Remember, the hypocrisy is the whole point. For Reform, for MAGA, for Tommy Robinson's mob - the hypocrisy is deliberate and serves a purpose. Again and again, it's very predictable. Don't let them divide our nations, our cities, our regions, our continents, our world. bsky.app/profile/dsym...

Sure it happens before 4pm, but nice sunset. #London

As you watch Reform UK in action, please remember everything they do serves one purpose - to divide the world, and the UK, into an "us" and a "them". All they care about is that their "us" wins power. Their "us" can be corrupt, violent, criminal, lying - they don't care - as long as their tribe win

In which Don burns $200 to improve test coverage and improve performance in an F# community library. #fsharp github.com/fsprojects/F...

I have resurrected my work blog, and populated it with some things from the last few years dsyme.net Some recent entries in thread

London is a wonderful city, the best place to live in the world. I'm proud to live here. Sadiq Khan has hit the mark with this article - the rightwing radicals *need* London to fail - they need to bring it down, denigrate it, lie about it. I notice London getting cleaner, and enjoy it's happiness.

We (GitHub Next) put out a new project today - GitHub Agentic Workflows! This is natural language programming for Continuous AI on GitHub. eg "build the code, run the tests, read the coverage report, write tests", running daily, delivering test improvements in PRs githubnext.com/projects/age...

The train announcement has changed from "This is London Waterloo, where this train terminates" to "This is London Waterloo, where this train finishes its journey".... 1/3

🧬 Gene samples nearly melted because someone mixed °F and °C. 🫠 With #AI proliferating, every system is now safety-critical. F# units of measure catch these potential errors at compile time with ZERO runtime cost. New #fsharp #mlir #llvm #systemsprogramming #aisafety blog: speakez.ai/blog/danger-...

Today London Met Police @metpolice.bsky.social had a very overt deployment of a Live Facial Recognition van outside Richmond Station in London. About 30 officers were present. Looking at the guidelines this deployment of LFR looks illegal. www.met.police.uk/advice/advic... cc @london.gov.uk

You can now use F# and Ionide with @cursor.com.web.brid.gy 🥰 #fsharp #fable github.com/ionide/ionid...

ATTENTION: Free Computing Teachers Conference Our speakers are now confirmed for CKC 2025: @dsyme.bsky.social @megjlow.bsky.social @beckyfranks.bsky.social @tracygardner.bsky.social @lollypopstar.bsky.social @neilccbrown.bsky.social @suesentance.bsky.social Sign up here: tinyurl.com/CKC-Kings

Some Cambridge Computer Lab Lore 1. Roger Needham once told me, over a beer, that he had the idea for hash encoding passwords in The Eagle Pub. The same pub where DNA was announced Since I can't find a reference for that I'm recording it as gospel on Bluesky blogs.manageengine.com/corporate/ge...

Electrifying Norway with F# and DDD by Almir Mesic #fsharp vimeo.com/1070256220

Bukharin's list of enemies of the state to be eliminated or corrected. On a quick count I belong to 3 out of 9 categories. This has made me look at communism quite differently! From "House of Government" by Yuri Slezkine

All #fsharp users! Checkout the wonderful new testimonial page at fsharp.org/testimonials! Courtesy of @amuletofyendor.bsky.social Submit your own testimonials at github.com/fsharp/fshar...

I glanced back at the X site by mistake twice recently 1st time the screen had a video of tennis players being violent to tennis ballboys and judges 2nd time it had a video of a car crash that would certainly have resulted in whiplash. That place is just horrible - violent as well as Nazi.

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This is the first post Literature and History (literatureandhistory.com) has made on Bluesky, to a total of zero followers! I'm sure it has a glorious future! 🤣

Whimsical thoughts of the day... I've come to the conclusion that the universe is a single sample, among many, being used to train a machine learning model, where the objective of the training is to learn how to love.

My thoughts on the Ukraine-USA minerals deal open.substack.com/pub/periplus...

If you're Australian 🇦🇺 and you've ever wondered where New South Wales really is, turns out it's in Canada and it's very very cold. You might also be looking for New North Wales. It's there too. Encyclopedia Britannica first ed map

"There were many valid arguments and sensitivities here, and I proceeded from this point determined to be highly respectful towards OCaml and its existing user base: I genuinely loved the language and the approach to programming it represented." #ocaml #fsharp fsharp.org/history/hopl...

Reading through the history of Canada in WWII, I'm struck how the UK has to some extent forgotten how Canada stood by them in 1939. The UK was really not "standing alone" in 1940. Many people know that. But somehow Canada is rarely mentioned specifically in the telling. Yet its support was crucial

I'm on a bus to Clapham and, being male, am disturbingly excited by being so average.

For those of you who follow UK politics, in the thread is a sample of the utterly insane levels of exaggeration and hysteria about Keir Starmer to be found in the Reform UK Facebook groups. Cc @adambienkov.bsky.social @josiah.writes.news @peterjukes.bsky.social @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social

The bell at Notre-Dame rings in F# 👌👍 Just sayin' 😉 Vive la France 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷 Thank you for all the beauty. #fsharp

If you're into colourful, interesting London or English history, this account is worth following. Well-told, well-researched episodes from London's history, daily. Often grisly and gritty, always interesting and eye-opening.

❄ It's that time of the year again! ❄ In the next 25 days I'll be solving and recording my solutions to the #adventofcode programming puzzles using the #fsharp #dotnet programming language. Ideal if you're interested in F# or functional programming in general. Come say hi! ☕ youtu.be/wY2g2INDw4g

I work for GitHub and I have never successfully done a rebase, and I never plan to.

All in London - come join Edgar and myself at F# Londoners tomorrow, 5:30pm, Old Street, hosting a talk from Stephen Channell #fsharp bsky.app/profile/fsha...

Tonight’s sunset. #london #skyline #sunset #theshard

Things I do on Bluesky that I've never done on X/twitter 1. Read through the #BookSky feeds and look at all the books other people are reading, learning and appreciating the sheer joy of reading bsky.app/profile/did:... 2. Watch cat videos

One by one, we’re getting all 10 Bylines citizen journalism publications onto Bluesky. Then we’ll make the starter pack. Follow @bylinesnetwork.bsky.social to keep updated. 🙏🏻

My amazing group at GitHub - GitHub Next githubnext.com - are now on Bluesky. Please follow us there! bsky.app/profile/gith...

Joining the Bsky Book club. Let's see how this works. You post "📚👀" and you're in the feed. Current reading: The Golden Road by William Dalrymple. India at the centre of ancient trade routes. Beautiful insights into early Buddhism. Much recommend! 💙📚👀

My @bylinetimes.bsky.social long read on Trump's victory, how politics isn't about politics now, tech changing everything, & why the liberal left must engage with tech-driven alternative realities fuelled by gross inequality that put emotional instincts centre-stage. bylinetimes.com/2024/11/11/t...

An excellent essay about my favourite 20th Century thinker - Paul Tillich - a thinker hugely relevant to understanding our present moment. aeon.co/essays/my-gr...

If you're searching for #fsharp content on BlueSky, there's a starter pack to get you going bsky.app/starter-pack...

The "feeds" feature of Bluesky is sheer brilliance Finally I feel liberated from the tyranny of the singular algorithm - of distorted feeds and advertising revenue maximisation Free speech is one thing - but what of free of assembly and association? To choose the distortions that apply Impressed

There's nothing quite like being implicated and thanked for enabling genocide to make you question your life choices.

The Thames, London, 11/11/24 Faith is ultimate concern. Forgiveness is participation. Let me find this faith, let me find this forgiveness.

At the Armistice Sunday service, St Mary Le Strand, London Defence is sacred. Aggression and revenge are betrayal. 10/11/2024