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Chris Stafford

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founder Fanduel/Recast/Traksy. Tech, Edinburgh, startups, Norwegian and other languages

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Chris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · Nov 19

Quick intro: I get companies started and build really good tech teams for startups. I've done Sports/Betting at Fanduel, and payments and video at Recast.

Still passionate about coding, building systems in Rust, JS and Java, with a history of Elixir, PHP, Python. Love data and AI (not LLMs)

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5080nyhetskanalen.bsky.social @5080nyhetskanalen.bsky.social · 9h

Ny sparkesykkel krever f**teglis

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Chris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · 12h

"The CWU has supported the move, saying that the current building is not fit for purpose and emphasised that the new office will only be a 12-minute drive away from the old one."

That's handy. I'll just buy a car will I then? Shit union.

www.deadlinenews.co.uk/2025/10/15/d...

“Disappointment” as Edinburgh Royal Mail delivery office set to relocate with current office in “disrepair”, according to union - Deadline News

THE Royal Mail Delivery Office in Morningside is set to relocate to near Murrayfield as the existing building is described as in "disrepair".

www.deadlinenews.co.uk

Chris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · 12h

It wouldn't greatly surprise me if it just didn't get through in Edinburgh - it was up for a vote last year but there was so much back-stabbing at the time that it was completely random what got through and what didn't. I just thought I saw it on the notices.

Chris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · 13h

I thought they did that this year

Chris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · 1d

It's such a pain keeping up with paperwork in this fast-paced world

Notes from Poland @notesfrompoland.bsky.social · 1d

Poland has detained a man trying to cross its border using a driving licence issued by the Soviet Union – a country that has not existed for over 30 years.

He has been referred to court for using an improper document.

Poland detains man trying to cross border with Soviet driving licence

notesfrompoland.com

Chris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · 2d

I tend to agree. I'm not a fan of the growing number of floating stops stuck the wrong side of bike lanes, but even then at least it separates out the waiters from the walkers. I'm not sure I trust other councils though, and a pole genuinely is better than nothing.

Chris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · 2d

Devon have bus stop standards (which for some reason include sticking turf on the rooves). The stop I used most often couldn't have been made to meet standards, and now it has been closed and I have to walk an extra mile to get the bus. Minimum standards are a hostage to malicious compliance

Chris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · 2d

I have 40 apps that didn't come with the phone, and most of them work fine. I'm quite happy with a nice open app store - it can be open to any old crap as long as I don't have to install it

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Chris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · 2d

They're both variously horrible, but if you use mobile web for everything, and an ad-blocker, then you will probably only notice when the latest "great" new release of the OS breaks everything for zero benefit. Even that's consistent across the two.

Chris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · 6d

Maybe the Norwegian government will subsidize it to go to Oslo instead. Vy seemed very taken with the service from Oslo to Malmo they ran over the summer to meet the sleeper.

Most of their budget is being being used to fight the ground though, which doesn't want there to be a train line to Bodø

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Stefano Zanero @raistolo.bsky.social · 15d

No. It’s most definitely not. This is ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 16d

It’s time to prepare for AI personhood | Jacy Reese Anthis

Technological advances will bring social upheaval. How will we treat digital minds, and how will they treat us?

www.theguardian.com

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Chris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · 18d

They rarely use the Swedish ones. Presumably ö and ä look a bit too German

Chris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · 22d

An exciting new opportunity for enthusiastic people to waste another couple of years on this hopeless non-starter of an idea. Sometimes it's just useful to just have a non-passenger railway going between places commuters don't want to travel between. No need to turn it into a toy tram set.

Chris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · 27d

I had to do that last time. It's *possible* to migrate password hashes off Firebase and into the new system, but it requires Java plugins to run, potentially forever.

Chris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · 27d

How comfortable did you find the cloth-covered metal board they use as seating in cattle class?

Chris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · 27d

Housekeeping will appreciate that. They've only just finished mopping down and repainting after the last guest

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Chris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · Sep 2

I've got so many pretty components for the website I plan to build, but I don't have the energy to piece it together. I could have had fun building the components myself, instead I spend days looking sadly and exhaustedly at the screen before giving up and watching endless NCIS. LLMs are unbalancing

Chris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · Sep 1

As somebody who rarely buys coffee in high street coffee shops, I've always found this comparison a bit odd. I wonder what proportion of people generally, and what proportion of likely bus users, think that cups of high-street coffee are cheap enough to buy a couple of times a day.

Chris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · Aug 28

If you disable the Google app it removes Google Now. Also removes bunch of other stuff like Google search popping up based on gestures I've accidentally made, or when somebody said something that sounded a bit like "hey google". I *think* I'm still on stock launcher, but it's a Moto phone so *shrug*

Chris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · Aug 28

To be fair, I don't even have data from last year, I'm just going on my memory of it being a bit damp.

Does the theory about longer wet/dry spells go with the theory about the gulf stream diverting? I'm worried enough about Europe ending up with Canadian winters, without them being wet as well 😱

Chris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · Aug 26

I'd like a selective mute mechanism where I could temporarily mute the Liverpool fans I follow during matches. It's like Man Utd in the 90s - otherwise-interesting people with no obvious full-time attachment to football spend 2 hours sharing dull talking points about the team they sort-of follow.

Chris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · Aug 25

Wasn't last year pretty apocalyptic rain non-stop for most of the year though? I'm in no way saying that this year hasn't been massively dry and damaging to soil, just that last year isn't the ideal baseline.

Chris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · Aug 24

Not sure I approve of this overnight infusing thing. If it can't dissolve whole strawberries in under an hour, is your drink really strong enough?

Chris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · Aug 23

I wouldn't even suggest doing it slowly - they should identify a space in every street and roll it out straight away. It would add more to the usability of both bikes and pavements than most bike lanes and dropped kerbs.

Sadly it's not part of this rental scheme to do it at all.

Chris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · Aug 22

If there's any bikes parked nearby then I might use them. Cyclists in Edinburgh already seem to think that tying their stupid cargo-bike to a lamppost and leaving 2ft of usable pavement is responsible parking though, so I suspect this scheme will just make life immeasurably worse.