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Niall Young
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Software Engineer; Sceptical Scientist; Bitcoin Maximalist; Carnivore; Suspicious0bserver; Freedom Patriot. Protected Political Speech. goNDK #golang
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niallyoung 1 year ago
Given looming 4G/5G via Starlink - is there a smaller, more mobile base station coming? OR can anyone recommend the Netgear Nighthawk M6 Pro, or a good solution to stick up on a portable tripod?
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niallyoung 1 year ago
can you feel it? Calm. Quiet. It’s almost here… image
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niallyoung 1 year ago
It’s Monday morning 10:36am 24th Feb 2025. Sun is shining ☀️ skies are Blue The Future looks Great!
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niallyoung 1 year ago
Ever since that first Netscape Navigator 2.0 release, I’ve been a #JavaScript sceptic. I’ve long suspected my brain is simply incompatible with this level of ambiguity, which is saying something as I worked with (and loved!) dynamically typed languages and runtime meta-class design 🤷‍♂️ As a Backend Engineer I’d been avoiding it like the plague, but year after year it’s popularity only grew, eventually taking over FullStack then Apps, then Infra and now Platform!?! 😱 I kept trying it, year after year: hated it. Eventually did a fair bit of paid work in Node, Vue and React: still hated it. So …. 8 months ago I forced myself to switch to #TypeScript /JS full-time, to try and figure out just what my brain is having trouble with, why do I (and only I?) hit so many random toolchain and IDE issues, random corruptions, dependency cycles from hell, etc. ??? I’ve now spent 6-8 weeks trying to get a simple string.replace(//) to not just work locally and in all of my tests, but now that I’m deploying it to prod it also needs to work when invoked as a node22js Lambda!! 😂🤣😭 Gotta be async shenanigans (am I not already waiting for every Promise?) but OMG every time I fix one thing something else breaks, or cache corrupts, or IDE starts misbehaving… now I’ve migrated to deno and esbuild from tsc and have new issues on top of the old ones 🎉 I’m so glad I did this, for so many reasons both personal and professional, but Imma look into that WASM PoC next … I miss #Golang ! 🫂
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niallyoung 1 year ago
“The Albanese Labor government is rushing through 12,500 new citizenships just before the election. Their main target? Western Sydney. The very seats that could decide who wins. This is not normal. Councils usually run citizenship ceremonies…”
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niallyoung 1 year ago
Ok that’s it, I’m joining People First ffs 🤦‍♂️ #sophistry
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niallyoung 1 year ago
Great Speech! #AUS Prime Minister material right here!
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niallyoung 1 year ago
The Fifth Age of Man Approaches Any of you who survive the coming geomagnetic shenanigans, the sudden freeze, volcanoes and earthquakes, the lifting of the lands, the day the earth stands still, nova and shifting of the stars, the thawing and floods … cats and dogs … Got any choice Boat / Survival Pod plans to share Bro? 😁 #2030 #2035 #2040 🌊 🌊 👋 image