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Mark

@mswalker.im

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Retro programmer. Bug archaeologist. Biscuit muncher (pro). SAP HANA performance guy. No-AI here - only real stupidity. Nothing I say concerns my day job or employer. Preemptive explicit refusal for anything I post to be used to train AI models 20241230

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Mark @mswalker.im · 1d

So there I was, all proud of myself for coming to Heidelberg (again) and going to Lamy (again) and NOT buying another fountain pen (not again, believe me)

Then I wandered round some back streets and came across a fountain pen ink store

And one thing led to another and

Two bottles of fountain pen ink. Tariff teal from Diamine and Grey Fox from Octopus fluids, a German ink maker

Mark @mswalker.im · 2d

If I get a really good notebook and pen I daren’t write in it. Out of respect for the notebook

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Mark @mswalker.im · 3d

Whatever you can imagine

Mark @mswalker.im · 4d

Happy birthday mum. Just wish you were here so I could celebrate it with you

Mark @mswalker.im · 4d

sqlite-zstd

That’s my Sunday accounted-for

Mark @mswalker.im · 4d

The original recipe was better though 😂

Mark @mswalker.im · 4d

How cruel! I have to choose between Doctor Who and Red Dwarf

Should be illegal!

Mark @mswalker.im · 6d

What sorcery is this?

Mark @mswalker.im · 6d

Don’t see them come up very often. Especially in France!

Mark @mswalker.im · 9d

totally, utterly. Lost

Welcome to the club

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Acid Rain @bearysweet.bsky.social · 10d

Your mission, Agent 'Repeat After Me,' should you choose to accept it, is to filch that bag of peanuts momma brought back this morning..

🦜😙🥰

#parrot #tricks #adorable

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Mark @mswalker.im · 11d

Saw this for sale today. An Apple II for 400€. Can’t figure if I have to buy it, if I must buy it, if I should buy it or if I want to buy it

Help!

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Mark @mswalker.im · 13d

Because we can take pictures of things other than cats? Since when?

Mark @mswalker.im · 13d

No, I don’t have three separate orders from AliExpress arriving today for a total value of 30€, why do you ask?

(*help!*)

Mark @mswalker.im · 13d

I just realized what we need at work. We need a Chief O'Brian. Or a Geordie.

I'll not ask for a Data, that's maybe overkill.

Mark @mswalker.im · 13d

When it’s turned on I would imagine

Mark @mswalker.im · 13d

I don’t live in the UK any more so tell me if I’m out of line, but I do listen to British radio every morning and one thing that really gets me riled is that the news always starts with “Donald Trump…” or “The president of the United States…”

What happened to U.K. news?

Does this bother just me?

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Mark @mswalker.im · 13d

I also got stuck at half-drunk. Cappuccinos came after far too long of a pause 😂

Mark @mswalker.im · 14d

i drove past a flat on tuesday with a decorated (twinklylights'n'all - that's how i noticed) christmas tree in the window

Mark @mswalker.im · 15d

Now I might not be the world's most observant person, but if my home was really burgled every minute and a quarter, I think I'd end up noticing...

Mark @mswalker.im · 15d

Then one post will sneak through and remind me that the outside world exists

Mark @mswalker.im · 15d

In a somewhat vain attempt to remain sane, I block any account (immediately) talking politics or asking me for money (because I don’t have any), and when politics becomes so talked-about that keywords are everywhere I mute them

My timeline is just so pleasant

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Mark @mswalker.im · 16d

I don’t know what I did, but my timeline is now all food and recipes

And that is a-ok by me

Mark @mswalker.im · 17d

Why did nobody tell me there was a season 3 of Foundation?

In other news, i *was* bored

Mark @mswalker.im · 19d

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