h2g2bob @h2g2bob@mastodon.dbatley.com

Cast my ballots for council and mayor
UK-ians: bring your photo ID!
#ukpolling

🏛️ 27,500 polling places are open today across England and Wales for the PCC, mayoral and local elections.

📍 Find yours now!

➡️ https://wheredoivote.co.uk/

#ukpolitics

a lovely afternoon break to attend the citizenship ceremony of the first refugee we hosted 6.5 years ago.

From being homeless after standard rapid refugee status eviction w barely any English to now having a good job as a licenced building site lift operator. #RefugeesAtHome 1/3

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 New blog! We take a regional look at the English local election candidates.

🤔 Where has the longest ballot paper? Where is each party fighting the most seats? And are Independent candidates more common in the North or South?
https://democracyclub.org.uk/blog/2024/04/29/the-2024-english-local-elections-a-regional-look/

#ukpolitics @elections

Blogged: “Musings on link shorteners, UUIDv7, Base58, …”
https://strugglers.net/~andy/blog/2024/04/28/musings-on-link-shorteners-uuidv7-base58/

The Millennial CAPTCHA.

This is really well done:
https://jwz.org/b/ykPi

Good morning to you and a very fuck the Tories.

In order to to be able to fuck the Tories you now need ID. If you don’t have ID, go here ASAP to be able to vote against them next week.

https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/voting-and-elections/voter-id

I should not have stayed up so late reverse engineering the barcodes on stamps

Blogged: “For file integrity testing, you’re wasting your time with md5”
https://strugglers.net/~andy/blog/2024/04/20/for-file-integrity-testing-youre-wasting-your-time-with-md5/

#Linux

📚 We've collected together all mayoral booklets, election broadcasts, and as many local political party manifestos as we could find for the 2 May English local elections.

Find out what the candidates are promising in our latest blog.

https://democracyclub.org.uk/blog/2024/04/19/party-and-candidate-material-for-the-2024-local-elections/

🆕 blog! “Where you can (and can't) use Emoji in PHP”

I was noodling around in PHP the other day and discovered that this works: <?php $🍞 = "bread"; echo "Some delicious " . $🍞; I mean, there's no reason why it shouldn't work. An emoji is just a Unicode character (OK, not just a character - but we'll get on to that), so it should […]

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/04/where-you-can-and-cant-use-emoji-in-php/
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#emoji #php #unicode

So what do you need to talk to a $100 billion space station? As it turns out, about $60 worth of stuff will do. https://hackaday.com/2023/06/10/listening-to-the-iss-on-the-cheap/

I haven't seen Dickie for ages, but we played 5-a-side together 10, 15 years ago.

His memories of being at Hillsborough.

https://dickiefelton.com/2024/04/15/we-were-the-child-survivors-of-britains-worst-sporting-disaster-yet-quickly-became-the-accused/

I didn't go to it, but remember one of my schoolmates was there, in the upper stands luckily for him.

#JFT97 #DontBuyTheSun #Hillsborough

I don't often talk about where I work (it's nice to use social media for non-work things), but I actually work with some lovely people doing some really cool and meaningful things. And, we're currently hiring.

If you're a UK-based software engineer (Python/JavaScript) or researcher and looking for something remote/hybrid, please take a look.

https://www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2024/04/opensafely-software-engineering-vacancies/

https://www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2024/04/research-vacancies/

Here's a bit about how the tech teams work too: https://www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2024/04/the-opensafely-tech-teams-work-pipeline/

#GetFediHired

🎉 Exciting news! After 5 years away, OggCamp, the ultimate unconference for open source and free culture enthusiasts is back for a triumphant return in 2024! 🌟

🗓️ Join us at The Manchester Conference Centre on October 12th and 13th.

🚀 Get ready for a weekend filled with innovation, collaboration, and community spirit!

🔗 Stay tuned for the Call for Papers (CfP) and ticket announcements – watch this space! 🎟️

#OggCamp2024 #OpenSource #TechConference #Manchester