Liam Blizard
@blizard.io
.NET developer living on the Isle of Arran 🏴 with my wife, daughter & dog. Likes being in the mountains, under or on the ocean, or in the stands at Sheffield United.
Codes in C#, F# and Swift
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Liam Blizard
@blizard.io
· Nov 4
If you're searching for #fsharp content on BlueSky, there's a starter pack to get you going
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Was working in a bar and I had to tell Samantha Morton her Coutts card had been rejected.
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
December 29, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Was working in a bar and I had to tell Samantha Morton her Coutts card had been rejected.
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This is what the entire internet used to be. Just page after page of maniacs putting maximum effort into something totally inexplicable simply because they wanted to. This is what they took from you.
floor796.com
floor796.com
Floor796
A huge animation scene with many references to memes, games, films, series, anime, music groups
floor796.com
December 29, 2025 at 8:29 PM
This is what the entire internet used to be. Just page after page of maniacs putting maximum effort into something totally inexplicable simply because they wanted to. This is what they took from you.
floor796.com
floor796.com
Tangential opinion. Where has nobody made a car seat that is actually easy to get in the car, without you banging your shins, head on the car. I have spent £50 on a car seat, I have spent £300 on a car seat. Equal number of shouty cunts and fucks were said while installing each.
Buying a car seat, 97% say it's bad & it will kill your baby. 3% say it's amazing, just ignore the negative reviews. These reviews are written by people who make a buck selling car seats and have paid a lot for review visibility. That's what's happening climate change.
December 27, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Tangential opinion. Where has nobody made a car seat that is actually easy to get in the car, without you banging your shins, head on the car. I have spent £50 on a car seat, I have spent £300 on a car seat. Equal number of shouty cunts and fucks were said while installing each.
Killing a Victorian child by showing them the score on day 2 of an Ashes test
December 27, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Killing a Victorian child by showing them the score on day 2 of an Ashes test
I would get Ancillary Justice picked up again.
OK, less contentious post:
You've been placed in charge of a movie studio, and have an unlimited budget to adapt any work of your choosing that has never been made into a live-action TV series or film. What are you picking?
For me: PC Hodgell's Kencyrath Cycle and there's no close second
You've been placed in charge of a movie studio, and have an unlimited budget to adapt any work of your choosing that has never been made into a live-action TV series or film. What are you picking?
For me: PC Hodgell's Kencyrath Cycle and there's no close second
December 25, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I would get Ancillary Justice picked up again.
Find someone that looks at you like my dog looks at pubs in my mums village.
December 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Find someone that looks at you like my dog looks at pubs in my mums village.
7:39 am and the four year old is still sleeping. It's a Christmas miracle
December 25, 2025 at 7:39 AM
7:39 am and the four year old is still sleeping. It's a Christmas miracle
They've only gone and merged it while I was away. No comments either. Not even a LGTM. Reduced our test coverage (which wasn't great to start with) by 7%. Absolute clowns.
They've added 20 more files today, one of them with 3000 lines in it.
Genuine response I got , when I asked why there was no tests.
"We don't need to write tests, as this is Java code converted to C#, and we know the Java code works, as it's been working for 17 years"
Genuine response I got , when I asked why there was no tests.
"We don't need to write tests, as this is Java code converted to C#, and we know the Java code works, as it's been working for 17 years"
Me: it's important to respect your reviewers time and submit small PR's
The offshore team: here's 107 files changed and no tests
The offshore team: here's 107 files changed and no tests
December 23, 2025 at 10:30 AM
They've only gone and merged it while I was away. No comments either. Not even a LGTM. Reduced our test coverage (which wasn't great to start with) by 7%. Absolute clowns.
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If you’re looking for some holiday reading, my new book — Clearing the Air — is on offer at £1.99 on Kindle for the next 24 hours.
Hope you enjoy!
www.amazon.co.uk/Clearing-Air...
Hope you enjoy!
www.amazon.co.uk/Clearing-Air...
December 22, 2025 at 6:22 AM
If you’re looking for some holiday reading, my new book — Clearing the Air — is on offer at £1.99 on Kindle for the next 24 hours.
Hope you enjoy!
www.amazon.co.uk/Clearing-Air...
Hope you enjoy!
www.amazon.co.uk/Clearing-Air...
Love this still
The hint of a smile cracking across Joshua's utterly unperturbed face, contrasted with the horror on Paul's as he realises he's about to get smacked into the 25th century.
The hint of a smile cracking across Joshua's utterly unperturbed face, contrasted with the horror on Paul's as he realises he's about to get smacked into the 25th century.
December 20, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Love this still
The hint of a smile cracking across Joshua's utterly unperturbed face, contrasted with the horror on Paul's as he realises he's about to get smacked into the 25th century.
The hint of a smile cracking across Joshua's utterly unperturbed face, contrasted with the horror on Paul's as he realises he's about to get smacked into the 25th century.
Mixed feelings about this. On the one hand think I think I £100 is too much already and I'd prefer to be able to set a custom amount, on the other, I hope banks do offer that option and set a sensible default, not just lifting the limits entirely.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
£100 contactless card limit to be lifted from March
Card providers can decide whether to offer unlimited payments on contactless cards.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 19, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Mixed feelings about this. On the one hand think I think I £100 is too much already and I'd prefer to be able to set a custom amount, on the other, I hope banks do offer that option and set a sensible default, not just lifting the limits entirely.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
They've added 20 more files today, one of them with 3000 lines in it.
Genuine response I got , when I asked why there was no tests.
"We don't need to write tests, as this is Java code converted to C#, and we know the Java code works, as it's been working for 17 years"
Genuine response I got , when I asked why there was no tests.
"We don't need to write tests, as this is Java code converted to C#, and we know the Java code works, as it's been working for 17 years"
Me: it's important to respect your reviewers time and submit small PR's
The offshore team: here's 107 files changed and no tests
The offshore team: here's 107 files changed and no tests
December 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
They've added 20 more files today, one of them with 3000 lines in it.
Genuine response I got , when I asked why there was no tests.
"We don't need to write tests, as this is Java code converted to C#, and we know the Java code works, as it's been working for 17 years"
Genuine response I got , when I asked why there was no tests.
"We don't need to write tests, as this is Java code converted to C#, and we know the Java code works, as it's been working for 17 years"
🚨 Personal News Klaxon 🚨
After 18 years as a contract software engineer, I've decided to to go perm.
I'll be joining TradeKart as Lead Engineer in January.
Excitingly, I'll get to develop in #fsharp all day long! We'll be hiring throughout the year too.
After 18 years as a contract software engineer, I've decided to to go perm.
I'll be joining TradeKart as Lead Engineer in January.
Excitingly, I'll get to develop in #fsharp all day long! We'll be hiring throughout the year too.
December 18, 2025 at 4:03 PM
🚨 Personal News Klaxon 🚨
After 18 years as a contract software engineer, I've decided to to go perm.
I'll be joining TradeKart as Lead Engineer in January.
Excitingly, I'll get to develop in #fsharp all day long! We'll be hiring throughout the year too.
After 18 years as a contract software engineer, I've decided to to go perm.
I'll be joining TradeKart as Lead Engineer in January.
Excitingly, I'll get to develop in #fsharp all day long! We'll be hiring throughout the year too.
Every day this guy just plumbs new depths of disrespect
Per @garretthaake.bsky.social, the extremely tacky "presidential wall of fame" that lines the colonnade to the West Wing now has obviously-Trump-penned plaques insulting or praising the presidents.
December 17, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Every day this guy just plumbs new depths of disrespect
Me: it's important to respect your reviewers time and submit small PR's
The offshore team: here's 107 files changed and no tests
The offshore team: here's 107 files changed and no tests
December 17, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Me: it's important to respect your reviewers time and submit small PR's
The offshore team: here's 107 files changed and no tests
The offshore team: here's 107 files changed and no tests
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Once you see it, it's hard to miss it. Statements condemning violent attacks targeting Jews that don't actually mention "Jews" or "antisemitism".
This is a choice — and it's central to the crisis.
My newsletter, out now.
This is a choice — and it's central to the crisis.
My newsletter, out now.
I am not your canary in the coal mine
The Bondi shooting deliberately targeted Jews. It's important to say so
www.linestotake.com
December 16, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Once you see it, it's hard to miss it. Statements condemning violent attacks targeting Jews that don't actually mention "Jews" or "antisemitism".
This is a choice — and it's central to the crisis.
My newsletter, out now.
This is a choice — and it's central to the crisis.
My newsletter, out now.
The least well known of these films, The Sure Thing, is a great teen comedy, and probably second after Grosse Pointe Blank on my list of favourite John Cusack films.
This has to be one of the greatest runs any director has ever experienced.
December 15, 2025 at 11:28 AM
The least well known of these films, The Sure Thing, is a great teen comedy, and probably second after Grosse Pointe Blank on my list of favourite John Cusack films.
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Got a new clackety clack low profile mechanical Keyboard for travelling with (Keychron K3 Max) and I think I prefer it to my 'proper' mechanical keyboard at home
December 15, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Got a new clackety clack low profile mechanical Keyboard for travelling with (Keychron K3 Max) and I think I prefer it to my 'proper' mechanical keyboard at home
What an incredible man
Hero suffers two gunshot wounds in Bondi beach shooting | 7NEWS
YouTube video by 7NEWS Australia
youtu.be
December 14, 2025 at 1:21 PM
What an incredible man
Listing to Dolly Alderton talking about Friends on the sentimental Garbage podcast, I thought this pair were a caricature of British upper middle class twits when I was growing up, yet to my Southern privately educated wife, they're basically a documentary.
December 13, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Listing to Dolly Alderton talking about Friends on the sentimental Garbage podcast, I thought this pair were a caricature of British upper middle class twits when I was growing up, yet to my Southern privately educated wife, they're basically a documentary.
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“She participated in a TikTok "Devil trend" on Saturday, Dec. 6, in which she asked ChatGPT to reveal her biggest flaws and insecurities.
On Sunday, Dec. 7, Tracy was found dead by local authorities in her apartment.”
On Sunday, Dec. 7, Tracy was found dead by local authorities in her apartment.”
The 19-year-old sophomore was found dead in her off-campus apartment.
Cause of death revealed in shocking death of Rice soccer player
The 19-year-old sophomore was found dead in her off-campus apartment.
bit.ly
December 12, 2025 at 10:06 AM
“She participated in a TikTok "Devil trend" on Saturday, Dec. 6, in which she asked ChatGPT to reveal her biggest flaws and insecurities.
On Sunday, Dec. 7, Tracy was found dead by local authorities in her apartment.”
On Sunday, Dec. 7, Tracy was found dead by local authorities in her apartment.”