Michael Ward

Well done, always good to be recognised 👍

Ooh, hark at you 😂

(I’m insanely jealous)

Want to Wear a Tiny Apollo Guidance Computer on Your Wrist? A British company is selling a wristwatch that’s a shrunk-down replica of the Apollo Guidance Computer interface that the

And today I read this!

kottke.org/25/01/want-t...

I got a smartphone from AliExpress that is powered by the original Apollo computer system. Doesn’t last a day before it’s out of rocket fuel and I can only call someone named Houston. Some tech just refuses to die!

Surplus of hashtags needed using before new year?

As always, the Aussies have gone early on the new year celebrations. Christmas in summer and new year at midday. What’s their game?

Dear Tim Apple,

Please do not rotate the display while I’m swiping on the keyboard.

Sent from my iPhone whilst lying in bed

Adobe Flash integration 🤞

Little teary taste bombs.

The first to really integrate this type of workflow (my preference would be through Github) will be on to a winner IMHO.

It's a decent workflow, but context loss is still sometimes an issue and it eats credits at a high rate.

I'd like AI coding tools to adopt ways to maintain enough context about projects that they don't get lost easily.

I was able to get Windsurf to interface with GitHub tasks + projects using Github CLI, which helped me use AI to plan whilst maintaining context that often gets lost as a project progresses, as well as creating documentation that the AI can utilise.

Sending my best wishes that you don't exit the mortal plain as a result of boredom 😝

Snarky was not the correct word to describe your post.

What I feel you've done is blithely ignore the difference between communicating an idea effectively to a wide audience, versus the value of academic economic theory.

Both can change the world, but from very different starting points.

You’re not the first to post a snarky comment on the socials. Others have been doing it with much more panache for quite some time.

It’s still true, if you shop for durability and not for a label. Price isn’t the guarantee it once was, however.

The linter refuses to deal with the code.

Google's new quantum chip looks interesting, but quantum's big flaw is that if you look at the chip then it will never work again. 🤷‍♂️

Could do with one of them golden mace things.

It is an IEx helper. Wouldn’t imagine it would have much use in production code, but the functionality could be ripped from IEx source if needed.

hexdocs.pm/iex/1.17.3/I...

Useful, wasn’t aware of the i function 🕺

Parse a Regex with NimbleOptions Learn how I discovered that ~r-sigils return Regex structs and how to include regex patterns as valid input in NimbleOptions.

🚨 New Blog Post 🚨

I wrote a tiny blog post about:

1. how to print out the type info of an #ElixirLang variable and
2. how to allow regexes in NimbleOptions definitions

peterullrich.com/parse-regex-...

No pattern matching feels like lots of time wasted.

Not sure I’ve fully grokked how to utilise it, but any programming language that is tolerant of failure by design is a language that I’m going to enjoy.

Thanks to the BEAM VM and the elixir programming language.

Programming with Elixir has made me feel a great deal of angst when using other, more popular, languages.

Pragmatic FP for the win!