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Christopher Orr 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
@orr.dev
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Knows some things about computers, and baking shortbread.

📍 Berlin
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29 years ago today, Jamiroquai released the music video for 'Virtual Insanity'
August 19, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE.

If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease!

Donate at blinkingguy.com
September 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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The juxtaposition of architectural styles in Dublin is quite something.
July 6, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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The best HTTP client just got better 👌
July 3, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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The Scottish have won the AI Wars.
A screenshot of Google's AI Overview answer to the question "is haggis an animal". It says "Yes, the haggis is a small, furry mammal native to Scotland" and goes on to give the typical "asymmetrical legs" details.
March 5, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Oops. Another case of good intention, bad execution from @posthog.com… 🙁
Screenshot of PostHog email with just an image and "1-click unsubscribe" link which was broken. I then replied to their "hey@posthog.com" email address, only to get an auto-reply saying that they don't monitor this address… 👌
February 11, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Just found an excellent tmux tip to easily change window order:
```
bind-key -n C-S-Left swap-window -t -1\; select-window -t -1
bind-key -n C-S-Right swap-window -t +1\; select-window -t +1
```
superuser.com/a/552493/22805
How do I reorder tmux windows?
In screen, I can just type C-a :number 0 to move a window to the top of the window list and push all the other windows down one. What's the equivalent command sequence for tmux? I looked at the man...
superuser.com
January 20, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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lukaseder.bsky.social
"Half the world is telling me to use coroutines because a thread per request is too heavy, the other half a lambda because a computer per request isn't"

— Duncan McGregor

(Source: github.com/jOOQ/jOOQ/is...)
January 20, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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It's been a non-zero WTF-per-minute count with the @posthog.com API today…

Firstly: the API requires a key that's tied to my account, rather than the PostHog organisation. Will the API key break when I leave the company soon? Maybe!

posthog.com/docs/api#pri...
Screenshot from the linked PostHog docs, saying that you need to create a "personal API key".
January 6, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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I think @duckdb.org is starting to rival `jq` as my handiest command-line utility…

cat payments.jsonld | duckdb -c "copy (from read_json('/dev/stdin')) to '/dev/stdout' (format csv)"

(in fact, I should maybe just make this a shell alias)
December 18, 2024 at 2:36 PM
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I just ran into this non-intuitive case with @kotlinlang.org JSON serialisation…

A `data class` field with default property value won't appear in the JSON output — even if you explicitly provide it in your constructor call! 🤔

You need `encodeDefaults = true`: play.kotlinlang.org#eyJ2ZXJzaW9u...
Screenshot of Kotlin code: ``` import kotlinx.serialization.Serializable import kotlinx.serialization.encodeToString import kotlinx.serialization.json.Json @Serializable data class Person( val name: String, // Not serialised by default, unless `false`! val isCool: Boolean = true, ) fun main() { // Prints { "name": "You" } Json .encodeToString(Person("You")) .also { println(it) } // Prints { "name": "You", "isCool": true } Json { encodeDefaults = true } .encodeToString(Person("You")) .also { println(it) } } ```
December 5, 2024 at 10:23 AM
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Good news: you can now read your colleagues' messages with the gravitas they deserve!

The Slack desktop client has added support for Comic Sans…
A screenshot of Slack, with all text in Comic Sans.
November 12, 2024 at 11:45 AM