thomasoncoding @thomasoncoding
Nearly two decades in software starting with @zopa and @bullionvault. Also at https://t.co/HyLcQ5xxMc (A successor account to @thomasbarkercom) thomasbarker.com London Joined June 2024-
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Actually Linux has been pretty good for 8 years or so now.
Actually Linux has been pretty good for 8 years or so now.
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Most of my career has been being a CRUD monkey. I don't want to go back to FTP, but most apps can just be one deployable on Heroku/Google App Engine/etc with Django or RoR. I can use k8s, but it's almost always unnecessary.
Most of my career has been being a CRUD monkey. I don't want to go back to FTP, but most apps can just be one deployable on Heroku/Google App Engine/etc with Django or RoR. I can use k8s, but it's almost always unnecessary.
I expect it'd struggle a bit, but if it can just clean and water plants without breaking things, that's actually worth it. Looking forward to the @FrameworkPuter build!
I expect it'd struggle a bit, but if it can just clean and water plants without breaking things, that's actually worth it. Looking forward to the @FrameworkPuter build!
I would be interested...
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i never saw this coming
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I am once again begging you to put your database servers and application servers in the same region.
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Interesting new overview "What we in the open world are messing up in trying to compete with big tech" from Bert Hubert: berthub.eu/articles/posts… Hmmm, not sure about this part: "Your post-quantum crypto library does not need to be available as a service or have an attractive UI."
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Security warnings.
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do yall remember this paper lol. how come we're not forcing models to be little guys anymore
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web scraping and browser automation with Crawlee
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A Terminal. A Web Browser. Are you getting it? ^^
The days of 6 hours following a wiki page and then breaking your main PC anyway.
The days of 6 hours following a wiki page and then breaking your main PC anyway.
Dazzle make-up anyone 😅
Dazzle make-up anyone 😅
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New Sunday Times profile in which I succeed, like a fencer in a 2hr marathon match, in fending off Qs abt my personal life & consistently turning focus back to my work & ideas. Contra the interviewer's claim, many ppl do know me! They're called friends, & you know who you are ❤️…
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The Online Safety Act ransoms your privacy for free speech! By age gating vaguely defined ‘harmful’ content, UK users face censorship. It coerces people into coughing up their ID to unregulated age verification providers or scammers. Write to your MP ⬇️ action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-your-mp-o…
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I've had preview access to GPT-5 for a couple of weeks, so I have a lot to say about it. Here's my first post, focusing just on core characteristics, pricing (it's VERY competitively priced) and interesting details from the GPT-5 system card simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/7/gpt…
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@b_arbaretier Agreed, and more in general, browser-based sandboxing will play a major role in future agent-based computer use. webvm.io is a great example, but we are working on other things as well. 🙂 (I'm the lead dev of WebVM and CTO of Leaning Technologies)
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I think I called this one well in 2009! thomasbarker.com/the-big-conden…
I think I called this one well in 2009! thomasbarker.com/the-big-conden… https://t.co/r3QzX9wCLI
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