As a temporarily unattached Cleveland #Browns fan the only joy I get from their games is seeing DeShaun Watson get pummelled. He can’t leave soon enough.
Hello, I'm Stephen Rushe and I drink tea, love cats, and provide sarcasm-as-a-service. I’m also responsible for Cricsheet, a project to provide ball-by-ball data for cricket, and the Cricket Scorecard Accuracy Project, a year-long experiment to check the accuracy of cricket scorecards.
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Sad to see Takakeisho retire today, but glad that he’s looking after his health. A wrestler I’ve really enjoyed for years. #sumo
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As I've moved to my own domain it seems like a good time to do an #introduction post.
Hello, I'm Stephen, and I'm a software developer in Belfast, Northern Ireland. I spend (what some may call) a disturbing amount of time writing software (mostly in #Ruby). I adore #cats. I'm often found drinking tea, and muttering about the #cricket statistical data. I am possibly powered by sarcasm.
To summarise: Sarcastic developer. Responsible for cricsheet.org. Drinker of tea. Worshipper of #cats. he/him
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I wonder how long it will take FastMail to get back to me about their apparent union busting. Granted, it’s unlikely they can say anything to stop me moving once I find a new host I like.
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It gives me great pleasure to discover that there is a cricket umpire in Cyprus called Windy Miller! #cricket
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Losing I can live with, but that was an embarrassingly awful batting display by Ireland. Canada deserved their win. #cricket #T20WorldCup
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Success!
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Once more into the testing…
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I _think_ things are working. Let’s try another one.
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Please also ignore this further follow-up experiment.
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Pay no attention as I experiment with something.
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The honesty of “Blockchain Ireland” on their Use Cases page (https://www.blockchainireland.ie/blockchain-use-cases/) is something we could do with more of. 😇
It looks like that page is having “issues”. Good thing I took a screenshot for context.
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The honesty of “Blockchain Ireland” on their Use Cases page (https://www.blockchainireland.ie/blockchain-use-cases/) is something we could do with more of. 😇
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Vince Clarke – Songs of Silence https://www.discogs.com/release/28942369-Vince-Clarke-Songs-Of-Silence
By far my favourite listen of the year so far. I’m very jealous of you for having the vinyl.
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Ireland 17 for 3 chasing 111 to win a first Men’s Test match. I don’t need this level of stress from them, I already have Mayo football working full-time to raise and then dash my hopes.
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My expectations for 2024 did not include absolutely loving an ambient/drone album released by Vince Clarke (of Erasure/Depeche Mode/Yazoo fame). “Songs of Silence” is so good, and great to write code to.
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You know a pun is top quality when it invokes a simultaneous laugh and groan. 👏
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The Micropub spec is fascinating. I might build a server in Go to try it out. Are there any good micropub clients? #IndieWeb
I tend to lean towards Quill (https://quill.p3k.io/) as a client. If you’re planning to play with Micropub do make use of the excellent “Micropub Rocks!” site (https://micropub.rocks/). I found it a great help when working on my server.
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After deleting all of my posts from Twitter I’ve also updated my site to remove the associated syndication links. That site is now dead to me.
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Playing with SwiftUI over the last while has resulted in me looking at #WWDC2023 announcements and thinking things like “I must watch that video on Swift Data” later. It’s a slippery slope.
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Hours of debugging, many lines printed to the console, and 1 infinite loop finally leads me to the solution to the bug I was seeing. The end result? A single changed line and React is suddenly happy. Isn’t Javascript fun!
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I wrote a thing. A bit deeper than normal but hey ho, those the punches I guess. https://www.swm.cc/articles/losing-momentum
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I’ve made the mistake of mentioning to Michèle the idea of a Penguins of Madagascar and Judge Dredd crossover, and she now desperately wants to see “Penguins of MegaCity One”.
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I finally saw Charlize Theron wading through her golden pool, so that means we’re officially in the #Christmas period. I’m kind of relieved, I was getting worried that she was missing.
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Thanks to a kind email pointing me to Cricket Australia ball-by-ball commentary for the 2011 Women’s #Ashes Test I’ve finally been able to resolve the discrepancies in the data, meaning that later today I’ll finally be able to add the match to the site.
This is only the 10th Women’s Test match I’ve been able to source, but does mean I’ve managed to get 10 of the last 12 Tests. I’ll keep digging on the others. #cricket #data