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My boat's called Floating Point :)

This explains the breaking change: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2019/12/12/separation-of-p...

Side note, but I love the animations, code snippet design and typography in this blog post. Will think about how I can improve my own blog with these ideas.

I was pleased to discover recently that Microsoft PowerToys are a thing again and include a Keyboard Manager utility. It's really simple to use and works flawlessly. It's nice to u…

The CEO's name was Roger Enrico

Apple Computer already changed its name to Apple in 2007!

Different in what way? Slack has built-in video conferencing?

I’m proud to call this guy my colleague :D

This is a whole professional discipline and should be left as such. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_counseling

Kent Beck - 3X

Cookpad | Sr Ruby Web Developer | ONSITE in Bristol, UK | https://cookpad.com/uk At Cookpad we're building a community platform for people to share recipe ideas and cooking tips. B…

Cookpad | Sr Ruby Web Developer | ONSITE in Bristol, UK | https://cookpad.com/uk At Cookpad we're building a community platform for people to share recipe ideas and cooking tips. B…

mame wrote this quine for Bath Ruby conference, earlier this year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHh78U1AgEM

We’re having such a drive in the UK, and my wife is working on the project. It’s called 100,000 genomes and aims to sequence the whole genome of 70,000 patients with rare disease o…

If we're on the subject of plugs, I wrote Podcast Chart ( https://www.podcastchart.com ) Again in Rails, all running on AWS.

If you use the Apple Podcast app you can listen on 1.5x or 2x speed which is useful.

The new Apple Photos app + iPhone 6 = works, flawlessly

Why does your app ask for my location even when i'm not using the app?

Even better, popping up a JS alert stops further JS execution, so this was a clever way for Github to throttle connections (rather than them being made every 2 seconds as per the h…