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Jess Robinson
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Working with Perl, Typescript at Shadowcat. Tinkering with Flutter/dart. Tech guru at Fool's Dog. Living in Swindon, UK

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Stay weird, #brussels
Art - a large rusty-coloured metal framework art of a concrete truck
February 2, 2026 at 10:42 AM
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Post #fosdem / #brussels morning cafe recommendation: Damn Good Cafe (north edge of the pentagon), proper tea (with a timer!) and pastries / cake
A glass of milky tea with a milk jug, timer and loose tea strainer. A pain au chocolat is in the foreground
February 2, 2026 at 10:03 AM
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Most useful #fosdem / #conference device, my pocket #spunspoon
A paper cup filled with hot milky tea (and some sugar) next to a teaspoon with a quarter-inch hex handle (which you could recklessly use in a powered screwdriver if you wanted)
February 1, 2026 at 1:56 PM
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#fosdem/#brussels day 1: Made it from home to the hotel, despite some interesting navigation
Flixbus window sign showing wifi and charging information &10; Heathrow Terminal 5 gate B36 sign showing BA394 to Brussels leaving soon&10; British Airways free|complimentary 1hr flight food: a bottle of water and two(!) golden oat biscuits &10; Citymapper display of a route from Brussels airport into the city. The user location is nowhere near the suggested route (though we were on a train going the correct direction!)&10;
January 28, 2026 at 10:14 PM
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#octoprint #3dprinting #wrapped (but the year’s not over yet!)
An "Octoprint Wrapped" summary showing I have printed 456 prints, in 45d 2h and 27m of time this year. Longest print was 12h and 49minutes, busiest day is Fridays. I have uploaded 439 files and progressed through 5 octpoprint versions&10;
December 10, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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This evenings game, The Hobbit, There and back again. James won! #boardgames
2 finished boards for the first chapter of the game, left on each is a score board counting points for dwarves arrived at Bag End, and whether they get bread, on the right is a map with lines connecting the dwarves. The dice show map squares that can be used on the map.
November 6, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Monday #boardgames, Ayar and External decks, both good, would play again
The External Decks end game: A black cloth with many card shaped spaces, 4 stars indicating we won,. and several coloured cards End game state of Ayar: The main board with 4 tracks covered in scattered player-colour house/tambo pieces, my player board with half a woven carpet, a number of coloured pottery tiles, and all its maize cubes&10;
October 27, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Over the first week we’ve walked 29% of the virtual Cotswolds walk, finding it useful as a way to check I have done steps today, and to encourage Hannah to walk! #walking
Chart and map of our virtual walk, on the left the chart shows we have walking 29% of the way 50,558 of 174,436 steps, on the right the map shows that we are over half way between Bath and Cirencester
October 4, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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Oct 1st! Attempting to do more exercise, so friend Hannah and I have joined https://worldwalking.org, we’re going to do the Cotswolds walk. So far we left Bath.. #walking
A screenshot of thw worldwalking webpage, showing 14k steps completed of 174k steps on the Cotswold walk, a map shows that we have barely left Bath
October 1, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Monday night’s game: Perseverance: Castaway Chronicles, Episode 3. Would like to play again, the “how do I actually get points” felt a little obscure(d) (the individual goal cards don’t get you many). #boardgames
View from the end of a very full table, in the foreground a group of coloured dice with icons on, a player board with some dinosaur and ranger figures, in the background stacks of cards, a large board that shows four columns of city dice-action spots, and a map of wilderness exploration trained-dino spots
September 30, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Dear printer, what were you thinking? No love, Jess #3dprinting #petg #prusamk4s
A royal blue print of a board game insert, the final 2 layers of the print are shifted up by approx 4mm and the top is somewhat scruffy&10;
September 15, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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An Animade animation sheet, it has a series of 8 boxes with pre-drawn generic-animal body and legs that change positions. I added a tail and dog head to each box
June 28, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Fixing things: I 3d printed this backpack hanger in Dec 2021, 3.5 years constant use isn’t bad! How long will the replacement last? Design from https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4228049 #thingiverse #3dprinting
The side of an Ikea Ivar shelving with two backpacks hanging from 3d printed hooks. In between the bags is a third printed hook which has broken
May 11, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Monday’s #boardgame pics (all behind this week, I blame bank hols!). We played Perseverance, the castaway chronicles, episodes 1 and 2.
Perseverance, Castaway chronicles, Episode one mid-game. The board shows a beach with various worker-placement (dice) locations which can be used to gather resources, send out soldies on patrol, train more soldiers. After the beach there are defensive positions for soldiers and walls, and attacking dinosaur models Perseverance, Castaway chronicles, Episode two end-game. The board for episode 2 has similar worker placement spots to episode 1, but now they are behind a fortified wall and safe from attack. To capture dinosaurs there are extra missions out into the wilderness beyond the wall, and also, for some reason, a temple in the jungle
May 7, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Satisfying! #ammediadesign #3dprinting
May 4, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Finished! #3dprinting
May 4, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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#3dprinting fun this morning, working on the Inferno #boardgame box insert for a friend, looks very pretty! https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/game/inferno-board-game-inserts-organizer-for-by-am-media-tabletop-board-game-acce
May 4, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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End of yesterday’s Galactic Cruise #boardgame, I managed to win this one! (A rare occurrence), mostly by having a large number of end game points
End stage of the game "Galactic Cruise", a large board with pastel coloured design, blue, yellow, green and pink player meeples occupy worker spots for collecting and building spaceship parts, and planning space criuises. Orange, Blue and Purple "guest" meeples wait at the edge of the board. Each player has a sub board tracking their progress and several assembled space ships
April 22, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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I don’t usually cook a lot, have been trying #pinchofnom “All in one” lately, recommended for cooks with less time to spare. Latest recipe, Tuna, Pepper and Potato bake. Takes about 50min (book says 40), if using frozen onions and peppers, tastes good, 4/5 #cooking
The Pinch of Nom, All in one book cover, coloured tabs marking pages can be seen sticking out the top edge
April 20, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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Yesterday’s Monday games: Robinson Crusoe, scenario “The Dying Island”, we won! (and I failed to take a photo", then Tranquility: The Ascent, a co-op card game (see photo), Deep sea adventure, won by the one person who made any treasure at all #boardgames
A finished game of "Tranquility: The Ascent", a triangle of cards laid out on the table, square cards corner side down, at the top is the summit card
April 15, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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This image needs smell-o-vision, currently in the garden: Apple blossoms, Purple Syringa pubescens blossoms, and White Cherry tree blossom #garden
View through several layers of garden tree greenery: Foreground, white+pink apple tree buds, middle ground: white fluffy cherry tree blossom, background purple Syringa pubescens ("Miss Kim"?) tall shrubbery
April 14, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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@trunksapp@mastodon.socialthe '...' enu on posts in the stream overlays a menu with a transparent background, is that on purpose? (oh and the attach photo button tries to open google photos, i don't have that installed..)
April 10, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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I did not have #uksnow on my bingo card for today in SN1 1/10
Top view of a medium sized short haired black lurcher dog, with about 10 snowflakes on it
March 12, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Last nights #boardgame was Galactic Cruise. I lost this by miles on Sunday, played again Monday and won! (Just about, it was a first place tie-breaker)
"Galactic Cruise" board game laid out on a table, image from the short side - it almost takes up the entire table. In the foreground some pastel coloured passenger pieces lurk, beyond that potential cruises and ship parts. In the middle are worker placement spots and various placed player technology gears. In the background there is a tea tray and an enormous (750ml) mug Galactic Cruise board game box, in the foreground is a large rocket, behind it a planet with smaller rockets taking off.
March 4, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Hobby mashup: #boardgame from yesterday’s session, #3dprinted #psion (retro tech) case part. Case part design CC Jon on printables: https://www.printables.com/model/1123397-psion-5mx-internal-housing-hinge-panel
Items on a wooden table: In the background, a board game box labelled "Ticket to Ride: Legends of the West". In the foreground some light yellow 3D printed objects, one a pile of tree-structure support material, the other a Psion 5mx case part
February 24, 2025 at 12:12 PM