I am apparently at the age where Willie Nelson is an excellent accompaniment to writing code. It makes a change from my usual choice of electronic. #Music #CountryMusic
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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Recent entries
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Every time Desmond Hart is mentioned in #DuneProphecy I can’t help but think of him as “Dessie Hart” and wonder how his county team is doing without him at corner forward.
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I finally did something with @cricsheet that I’ve been thinking about for a while. #cricket
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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.
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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