Matt Ellis

Paddington in The Wicker Man (1974)

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1673

Darnit. I would have loved to go see this

The music and sound design in this movie are exceptional. One of my favourite soundtracks.

Survive 30 days while the world hunts you down. Check out the New Poster for The #RunningManMovie – Only in theatres November 14 @runningmanmovie.com

I’m glad you beat me to this gag

How is there a hand in the helmet of this spacesuit? I may not be an astronaut, but I do know that’s not where your hands go.

A guy just cycled past me and I swear to god it was Derek Zoolander

Finding a VS Code Memory Leak In 2021 I found a huge memory leak in VS code, totalling around 64 GB when I first saw it, but with no actual limit on how high it could go. I found this leak despite two obstacles that should have…

New blog post:
In 2021 I found an invisible memory leak in a tool (VS Code) that I have never used. Impossible? Easy:
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9 ReSharper Features Every .NET Developer Should Know | The .NET Tools Blog Around 15 years ago, I got my first assistant job at a university department. Frankly, I only used ReSharper for its solution-wide analysis, which would alert me whenever I broke the spaghetti code I

Our @matkoch.dev has been checking notes. 🥸 Here are his 9 ReSharper features that every #dotnet developer should know! 🧑‍💻

Are you missing anything from that list? Let us know!

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"IT ABSOLUTELY WILL STOP!!!"

AI at it’s peak

Finally - finally! - got around to watching Looper. Not without its flaws, but still a belter of a film

Always go with your first choice

Adrian Edmondson is great in Alien Earth

JetBrains .NET Days Online 2025 Join us on October 8-9, 2025 for a free virtual event bringing together the most influential people in the .NET space to talk about topics they’re passionate about, including .NET Aspire, Blazor, and ...

Completed my tech check for next Wednesday’s online session at JetBrains.NET Days!

Especially if you’re in Europe or you’re up early in the US), check it out!

#dotnet

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The University of Glasgow groundspeople are going to be quite annoyed when they come in to work tomorrow...

Behold: The Lego Game Boy has already been modded to play games for real This is not an emulator.

Behold: The Lego Game Boy has already been modded to play games for real

Oh, I missed the PS section!

You can also use the <Action>(...) syntax rather than mapping to a command line invocation

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We're experimenting with additional rendering backends for Avalonia.

SkiaSharp remains the default (and will for years), but we're exploring what GPU-first rendering could bring to the platform.

Read about our early experiments: avaloniaui.net/blog/the-fu...

Well that Tame Impala tickets presale queue is a complete pile of pants. Waited in it twice, and both times it errors when I get to the front. I’m sure it’s working just fine for the touts

You can’t even see her mouth move

The Beta Band was a bloody brilliant gig. And I’m definitely doing coming out ahead of the game in the male pattern baldness stakes

Rock City, Nottingham

The stage at Rock City showing the background for The Beta Band

Hello Rock City. It’s been a minute. Last time I was here was some time last century

The reason I bought a PlayStation

Mahna mahna

When the Roger Rabbit short ROLLER COASTER RABBIT was produced by Disney & Amblin, Spielberg wanted it packaged with ARACHNOPHOBIA. Michael Eisner wanted to release it with DICK TRACY & ultimately won out. Its a shame Spielberg & Disney only made 3 Roger Rabbit shorts because they were immaculate.

Biographies of J.R.R. Tolkien and Agatha Christie

Mordor on the Orient Express

Bring your crew – GameDev Day is better spent together 🎮
On October 21, tune in online, join a local watch party, or host one! Co-watch with local developers, grow your network, and get a chance to be featured on the livestream 🌎
Apply to host 👉 jb.gg/partygamedev...