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Chris Garrett

@chrsgrrtt.com.bsky.social

I'm a founder and entrepreneurial technologist working at the intersection of design and engineering.

34 Followers  |  16 Following  |  97 Posts  |  Joined: 11.12.2023  |  1.887

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Interested in build mode, and let's catch up when you're back in Manchester

02.08.2025 07:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Fire cracker

02.08.2025 06:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

needs blockchain...

31.07.2025 12:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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me: surely I can get married quickly online
facts:

31.07.2025 12:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

And on that note: I just added XSLT to a sitemap for the first time 😏 www.cheshirewestplanning.co.uk/sitemap-0.xml

17.07.2025 17:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Anyone else remember that brief stint of time, before html5, where there was an idea we might mark websites up in pure XML and use XSLT to make them presentable?

17.07.2025 15:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Ken Robinson wrote a book called "finding your element" which was conceptually similar - the idea that the world's highest achievers all found their passion very early, and focused relentlessly on it

16.07.2025 09:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Although, can foresee palantir asking me to hold their beer...

21.06.2025 09:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's conceptually outrageous. But I can't see it happening - we can't 1) build a functional system for managing basic NHS records 2) provide the public with NHS appointments with less than months long lead times. So there's no way this gets executed successfully (as things stand).

21.06.2025 09:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Are there any low/no alcohol wines that don't taste like fruit juice mixed with vinegar?

09.06.2025 09:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Pulled pork, been smoking since 6am this morning

06.06.2025 18:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ‘‹

31.05.2025 07:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Smoked a chicken too

26.05.2025 17:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dug out a new fruit patch - just gotta put the cage up now

26.05.2025 15:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hack it

22.05.2025 18:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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World's first AI-powered generative airport maps showcased at innovation event | TheBusinessDesk.com Platform offers travellers personalised, real-time navigation through airports

Nice to be able to share this: www.thebusinessdesk.com/northwest/ne...

16.05.2025 09:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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GitHub - hyperlaunch/flow_state: Active Record backed State Machine for Rails Active Record backed State Machine for Rails. Contribute to hyperlaunch/flow_state development by creating an account on GitHub.

Released FlowState 0.2.0 - more clarity around finished/complete state for flows: github.com/hyperlaunch/...

0.3.0 will introduce "Flow of Flows"

09.05.2025 15:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

wanted to demo an internal API to someone non-technical - mad that we live in a time where I was able to just dump the spec into V0 and get a full blown UI out for them, in minutes.

09.05.2025 12:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
GitHub - hyperlaunch/flow_state: Active Record backed State Machine for Rails Active Record backed State Machine for Rails. Contribute to hyperlaunch/flow_state development by creating an account on GitHub.

Built a Gem for modelling multi-step workflows as a kind of state machine with Rails: github.com/hyperlaunch/...

Blog post here: www.chrsgrrtt.com/flow-state-gem

22.04.2025 12:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Spatchcocked and roasted a chicken yesterday.
Made a stock with the carcass overnight.
Got a few meals for the dog from the extra scraps that yielded.
Now braising veal shanks in the stock + a few aromatics.
Will use that braising liquor to make a minestrone.
Then use the veal bones for more stock.

21.04.2025 10:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Only costs Β£35 for a year btw

27.03.2025 14:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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If you're travelling with kids, get a family and friends railcard

27.03.2025 14:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Found Up North For founders and makers in the North of England

For founders by founders, we aim to get everyone ROI on their evening through connections, breakthroughs and future collaborations.

You can grab a ticket at foundupnorth.com - we'll send more details about lineup in due course.

26.03.2025 10:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

AI will never know your monkey patches...

04.03.2025 14:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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🀌

27.02.2025 13:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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GitHub - hyperlaunch/scc-check-action: runs SCC to generate a code metrics report and publishes the result as a GitHub Check runs SCC to generate a code metrics report and publishes the result as a GitHub Check - hyperlaunch/scc-check-action

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`hyperlaunch/scc-check-action` - a github action that performs and writes an SCC codebase report as a github check: github.com/hyperlaunch/... (output example: github.com/hyperlaunch/...)

27.02.2025 13:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Project: NFC Thing Read and write NFC tags from Chrome

Shipped a couple of things this week:

NFC Thing - a React SPA for writing/reading NFC tags from the browser with the Web NFC API: www.chrsgrrtt.com/nfc-thing

and...

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Nice light out this afternoon

22.02.2025 17:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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First time seeing mallards on our pond!

22.02.2025 15:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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