Bruce @twobitcoder

I'm a freelance .Net and Umbraco developer and wannabe hobbit. Sometimes on a train to London,sometimes on a plane to the Isle of Man. Never knowingly undersold Highly Technical One Man Band Joined August 2009

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Bruce @twobitcoder

a week ago

I was delighted to see the Insomnia Gaming Festival returning but alas their new location means I won't be attending. The NEC was dead easy to get to, this new location is not great for non-drivers. I wish the event well but I'll not be attending this time.

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Bruce @twobitcoder

2 weeks ago

Third attempt to like Windows 11, third attempt failed. It's just plain slower on my laptop with useful menu items hidden under "Show more" context menus. Back to 10 I go.

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Bruce @twobitcoder

3 weeks ago

Bank of England reduce rates by 0.25%. Coventry Building Society reduce rates by 0.35%. Sad to see Coventry reducing by more than the base rate cut, clearly they are trying to reduce costs in the wake of their recent takeover of Co-op. Takeovers are never good for customers.

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Bruce @twobitcoder

a month ago

I never used to pay too much attention to tax, it was just something inevitable that I had to pay but over the last decade the amount of tax and number of taxes I pay has continued to rise and I've started to notice just how many there are. Theres a lot!

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Bruce @twobitcoder

2 months ago

Finally had some free time over the weekend, first time in a very long time so I cracked open some personal projects. It's been so long that one of them is still on .Net 5 and hasn't been touched in almost 4 years! Might have missed the boat on that project.

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Bruce @twobitcoder

2 months ago

Taking my nephew to a comic con today. Despite the heat, he's cosplaying but my days of dressing up as the 7th Doctor for these things has long past.

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Bruce @twobitcoder

2 months ago

Having experimented with AI a little over the last few months I've found it's a very useful research tool but it's not quite ready to replace developers just yet so I might just get to the end of my career before it swallows my job!

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Bruce @twobitcoder

3 months ago

This hot weather does not make me productive. No coding today for me!

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Bruce @twobitcoder

3 months ago

My love hate relationship with ElasticSearch continues. Today's mood, I love it.

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Bruce @twobitcoder

3 months ago

Just throwing this out into the universe but I really think it's long past time we had a Troughton box set collection for classic Doctor Who.

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Bruce @twobitcoder

3 months ago

Another funeral yesterday. Very sad times.

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Bruce @twobitcoder

3 months ago

Brought a new IPad Air. It's really heavy compared to my old IPad Air 2 and gets quite warm under load. I'm really unimpressed by it really and I find I prefer to Air 2.

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Bruce @twobitcoder

4 months ago

Another lovely day for a boat trip.

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Bruce @twobitcoder

4 months ago

Slightly bonkers day. Hotel tried to move me to a lesser hotel due to overbooking so I name dropped that I knew the owner (I do) and suddenly they upgraded me and keep sending up chocolates and gifts to my room. It's awesome!

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Bruce @twobitcoder

4 months ago

A lovely day to be on a boat! I think I've just gained more Vitamin D in the 1 mile walk to the port than I have in the last 6 months! (and a possible sunburn :( )

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Bruce @twobitcoder

5 months ago

Looking at the stock futures this morning.. glad I cashed out.

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Bruce @twobitcoder

5 months ago

Cashed out my shares isas and moved back to cash isas. I'm not trusting my savings to markets rattled by tariffs and the changing moods of world leaders. Normally markets would recover after a dip but there's so much uncertainty that I'm not taking that risk.

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Bruce @twobitcoder

8 months ago

Off work at the moment and I'm already bored so I ended up watching an entire season of Knightmare today.

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Bruce @twobitcoder

8 months ago

Also, found out that most of the stuff I used to buy in the 80s and 90s (mostly comics and geeky stuff) is now worth something. If only I could bear to part with them!

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Bruce @twobitcoder

8 months ago

Slightly disappointed with Umbraco 14, it feels like a backwards step from Umbraco 13, everything feels 'less' to me. Perhaps over time the new backoffice will be as polished as Umbraco 13 but for now I'll be sticking with the older version.