Coder, engineer, explorer, adventurer, geek. Mainly tweeting about IT and interesting things that I stumble upon.
London, England
Joined November 2013
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David Borsos retweeted
@EarthCheck_ & Winnow team up to benchmark climate impact of #foodwaste reduction using Artificial Intelligence
bit.ly/2NvPIKp #ClimateAction #AI
It's been a while since I shared some thoughts-on-programming; but here's a little thing to show some attention to the command-line utilities, and how to make them nice:
medium.com/@david.borsos/how…
Great news and exciting times!
We are honoured to announce that we have raised a combined $20m in investment to continue fighting global #foodwaste. A $12m Series B round was led by @IngkaGroup and @MSeedImpact, followed by an earlier $8m loan from @EIB #TheFutureKitchen
hubs.ly/H0ljyzm0
Recently, we've been working on making some pretty good stuff available for all. #climatechange #ClimateEmergency #research
Today via @mendeley_com, Elsevier makes the latest #climatechange research freely available: bit.ly/2RmVMCU
New and existing users can now access over 5K #research articles #environmentalism #collaboration #ClimateJustice2019
I'm going to be speaking on next week's @ljcjug meetup! Come along if you're running JVMs in Docker!
#Java #meetup #softwaredevelopment
Don't miss our next meetup with @davib0 & @neilcsmith_net.
We'll be at @skillsmatter on 25th June to discuss 'What to be aware about memory when running JVM apps in shared-container environments' & 'Write Now, Run Anytime'.
RSVP at bit.ly/2IMihxg
#Java #JVM
I ended up doing quite a bit of Scala and Spark recently and lambda/function serialization is one of the things that bit me often. I attempted to dig a bit more into what Scala is doing and figure out the "safe" patterns: medium.com/@david.borsos/a-t…
#ApacheSpark #Scala #programming
David Borsos retweeted
So today our kids used @Sphero Bolt to simulate disease propagation. Infected spheros use infrared to send infection signals to the healthy one while they try to escape.
Everyone collaborated to make this epic zombie apocalypse 🤮🤮👾👾😈
Who will get the best-trained neural network to beat Super Mario World 1-1 ? @Devoxx4KidsUK #DevoxxUK #AI
David Borsos retweeted
This is will be on at our event on May 11th!! 🤖🤖 We are super excited to have such an ambitious worshop, built as a collaboration with @Devoxx4KidsUSA
Building a brand new #Devoxx4Kids workshop that will teach kids #MachineLearning using Super Mario. Running the game in a headless mode using @java to expedite the training time. Thanks to @aditya_g @cesarTronLozai and Jan Omer for driving this one, I'm a tester :)
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📢 Workshop announcement 📢 Solve exciting @Minecraft (@PlayCraftLearn) challenges using your coding skills! This workshop will help you go through a Minecraft adventure by writing programs. You'll create your own code blocks and see the outcome instantly. #STEM #EdTech
David Borsos retweeted
📢 Workshop announcement 📢 Learn to code Hogwarts (@Pottermore) style with Harry Potter! In this workshop, you'll make stuff happen on your laptop/tablet by building your own wand using @TeamKano's Coding Kit 🏰✨ Make magic on a screen, with a wave, twist & twirl. #STEM #EdTech
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📢 Save the date 📢 Devoxx4Kids UK is back in town! Join us on May 11 at @GA_London. Don't miss this community-driven STEM event where teens can learn programming, robotics, and engineering in a fun way 🙌🤖 Sign up: devoxx4kids-uk.eventbrite.co…. Please share this news! #STEM #EdTech
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Wondering if I have any followers that work as graphic designs, ideally with a modern infographic style to help on a project. I'm keen to find an experienced designer, but I’d be open to hearing from graduates/hobbyists at this point. If anyone can intro anyone please let me know – at Paddington, London
docs.axonops.com/ - single pane of glass Cassandra monitoring and operations by @digitalis_io
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Check out my latest @pluralsight course, "Introduction to WireMock". Learn how you can use #wiremock to simulate the HTTP APIs that your application under test depends on. pluralsight.com/courses/wire…
Dear @Microsoft - I wanted to pay for some Office subscriptions / gift cards and checkouts are broken. And what's that BS about linking my credit card to an account for a one-off purchase without my explicit consent?!
David Borsos retweeted
Ouch.
"..info included "some combination" of name, mailing address, phone number, email address, passport number, account information, DOB, gender, and arrival and departure info.
it could not rule out that the encryption keys [for credit card info] had also been stolen."
Marriott says details of up to 500 million guests may have been accessed in breach of its reservation database bbc.in/2RvNd7S
1/2 When designing software architecture and thinking about component boundaries; it could be useful to ask the question "would this component fit well into the unix shell toolkit principles?". If the answer is yes; that's a reassurance. Tbc...
#softwaredevelopment #Software
2/2 ...cont'd - now I don't think that all software must be designed like that or that this even applies to everything; but it can be a useful guideline and help deciding when in doubt about a solution.
#softwaredevelopment #Software