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I use excalidraw for almost all of my mind mapping / whiteboarding 😊 I like the handwritten aesthetic it has, but it's not for everyone admittedly.

YouTube video by Rick Astley Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Official Music Video)

Wow: after 15 years, YouTube has taken down the original 'Rick Roll' video due to a "licensing issue," likely due to the acquisition of Astley's record lable.

The metadata remains, but if you click through it goes to 'video not found':

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4...

the year is 2025, and for the first time in my life I actually have no computers in my house running Windows. The Unix life chose me it would seem :D

"I've suffered enough" lmao @dailydotdev.bsky.social

why have 5 lines of powershell when you can have 40 lines of C#

This is sick

Going to react from JavaScript document.createElement etc it is much the same experience

In the UK it is expected that you learn how to drive a stick shift, or manual as we call it here, before you pass your driving test (at least for the full licence). I've been driving for 7 years, and last year I got my first automatic car. It is a blissful experience 😂.

New post!

dan-oak.dev/blog/my-jour...

This is a rundown of how I ended up in a senior engineer position starting way back to the beginning of how I got involved in programming in the first place

Amazing talk Scott 🥰 I love that you created an open source autopilot tool for your life long illness. Getting in the papers with the backstreet boys hair too is pretty cool 😂

I left my house for 30 minutes this morning, when I come back, there is a workman for the neighbours on my drive 😤 asked him to move and he goes "I'll be out of your way in 5 minutes"! Am I crazy or is that insanely disrespectful 🤬

Holy moly, nice one Scott 😊 I will tune in!

a woman in a blue dress is standing in front of a wall with a long blue cloth . ALT: a woman in a blue dress is standing in front of a wall with a long blue cloth .

Or this guy from avatar

Don't care how old you are, you are never too old to feel like aquaman when you control the flow of water from the shower with your arms

London bus stop near Amazon HQ 🔥

Incredible that they not only think it's an AI voice and not a recording. But also that the AI is *Siri* of all options 😂

This morning I am on a bus and the voice recording of the location announcements is very Bristolian and I overheard someone unironically say "amazing how they managed to get their Siri to sound like that".

Do you think changing the feed feature is what will bring more people to blue sky? I thought most of the users here were just pissed off with seeing Elon bastardise the twitter that we once loved and needed a new home as twitter refugees

public static void main open parentheses string open square bracket close square bracket args close parentheses new line open curly bracket... You get the idea... Doesn't quite have a good enough ring to it for me 😂

Happy (UK) mother's day to all of you mothers out there! My wife celebrated her first mother's day being a mum this year 🥰

What Makes a Great Senior Software Engineer? In my previous blog, I mentioned that I think there are four main components to a great senior...

I just published one of my first dev.to blogs :-) I got to namedrop a few of my favourite creators too!

@cassidoo.co @nickchapsas.com & @fireship.bsky.social

👉🏻 dev.to/danoak/what-...

Let me know what you think!

#devblog #devpost #programmer #seniorsoftwareengineer

Well... You did learn something 😂

In the case of iCue there is at least an open source variant that covers most devices but still

Call me a beta if you want but I tried really hard to main Linux (Pop!_OS) but to be honest there were just too many things that were blocking my usual workflow.

- Logitech G Hub isn't available
- Corsairs iCue
- Some games still don't quite work even despite @valvesoftware.com's proton

I am still hardstuck C# engineer but I have been branching out to try bits of Golang every now and again. Rust just straight up scares me 😂

Attending my first Hackathon with Plymouth University Attending my first Hackathon

just republished a blog I wrote a long time ago about my experience attending an #IBM hackathon in 2016.

👉🏻 dan-oak.dev/blog/attendi...

I would like to make blogging for me a more consistent thing for me in the coming months / years.

#newpost #hackathon #devblog #dev #software

Probably Squarespace since it's widely adopted but as the other comment suggests, maybe check out the pricing before committing 👀

I'm pretty sure @jetbrains.com are a good one for sponsoring open source projects 😊 completely agree though

Is 2025 the year where everyone is really trying to push people to pay for a licence to use what was originally free and open source software?

Specifically in the world of #dotnet and #csharp last year we had Moq and now FluentAssetions??! Who next??? Pls don't do it @jimmybogard.com 💕

I just completed "Guard Gallivant" - Day 6 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/6