To my new followers, please leave this cesspit of a platform and follow me on the M. Link in bio.

I'm only posting here to get you to follow me here so I can tell you not to follow me here and rather follow me there 👌

Alternate history where Wiener went with the Latin rather than Greek root and called it 'gubernatics' instead of 'cybernetics', leading William Gibson to call it 'guberspace' and 'guberpunk'.

For those that ask 'why do cyclists ride in the middle of the road?'

I've read a few books on F# now and this is the one that I would recommend to people wanting to learn. It's very good.

23 Albert Street, Edinburgh. Built in 1875 as “24 dwelling houses forming the whole of the Tenement, with the exception of Wareroom on Street Floor and Storage in Basement.” There are now only 22 flats. No word on what happened to the other two.

Former residents include:

Congratulation to Isaac Abraham on releasing F# in Action with Manning Publications a great way to get started with the language, check it out mng.bz/R4Jn

Can we...just accept that we suck at this?

I want to tell you a story that has made me kinda hopeless about Twitter's ability to affect positive things happening, and it starts with this tweet from Hillary Clinton.

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Here's my new video: 'Computation Expressions in #fsharp (or: Why Programming Languages Evolve)'.

Scott Wlaschin Thanks for your online session yesterday, and for all of your work. You are a role model to me. Thank you 🙏

youtu.be/qzvRjUdFF8Q

cc F# Online Bob Konferenz

If we don’t give presidents immunity, we might one day see prosecutors bringing charges for cynically political reasons. Also, here are my favorite memories of working for Ken Starr.

by Brett Kavanaugh

Only 23 days to go before the Conference starts, we look forward to see everyone there; ncrafts.io

This is a great conference & you should come!

I've been to NewCrafts a few times (sadly not this year) and the best thing about it is not something you find in the agenda - it is the deep and insightful conversations about tech, philosophy & more with many interesting people.

Check out our 12 weeks of #fsharp essentials lectures. We are featuring Ian Russell and his excellent book.

Don't miss out on learning more about Functional programming using this powerful .NET language.

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Today’s the anniversary of the Kinder Trespass. When 500 people walked en masse to Kinder Scout, to secure access rights to the open country for all. Today everyone can walk in their footsteps, on the landscape our forebears fought so hard for. Yay. nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/peak-dis…

Barbara Streisand here demonstrates the fantastic manoeuvrability of cargo bikes in an urban setting.

If not for the cleaner air, safer streets and cheaper delivery costs, then at least think of the men carrying oversized panels of glass.

Guess what? For our 50th AmplifyingF# session, we've got a super special guest: Scott Wlaschin!

Scott will be sharing his #fsharp journey with us, and we couldn't be more excited.

Save the date and spread the word! It's going to be awesome.

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TWITTER what are your fave 'whoaaa' threads of all time? First that comes to mind is this one (scroll to top) in which spider scientists and astronomers WORK OUT that jumping spiders can see **Andromeda** with the naked eye. twitter.com/jrlomax/status…

THREAD: Afghan War Rugs and the Lossy Compression of Cultural Coding

George Monbiot Since July 2019 there have been 9 - yes nine - Solicitor Generals.

Farewell Z80. You served us well o7

This fall, I got an e-mail from a guy named JM Simpson who'd read things I'd written about homelessness. He mentioned he was a photojournalist in Olympia and that he'd been photographing the unhoused population there. He wanted to share some work with me . . . (1)