Lifelong gamer, guitar player, beer drinker & brewer. I build ChromeOS at Google.

London, UK
Joined August 2008
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Beyond fear, destiny awaits. Watch the trailer for the highly anticipated #DuneMovie now.
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if your microservice can't be deployed without a bunch of other microservices that always get deployed together, they're not actually microservices. it's just a monolith with a really slow string-based calling convention.
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Heading out to LA to do the @joerogan show tomorrow!
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* * * * * - Five star cron job. Will run again.
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John Peter Bain July 8, 1984 - May 24, 2018
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/dev/grohl and the foo bar fighters
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Midair Free-To-Play is LIVE! Invite your friends, strap on your jetpacks, and come play! ow.ly/IId930jPcLS
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Replying to @abstractionscon
It works on my machine
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Day 1: > will I be continuing with that whiteboard algorithm I was working on in the interview? > lol no fix that button
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Your password must contain characters topologically equivalent to a sphere, a pretzel, and three donuts.
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this... may be the greatest story ever told
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when your team of a dozen devs don't use ESLint
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The guys and girls at @Tictrac are the last ones out... and so ends the first day of @TheHackerGames_ !! Bring on tomorrow!! Well done all...awesome first day! Time to head home! #thehackergames #hackathon #hack #coding #code #developer #dev #charity
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I'm going to write a bot that blocks everyone talking about Bitcoin, then searches people they follow for people talking about Bitcoin and blocks them, and so on. That's right, I'm creating a block chain.
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Saw a bird eating a piece of avocado toast. Guess it was some kind of millennial falcon.
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Thank you to @iveytron and @UnrealEngine for helping us resolve an engine upgrade issue that ultimately unblocked this great patch for our players: playmidair.com/news/dev-log-… Lots of new content, features, bug fixes, and more.
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NASA commanded Voyager 1 to fire its thrusters for the first time in 37 years. 13 billion miles away, off in interstellar space, the probe responded perfectly. jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?r…
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7-year-old: Do you have a podcast? Me: Do you even know what a podcast is? 7: It's that thing where you talk to yourself and no one listens. She knows exactly what a podcast is.
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