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Martin Costello 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🪿

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Software Developer. Nerd. Cynic. Has lovely, soft, floppy ears. Nerdy on main, 24/7. Rainbow person. I help .NET o11y 🔭 at 📈ana. He/him/his. HONK 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺💻

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Martin Costello 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🪿 @martincostello.com · Nov 29

Stupid but I love it 🪿🏳️‍🌈 honk.gay

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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 23h

An image of three cool tories under the header "Meet the Young Tories deaming of a bright blue future" but I've replaced their portraits with images of Eddie, Spudgun and Dave Hedgehog from Bottom

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Martin Costello 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🪿 @martincostello.com · 1d

We’re watching some streamers play a FMV set in ancient China and it’s wild. Every other choice they get poisoned by soup, and they just got murdered by a horse stepping on their face 🤣

Martin Costello 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🪿 @martincostello.com · 1d

Boo, the really nice restaurant in town is closing down forever in less than two weeks. It’s too expensive for a last minute trip before it shuts though.

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.NET Foundation @dotnetfoundation.org · 1d

Network calls giving you the cold shoulder? The latest .NET Foundation spotlight is on Polly! This library is your digital bouncer, handling flaky APIs with Retries, Circuit Breakers, & more. Stop coding headaches, start coding resilience.

hubs.ly/Q03MG68K0 #dotnet #OSS

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Martin Costello 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🪿 @martincostello.com · 1d

I’d avoided just YOLOing the PR in case I got dragged into a culture war about Strong Naming 🤣

Martin Costello 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🪿 @martincostello.com · 3d

Sometimes I feel like I just need one of those things babies have which is just a giant plastic grid of light-up buttons to mash

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Martin Costello 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🪿 @martincostello.com · 3d

I found out 20 mins into the first episode. Marketing budget clearly doesn’t reach here.

Martin Costello 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🪿 @martincostello.com · 3d

2.97GB

Martin Costello 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🪿 @martincostello.com · 5d

How else would we know how many seconds to wait until joining the Hangout/Meet/Zoom?

Martin Costello 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🪿 @martincostello.com · 5d

Très bien

Martin Costello 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🪿 @martincostello.com · 5d

I do find I shout “fuck off” at it a lot more with suggested edits than I do Big VS

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Martin Costello 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🪿 @martincostello.com · 6d

Hope you bought lube.

Martin Costello 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🪿 @martincostello.com · 6d

😔 www.bbc.com/news/article...

Keeping Up Appearances star Patricia Routledge dies at 96

She also starred in Alan Bennett's TV monologues and played BBC One's crime-busting Hetty Wainthropp.

www.bbc.com

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Martin Costello 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🪿 @martincostello.com · 6d

Good for Super

Martin Costello 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🪿 @martincostello.com · 7d

Great start to Friday - my laptop is stuck in a boot loop 🙃

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Martin Costello 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🪿 @martincostello.com · 7d

Rejected. Damn. 🥲

Martin Costello 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🪿 @martincostello.com · Aug 24

Talk submitted for this year’s .NET Conf. Advantage of buckling down to write the proposal on a bank holiday Sunday is I’m not going to get constantly distracted by Slack and GitHub notifications 😅