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Ian Clark

@theboxfactoryhq

Englishmen in Chicago (not New York) #net #csharp #blazor #aspnet #web #consulting

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I suspect @kottke.org is launching a stealth future Unicorn business with this KDO Rolodex "feature". In the same way flickr.com and slack.com came out of features in games, he's building an RSS reader (AKA Google Reader replacement) inside his blog. You read it here first.....

04.03.2026 19:46 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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β€˜Like an electrical gong bath!’ The Sheffield supermarket going viral for the symphonic sound of its freezers Redditors are thrilled by the Co-op on Ecclesall Road, where a magnificent drone is reminiscent of Brian Eno’s ambient music. We take a visit to the back aisles

@ftrain.bsky.social Thanks for making me aware of the work of Γ‰liane Radigue. Been listening to her fascinating pieces.

Slightly related, I thought this might also be of interest to you -

www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f...

02.03.2026 17:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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mcbroken is the mcdonald's ice cream machine broken?

The following vital online service, can save you from disappointment, if you check the ice cream machine status before heading to the relevant branch - mcbroken.com

07.02.2026 23:18 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

If it gets to $0, I might buy the dip....

05.02.2026 21:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Just a quick FYI - I noticed that some of the links posted don't appear to be working. An example StuffToSponsor.com from the feed @adnanjindani.bsky.social posted today 1/19. Looks like it was originally posted on BSky about 10 months ago.

19.01.2026 18:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you!

19.01.2026 14:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I visited belong.io by @andy.baio.net literally every day for years as my sole source of news

It so elegantly aggregated trending links from interesting people

Then 'things' happened at Twitter and I was bereaved

So today I'm launching links.supply to try and fill that weird little hole in my πŸ’™

18.01.2026 13:20 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

Congrats on the launch, this looks really interesting! I look forward to following and would also love to read about the tech 'under the hood' if that's appropriate at some point.

Minor low priority feature request. A nice favicon would make this visually pop on my Chrome bookmarks bar.

18.01.2026 16:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Would love to see the BBC countersue back, for value of Trump's (highly dubious) net worth.

16.12.2025 13:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Bonkers implementation. No Next.js, React, Vue or anything! Who knew you could do these types of apps with just vanilla HTML, CSS and JavaScript.....😁

20.11.2025 14:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's always a joy to upgrade to the latest version of LINQPad (in this case 9). Not a product to rest on it's laurels, and always evolving. Perfect to help you learn, explore and experiment with C# and LINQ.

#linqpad #dotnet #linq #csharp

14.11.2025 15:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

@clivethompson.bsky.social

It looks like the Quartz article is date May 21st?

I appreciate things are still not good for Target, but I think this specific story is a little dated.

03.11.2025 20:50 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 About 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10, a book from the MIT Press

I wonder if @scott.hanselman.com and other #commodore64 fans have seen this piece of #c64 creative coding / art? - 10print.org #retrocomputing #creativecoding

21.10.2025 13:05 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Agree 100%. She's a great interviewer and it was always a joy to hear her appearances on @eggpod.bsky.social

04.09.2025 18:27 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Aboard Business Software. Built by AI. Perfected by People

This by @ftrain.bsky.social from aboard.com resonates so much with me - " I grew up reading about software. Now you have to try everything, or watch videos of people trying things. That’s exhausting and expensive, whereas reading is cheap and fastβ€”and you can skip to the pricing if you’re bored."

14.08.2025 15:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Favourites for promotion back to the Premiership, feels like a curse right now. Could be a long season ahead.....

12.08.2025 21:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€ŽGemini - Vocalo Radio's Rise and Fall Created with Gemini

Chicago Public Media (@wbez.org )did a project in the Web 2.0 era, that created a new station with some of these attributes:

g.co/gemini/share...

23.07.2025 12:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

@scott.hanselman.com - @jonudell.bsky.social has a long history of working on projects that are community centric and on the 'good side' of tech. The framework he is now working on xmlui.com may be of interest for the podcast

21.07.2025 18:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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RedwoodSDK | The React Framework for Cloudflare RedwoodSDK is a React Framework for Cloudflare. It begins as a Vite plugin that unlocks SSR, React Server Components, Server Functions, and realtime features. Its standards-based router, with support...

@scott.hanselman.com you might like to take a look at rwsdk.com - @rwsdk.bsky.social as a possible podcast guest? Their goals of building personal software, using web fundamentals and lowering the economic barrier of entry, could be of interest to your audience.

01.07.2025 01:34 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

No idea why U posted this lyric. Maybe it's just a Sign Of The Times......

06.06.2025 02:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Screen shot of the Windows Weather app, showing a strange temperature spike of 40F for one hour!

Screen shot of the Windows Weather app, showing a strange temperature spike of 40F for one hour!

I wonder what caused the 40F spike for one hour in the dataset driving the Windows Weather for one hour at 8pm! #windows #weather #chicago

27.05.2025 11:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Excited by the "Secret Squirrel" hints from @psbhq.bsky.social today, about a possible small US tour. Hope they can stop by a major city beside a large lake, but appreciate these tours are no small undertaking (and probably more recently, less attractive than ever)

29.04.2025 14:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Another track added to this amazing and generous endeavor. A perfect example of what makes the open web a great platform. #openweb #web #musicforprogramming #developers

14.04.2025 16:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

To paraphrase "The road to hell is....not paved, due to lack of maintenance"

10.04.2025 16:02 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This sounds like a great alternative to Deno or BunJS, which I currently use for such utility script and small app scenarios. Truly extending the "NET Everywhere" BHAG πŸ˜€ #dotnet

09.04.2025 15:05 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Hope you enjoyed it. We saw the earlier show and he was amazing!

29.03.2025 21:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I'll stop writing now, before I dig any deeper πŸ™‚

22.03.2025 18:28 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Apologies. That was a really badly worded reply by me. I should have said 'our' versus 'your' in the first sentence, as the comment was about our industry and not aimed at you. I think both yourself and @scott.hanselman.com are great examples of people creating 'professional' and 'fun' content.

22.03.2025 18:28 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Is part of the issue with 'fun' that your total online presence is perceived as one big virtual LinkedIn profile? So if people create content, they feel it must be 'professional' and reflect their opinions and expertise on a topic?

22.03.2025 16:10 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I know they're not a perfect fit for all use cases, but I wish we could push #pwa apps harder to gain more adoption and user awareness #open-web

18.03.2025 23:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0