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Joseph Edmonds
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Professionally: PHP, Linux backend developer and dev ops

Leisurely: passionate about paragliding. Love the outdoors, mountain biking, hiking

Personally: proud dad, vegan, alcohol free
Reposted by Joseph Edmonds
🚨NEW: After last year’s general election, Nigel Farage promised that “‘bad apples’ that have crept in will be gone” from Reform UK.

But our team has exposed yet another so-called “bad apple” who has worked for the party since the election. 👇

hopenothate.org.uk/2025/10/01/e...
Exposed: Reform UK national director planned ‘physical resistance group’ for ‘gorillas by night tactics’ – HOPE not hate
Reform UK national director Adam Bounds tried to recruit members to a “physical resistance group” for “gorillas by night tactics” and promoted far-right and conspiracy...
hopenothate.org.uk
October 1, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Claude code

Holy shit. I feel like a super hero
March 13, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Modern websites are so hostile.

Full screen modals popping up just as you start to interact with the page, multiple times.

Like jump scares in a crappy horror movie. My fight or flight response is triggered as I rapidly close them.

Who thought this was a good idea?

#webdev #ux #userhostile
February 28, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Reposted by Joseph Edmonds
One of the court philosophers saw Diogenes preparing lentils for his dinner.

Court Philosopher: If you had learned to flatter the king you wouldn’t have to live on such simple food as lentils.

Diogenes: Well, if you had learned to live on these lentils you wouldn’t have to flatter the king.
February 20, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Turns out I like opera

Magic flute at Leeds grand

Sung in English

#operanorth
February 12, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Hey #usa how does it feel to know the world thinks you're about to embark on full blown ethnic cleansing?

youtu.be/h242eDB84zY?...
February 12, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Fatigued with the USA centric world view. I'm not from America, I don't admire America.

I do fear American idiocratic, fundamentalist, substance abuse driven, sociopathic politics.

Where can I look to find some optimism for the future of our little blue/green world?

#usa #fatigue #worldview
January 17, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Admiration for this organisation is high
🚨 Andrew McIntyre, sentenced today to 7.5 years, was a key instigator of last year’s racist riots.

Here’s how HOPE not hate identified him and helped bring him to justice. 🧵

hopenothate.org.uk/2025/01/06/t...
January 6, 2025 at 9:10 PM
lol
macOS or OS X #unix user will understand this one ...
January 6, 2025 at 4:59 PM
New years day is now always going to be the day my mum died. 😞
January 1, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Reposted by Joseph Edmonds
Israel has destroyed the last remaining hospital in northern Gaza.

We have witnessed the total decimation of Palestinian healthcare, met with silence from political leaders who refuse to acknowledge the horrors they have enabled.

This is the dehumanising reality of genocide.
December 27, 2024 at 7:46 PM
Amen
Good programming practices comes from experience, and experience comes from bad programming practices 😏
December 25, 2024 at 8:38 AM
Asda selling bags of 8p sprouts. I am mostly eating sprouts. Sprouts are awesome.

Last night: steamed for 15 minutes with 2 garlic cloves. Then into a bowl, good dose of olive oil then curry powder then gram flour whilst shaking it all up. 10 mins in air fryer.

Oh yeah 🌶️😋
December 24, 2024 at 8:05 AM
Absolutely. Programming is changing. It's becoming less laborious to create boiler plate code. Finding quick answers is a lot faster. Productivity will go up and expectations will rise to match. Human brains are still required
Every “Programming is dead” take I’ve seen so far is coming from people who have no clue about programming.
December 22, 2024 at 11:13 PM
Worth watching

youtu.be/YRFYaoCBHtc

Secular left wing society needs to stand up against fascism no matter on race or religion.

Humanity needs to grow up and face down it's demons
Left wing must oppose conservative Islam (Disarming far right)
YouTube video by The Bains Agenda
youtu.be
December 22, 2024 at 10:40 AM
I'm a white British male heterosexual. I was always told I was supposed to really like football. I really couldn't care less about it.
December 22, 2024 at 12:16 AM
One of the nice things about being a patient gamer, (i.e only buying games after they've been out a while, all the major bugs are patched and the price is more palatable), is that the internet is full of detailed walk throughs and guides. I try not to use them but sometimes a little help is 👌
December 19, 2024 at 9:28 PM
Ah good old planned obsolescence - of humans! Really what I see is not so much heartless as data driven, profit obsessed and blinkered middle management types who are forgetting that we're just a bunch of monkeys on a tiny rock in a huge universe. We need to look out for each other!
This article highlights why more “crazy motherfuckers”are likely going to kill more extremely wealthy, “heartless, motherfuckers.”

Society has reached the tipping point on inequities. Especially those leaving the masses to suffer and die.

www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/g...
Goldman Sachs asks in biotech research report: 'Is curing patients a sustainable business model?'
Goldman Sachs warns sales from the most successful disease treatments are difficult to maintain.
www.cnbc.com
December 18, 2024 at 4:59 PM
Watching real users find all the edge cases in your carefully crafted typescript is both painful and educational. It's not them that's messed up, it's you. Just because you never imagined anyone would do that... #ux #webdev
December 18, 2024 at 4:02 PM
Reposted by Joseph Edmonds
"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all."

Arthur C. Clarke
December 18, 2024 at 4:19 AM
This year I was in an earth quake for the first time.. Quite a strong one in Colombia, but apparently it's pretty common there, no big deal. I flew my first 100km paragliding flight, then another later in the year.

#2024wrapup
December 18, 2024 at 6:47 AM