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Between Tuesday, May 19 2020 and Wednesday, May 20 2020 I took 1992 steps.

Sun, 09 Aug 2020 16:30 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna .

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https://twitter.com/tokenblackaspie/status/1292292246105206784

Call that shit paranormal activititties

Mexican Hummer (@BigMemeMan3)Sun, 09 Aug 2020 03:26 +0000

Sun, 09 Aug 2020 12:20 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna .

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This is precision tile setting at scale

Vala Afshar (@ValaAfshar)Sun, 09 Aug 2020 00:38 +0000

Sun, 09 Aug 2020 12:19 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna .

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Bookmarked https://packetlost.dev/the-terminal-jockeys-toolbelt .

Sun, 09 Aug 2020 12:18 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #command-line.

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I want to have an AWS region where everything breaks with high frequency. EC2 networks dropping packets, EBS volumes hanging and failing, entire AZs dropping offline, etc. If it breaks 0.001% of the time in us-east-1, I want it to break 1% of the time in us-fail-1. #awswishlist

Colin Percival (@cperciva)Sun, 09 Aug 2020 00:46 +0000

Sun, 09 Aug 2020 12:11 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #chaos-engineering.

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I may be attending IndieAuth 1.1 Identity Protocol Standards Session (Session 2)

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Sun, 09 Aug 2020 11:25 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna .

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Liked https://www.reddit.com/r/BetterEveryLoop/comments/i5y7b4/kitten_attacked_by_a_terrible_box_monster/ .

Sat, 08 Aug 2020 23:11 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #cute.

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Liked https://www.reddit.com/r/tippytaps/comments/i604r8/smolest_tippytaps/ .

Sat, 08 Aug 2020 23:10 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #cute.

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Liked https://medium.com/@honnamkuan/show-all-credential-values-in-jenkins-86ecb19609d5 .

Sat, 08 Aug 2020 22:49 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #jenkins.

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It's hard to write docs when your keyboard is broken

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Apple's developer documentation used to be top notch, what happened in the last 5 years??

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Justin Garrison (@rothgar)Sat, 08 Aug 2020 15:40 +0000

Sat, 08 Aug 2020 21:38 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #apple.

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Bookmarked https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1291801858676228098.html?s=09 .

Sat, 08 Aug 2020 21:37 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #capital-one #aws #security.

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Makes you realise how hard office cleaners have to work, doesn’t it?

Meri “Exiled for the Good of the Realm” Williams (@Geek_Manager)Sat, 08 Aug 2020 13:53 +0000

Sat, 08 Aug 2020 15:21 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna .

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Liked https://dev.to/britnorcodes/dubai-to-london-and-all-the-tech-i-learnt-in-between-14m8?s=09 .

Sat, 08 Aug 2020 13:35 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna .

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Bookmarked https://pragmaticpineapple.com/why-should-you-learn-vim-in-2020/ .

Sat, 08 Aug 2020 13:25 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #vim.

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Bookmarked https://www.arp242.net/personal-analytics.html .

Sat, 08 Aug 2020 13:12 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #analytics.

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🧩 We started getting into jigsaw puzzles in the #TechNott Slack community 😄 This morning we're doing this lovely one 💛 Join us! 👇🏼 nott.tech/slack
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Tech Nottingham (@technottingham)Fri, 07 Aug 2020 09:36 +0000

Sat, 08 Aug 2020 11:53 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna .

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I will be attending Sneinton Street Food Club • Disco Fries • Umai • 13th Element + More

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Sat, 08 Aug 2020 11:38 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna .

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man goes to doctor. says he's depressed. says work is overwhelming. everything is disorganized, swamped with bureaucracy. "use the app JIRA" says doctor. "It'll help your organization keep track of work." "but doc," says the man. "I work on JIRA."

Nat Aliscion 🍑 (@tesseralis)Fri, 07 Aug 2020 20:51 +0000

Sat, 08 Aug 2020 10:36 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna .

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How most engineers get started with Frontend frameworks

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Jem Young ✊🏾 (@JemYoung)Fri, 07 Aug 2020 19:13 +0000

Sat, 08 Aug 2020 00:41 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna .

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The minute you press the record button when performing a good deed, all the meaning is taken away and a selfless act is turned into an attempt to benefit your online image twitter.com/rossmac212/sta…
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There should be more of this in the world!

Ross McCulloch (@Rossmac212)Thu, 06 Aug 2020 22:01 +0000

H 🖤 (@___xHellena)Fri, 07 Aug 2020 11:01 +0000

Sat, 08 Aug 2020 00:41 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna .

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so I got a virus on my computer... and the thing is, I didn’t even do anything and it disappeared. must have ransomware 🏃‍♀️

Emma Heffernan (IRE 🇮🇪) (@3mm4h3ff)Fri, 07 Aug 2020 17:07 +0000

Sat, 08 Aug 2020 00:40 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna .

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I'm shocked how hard it is to generate text about Muslims from GPT-3 that has nothing to do with violence... or being killed...

Abubakar Abid (@abidlabs)Thu, 06 Aug 2020 00:12 +0000

Sat, 08 Aug 2020 00:38 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #diversity-and-inclusion.

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ugh i wish everyone would take this virus seriously. my husband and i are vacationing in tahiti and literally no one at this beach party we're having is wearing masks. i sincerely hope this improves. my husband really needed this vacation bc his covid is making him so depressed.

Ingrid Ostby (@ingridostby)Thu, 06 Aug 2020 02:19 +0000

Sat, 08 Aug 2020 00:36 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #satire #coronavirus.

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bletchley punk is a fullmetal engineer (@alicegoldfuss)Fri, 07 Aug 2020 22:29 +0000

Sat, 08 Aug 2020 00:31 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna .

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i keep seeing WAP trending and i think people are talking about early millennium mobile internet?

Andy Bell (@hankchizljaw)Fri, 07 Aug 2020 21:28 +0000

Sat, 08 Aug 2020 00:31 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna .

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https://twitter.com/MissingWW/status/1291813051717517315

I suggest not using it that way

Rōnin Ⓐ🏴 (@MntJulepMolotov)Fri, 07 Aug 2020 21:02 +0000

Sat, 08 Aug 2020 00:30 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna .

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you guys, i am in LOVE with my new mortar and pestle 🥰😍

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Sat, 08 Aug 2020 00:30 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna .

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wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacm…

Alex Dranove (@ADranove)Fri, 07 Aug 2020 21:27 +0000

Sat, 08 Aug 2020 00:27 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #arch-linux.

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Kelly Bastow (@Moosekleenex)Thu, 06 Aug 2020 20:52 +0000

Fri, 07 Aug 2020 20:15 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna .

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Dear strangers; Once again No, I'm not 'babysitting', I'm their father No, I didn't 'draw the short straw'. They're my children. I like them a lot No, it's not 'mum's day off'. It's the exact opposite, she's in work. Women can have official jobs these days. It's a thing.

Dean Burnett (@garwboy)Thu, 06 Aug 2020 10:18 +0000

Fri, 07 Aug 2020 17:50 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna .

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ELF 👏 binaries 👏 are 👏 multi 👏 cloud

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It is pretty amazing that the same exact container image can be run on GCE, Kubernetes, Knative, and Cloud Run. Choose your operation abstraction level.

James Ward (@_JamesWard)Fri, 07 Aug 2020 15:58 +0000

Justin Garrison (@rothgar)Fri, 07 Aug 2020 16:32 +0000

Fri, 07 Aug 2020 17:50 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna .

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Marshmallow popped a balloon and is distraught 🔊

Sy Brand (@TartanLlama)Fri, 07 Aug 2020 07:47 +0000

Fri, 07 Aug 2020 16:37 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #cute.

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Liked https://www.reddit.com/r/ApexLore/comments/i4vo3i/apex_legends_season_6_boosted_launch_trailer/ .

Fri, 07 Aug 2020 08:55 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #apex-legends.

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My professional opinion as an infectious disease epidemiologist who has directly worked with COVID19 data: lol we're fucked

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This is the plexiglass shield just installed in every UGA classroom to separate faculty from students. I am just over 6 feet.

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Scott Nelson (@nelsonhist)Thu, 06 Aug 2020 22:33 +0000

Fausto Bustos, PhD #BlackLivesMatter (@FaustoBustos)Fri, 07 Aug 2020 02:38 +0000

Fri, 07 Aug 2020 08:50 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #coronavirus.

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False scarcity is lame.

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Kurt Elster 🛒 (@kurtinc)Thu, 06 Aug 2020 16:44 +0000

Fri, 07 Aug 2020 08:43 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna .

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I'm no Epidemiologist, but if 9 guys can't play with a ball, outside on a big field and not get Coronavirus, millions of kids can't go back to school.

Obamalove (@KristinGKroll1)Tue, 28 Jul 2020 00:22 +0000

Fri, 07 Aug 2020 08:24 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #coronavirus #politics.

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sneak peek at my website redesign 👀

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Moriah Maney (@moriahmaney)Thu, 06 Aug 2020 21:03 +0000

Thu, 06 Aug 2020 22:39 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #personal-website.

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Thank you to all our lovely #WiTNotts attendees this evening! It was great seeing you all as usual 🙌 big thanks to our sponsors and @katemonkey for speaking too 🧡✨No alt tag provided on Twitter.com

Women In Tech, Nottingham 🌈✨ (@WiT_Notts)Thu, 06 Aug 2020 20:52 +0000

Thu, 06 Aug 2020 22:39 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #wit-notts.

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Anyone else find the A11y abbreviation ironically inaccessible?!

Rachel McConnell (@Minette_78)Thu, 06 Aug 2020 10:00 +0000

Thu, 06 Aug 2020 20:48 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna .

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Interview: *Designing entire system architecture for Twitter in 30 minutes* Job: *Renaming classes to conform to CSS conventions for a week*

shawn swyx wang (@swyx)Thu, 10 May 2018 16:10 +0000

Thu, 06 Aug 2020 19:31 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna .

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Liked https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/08/i-could-build-that-in-five-minutes/ .

Thu, 06 Aug 2020 17:59 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna .

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#Morph is having a big nap now so he's able to attend the whole of #WiTNotts tonight - he's usually too sleepy from a day on the sofa to make it to the event!

Black cat lying asleep on a red blanket, with his paws curled into him, and a hint of a tooth

Thu, 06 Aug 2020 16:49 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #morph #wit-notts.

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Critical PGP bug just disclosed: if an attacker responds to an encrypted message with "This doesn't decrypt for me, could you try without PGP", the sender will be unsurprised and provide the attacker a copy of the encrypted message in plaintext

your least favorite construct (@XMPPwocky)Wed, 05 Aug 2020 22:49 +0000

Thu, 06 Aug 2020 16:34 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #pgp.

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The most unrealistic thing about Star Trek is how good the engineering team is at estimates.

Safia Abdalla (@captainsafia)Thu, 06 Aug 2020 03:39 +0000

Thu, 06 Aug 2020 16:32 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #star-trek.

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She heard a gunshot. The more ears you have, the more precisely you can pinpoint the source of a sound. She had it down to a 3 centimeter diameter sphere, but was less precise when she filed the report. Apartment number was close enough, in Alexa's experience.

Micro SF/F stories (@MicroSFF)Thu, 06 Aug 2020 13:28 +0000

Thu, 06 Aug 2020 16:30 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #alexa.

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A story about an exciting missing drawer.

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Emma Seward (@MrsEmma)Thu, 06 Aug 2020 13:13 +0000

Thu, 06 Aug 2020 16:29 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #cute.

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How to Manually Trigger JSR380 Bean Validation on a Class (2 mins read).

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How to perform validation on a class using JSR380, when not using a framework like Spring Boot.

Thu, 06 Aug 2020 10:47 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #java #jsr380 #bean-validation.

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OH: "it's VIM controls for Firefox" "most people can't even use VIM controls for VIM"

Matt Brunt (@Brunty)Thu, 06 Aug 2020 08:37 +0000

Using Vim controls in Firefox was actually how I got used to hjkl as a thing

Thu, 06 Aug 2020 10:29 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #vim.

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