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Ian
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Musician, IT maestro, and law nerd. Tech manager at a bit of the University of Edinburgh. Opinions are my own; boosts/favourites != endorsement. Occasionally GM7OMZ.

Obligitory hashtags: #Edinburgh #Scotland #UK #LiveMusic #Percussion #Law #HamRadio
Not the best place for an animal sanctuary. #catskill #cats
December 18, 2025 at 12:45 PM
I know there is a good reason for this but it just halted my sleep-deprived brain. #python
December 16, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Minimum viable product #christmas
December 12, 2025 at 10:50 PM
My hotel room overlooks a busy shipping lane, so of course I’m listening to #Portsmouth VTS and staring out the window. It’s nerd heaven. #shipping #marine
December 10, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Any suggestions for an #ssh client for #ios that doesn’t include this utter bollocks?

Whoever thought this was a good idea has never… done anything.
October 26, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Measure twice, cut once… only works if you can read the drawing correctly.
October 17, 2025 at 6:09 PM
End of an era! These are two of the first Unix commands I ever learned. #debian #debian13 #trixie #unix #retrocomputing
August 11, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Some lovely person has parked this thing in the quad outside our university offices. What is the message here? #edinburgh #nazis #israel
August 5, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Well I guess that’s the end of #wemo. I was just about to replace the relay in my smart plug but I guess I’ll not bother now. Any recommendations for an alternative?

#smarthome #smartplug #belkin
July 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
'Are girls not as good as boys at computing?' Here's how a 1984 booklet answered that question: girls were 13 times less likely to 'take up computers'. I wonder if things are better now?

For lovers of all things #vintage, I uploaded the full booklet to archive.org/details/what...

#women #equality
May 20, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Excellent wifi name, no notes. #wifi #ssid #edinburgh #funny
April 23, 2025 at 7:29 AM
My Dad loves wordplay, and this year my birthday coincides with #Passover, so he sent me this lovely message which he’s clearly been working on for months. #jewdiverse #Pesach
April 14, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Clearing out the store cupboard at work and found these gems! #calculator #addingmachine #magiclantern #retrotech
April 8, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Let’s goooooooo! #livemusic #edinburgh
March 1, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Why do standby lights have to be so bright? Every hotel room I stay in ends up looking like this.
February 19, 2025 at 8:10 AM
I mean… it’s probably still a spool of copper wire.
January 31, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I haven’t decided exactly what this will do, but I probably shouldn’t take it through airport security. #electronics #project #NotABomb
January 2, 2025 at 7:09 PM
My absolute favourite place to make music. #brewhemia #edinburgh #livemusic
December 21, 2024 at 11:30 PM
Red sky at dawn, everything’s ok. #edinburgh #photography
December 12, 2024 at 1:11 PM
Looked up how to do multiple primary keys in #Django and found that the issue was first opened 19 years ago, and was accepted for check-in yesterday! code.djangoproject.com/ticket/373 #webdev #python
November 28, 2024 at 10:36 AM
#Starling are stopping interest on current accounts from Feb. I guess challenger banks are getting squeezed now that they’re not really challenging anything. #finance #banking
November 18, 2024 at 5:40 PM