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  1. Dad is a master programmer. Kenyan mainframes. Long story. 2:55 PM May 23rd via Twitter for Mac
  2. "UTF-8 is the encoding." Dad: "You mean like ASCII?" 2:53 PM May 23rd via Twitter for Mac
  3. "Unicode is every character in human language. Plus some extra bits." 2:51 PM May 23rd via Twitter for Mac
  4. Explaining UTF-8 to my parents. 2:41 PM May 23rd via Twitter for Mac
  5. Down the attention mines. Canary on my shoulder. 9:49 AM May 22nd via Twitter for Mac
  6. Beast of Hackney instagr.am/p/K46O5PypA2/ 5:47 AM May 21st via Instagram
  7. @felix_cohen Assuming you have the Gang of Four book of course, which is essential. 2:56 AM May 19th via Twitter for Mac in reply to felix_cohen
  8. @felix_cohen This is actually the pattern bible for many ruby programmers. It's great. amazon.co.uk/Smalltalk-Best… 2:55 AM May 19th via Twitter for Mac in reply to felix_cohen
  9. @_ralph No. 6:36 AM May 18th via Twitter for Mac in reply to _ralph
  10. Markov chain as C21 dérive. 6:56 AM May 17th via Twitter for Mac
  11. @hannah_gregory They were out there 8am sharp. 4:48 AM May 17th via Twitter for Mac in reply to hannah_gregory
  12. The neighbours are keeping bees on their roof. #n16 4:26 AM May 17th via Twitter for Mac
  13. New alterbot. This one draws like me. 5:26 AM May 13th via Twitter for Mac
  14. @danhancox Paris is the reigning champion of Sunday brunches. It's heavyweight. 4:24 AM May 13th via Twitter for iPhone in reply to danhancox
  15. Arepas, Ceviche y Maracuya. Hello Summer. 1:53 PM May 12th via Twitter for iPhone
  16. @Iskabone Pasiegos 5:26 AM May 10th via Twitter for Mac in reply to Iskabone
  17. @Iskabone Sobaos 5:26 AM May 10th via Twitter for Mac in reply to Iskabone
  18. @Iskabone I think they still do Huevos Rancheros at The Diner. 5:17 AM May 10th via Twitter for Mac in reply to Iskabone
  19. Entropy Dict stdio-london.com/010/ 8:40 AM May 7th via Twitter for Mac