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nice engineer @8thlightInc. my surname masks the fact I do not possess any French ancestry.

London, England
Joined January 2009
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Martin Gaston retweeted
this is the best breakdown I’ve seen of the dark arts behind Block Blast!, the most downloaded mobile game in the world last year intentionally making players lose to optimize which ads they see, the sophistication behind such a “simple” game is stunning.
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Martin Gaston retweeted
That Dan Burn cameo
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Martin Gaston retweeted
“It’s filled with popcorn.” Yeah not falling for that. Literally how they tricked Troy.
First look at the Trojan Horse popcorn bucket for ‘THE ODYSSEY’.
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telling googles ai that im eating and drinking increasing amounts of salami and monster energy until it starts shouting at me to get help
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Martin Gaston retweeted
There’s a level of pride that comes with managers like Pep Guardiola and Jose Mourinho waxing lyrical about Selhurst Park. As we often say, it may be a shithole but it’s our shithole and I wouldn’t change it for the world. ❤️
"I'll miss Selhurst Park as well!" Pep Guardiola on the games he'll miss as a manager when he decides to retire from football 🏟️
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Martin Gaston retweeted
Gradient descent does not work. I will die on this hill.
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Martin Gaston retweeted
software engineers before vs after agents
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what's so interesting about washing the dishes right after you have a meal is how quickly the food goes from being your friend to being your enemy. it's upsetting to me.
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Martin Gaston retweeted
Dont mind me, just setting my Now TV avatar to Hermann Göring my favourite character from Nuremberg
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Martin Gaston retweeted
These Tottenham championship meme videos have been killing me 😭
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Martin Gaston retweeted
It’ll never catch on…
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Martin Gaston retweeted
EZE'S FA CUP-WINNING GOAL FOR PALACE, IN HIS OWN WORDS 🏆 Sponsored by our great friends @newbalance ❤️💙
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Martin Gaston retweeted
Palace and Liverpool meeting five months after the Community Shield comparing notes about their respective defences of the FA Cup and Premier League.
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Martin Gaston retweeted
1909 - Macclesfield are the first non-league team to eliminate the FA Cup holders since Crystal Palace knocked out Wolves in the 1908-09 first round. Fairytale.
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Martin Gaston retweeted
One thing that’s annoying about being a software engineer is that you’re surrounded by people who have strong opinions about the stupidest possible stuff that couldn’t possibly ever matter even a little bit. This is your whole career. It’s just arguments like this one over and over and over and over again and they literally never matter. The years roll into decades and nobody ever stops talking about this stuff and it didn’t matter in 1980 and it didn’t matter in 1990 and it didn’t matter in 2010 and it doesn’t matter today.
enabled: boolean isEnabled: boolean I trust you more if you use the second convention with booleans
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Martin Gaston retweeted
Reminder that @htmx_org can only be properly enjoyed using authentic 3.5" floppies. Anything else is stealing.
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Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.
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Martin Gaston retweeted
“Yeah mate I’m gonna triple captain Jurien Timber”
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