Kit Eason

Absolutely baffling that HMRC are pushing mandatory quarterly tax returns for some sole traders under the moniker of "Making Tax Digital" without actually providing a digital service to let you submit the returns

Looking forward to how my grandson reacts to it!

BTW Might might be worth changing your bio from “preorder” to “order”. 😉

Space/ #astrosky friends: have an extra lapel pin from a mission/instrument/observation campaign floating around? Consider sending it to me! (DM me for my address)

I plan on using them to decorate my Starbucks apron, in a desperate attempt to maintain my dignity as an underemployed scientist

Oh that is interesting, thanks!

Ichi-F - Wikipedia

Actually it’s for my grandson.

Though I do still harbour an ambition to write an intro to F# that is also somehow a manga.

I like this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichi-F

PLOT TWIST! (Good luck!)

BBC News headline: Wetherspoon dog policy could be breaking the law, watchdog says

Yeah but he would say that wouldn't he

Cover of book “Manga’s First Century”.

It finally came! It’s beautiful @horbinski.bsky.social !

try F# today folks, it comes for free within #dotnet sdk !Super easy to get started in vscode with Ionide extension or VS/rider , it’s the .NET ocaml great interop with C# in the same solution, use all the nuget packages you already know and love 💕 has scripting .fsx and REPL baked in

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Bold move to lecture *Allen Holub* on the perils of LLM’s! 😆

The tiny task

I keep reading posts about people who wrote applications entirely with "zero coding." They say they don't read the code and instead refine the application using increasingly precise prompts. I have some questions:

* Is the application nontrivial?
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How F# and Functional Programming Made Me 10x More Productive Why going functional isn’t just academic hype, but the sanity-saving move that made my code cleaner, safer, and massively more productive.

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Magnificent. Read it.

"I dunno, that new Pulp song seems a bit arch."

Spot art. Photo of presenter(s) text reads: .NET Conf 2025 Smatterings of F#

A little F# goes a long way.
The .NET Conf session “Smatterings of F#” is a joyful tour of pattern matching, pipelines, and the kind of expressive code that makes you rethink your next refactor.
If you’ve been F#‑curious, this replay is a treat.
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I glanced up, saw 52%, and genuinely felt a wave of cortisol flow through my body.

1/n I am Chairing a committee for a national award in science. I am amazed at how badly composed/structured the nominations are. When I have many nominations to go through I am not going to spend time looking stuff up or trying to work out what the candidate has actually contributed.

These people have an unerring instinct for the wrong tool for the job:

Huge piece of material to cut: TINY SCISSORS

Wall to paint right next to you: ROLLER ON LONG STICK

Small piece of fabric to attach: MASSIVE NAIL GUN

Wife keeps saying “They’ve had six days to do this. SIX WHOLE DAYS!”

I grew up with Alex Pretti The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

Came in halfway through a TV programme whose premise seems to be “award a chateaux to the least-handy couple we can possibly find”.

Amazing scenes of wood butchery.

It was so good (and relevant) I’m amazed it got made.

What an unpleasant, uncharitable interpretation.

!!!!!

The Fax Number of the Beast

Female nurses win employment case over NHS changing-room use by trans colleague Judge finds Durham trust violated nurses’ dignity and created intimidating environment by allowing use of single-sex space

A remarkable one-two punch of homophobia and transphobia from Radio 4 news's report on this, including:

"The nurses believed Rose had a female partner and was sexually active" - Ok? What does that have to do with anything?

BBC Radio 4 should think of a cuddly name for that regular PM Programme slot where they cheerfully platform a facist.

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