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Twitter to Mastodon
It definitely feels like Twitter is slowly dying.
I have used Twitter for years, definitely more as a consumer than a publisher. During this time I have refined the accounts I follow to provide a clean and useful stream of information. This was aided by the use of Flamingo as my client of choice which provided a feed free of adverts and cruft.
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The world in photos
I recently came across two different websites that allow you to look at the world through photos in two completely different ways. The first site is called ChronoPhoto. It displays a photograph and you have to guess when it was taken - the closer to the correct year the more points you get. You get five photos to identify.
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A Tale of Three Experiences: Customer Service Up Close
Last week I experienced a range of customer service related to a new sofa we bought. It’s clear how much difference it can make.
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Fix default Android emulator not showing in Visual Studio 2022
I am working on a Maui application in my spare time and Visual Studio has this annoying habit of not showing the default Android emulator when I load the project. I could go through the hassle of creating a new emulator each time but that is painful and slow.
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Reducing Build Size
I have been developing a Maui application as a side project and on the whole it has been a fun process. It is still very buggy and there are some pain points however it seems to work. One aspect I haven’t liked is the size of the build artefacts - they are huge if you have multiple projects.
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Information - Organisation - Application
“Put everything you know out for free but in a random order”.
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Solving a Dell laptop freezing
I have a Dell XPS13 laptop and it developed this really annoying habit of randomly freezing for a few seconds and then carrying on as if nothing had happened. It quite often happened in the middle of a work call which made it pretty much unusable.
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Generational Mindsets
In a recent article/tweet the author commented on how all the photos taken by their child looked awful. However they realized this was down to a different generational mindset.
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Learnings from my jobs
I have had lots of jobs during my life and I think I can identify at least one thing I have learnt at each of them. I usually know it is time to move to a new role if I no longer enjoy it or I am no longer learning something new.
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