John Barton

@johnbarton

CTO . Side hustle . Previously /. Nautical history and retro computing is my jam. he / him

Melbourne, Australia
Joined July 2007

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    2 Aug 2020

    Today I'm starting my experiment of shifting my daily driver from work off my laptop running Ubuntu 20.04 to win10 using WSL2. Will report back in this thread with any/all findings.

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    15 hours ago

    therapy: $120 dollars for an hour watching this clip from the sopranoes: $0

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  3. Retweeted
    Jan 20

    GraphQL is great because instead of writing boring APIs I can just mess about doing clever schema introspection metaprogramming all day long and get paid twice what a normal API programmer does because nobody else understands what is going on

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    Feb 5
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  6. Feb 4

    Go plug my boy over on the product hunt for his open source colour picker

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  7. Feb 2

    This was a big effort from the team over summer (big chunks were done while I was on parental leave) and I'm so proud of the outcome.

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  8. Feb 2

    I love when customers share the ins and outs of their customer experience, but when the customer is an expert in energy market economics that turns it into a whole other ball game.

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    Feb 1
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    Jan 31

    assembly is actually a markup language, as it defines the content and layout of bytes

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    Jan 29

    👀 in the future you’ll be able to charge an EV using solar _and_ 3¢/kWh grid power, keeping plenty in the home battery for nighttime! william gibson wrote “the future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed”. can’t wait for this tech to be ubiquitous!

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  13. Jan 28
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    Jan 28
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    A GameStop sea shanty. The Internet remains undefeated.

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  16. Retweeted
    Jan 26

    i have purchased an $8 evangelical christian pamphlet from the 80s on why computers are the antichrist

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  17. Jan 25

    "The Entrepreneur’s Weekly Nietzsche: A Book for Disruptors" Apparently a real book being written right now. I'll just be over there, walking into the sea.

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  18. Jan 25

    We're doing at so I'm working today ✌️

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  19. Jan 24

    I officially apologise for voting for every nominated track off the smashing pumpkins very dubious release that year

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  20. Jan 24

    I fully commited to middle age today. Listening to the replay of '00 hottest 100 and deleted all the "new music to check out" out of my todo list app.

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  21. Retweeted
    Jan 24
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    What are your thoughts on Erik Bernhardsson's whole "average vs median" theory of software estimation failure? It struck me as a neat model for the issue

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