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Liam Blizard

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Contract .NET Azure/AWS developer living on the Isle of Arran 🏴󠁧󠁒󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 with my wife, daughter & dog. Likes being in the mountains, under or on the ocean, or in the stands at Sheffield United. Codes in C#, F# and Swift blizard.io

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It's now a 'little' more:

143 people burned alive in a Tesla
(And I'm running behind)

PS: Nissan Leaf, on the road since 2009: zero burned alive
(Best sold EV model worldwide on 1-1-2020)

04.08.2025 11:03 β€” πŸ‘ 339    πŸ” 150    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 11

The main problem I've found with DE, is that it's so intricate, that if you have to have a lengthy break from it for whatever reason, then it's hard to get back to into.

(Same with Breath of the Wild, and Tears of The Kingdom )

03.08.2025 09:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's very very good, but if you have a lengthy break from it for whatever reason then it's hard to get back into.

03.08.2025 09:03 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wakanda forever was shite though.

02.08.2025 15:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Snap!

bsky.app/profile/bliz...

02.08.2025 14:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜The French Fox is a thrilling addition to the dining sce... The tiny bohemian restaurant serves French classics in cardboard boxes, and their loyal customers are delighted

Good to see my island getting the weekend papers food treatment.

observer.co.uk/style/restau...

02.08.2025 07:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The dildo of Karma rarely arrives lubed for some of your fans.

01.08.2025 19:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think Iron Man belongs on this list

01.08.2025 17:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

At Intake school in the late 80's, we had one kid who was regularly misbehaving, his dad was called in to see the headmaster, and after, he came to our class, took his studded belt off, dragged his kid out in to the hallway and gave him a few lashings.

01.08.2025 11:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Game of Thrones is a ridiculous one to have in there. It wasn't even the best swords and sandals show on at that time. Spartacus was far better, and that absolutely stuck the landing.

01.08.2025 10:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Peter principle in action, IIRC he seemed happy as a corporate headhunter at the end.

01.08.2025 08:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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And the acting!

The scene where Don reveals he doesn't have a contract to Duck Phillips and Putnam Powell, duck is berating Don, and he's just biding his time and he does this lovely tic with his fingers on his smoking hand just waiting for the moment he can put Duck in his place

01.08.2025 08:24 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Neither will do 4K blurays though (probably not an issue here)

31.07.2025 22:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

An eye opening moment for me was when I admitted a mistake to a very senior manager, and he just looked at me and said "as long as it looks good, that's the main thing, if it's accurate as well, that's just the icing on the cake"

31.07.2025 08:32 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Same dynamic in our household. We've pretty much done the 1st round of weddings, but by god I met a lot of insufferable twats at various weddings on her side over the years. But I did get a peck on the cheek from Joanna Lumley at one of them, so not all bad.

31.07.2025 07:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This should be one of those case studies for showing how rich the average American is compared to the rest of the world.

Dude didn't even notice his $5k guitar had gone missing. πŸ˜€

30.07.2025 22:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This guy refused to let anyone else do code reviews as he needed to maintain high standards 🀣

30.07.2025 17:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This is from an Offshore team that I took over the engineering lead of from the aforementioned principal .

30.07.2025 17:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The indicators are from a couple of rider plugins to measure cyclomatic and cognitive complexity.

And the latter point, both sloppy coding, and sloppy reviewing. πŸ˜€

30.07.2025 17:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
C# Code

response
= await _httpClient.fet<T>(url);
if (response != null) +2
{
_Loggger.Debug(string.Format("VERB - GET, URL (0}, successful", url));
else +1
_Loggger.Fatal(string.Format("VERB - GET, URL (O}, faited", url));

C# Code response = await _httpClient.fet<T>(url); if (response != null) +2 { _Loggger.Debug(string.Format("VERB - GET, URL (0}, successful", url)); else +1 _Loggger.Fatal(string.Format("VERB - GET, URL (O}, faited", url));

Wondered why a service that was returning 500 status codes wasn't logging errors, and this code (written by a 'principal') was the culprit.

'Response' is a HTTPResponseMessage

30.07.2025 11:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

And if you are with someone that doesn't believe in using a shared password vault you've got either the reset password pain, or the text me the updated password pain

29.07.2025 12:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Where shared access exists then we use it, but there's loads of services (especially utility companies) that have a 1-1 mapping between the record and the account that's allowed to access it.

29.07.2025 11:47 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

What are the better options here that don't involve every site that you both want to access records on , providing access to those records to multiple people?

29.07.2025 11:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Then you understand why this legislation needs to be entirely repealed. Giving a small group of monetarily swayed people the power to decide what's porn and what isn't is fucking dangerous. You don't
negotiate with fascists

Then you understand why this legislation needs to be entirely repealed. Giving a small group of monetarily swayed people the power to decide what's porn and what isn't is fucking dangerous. You don't negotiate with fascists

I have seen some nuclear takes on this one

29.07.2025 09:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

To be fair I don’t know why I expected a serious answer from an anon with a cat avatar.

27.07.2025 22:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Unfortunately those dumb adults with zero tech literacy are also voters, and if you want this law repealed rather than amended, then they will say "why do you want kids to be able to access porn?"

27.07.2025 22:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Who decides?

So far you have ruled out a democratically elected government. So I am very intrigued.

27.07.2025 21:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

So who gets to decide what porn is then in your world?

27.07.2025 21:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

You don’t need to be a fascist to declare Pornhub as porn.

27.07.2025 19:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It isn't splitting hairs. Amending the legislation is significantly easier than repealing it.

27.07.2025 17:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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