father to 3 boys. Software developer interested in all tech, science and history. Partake in playing/recording/engineering music in studio and live Level 1 (1.3) youth football coach with love of the game.

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Yep, I'm sorry but for this individual in Scotland, I have to know who I am interacting with if you're from the USA. There is no soft "off ramp" any more, ship sailed....it's gone.

Also plenty of folks in Northern Ireland know full well the dangers of division, naturally suspicious.

08.03.2026 22:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The real Boss would tan AI boss at basketball, golf or anything AI boss thought to try its hand at.

07.03.2026 22:48 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Much more recent but your performance in The Fall of House Usher was superb. I didn't recognise you, so used to a larger than life character. Real talent to genuinely become someone else entirely.

07.03.2026 22:46 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The building of the software is such a small part of what makes it worthwhile someone investing in.

I'm not yet seeing it,i'm spending a lot of time flagging dangerous changes to existing code that don't consider production safety. At the moment unless you ask AI to do the correct thing it doesn't

07.03.2026 22:36 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Creating is the easy part......

03.03.2026 08:31 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Oh that's a whole other chapter of morbidity...Agrajag death No. 173

16.02.2026 13:18 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The whale might suggest it got darker way before the restaurant

16.02.2026 00:23 ๐Ÿ‘ 12 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The early to mid 90s was a laugh. SCSI, IDE, EIDE, Floppy A:, Floppy B: , ยฃ300 cd drives, PS/2 , SoundBlaster AWE32 Windows Product keys, no plug n play....The TURBO button.

I was 12 and had the best times building pcs.

15.02.2026 23:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Did a talking cow arrive at their table a short time after?

15.02.2026 22:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 20 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'm picturing air guitar....lots of air guitar. I'm not even convinced the shoes stayed on.

15.02.2026 07:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

There's someone who couldn't be bothered to check if it were a leap year so played it safe.....

12.02.2026 07:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Present your ideas and thoughts in the form of a musical that could do the touring for you.

10.02.2026 13:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Pretty sure Cowork has a "plan" mode that generates the steps for review or at the very least produces a plan and waits for conformation to execute. I haven't used it just remember reading about that.

That said problem here isn't new...lack of backup, been an issue for decades.

10.02.2026 12:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I will never, ever not find this funny and yet confusing at the same time.

09.02.2026 22:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Cover art for Sensible Soccer.

Cover art for Sensible Soccer.

09.02.2026 15:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I can totally understand an athlete being determined to complete, however there should be protocols in place to protect them from themselves.

In Scotland we have head injury protocols in football that prevent players playing after a significant head injury. Player/coaches don't get to choose.

08.02.2026 22:39 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Ah...I see, you're one of those. Good luck.

01.02.2026 21:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Not a fan of the Feynman Technique then? Pretty bold stance I'll admit, carry on.

01.02.2026 21:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

In 20 years they'll do a Columbo reboot. First episode will feature a magician who used to be an ICE agent.

28.01.2026 07:08 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thanks.

27.01.2026 07:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

That's not a pipe!

21.01.2026 08:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

No blame also encourages people to raise issues without fear of punished for them or other colleagues.

In a blame culture nobody wants to be the one to raise that they've found a plain text secret in a remote repo....

14.01.2026 20:18 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Getting good at using these tools will likely give devs some advantages, mandating is risky though. Take unit tests, generating them defeats the purpose i.e. the thought process. Yeah it's quicker but the time spent was never just writing the code.

Time will tell if we loose some innovation too.

14.01.2026 07:32 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

- Feature flags are a silver bullet.

- "safer" to do LESS releases vs more frequent smaller releases

12.01.2026 11:32 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Is January 1980 correct? I thought D.H Peligro didn't join until later that year.

11.01.2026 07:09 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Russia is rubbing its hands. Guess they've played Trump like a fiddle.

10.01.2026 21:23 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

There was an exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland a couple of years back that ran for several months where pretty much any gaming device you can think of was set up to just play.

Was great fun.

Was called Game On

08.01.2026 21:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I have zero training in this area but surely the one making a beeline for the vehicle and trying to force the door should do so only when he is sure he and his colleagues are in secure positions?

This whole thing just looks like poorly trained individuals who got angry and lashed out with a gun

07.01.2026 22:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I am now very strict on the content is view on youtube. It's largely keeping the algorithm in check....but there are always these awful AI videos cropping up every so often despite my best efforts.

We're heading for a world where "meh" us the new high bar and innovation is not a desire.

07.01.2026 06:23 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Still have mine. We got ours straight out the back of the factory.

That said this new thing has shades of the Spectrum 128.

06.01.2026 19:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0