Jim Menard

Jim Menard

@jimmenard.com

Gray-haired coder. Musician. Husband and father. Liberal. That about sums it up.

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This is apparently a slate outside the Inversnecky Cafe, Aberdeen, Scotland. (Disclosure: 'Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick' is one of my all-time favourite songs, largely because of Norman Watt Roy's incredible bassline.)

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You’re surrounded by boozers, misfits and losers And down seven goals at the half Your ammo is spent and you can’t find Roy Kent You’re fucked so you might as well laugh

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

TED LASSO and SLOW HORSES are both on Apple TV, and unless my entire childhood lied to me, that can only mean one thing. We're due for a very special crossover episode. Can't wait.

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Glinster is an MPE MIDI controller and instrument that learns your hand. On iPad and iPhone, place your hand anywhere and the notes appear under your fingers. Glinster measures the shape of your hand and follows as you play. Beta testers welcome before release: uwyn.com/glinster/ #MPE #MIDI #iPad

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David Mitchell will return as James Bond in Dr No, Honestly, That’s Ridiculous - You Can’t Just Call Yourself Doctor, That’s Not Medicine And It’s Certainly No Way To Run A Secret Island.

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syzygy | noun | the nearly straight-line configuration of three celestial bodies (such as the sun, moon, and earth during a solar or lunar eclipse) in a gravitational system

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Replying to @skamille.themanagerswrath.com

When I realized that it was telling me "but you are underestimating the overhead of building this you shouldn't do it" the sheer fury. Bitch who put that in your training data me and people like me that's who

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I am once again begging Hollywood to stop using the Greek alphabet for an Ancient World movie, if they can't afford to even throw a couple of quid at anyone with an inkling of the language. Unless they really think audiences are dying to see THS THDPSSSSPS

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Replying to @catvalente.bsky.social

The Icelandic word for computer gets translated as "number prophetess" but it's more properly rendered "number völva". A völva is a female-only type of seer named after the distaffs they carried with them as their magic wands. Odin's time as a völva is part of how we know Odin was genderfluid.

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KID: hey mister can i pet your dog? ME: sure kid KID: what kind is he? ME: that there's a pure beef vienna son careful don't get mustard on your shirt

A music store that carries as many available keyboards/synths as possible. It's tough to find a place where you can try everything that's available. You need to be able to not only hear the sounds but feel how the keyboard responds and what real-time controls it has.

Take a break from the discourse and quote this with a business you would want to start if you could afford to lose money on it

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The Artemis II crew just gave us an 80's sitcom intro and it's absolutely hilarious! Freeze frames, cheesy grins, theme song energy. These are the four humans who are about to around the Moon. NASA said fun and we are here for it!

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As you know, if you read my posts, I go on A LOT about music. Mostly my own. But I also encourage you - whatever you think about your own musical knowledge and ability - to pick up an instrument sometime and learn to play it. It doesn't matter how bad you are, even if you can only play one tune.

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If coding is your favorite part of software engineering, keep coding. AI doesn't stop you. But if coding was the only part you were good at, that's a different conversation. The job was always bigger than the code. #bransoncognac blog.bryanl.dev/posts/ai-sen...

blog.bryanl.devAI Didn't Break the Senior Engineer Pipeline. It Showed That One Never Existed.Most organizations never had a model for developing engineers. They had an environment that produced growth by accident. AI just made the luck run out.

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Let's try this again 👋 Hi Bluesky - I'm Massachusetts' Attorney General. You might know me from suing President Trump nearly 50 times, beating Uber and Lyft in court, or being the first woman of color elected to statewide office in MA. I officially left X today - help me find my MA people?

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