Matt Fozard
elfoz.bsky.social
Matt Fozard
@elfoz.bsky.social
Software developer, dad, bike rides and pub walks, weather watcher // Hampshire UK
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December 12, 2025 at 5:19 PM
This little gem is tucked away in the release notes for VS Code 1.107 🙌

On macOS you can now navigate between editors using 3-finger swipe gesture with the trackpad. Enable this with the workbench.editor.swipeToNavigate setting.
December 11, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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The group plans to launch a social network under the name "Twitter.new," possibly as early as late next year.
Operation Bluebird wants to relaunch “Twitter,” says Musk abandoned the name and logo
“Abandonment” offers rare chance to reclaim one of tech’s most recognized brands.
arstechnica.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Lots of great suggestions already (thank you!) but so far my favourite is Let the Bodies Hit the Floor vs Teletubbies...
October 8, 2024 at 2:42 PM
Has a look at my feed - ***dooooooom*** - turns off and goes for a walk in the sunshine
November 23, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Spec driven development + agentic AI to generate code seems like a good idea on the surface, but what does it leave for me to do? Gather requirements, write specs, press some buttons, review the AI's code, perform manual testing. Writing my own code was the fun part...
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
It is [0] days since I trashed a live database 😱
(but also: yay for working backups)
November 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
November 18, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Looking forward to this - it's a real improvement on having to match arrays by index
ECMAScript excitement 😉

Congrats to my coworker @ashley-c.bsky.social at TechAtBloomberg on advancing Await Dictionary to Stage 2.7 at TC39 today 🎉

Promise.all returns positional results as an array. Promise.allKeyed allows named results inside an object 👍

github.com/tc39/proposa...
November 18, 2025 at 11:10 AM
As a pedestrian and rider I feel this one almost every day 😭
November 15, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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Silicon Valley, 1990s: Free and open access to all the world’s knowledge will usher a new utopian age of information!

Silicon Valley, 2025:
November 15, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Hold up
November 15, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Slack has changed to hide "inactive" channels and apps by default. Some kind of announcement would have been nice, I thought I was going mad. It makes it pretty hard to reactivate a conversation when it's not there any more...
November 14, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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The majority of Britons think important places for nature should have stronger protections.

Only 2% think protections should be weakened... yet that’s where ministers keep pushing.
November 12, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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Last chance to turn it off.

On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.

To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
October 31, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Birds but they get spookier each time. 🎃👻

Enter if you dare...🚪
October 31, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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something pretty galling when the National Gallery gets two individual gifts of £150 million each to build one gallery as the Northumberland Wildlife Trust has to scrabble around for £30 million to buy the Rothbury Estate and restore it to nature 🫠
September 9, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Ride report - legs would prefer to hibernate, weather deciding that “largely dry” doesn’t mean it can’t rain for some of it #ukweather #ukmtb
October 25, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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There is a moment at this time of year when the word ‘apricity’ really comes into view. For those who don’t know it, it was recorded only once, in 1623, before slipping out of view. Apricity is the warmth of the sun on a chilly day.
October 24, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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... not to mention, AWS themselves has UK data centers!

Using US infra means data subject to US regulations + government access.

Kind of problematic for something like tax record, PII etc
October 23, 2025 at 10:31 AM
A brief review of my waterproof gear after 45 minutes commuting in heavy rain: Berghaus Stormcloud jacket ✅ (and *such* a good hood), Rab Downpour trousers ✅, Merrell Moab Speed 2 gore-tex boots - left ✅ & right ❌ - time to dry my socks off #loveukweather
October 20, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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October 17, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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🎯
October 12, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”
October 11, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Run report: full english breakfast not the best fuel for running but the South Downs making up for it
October 11, 2025 at 10:44 AM