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Justin Bird 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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The digital projection of my mental self. Organises @retrodata.live and @dataweekender.com runs a @codeclub.bsky.social, director of @swiftanalytics.uk. swfta.uk/justin

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Justin Bird 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @justinjbird.com · Jul 15

@andycutler.bsky.social and I are launching #RetroData 🎉

We wanted to run an event focused on practical guidance, real world experience and recommended practices.

🗣️ Want to speak? Call for speakers is here:
sessionize.com/retro-data-a...

📅 Want to attend? Join our meetup:
meetup.com/retro-data/

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Justin Bird 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @justinjbird.com · 7h

Pep roulette messes with my brain. Who has two thumbs and subbed out Doku this week. #SQLFPL

Justin Bird 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @justinjbird.com · 1d

Someone’s gonna ask you for it soon, just think

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Justin Bird 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @justinjbird.com · 1d

I run an unraid server, use it as a time Machine, plex and content for plex, audible replacement. I haven’t used the others so don’t know what opinion to give you lol. I like it 🤷🏻‍♂️

Justin Bird 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @justinjbird.com · 1d

You skipped chatting shit about football for THIS?!?!

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Davis Bickford @davis.social · 2d

10/10 take. No notes.

divergentcoachkelly on Threads * 2h
ADHD is knowing exactly what you need to do then watching yourself not do it like you're a scientist observing a very dumb experiment

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Justin Bird 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @justinjbird.com · 3d

Damn that's cold...the "what's new in Synapse Analytics" link directs to Microsoft Fabric 😆

The next steps section of the FAQ page of Synapse Analytics has a link that says "What's New in Azure Synapse Analytics"

The page that returned is "What's new in Microsoft Fabric?"

Justin Bird 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @justinjbird.com · 6d

this is cool!

Justin Bird 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @justinjbird.com · 11d

Ah my last experience of that was talk about your super power

a little girl is making a funny face and saying shut up shut up shut uuuuuuuuuppppp

Alt: a little girl is making a funny face and saying shut up shut up shut uuuuuuuuuppppp

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Tim Kimber @timkimber.bsky.social · 12d

Reminds me of this "NYC cabbie" explaining counting in French to a passenger

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rmB...

Counting to 100 in French with a NYC Cabbie

YouTube video by MattColbo

www.youtube.com

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Mark S @fff182.bsky.social · 13d

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Justin Bird 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @justinjbird.com · 18d

I mean it could try, but it does have some performance issues…

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Justin Bird 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @justinjbird.com · 19d

One of the features Apple has added to the OS lately which I'm super appreciative of is the ability to totally override icon styles...

A screenshot showing the horribly garish new icons for Outlook and Teams, but both are blue with simple shading.

Justin Bird 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @justinjbird.com · 19d

But we are in touch with your emotions in a way we've never been in touch before. So there's that.

Justin Bird 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @justinjbird.com · 21d

The local has been rebranded as a smokehouse brand that does "NFL Sundays". In practical terms that means that at 18:00 on a Sunday, if there is an NFL game on, the channel gets changed.

I can't help feeling for the person who has to switch on the NFL partway through LFC v MUFC today 🙈

Justin Bird 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @justinjbird.com · 21d

Good read...
tonsky.me/blog/syntax-...

I am sorry, but everyone is getting syntax highlighting wrong

Applying human ergonomics and design principles to syntax highlighting

tonsky.me

Justin Bird 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @justinjbird.com · 22d

A-ha this week’s #SongExploder is another great episode #TakeOnMe went on some journey!

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Kerry Kole @merrykerry.bsky.social · 23d

Short rambling.
kerrykolosko.com/make-your-bl...

Make your blogs stand-out from the crowd - EXPLORATIONS IN DATA STORYTELLING WITH POWER BI

When I first began blogging, I was stricken with a deep anxiety — writing was never my strong suit, and neither did I enjoy drawing attention to myself. Even now I still quietly post content, leaving ...

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Justin Bird 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @justinjbird.com · 25d

a close up of a man with a beard says hello there

Alt: obi wan says hello there

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Justin Bird 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @justinjbird.com · Oct 10

The absolute worst isn't it

Justin Bird 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @justinjbird.com · Oct 9

Someone at @walesonline.bsky.social be like...

Sir! We keep getting complaints about how unusable our site is, how can we reduce the complaints?

Make them pay - no users, no complaints, tidy.

Tkt Smart GIF

Alt: smart gif

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Justin Bird 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @justinjbird.com · Oct 9

The enshittification of the interweb

Shitty Wales Online....one of the shittiest experiences on the internet already...now has a cookie pop up that requires you to consent to das and data sharing, or pay £2.99 a month for your privacy. So I'll go read somewhere else kthanxbye

Justin Bird 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @justinjbird.com · Oct 8

I lost a friend recently. He has requested we all wear Welsh rugby tops to his funeral.

My mostly football-loving friend group is losing it's mind at having to acquire Welsh Rugby tops. What a guy 😆

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Justin Bird 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @justinjbird.com · Oct 7

This site is remarkable 😆
replacement.ai

Replacement.AI

Humans are no longer necessary. So we’re getting rid of them.

replacement.ai

Justin Bird 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @justinjbird.com · Oct 7

First time I’ve not been able to finish a #DarknetDiaries episode. Bit of a mess, just me?