Sam Strong  

@RapidOwl

Software developer, reader, climber, father/husband/editor/sous-chef, nerd, loves food, consumes RPGs.

Nottingham, England
rapidowl.co.uk
Joined March 2007
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    16 Jun 2016

    I think we could all do with this gif today.

    I stayed late at work to make this (partial credit to )
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  2. May 22

    My move from Santander to Monzo was completed today. It's worth it for app startup time alone.

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  3. May 21

    Playing with Eleventy and new.css. It’s interesting how quickly you can build something functional. It’s also interesting to see the different approaches various SSGs take.

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  4. May 21

    Love how my bank still sends me an email every month to let me know my latest “statement” is ready, as if my account isn’t just a continual stream of transactions.

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  5. Retweeted
    May 20

    Learn about some of the cool new stuff in C# 9:

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  6. May 19

    My phone keeps correcting covid to corvid. I kinda like it.

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  7. May 18

    While we’re at it, why do React, Vue, Svelte and all of the others need to exist? How have we got to 2020 with nothing like this being natively supported in browsers? If people want to reduce library clones (not to mention bundle size), bake it into the browser.

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  8. May 18

    Why don’t browsers have native support/APIs for nice modals, modals with forms, nice drop downs, type-ahead, table paging, non-shitty datepickers, etc? Why does every website have to reinvent this stuff? Web development should be so much more efficient.

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  9. Retweeted
    May 17

    My god this is perfect.

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  10. May 16

    One day, someone will make a full set of pudding keycaps for a UK keyboard.

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  11. May 16

    In case anyone is wondering, working full time, taking care of a one year old and then continuing to write code after the one year old has gone to bed... Not a sustainable situation.

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  12. May 15

    Just imagine if Instagram actually allowed people to use paragraph breaks that weren’t some random character shoehorned in.

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  13. Retweeted
    May 15

    Maybe I’m bad at taking breaks cause I’m inexperienced at it...

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  14. May 15

    I looked into much much it’d cost to turn my somewhat large tower into a mini-ITX system. That’s um... a little more than I expected. Motherboards for older CPUs aren’t nearly as cheap as I’d expect.

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  15. May 15

    Doom 2 Thief: The Dark Project Conflict: Freespace Tekken 3 Baldur's Gate

    What were the five most important video games to you throughout your youth/teen years? No curating to look cool/interesting please
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  16. May 14

    2020 is wild.

    don’t talk to me until ive had my brekfast
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  17. May 14

    With Santander slashing interest rates (again), I've finally pulled the trigger and initiated a switch to Monzo. I'm looking forward to banking with a decent app and accidentally exposing lots of personal information when I inevitably end up playing with their API.

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  18. May 13

    The baby is presumably asleep, but is doing this thing where she sounds like a guinea pig deflating very slowly. Apparently she’s old enough to have nightmares. I wonder what they could possibly be about...

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  19. May 13

    I got my little side project working properly on Heroku ( Core in a container). The only problems I ran into involved SSL redirects and were solved by explicitly specififying port 443 and forwarding headers (X-Forwarded-Proto). Praise be to the internet.

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  20. Retweeted
    May 13

    It could literally be any day of the week. You could tell me any day and I would believe you.

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  21. Retweeted
    May 13

    Many people in big cities don't have cars. Many people in big cities don't have bikes. Many people in big cities can't walk 15 miles from one side of a city to the other. There's a reason public transport was invented. It wasn't luxury. Stop framing workers as a problem.

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    Buses in London are packed with passengers this morning, despite the govt asking people to avoid public transport if possible when the lockdown eased. Follow live as England gets back to work:
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