thattommyhall
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thattommyhall
@thattommyhall.com
Like mountains, cycling and math(s)
Doing a mix of Dev and Ops since before we concatenated the strings
Annoyingly pre-post-economic
Is anyone else that's lucky enough to have a short term memory that kinda works getting annoyed when even shorts on YouTube have like a preview at the beginning of them so you hear like 20% of the video twice?
January 21, 2026 at 10:42 PM
Reminder that enshitiffication does not just mean you don't like something
January 21, 2026 at 1:20 PM
We've all done it, left the hotel key at the bar and happened to have a 200 quid cracking device on us to save going back
January 20, 2026 at 1:56 PM
It's ya boy up a mountain
January 17, 2026 at 6:11 PM
It's actually impossible to buy a ticket that will definitely work between these 2 locations in the UK, you have to choose being locked to an operator (perhaps they are the only choice anyway?) or going via a particular 3rd city. So now I have to research how the rail infrastructure is organised
January 17, 2026 at 5:16 PM
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Improbable but increasingly unavoidable conclusion that Christopher “moot” Poole who created 4chan at age 15 is one of the most influential figures of the 21st century.
January 17, 2026 at 3:28 PM
Well she would say that wouldn't she
January 13, 2026 at 12:58 PM
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This is the route. The piece reckons most people take 12 - 16 days to cover it
January 11, 2026 at 5:53 PM
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Thurl Ravenscroft was also the voice of the parrot in the Enchanted Tiki Room, and so many other characters. Plus such a great name!

youtu.be/rUl8dyaUIqo?...
Many Voices of Thurl Ravenscroft (Animated Tribute - Tony the Tiger - Disneyland)
YouTube video by Saturday Morning Rewind
youtu.be
January 11, 2026 at 3:10 PM
"stop yawning daddy, you're not a creature"
How's your day going?
January 11, 2026 at 2:25 PM
"If a vulnerability has been public for two years and you have not been breached, the market has spoken" wise words as always
January 11, 2026 at 1:45 PM
The modern web is quite something
January 8, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Every sign tells a story
January 4, 2026 at 1:07 PM
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Find your local access island: Access Islands are unique phenomenons where we have the right to roam, but no way in which to get to them without trespassing. There are around 2500 access islands in England. www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/v...
Access Islands - Google My Maps
Largest access islands in England (over 500m2). Areas of Access Land (CRoW 2000) which have no legal public right of way access via footpath or highway (which are beyond 15m of these features). We al...
www.google.com
December 26, 2025 at 11:27 AM
I regret to inform you that I missed Bin Day
December 22, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I told my mate I was surprised that my cousin went to New York as his daughter wanted to go to a shop she'd seen on tictok
Told me that in the school he caretakes they were replacing 15 toilet seats a week until they installed vandel proof ones and when anything bizarre happens they look on tictok
December 21, 2025 at 7:37 PM
My daughter watches a dinosaur program where a chap sings
"I'm Andy and I work here at the National Museum.
There's Dinosaurs of all shapes and sizes, you should see them"
And he doesn't say 'em as presumably the person that wrote the song intended.
What a monster
December 20, 2025 at 9:44 AM
My "year in Monzo" is about as exciting as expected. Who thinks anyone wants this bollocks
December 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
"I work for my family's family office"
Ah, I thought for a second you were just from a minted family, nice to know you work for a living
December 3, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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I've been researching extending git in various ways for a little side project, didn't find a good guide that covers everything so I put one together on my blog: nesbitt.io/2025/11/26/e...
Extending Git Functionality
A practical guide to the different ways you can extend git: subcommands, filters, hooks, remote helpers, and more.
nesbitt.io
December 2, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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The first #AdventOfCode 2025 puzzle comes out in about five hours! What's your plan? What language(s?!) are you using? What's your IDE of choice and why is it Vim? Do you have a comfy chair? Did you check out the beta release of Lua 5.5? How much sleep have you gotten? Drinking enough water? 🌟 ❤️ 🎄
November 30, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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November 28, 2025 at 7:58 PM
There is deffo a niche for plumbers/electricians that respond to emails and/or have some kind of scheduling system for their jobs
November 27, 2025 at 12:03 PM