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Craig Shepherd
@Shepharo@mastodonapp.uk
mastodon 4.6.8C#/.NET software developer with aspirations of grandeur.
#dotnet #mvc #blazor #sqlserver #tdd #agile
Progressive liberal humanist enjoying the pro-intellectual non-algorithmic monetisation-free angle of Mastodon and the Fediverse.
Also enjoys music, playing guitar, reading books, modern art, and cinema.
#beatles #rickenbacker #iainmbanks #tolkien #hisdarkmaterials #davidmitchell #doctorwho #mcescher #starwars #christophernolan
“If you can’t be kind, be quiet”
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Joined November 21, 2022
Is Matt Damon becoming more like James O'Brien, or is it the other way round?
Why does the Guardian app ask me if I want alerts on sport *every* time I open the app, even though I tell it every time that I don’t?
James O’Brien called Trump a “ludicrous mentard” on his LBC show this morning, which I think just about covers it.
#taco #TrumpWar #JamesOBrien
You wouldn’t call a mathematician a “formula writer”, or a GP a “prescriptor”, so why are software developers just seen as “coders”?
#softwaredevelopment
Sign the petition for Essex council to remove the flags and prosecute the people putting them up!
This must be uncomfortable for the #BBC who have just taken on an ex-#Google person as Director General.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c747x7gz249o
It’s not just software: enshittification of bags. #enshittification
https://www.worseonpurpose.com/p/your-backpack-got-worse-on-purpose
Wise words which we should all heed, from Cory Doctorow.
https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/13/always-great/#our-nhs
This explains the whole of yesterday’s news cycle on BBC News, which repeatedly pushed the false dichotomy that we aren’t spending enough money on defence because we are spending too much money on welfare.
Deplorable. Why don’t BBC journalists question why news sources are saying what they are saying? So little quality analysis being done there today.
https://bsky.app/profile/adambienkov.bsky.social/post/3mjhg4aris22k
Replying to
@LordCaramac I used Turbo Pascal in my computer science A-Level and still remember it fondly. Got to use it once in my career, in the form of Delphi, but only for a year or so.
The flags are gone in Epping - rejoice!
#flagshaggers #epping
Up to 75k signings so far, parliament has to respond if it gets to 100k. Go on, go on, go on!
It’s all getting very Nazi now. #trump #cuba
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgpzwkn5jko