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FP friends -- I'm pleased to announce that JFP is establishing the Richard Bird Distinguished Dissertation Award, to recognise an outstanding PhD dissertation in functional programming. Please share! tinyurl.com/jfp-bird-award
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It’s been great fun to be part of @theintercoolerx journey from the beginning. These digital publishing award nominations are very welcome and recognise the team’s genuine achievements. It’s flattering to be considered alongside many much larger and established publications.
It’s not every day a small independent publishing company like ours is shortlisted for an award alongside household brands like The Sun and The Telegraph, but today is one such day. The Digital Publishing Awards 2026 shortlists were announced this morning and we’re beyond proud to say The Intercooler has been nominated in two categories – Best Online Brand: Consumer and Small Digital Publisher of the Year.
The timing is just about perfect too – we launched The Intercooler as a new kind of online car magazine five years ago this week. We didn’t imagine we’d be keeping such esteemed company only a few short years later.
The other nominees in the Best Online Brand: Consumer category are Radio Times and Rock Sound, as well as The Sun and The Telegraph. And in the Small Digital Publisher of the Year category we’ll go up against Solli, SoPublishing and Trending Now. The winners will be announced on 11 June and while it would be wonderful to scoop an award or two, we are delighted just to have been shortlisted. We wish all the other nominees in the various categories the very best of luck.
This. The wiser engineers and technical managers are seeing the arrival of new, immensely powerful tooling and working out how to best use it. The unwise are seeing mirages and running towards them or panicking and running away
The Japanese are really good at woodworking. And I love watching the Yankee workshop, my dad makes Native American bows and arrows completely from scratch in his workshop with trees that he finds.
This is all different from the stuff you get at IKEA, but I’ve been coding now for money for 35 years and systems are still complicated, computers still do dumb stuff, humans still do dumb stuff, this is just like the move from assembler to C, like the introduction of syntax highlighting, the introduction of intellisense, and the copy paste directly into production shift when stack overflow happened.
There is value in good taste, there is value in craftsmanship, and there is value in human judgment. The furniture might be differently designed, but we’re still interior designers and putting together a cohesive system is non-trivial.
Don’t let them gaslight you with one shot Minecraft clones and one shot C compilers. Software is still hard, it’s just that you’re no longer I/O bound with the speed of your fingertips
I think that there will be lots of work for us cleaning up after the slop, but if you know what you’re doing AI augmented development is going to get you some amazing results and I am enjoying learning a ton during this momentous era shift - but the craft still exists
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FP friends -- please encourage recently completed PhD students to publish their dissertation abstracts in the Journal of Functional Programming: simple process, no refereeing, open access, 200+ published to date, deadline 30th November 2025. Please share! tinyurl.com/jfp-phd-abstract…
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Andrew puts it very well as always. If you’ve not yet subscribed to The Intercooler, now is a great time to start.
96% of those who subscribe and stay for a year, renew, so we must be doing something right and we always knew that great stories by the best writers would appeal
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🚨🚨🚨BREAKING🚨🚨🚨
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Are low-carb and ketogenic diets safe? Effective? Sustainable?
A new peer-reviewed study that I am the lead author on just dismantled the most common myths, and the findings could change how we treat chronic disease.
Here’s what you need to know 🧵👇
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⚠️🚨PLEASE REPOST TO PUT US IN THE FUNNIEST TIMELINE🚨⚠️
I, Air Katakana, am officially announcing my intention to become the next United States Ambassador to South Korea.
I have MORE experience fighting the corrupt South Korean system than any other American citizen, and I will be able to advocate for American interests better than any other citizen out there, bar none.
As ambassador, I will FIGHT for the following:
1) US MILITARY ALLIANCE IS CONTINGENT ON SOUTH KOREA RESPECTING AMERICAN FREEDOMS. The South Korean government will NO LONGER be able to weaponize their DRACONIAN CRIMINAL DEFAMATION LAWS, or engage in any other lawfare against American citizens, and also expect US protection. The South Korean government will NO LONGER be able to extend the reach of their DRACONIAN CRIMINAL DEFAMATION LAWS to Americans overseas.
2) PROTECTION FOR AMERICAN SCIENTISTS AND ACADEMICS. American academics working in Korea will no longer be subject to the UNFAIR AND DISRESPECTFUL LAWFARE imposed on them by CORRUPT PUBLIC SERVANTS. South Korean institutions will NO LONGER PLAGARIZE OR VIOLATE THE COPYRIGHT of American scientific papers or inventions.
3) AMERICAN CITIZENS ARE TREATED FAIRLY UNDER SOUTH KOREAN LAW. No longer will American citizens be subject to UNFAIR INVESTIGATIONS OR PROSECUTION FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES. The United States embassy will closely monitor EVERY SINGLE CRIMINAL PROCEEDING IN SOUTH KOREA INVOLVING AN AMERICAN CITIZEN AND ENSURE THAT OUR CITIZENS ARE TREATED FAIRLY, something the sleepy Joe Biden administration didn't care to do!
4) SOUTH KOREA PAYS THEIR FAIR SHARE FOR AMERICAN PROTECTION. American taxpayers are spending WAY TOO MUCH defending a country that does not appreciate us. The ONLY reason South Korea exists is because of American defense, and they should PAY UP PROPORTIONAL TO THE AMOUNT THAT WE ARE HELPING THEM.
TRUMP TRANSITION TEAM, MY DMS ARE OPEN, AND I HOPE THAT YOU EARNESTLY CONSIDER MY APPLICATION.
⚠️🚨PLEASE REPOST TO MAKE THIS REALITY🚨⚠️
@realDonaldTrump @JDVance
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What on Earth is going on?
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I think this is one of my favourite motorsport images of all. The camera is lined up perfectly. The drift is perfection. The driver is immortal. Imagine is F1 cars didn't have downforce and they did this all the time. Like MotoGP. #motogp #f1
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Speechless, what's with the negative progress, it's 2024 not 1954, someone tell them please
Quoting @noelleflamingo “Men in motorsport will literally invent a woman so they don’t have to hire one”
How @MahindraRacing has still not addressed this despite very negative feedback is beyond me. Replacing females in motorsport (or any gender, really) with AI is not it.
Let's play "spot the chode" - @sniffpetrol @Carpervert you're the authority on that, confirmation requested please 🤔
Smart investors don't buy the stock
Smart consumers don't buy the product
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Worth another blast just for the look on Dhani's face when Prince does his mind blowing guitar solo. #DhaniHarrison #Prince #GeorgeHarrison #TomPetty #JeffLynne #SteveWinwood #f1
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Why is our gov continuing to allow HMRC to literally bully people to their deaths - absolutely disgusting @JimHarraHMRC
NEW info regarding the #LoanChargeScandal ⬇️
In reply to our letter, Jim Harra states that as well as the 10 confirmed #LoanChargeSuicides there have also been 24 cases of serious injury (involving 20 people) & that 13 of these have been attempted suicides (involving 10 people)
100% this. Having used GitExtensions for years I switched to @git_fork months ago and have not looked back. Worth every cent of the modest license cost, thank you to Tanya, Dan and team, you have provided me a huge dev QoL boost 👏
@git_fork I can not recommend this software enough, the free trial is forever with prompts once in a while, I used it for several years before buying the licence,
my only wish is that they would add a buy the devs a beer option where I could give then £5 once in a while.
Ado
reddit.com/r/granturismo/com… goes to show why sausages belong on BBQs not race circuits, even in VR they're horrible! @AbbieEaton44 suspect you will agree, hope you're ok
