Hello, I’m Barry (he/him), a software engineer and technology leader with experience building teams, websites and apps. I live in a village in Hertfordshire, UK, with my wife and two sons.
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Weeknotes
Recently
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OpenAI buys Windsurf for $3B. Not bad for “just” a VSCode fork. As an early Windsurf paying customer, I’m curious but wary of what comes next.
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My favourite band, Gene, are reuniting for their first gig in 21 years 🎉 I was at their last one in… 2004. See you in Hammersmith 🤩
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I’ve released a new minor version of #micropublish that supports the new2022 IndieAuth spec change to support Server Metadata for endpoint discovery as an alternative to the existing (legacy) headers/body methods.
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Apple Store, Regent Street, London on the Apple iPhone 16 and Watch 10 launch day.
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I was just adding a gig I’m going to on Last.fm when I saw my “member since” date: 16 August 2004 😯. That’s 20 years of scrobbling (since its Audioscrobbler days). Newer than my Gmail account but older than Twitter.
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Frost boys on our way to The Emirates
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The Manics and Suede at a sunny Alexandra Palace on Thursday evening
