Christian, husband, father. Interests in web dev (full stack), Django, Python, and learning new languages.
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Luke Plant retweeted
"I try to be appropriately respectful of all elected officials, but Sen. Kaine uttered one of the most profoundly wrong, dangerous, and downright stupid comments a member of the Senate might articulate."
From my article @wngdotorg today. Link below.
ow.ly/NTxY50WS6r0
I'm mentoring a junior who is using #VSCode (at my recommendation) and I need to know - how do you do recursive project search workflows? e.g. "Find all references" clobbers the previous results. In Emacs I do this: lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/r…
(please don't say Co-pilot/AI).
New post - Why I'm not letting the juniors use LLMs for coding lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/w…
New blog post: Statically checking Python dicts for completeness lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/s…
Luke Plant retweeted
Twice this week our parliament has tried to alleviate burdens — at the beginning and end of life.
But we’re not meant to eliminate burdens, we’re meant to carry them:
"idiots" is giving them too much credit. It's like John Cleese said: "decisions are made by persons whose main concern is not losing their jobs... That's why they're so cowardly and gutless and contemptible."
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Nice to be quoted by Lord Frost in today’s Telegraph.
But the quotation is significant. Tiberius has lots of coins and inscriptions, but in biographical genres there’s more material about Jesus.
The argument is laid out in my little book Can We Trust the Gospels, published by @crossway
I've written in @Telegraph this Good Friday about the factual basis of Christianity - and the importance of not diluting into myth the real historical event at the heart of Easter.
telegraph.co.uk/gift/1b52914…
PyPI seems to be down for some packages, seeing errors since an hour ago - p.datadoghq.com/sb/7dc8b3250…
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Yesterday I talked with @cleptric and a few others at Sentry about ugly code and Flickr's Flamework. It is one of my inspirations to this very day. I decided to write about it and why it is such a fascinating Rorschach Test for developers. lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/2/20/u…
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@glenscrivener outlines 6 reasons why putting Jesus at the heart of our evangelism is 'liberating'.
@SpeakLifeUK
@EAUKnews
e-n.org.uk/features/2025-02-…
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OpenAI are upset that somebody is using their work for financial gain, without payment or attribution. Nothing ironic there. 🤷♂️
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9vm…
Without looking up the docs, spot the non-obvious bug in my blog post date format that will only happen a few days a year: `MMMM d, YYYY HH:mm`
New blog post with video - Recursive project search in Emacs: lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/r…
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"I thought, 'My baby has Down syndrome', it's such a disaster!"
"That was before she taught me."
WATCH the most heartwarming nativity you'll see this Christmas.
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My 2022 "Uniquely Stupid" article is back on @TheAtlantic's most popular list. It's about how morally homogeneous institutions became "structurally stupid" after social media made it easy for the extremes to attack and silence moderates and dissenters:
theatlantic.com/magazine/arc…
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Today's TIL has been a huge productivity boost for me.
daniel.feldroy.com/posts/til…