October, 2014

Wednesday October 1, 2014 - 09:17

RT @jamiedixon : I just found out that is being shut down, and @Tesco are selling @blinkbox or shutting it down. Wha…

Wednesday October 1, 2014 - 15:17

Thank you @Cassetteboy - I couldn’t put it better myself -

Wednesday October 1, 2014 - 23:00

RT @doctorow : Kickstarting Matchstick, a Firefox-powered Chromecast killer

Wednesday October 1, 2014 - 23:08

@zacharyparadis @daringfireball remember the last time?

Thursday October 2, 2014 - 07:27

@DoIlum denser poo!

Thursday October 2, 2014 - 07:44

@ShaunDunne , listened to all four episodes of @podcaststartup last night. Really good stuff!

Thursday October 2, 2014 - 07:46

RT @PhoneGapBuild : Cordova 2.9, WebOS, Symbian, Blackberry and Windows Phone 7 Deprecations

Thursday October 2, 2014 - 07:46

RT @zacharyparadis : Impossible not to be curious. RT @elonmusk : About time to unveil the D and something else

Thursday October 2, 2014 - 18:03

@podcaststartup @ShaunDunne loving it all, but slicing the imaginary pie episode was quite moving!

Thursday October 2, 2014 - 18:04

RT @DaveDixon4 : Tory cabinet minister Nicky Morgan to BBC “People get very frustrated with human rights”.

Which ones frustrate you? http:/…

Friday October 3, 2014 - 13:43

RT @MooseAllain : Pilot whale

Friday October 3, 2014 - 13:49

RT @DanHLawReporter : Twitter is a funny thing. Personally, I use it to access first rate commentary on third rate government policy.

Friday October 3, 2014 - 18:53

Apparently there’ll be 10000 more seats on the @TLRailUK services soon. That doesn’t sound like much to me. Details?

Friday October 3, 2014 - 19:07

@TLRailUK it’s a bit vague. Does ’new’ mean additional or replacements? Are 10000 New seats per day our spread over network over a year?

Friday October 3, 2014 - 19:09

RT @grescoe : How would car drivers feel

if they got treated like cyclists on bike lanes?

via @BrentToderian

by: @StevePAdams

Friday October 3, 2014 - 19:19

@TLRailUK okay, one last question, do we know which routes those additional seats will be on?

Friday October 3, 2014 - 19:24

@GNRailUK ah, that’s a shame, nothing on Cambridge to London then?

Friday October 3, 2014 - 19:37

@TLRailUK @masekwm yes, well we’d all love more standing room, right? ;)

Thanks for your help Greg.

Friday October 3, 2014 - 19:53

RT @rem : Why don’t I file bugs against Safari? Apple won’t engage web developers. So I won’t engage them. Nothing c…

Friday October 3, 2014 - 19:59

@zacharyparadis I don’t trust Facebook as a provider of social connection. God only knows what they’d do with my health data…

Friday October 3, 2014 - 20:04

RT @Whatfroth : Toto’s synth up for sale #stonecold

Saturday October 4, 2014 - 11:15

Could do without replacing car tyres today…

Saturday October 4, 2014 - 23:50

RT @sofiabiologista : Scientists named a newly discovered species of velvet worm the Eoperipatus totoro ! (from My Neighbour Totoro). http:/…

Sunday October 5, 2014 - 00:03

@SigismundF no-one in England changes tyres based on season. We’d have nothing to complain about when traffic stops after 3cm of snow. :)

Sunday October 5, 2014 - 00:05

“ @DoIlum : OH MY GOD I CONCUR!

Sunday October 5, 2014 - 00:06

RT @stephenfry : Saeed has been in Iranian jail 6 years for authoring open source code. Follow his story @HassanRouh…

Sunday October 5, 2014 - 00:21

@danholder sounds like we had exactly the same afternoon!

Sunday October 5, 2014 - 16:06

Department of Health: Switch to the opt out system for organ donation via @UKChange

Sunday October 5, 2014 - 16:16

RT @HTML5Weekly : iOS 8 Safari Supports Animated PNG Images:

Sunday October 5, 2014 - 16:19

@DoIlum they want war. The cynic in me says they’ve been cultivated by a west that doesn’t want peace in the middle east. Jihad vs oil?

Sunday October 5, 2014 - 16:41

RT @tmaslen : @smashingmag IE8 traffic on BBC News very low until workday lunchtime when it becomes VERY popular. Still worth supporting #lu…

Monday October 6, 2014 - 17:51

RT @doctorow : Dr Seuss vs Call of Cthulhu

Monday October 6, 2014 - 17:58

!deticxe os m’I @ShaunDunne @maggiefok @Tim_Enchanter

Monday October 6, 2014 - 22:35

RT @CodingWith : “ @chrisod : Estimating web design projects in a nutshell

Monday October 6, 2014 - 22:43

@ShaunDunne

Monday October 6, 2014 - 22:59

RT @anastasiatl : #regram from @terukuwayama I did it! Presenting MAIDAN -Portraits from the Black Square as…

Tuesday October 7, 2014 - 07:25

RT @raymondcamden : nightmare - a high level wrapper for PhantomJS - love the design and the code looks slick too,

Thursday October 9, 2014 - 14:53

Just renewed my vehicle tax online. ( and was very pleased to see the beta site by @GDSTeam - really easy, good work!

Thursday October 9, 2014 - 15:30

@DMossEsq @GDSTeam renewed my tax disk online for years, and this time it didn’t feel like a migraine. Clear, consistent & user-focused.

Thursday October 9, 2014 - 15:34

Okay, just found out I can get #damngoodcoffee on @AmazonVideoUK so that’s the next 72 hours sorted.

Friday October 10, 2014 - 08:37

RT @zacharyparadis : “When faced with page errors… nearly all of the test subjects during our checkout studies abandoned…”

Friday October 10, 2014 - 08:45

@stubbornella goes does it compare to m men that have left tech?

Friday October 10, 2014 - 08:49

@zacharyparadis @FastCompany sorry to see @elonmusk following traditional motor industry, with cars for the rich first, rest of us… later

Friday October 10, 2014 - 08:58

RT @AdamBalfourLang : This is the best fact I’ve read in a long time:

Friday October 10, 2014 - 09:44

@Dootson @zacharyparadis @FastCompany @elonmusk depends what your ambitions are I suppose.

Friday October 10, 2014 - 10:52

RT @DawnHFoster : Do you know why the NHS offers HIV treatment to all people regardless of migration status, Farage? Public health, you thun…

Friday October 10, 2014 - 11:33

@Dootson @zacharyparadis @FastCompany hang on - faith in @elonmusk restored, they freed their tech of patents!

Friday October 10, 2014 - 14:32

If at first you don’t succeed,

try ‘sudo succeed’

Friday October 10, 2014 - 15:09

@ShaunDunne @paulcurley I’ve seen a beta running converting TypeScript to Coffeescript in one pass!

Friday October 10, 2014 - 15:13

@DoIlum can you find it on Google maps?

Friday October 10, 2014 - 15:17

@DoIlum is it this one (you can only just see it)

Friday October 10, 2014 - 15:18

@DoIlum Some nice pics on Flickr -

Friday October 10, 2014 - 15:33

RT @ysbreker : Writing unit tests after the fact is never going to work. you always miss important cases and never get 100% coverage Do TDD!…

Friday October 10, 2014 - 18:12

Ebola planning committee, with ‘Irish Joe De Marino’ on the right.

Friday October 10, 2014 - 22:00

RT @RutlandArmsChef : For fuck’s sake Sheffield.

“ @drenge : STOP KNOCKING OUR CITY DOWN!!

Friday October 10, 2014 - 22:01

RT @CherryHintonBlu : Lovely to see the cycle lanes on our expensive new roundabout already being used as a car park.

Saturday October 11, 2014 - 14:32

RT @brianleroux : Apple ok w/ hot code push. (via @shazron and @meteorjs friends)

Sunday October 12, 2014 - 22:32

RT @BrutalHouse : Technical College, Busto Arsizio, Italy, 1963-64

—

via

Monday October 13, 2014 - 13:37

@DoIlum it’s sexual innuendo! @tosseduk are trying to suggest that their female staff will give you hand relief! Soooooooo funny… Oh wait.

Monday October 13, 2014 - 13:47

@DoIlum yeah, it’s pretty juvenile - make their staff fell really special. @tosseduk

Monday October 13, 2014 - 17:27

@trello - once I’ve used 12 months of Trello gold, can I still earn more, or do I have to pay now?

Monday October 13, 2014 - 23:03

RT @webmink : For Minecraft users, understanding why open source licenses are so important has come too late

Tuesday October 14, 2014 - 13:19

RT @doctorow : Paolo Bacigalupi’s “The Doubt Factory” - my review, please RT!

Wednesday October 15, 2014 - 10:36

RT @DrBrianMay : SCANDALOUS that Green Party excluded from TV debate. PLEASE SIGN PETITION. I have. Bri

Wednesday October 15, 2014 - 10:52

RT @HiddenPinky : Your password must contain at least two female characters who talk to each other about something other than a man.

Thursday October 16, 2014 - 18:18

@DoIlum I’ve heard that freezing too death can be quite euphoric. Not keen to test that theory.

Thursday October 16, 2014 - 18:20

RT @Classwar2015 : “We cannot have people loafing about, doing nothing & expecting the state to finance their lifestyles.’'

• Lord Freud htt…

Thursday October 16, 2014 - 22:42

“ @brianleroux : DUN DUN DAAAAA @apachecordova 4.0 @ShaunDunne we’re gonna be busy next week

Thursday October 16, 2014 - 22:49

RT @JFSIII : @rem

Thursday October 16, 2014 - 22:53

RT @BrutalHouse : Roger Stevens Building

Leeds University

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via

Thursday October 16, 2014 - 22:59

What my mum might have been watching, had she not been in hospital having me.

Friday October 17, 2014 - 08:02

@chrisgiddings86 that sounds a lot like being back at @niceagency ;)

Friday October 17, 2014 - 08:03

RT @TheTweetOfGod : Scientists have discovered Indonesian cave paintings that are 40,000 years old. To put that in perspective, the universe…

Friday October 17, 2014 - 08:05

RT @trello : Convert an entire spreadsheet column in to Trello cards by copy and pasting the list in to a new card. How delish!

Saturday October 18, 2014 - 13:05

RT @silentworks : Finally a JS template parser that matches Jinja syntax

Monday October 20, 2014 - 08:14

RT @gamasutra : When quality comes before making money: Developing Monument Valley

Tuesday October 21, 2014 - 07:36

RT @doctorow : Google releases set of beautiful, freely usable icons

Tuesday October 21, 2014 - 18:07

Oh joy, no trains north of Cambridge. @TLRailUK , right? Just buses? Going to Ely from KGX

Tuesday October 21, 2014 - 18:36

@GNRailUK @TLRailUK are trains making it into CBG from KGX? Trying to find a route home.

Wednesday October 22, 2014 - 21:36

RT @Hooksan : …you guys seen the new Back to the Future trailer? #BackToTheFuture

Thursday October 23, 2014 - 12:12

Check out “Potty-Mouthed Princesses Drop F-Bombs for Feminism by on Vimeo #Vimeo

Friday October 24, 2014 - 14:38

RT @doctorow : Kickstarting a new edition of the classic game Paranoia @ShaunDunne

Friday October 24, 2014 - 14:40

Sometimes you learn more from reading someone’s condensed ‘style’ guide for a JS library, than most tutorials

Monday October 27, 2014 - 07:30

RT @V3nnyG : In-app browsers - nobody wants you #badUX

Monday October 27, 2014 - 18:33

RT @tomdale : I’m excited about Ember CLI because it’s a productivity multiplier. Here’s just one example: ember-cli-cordova

Monday October 27, 2014 - 18:35

Got a Go pro for my birthday. What to do first? Extreme ironing or deep sea planking…

Monday October 27, 2014 - 18:43

RT @ashedryden : A code of conduct is not enough

Monday October 27, 2014 - 22:40

@Samcoles there’s always a pomeranian, new internet rules.

Tuesday October 28, 2014 - 13:30

@davejgellis I’m not so sure I’d feel comfortable saying I live at for instance

Tuesday October 28, 2014 - 14:42

@hovlev @davejgellis well I actually live near neutron.clap.nicer, but prickwillow is funnier.

Tuesday October 28, 2014 - 14:43

RT @iamdevloper : For Halloween, I’m dressing as a Go developer.

Now just need to find a high horse…

Tuesday October 28, 2014 - 14:55

@davejgellis @hovlev Somewhere there is a

Tuesday October 28, 2014 - 14:57

@davejgellis @hovlev and I’m getting into this :)

Tuesday October 28, 2014 - 22:57

RT @TCUK_DBA : Want to #beyourownboss? Pre-register for our free #onlinecourses which provide you with the #digitalskills you need

Tuesday October 28, 2014 - 23:02

RT @AmazonVideoUK : Send those demons back to hell #Constantine. Exclusively on #AmazonPrime.

Tuesday October 28, 2014 - 23:13

RT @iamdevloper : Facebook is down.

If we all keep refreshing, we can kill it for good.

Tuesday October 28, 2014 - 23:20

@ordinarycharles @DoIlum I’m reminded of the ‘Red Cow’ in Peckham.

Wednesday October 29, 2014 - 07:34

RT @OnMarsFirst : q: what have two legs, one arm, flock of goat, big bosom, mind like dagger, heart of soft cheese and is not on mars?

a: i…

Wednesday October 29, 2014 - 07:45

RT @hs_wilkins : YOU DON’T NEED #SIENA WHEN YOU HAVE #BIRMINGHAM

Wednesday October 29, 2014 - 22:25

RT @GeorgeMonbiot : Many congrats to @CarolineLucas on securing 1st debate on UK #drugs policy in parl’ment for a generation. About time! ht…

Wednesday October 29, 2014 - 22:29

@DoIlum given the logo is a knuckle duster topped with some kind of eagle, I don’t see that as a good sign. Gothic script never boss well.

Thursday October 30, 2014 - 07:21

RT @femfreq : So yeah, you all might want to watch the Colbert Report tonight.

Thursday October 30, 2014 - 07:49

RT @shepazu : Social network designed by @TimBL : “You have 7,179,423,317 people who aren’t friends with you” #w3C20

Thursday October 30, 2014 - 13:53

@DoIlum - South Yorkshire, 1982. Many thousands dead after Nuclear war.

Thursday October 30, 2014 - 16:59

Cordova needs to update it’s documentation. Preferably to include relevant, working examples. File system stuff is the pits. #pullingHairOut

Thursday October 30, 2014 - 17:01

@paulcurley @mischizzle - I’m a big vagrant fan - small issue is you can’t watch for file changes in host system, but apart from that? Great

Thursday October 30, 2014 - 17:10

RT @silentworks : Yo Tech Police, you should all chill out sometimes, why u so cranky? Dont shoot down ppl’s hard work like it was something…

Thursday October 30, 2014 - 17:50

RT @mischizzle : @toychicken @paulcurley Had a go with Fig?

Thursday October 30, 2014 - 17:52

@mischizzle @paulcurley of course, if you really want to be down with the cool kids, use @Docker .

Thursday October 30, 2014 - 17:53

@mischizzle @paulcurley ah, I see already does…

Thursday October 30, 2014 - 18:20

@DoIlum #namethreegames GTA, Super Mario bros., Sonic the hedgehog. No, I’m not kidding. Mario and Sonic. Sexist.

Thursday October 30, 2014 - 18:23

@twillynavy246 @AOwenLDN Err… wtf?

Thursday October 30, 2014 - 18:27

@AOwenLDN I can see Rhianna is really attracting some high quality followers. Let’s see how long before she explodes from her own self hate.

Thursday October 30, 2014 - 18:39

@DoIlum ah, apparently it’s the #gamergate terds failing to understand nuance. Sorry I engaged #NameThreeGames 1. Most 2. Games 3. Ever.

Thursday October 30, 2014 - 20:07

@mischizzle @silentworks @paulcurley apparently, hard for guest machine to see change on host file system, so grunt/gulp/nodemon don’t work.

Thursday October 30, 2014 - 20:10

@silentworks @mischizzle @paulcurley can guest service watch for changes on host filesystem? What you running?

Thursday October 30, 2014 - 20:11

@silentworks @mischizzle @paulcurley but is gulp running on the vm? And watching for filesystem changes on host machine?

Thursday October 30, 2014 - 20:47

@silentworks @mischizzle @paulcurley hmmm, I’m going to have to try again. Nice work!

Thursday October 30, 2014 - 21:12

@mischizzle I know what you mean, but we’re still cool right?