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Bill Dobie
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Determined optimist, entrepreneur, long lapsed programmer. Building web servers for email to digitise global trade. Londoner 🇬🇧 🏳️‍🌈 by way of 🇨🇦. Just musing here. https://the.fotoapp.co/wfdobie
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Bill Dobie @wfdobie.bsky.social · 12h
The magic ratio.
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Bill Dobie @wfdobie.bsky.social · 13h
We’ve been growing our business in Greece a lot lately (acquisition and organic). There’s so much I appreciate about the relationship based approach to business here and its long term nature. So many positive flows. Huge thanks to the British Ambassodor and his team in #Athens for hosting us. 🇬🇷 🇬🇧
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Bill Dobie @wfdobie.bsky.social · 18h
I kind of wish the power went out.
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Ben Werdmuller @werd.io · 1d
Something I’m seeing a lot of in news is the merging of product and technology: either CPOs who run technology or explicitly defined joint CTPO roles. These are two distinct (but adjacent) disciplines and there should be a productive tension between them. Hard to do if it’s one person. #npasummit
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 2d
Again: my perception of the Right at the moment - globally - is if a movement which simply declines to have obligations. Sign a contract, tear it up when payment is due. Sovereign power as the power to welch.
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Bill Dobie @wfdobie.bsky.social · 3d
I love your receipts.
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Let the Right Hon In @danhon.com · 3d
It's clear that there's a specific set of artifacts being held in France that are *required* to fix the time machine that will take us back to the prime timeline.

We can only hope they succeed before it's too late.
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Bill Dobie @wfdobie.bsky.social · 5d
Yes but there’s a tail so you know it’s AI.
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Bill Dobie @wfdobie.bsky.social · 7d
Please clap.
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Bill Dobie @wfdobie.bsky.social · 7d
Meanwhile Andrew no longer Prince of York because he lied about sending an email.
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Bill Dobie @wfdobie.bsky.social · 7d
It really was unsettling to watch Angela Lansbury play this role.
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Bill Dobie @wfdobie.bsky.social · 9d
The stupidest people.
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 9d
Elegantly simple explanation from Richard Feynman about how fire works: it’s stored sunshine. [kottke.org]
Richard Feynman: Fire Is Stored Sunshine
In 1983, the BBC aired a six-part series called Fun to Imagine with a simple premise: put physicist Richard Feynman in front of a camera and have him explain everyday things. In this clip from one of the episodes, Feynma
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Bill Dobie @wfdobie.bsky.social · 9d
There’s an energy joke in here somewhere.
a large body of water is coming down a dam wall
ALT: a large body of water is coming down a dam wall
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Bill Dobie @wfdobie.bsky.social · 9d
I get sucked into the big hotel chains just due to scale of travel but in Antwerp I always get a lovely respite from that by staying at the truly unique Hotel Julien. 🇧🇪
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Bill Dobie @wfdobie.bsky.social · 9d
Always scroll.
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Bill Dobie @wfdobie.bsky.social · 9d
@simonwillison.net Has set the standard here, it’s a pelican on a bike 😂
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Dave Winer @scripting.com · 9d
# Why did podcasting remain uncentralized?

My theory is that we had..

* An indisputable definition of audio. (MP3.)

* A simple format for programming. (RSS.)

* A popular mobile device for listening. (iPod.)

A million flowers bloomed. (Podcast clients.)

Impossible to siloize. (They tried.)
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 13d
Automne en Gaspésie
Claude Picher
1994
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What's Going on With Shipping (Sal Mercogliano) @mercoglianos.bsky.social · 13d
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Bill Dobie @wfdobie.bsky.social · 12d
War is peace.
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Bill Dobie @wfdobie.bsky.social · 12d
This is nuts…
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 13d
I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...
American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming
The Frog is owning the president.
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Bill Dobie @wfdobie.bsky.social · 13d
Soon I hope.
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Gareth L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 13d
People ask where to start with my #books, so here's an introduction. Scroll to see them all. Continues in replies. - 1/3
A photo of Gareth surrounded by book covers JITTERBUG: Jupiter and Saturn are gone, and a mysterious force has built a huge habitable sphere from their ashes. When criminals try to lose themselves on this new frontier, bounty hunters like Copernicus Brown and the crew of his sentient ship Jitterbug get paid to hunt them down. WHO WILL YOU SAVE? With settings ranging from the dead sands of Mars to the seedy backstreets of Amsterdam and Buenos Aires, these action-packed tales explore mind-bending ideas through the eyes of unforgettable and all-too-human characters. FUTURE'S EDGE.When archaeologist Ursula Morrow accidentally infects herself with an alien parasite, she fears she may have jeopardised her career. However, her concerns become irrelevant when Earth is destroyed, billions die, and suddenly no one needs archaeologists anymore… Two years later, she’s plucked from a refugee camp on a backwater world and tasked with retrieving the artefact that infected her, as it just might hold the key to humanity’s survival.
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