Staff Software Engineer at @Monzo. I do computery things, take awful selfies, and love TypeScript. Views my own. He/him.
Nottinghamshire, England
Joined February 2009
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Well that's the last straw. 👋
It's almost like you removed the computationally cheap way of doing this (APIs) and devs switched to the only free alternative...
Not gonna delete this account in case Twitter gets sold to a non-muppet, but uninstalling the app until then. Byeee
More interested in how the auto background removal works (some AI bs imma guess), but yes I am and I need a shave #Streamberry
ALT Parody promotional poster for "James is awful", based on the "Joan is Awful" Black Mirror episode
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👋Poll: Software Engineers, how likely are you to take a job requiring you to go into the office daily during business hours?
(Please RT for reach, and instead of giving money to captain mars, I will donate $$ to an organization at the tw AVG $6.46 per 1000 impressions)
49%Absolutely not
37%Not likely
10%Very likely
3%Absolutely yes
1,091 votes • Final resultsIt's been a long time since I've completed a game in one sitting, but oh my days "There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension" had me absolutely hooked. What voice acting, and a surprisingly touching story from what is a point-and-click puzzler, with so much out the box thinking
GO BUY IT
Step 1: Spec up new PC
Step 2: Splurge on new PC
Step 3: Build new PC
Step 4: Enable XMP on new PC
Step 5: Panic because now won't post
Step 6: MAD GOOGLING
Step 7: MORE PANICKED GOOGLES
STeP 8: WhY won't thE CMos resET?!
StEPPP NiNe: FUCK YOU BATTERY OUT TIME
Step 10: Panic over
Seriously, why is enabling XMP in Bios such a coin flip?! My RAM and Mobo all support it but nooo I've got to fiddle with the RAM speeds in the bios too apparently?! WHAT
Worst rollout of a new feature, ever.
Also @GigabyteUK buying a top-spec board I would expect the CMOS reset button to actually work... 🙃
A bit of professional news on here; today is my last day @DeliverooEng! I've had an incredible time and worked with such brilliant people. However I'm so excited to be starting @monzo as a Staff Engineer 🎉! A company I love and a product I'm already all-in on; let's go!
ALT Screenshot of LinkedIn profile Monzo header, James King; Staff Software Engineer at Monzo
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This is glorious.
Person has a railway line outside their window, so built a Raspberry PI/camera script to watch for passing trains then take photos and stitch together a full image of them, after they've passed. trains.jo-m.ch/#/trains/list
Been seeing those Matt Hancock tweets in my timeline and thought they couldn't be legit... but holy balls they apparently are bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-6…
Binged Lockwood & Co, and I cannot get enough of the theme tune holy shiiiiiit
ALT Alb cover for Can't Leave the Night, by BADBADNOTGOOD
Why is one of the pictures here of my pasty face spread across 16 screens 🙈 but this event was really fun, with some really great Q&As! Highly worth a read/watch
New on the blog: looking back at the Roo Talks summer event we did, with talks from @daniel_vartanov @sheldonline @JamieTanna @ripixelcodes deliveroo.engineering/2023/0…
Next up on my "I did a thing to my personal website, and you can too!" mini-guides is enabling a dark mode. Nice and simple, but great for gremlins like me who hate t'big light.
ripixel.co.uk/thoughts/2023-…
Over the Christmas period I made some updates to my personal website, so here's the first of a few blog posts I'm writing about those updates - Firebase Preview Channels are very, very cool ripixel.co.uk/thoughts/2023-…
