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Mike Hadlow
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Lewes, UK. Software guy. blog: mikehadlow.com. TypeScript, C#. Author of guitardashboard.com and easynetq.com. Talk to me about: code / tech / guitar / science / history / progressive-rock
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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 6d
I'm thinking longer for a better answer.
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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 8d
DNS 😂
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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 8d
AWS has the Monday morning blues. Half the world is struggling to operate because their SaaS is down. At least I'm back to running a local dev environment now. In my Lambda days I'd be twiddling my thumbs.
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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 9d
Define your musical taste in eight artists

Yes
Pink Floyd
The Beatles
King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard
Sly And The Family Stone
Cardiacs
The Zombies
Geese
patriksvensson.se Patrik Svensson @patriksvensson.se · 9d
Define your musical taste in eight artists

Beck
Sonic Youth
Elliott Smith
The Beatles
Bob hund
P.J Harvey
Ed Harcourt
Damien Jurado
ythos.bsky.social Matthew Adams 🎃 @ythos.bsky.social · 9d
Define your musical taste in eight artists

Led Zeppelin
Shostakovich
Bjork
Sandy Denny
Hildegard of Bingen
Tangerine Dream
Funkadelic
Syd Barrett

Near misses: Love, Kate Bush, Blondie, Davy Graham
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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 24d
I meant to type "I love these ...". Duh!
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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 24d
I've these collections of interesting nuggets. The ones on how AI is pretty much all of US growth at present is particularly notable. The crash, when it happens, is going to be very painful!
www.derekthompson.org/p/the-25-mos...
The 25 Most Interesting Ideas I've Found in 2025 (So Far)
Charts and history lessons—across culture, politics, AI, economics, health, science, and the long story of progress
www.derekthompson.org
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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 25d
Today's discovery is tmux alternative Zellij zellij.dev
Pretty much better in every way. Written in Rust (of course).
Zellij
A terminal workspace with batteries included
zellij.dev
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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 26d
To mis quote Keith Moon: "It went down like a Led (filled) Zeppelin" 😀
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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 28d
Do I know any IBM MQ experts I can ask some questions about how to write high performance clients? Event better if you've used the IBMMQDotnetClient library.
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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · Sep 19
In this time of suffering and strife it's so nice of JC to provide us with a bit of light-hearted comedy.
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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · Sep 19
Is this my dream job? If only I could write!
economist.com The Economist @economist.com · Sep 19
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Apply by September 28th:
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We’re looking for a writer to join us in London for 12 months
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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · Sep 17
Congrats to you too!
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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · Sep 17
So after a two and a half year stint as a full time Node engineer, I'm back coding in C#, but now on Linux with Rider as the IDE. It feels like a warm old familiar place. Rider is a pretty good experience so far. JetBrains certainly know how to build an IDE.
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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · Sep 16
Several years into using z-shell I discover that ctrl-XE opens the current command in nvim (or whatever you've got set as your default editor). I wish I'd known this before.
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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · Sep 3
And here is his grandfather George Robinson, a rather fine looking Victorian gentleman. I've inherited the massive nose!
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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · Sep 3
Have you been using it? Just so that I know who to ask when the borrow checker says "no!" :)
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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · Sep 3
My Grandfather (highlighted) with his class, training to be a lieutenant in the Royal Navy at HMS King Alfred (yes that's now the swimming pool) in Hove during WWII.
CC @eaterofsun.bsky.social
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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · Sep 3
Yep, for the second time. I had a dabble around a decade ago when it was at V1.0. A little bit more serious now because there might be an opportunity to use it at work.
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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · Sep 3
Oh, interesting thanks.
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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · Sep 3
So I think I get the memory allocation model in Rust: everything goes on the stack, unless it's some kind of smart pointer like Box, or Rc, or also Vec and String. Just been reading Ch 15 of the Rust Book: doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch15-00...
Smart Pointers - The Rust Programming Language
doc.rust-lang.org
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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · Sep 3
That's a great story.

And of course we have to give a shoutout to the famous 1176 compressor's "all buttons" mode.
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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · Sep 3
In my bones I knew this was a mistake but couldn't articulate why. It took a more perspicacious colleague to point out that once one was selected there was no going back to the default state of none.
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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · Sep 3
Ah radio buttons! One of my fondest memories is a heated discussion I once had years ago with a product manager who wanted the default state of a radio button set to none-selected.
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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · Aug 31
Same here.
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Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · Aug 28
Thanks, what a great resource.