Tom Heyes 
@tomheyes@qoto.org
Software Developer at Kroo based in Manchester UK
Ex: #ThoughtWorks, #Wefarm
#Clojure #Emacs #Tech
Joined Nov 2022
Colleague at work: "Tom, tell me a bit about Emacs."
Me: *gleeeeee*
birdsite
> Opends birdsite
> WWIII is trending
> Full of consiricy theories...
> Returns to mastadon sanity
Sassy Jira ticket seen today:
Make thing X acutally do what thing X is supposed to do. 😂
Running emacs on OSX.
Org Mode is by far the best tool I've used to taking notes / keeping an engineering work log.
@LidiaInfanteM just sent me a link to the wedding website I threw together to celebrate us getting hitched and I'm still pretty happy with it!
Think I just tweaked the Pico theme a bunch but its cute. :)
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Error: Your password must contain at least two characters who talk to each other about something other than a man.
A tiny blog post about adding some colour to your terminal outputs.
https://www.they.es/posts/colour-up-your-terminal/
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A population density map of the United Kingdom. A tad late, considering I've maps for Scotland, Wales, and England, but here it is now.
#rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale
¡Ay! ¡El rumor es que a los 666 días el búho te va a encontrar! ¡Tengo miedo! 🦉
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This is your 15-year warning to get ready for the Y2K38 bug: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
I have a problem with Duolingo where I go into autopilot and make silly mistakes like this...
Can winter just be over now please?
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This is a nice improvement, which also allows you to use magit, if emacs was already started:
emacsclient -c -nw --alternate-editor='emacs -Q -nw'
with a fallback to the config-less emacs for fast startup.
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RT @borkdude
Use emacs as the git editor for writing commit messages on the command line, with really good startup:
https://twitter.com/borkdude/status/1613259784978833420
We decided to buy a fancy coffee machine for our caffeine habit. I've not yet got the hang of using it though and my wife has been waking up to me swearing at the blasted thing when I produce something akin to a 'milk volcano'.
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Lisp in 99 lines of C and how to write one yourself
https://github.com/Robert-van-Engelen/tinylisp
Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://github.com/Robert-van-Engelen/tinylisp
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Love when apis sort results by date alphabetically...
Not knowing if I should be saying effected or affected so alternating between the two until someone calls me out. :-S
Software Developer at Kroo based in Manchester UK
Ex: #ThoughtWorks, #Wefarm
#Clojure #Emacs #Tech
Joined Nov 2022
