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Simon Wood

@hpoom

Passionate geek with a love of Javascript, APIs, and Cloud. I am Associate Director Technology at Holiday Extras.

 Ashford, Kent UK
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Joined March 2007
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Here's a slightly odd take on the #OnlineSafetyBill I'll allow every message I ever send to be publicly available... if *every single conversation* by MPs, PMs etc is too. We won't access it all the time, just when there's suspicion of wrongdoing ;)
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⌛️We're running out of time to save encryption in the UK. This tech keeps our conversations secure, but the #OnlineSafetyBill includes powers to scan ALL of our messages. This week, the @UKHouseofLords must oppose these Orwellian surveillance powers.
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📣 Important! 67 preeminent U.K. cryptographers & computer scientists speak out against the perilous magical thinking of the Online Safety Bill’s mass surveillance provision, explaining its dangerous misunderstandings and its rights-chilling implications.
Martin R. Albrecht (@martinralbrecht) profile pictureMartin R. Albrecht@martinralbrecht5 Jul 2023
68 (UK affiliated) researchers working on security and privacy have raised alarms about provisions in the UK #OnlineSafetyBill: "our concern is that surveillance technologies are deployed in the spirit of providing online safety." Read our letter here: haddadi.github.io/UKOSBOpenl…
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68 (UK affiliated) researchers working on security and privacy have raised alarms about provisions in the UK #OnlineSafetyBill: "our concern is that surveillance technologies are deployed in the spirit of providing online safety." Read our letter here: haddadi.github.io/UKOSBOpenl…
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@noampomsky25 Feb 2023
I don’t say I’ll google it anymore I say I’ll google reddit
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Meetings are the worst! They burn people out and nothing gets done. My tweet on meetings and burn out last week hit a nerve. It resonated with a lot of folks. These are 7 steps I follow to aggressively reduce meetings. A short 🧵
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No one writes code comments today like we wrote code comments in the 90s
Jeff Wilcox (@jeffwilcox) profile pictureJeff Wilcox@jeffwilcox28 Apr 2022
Blast from the past: making sure multimedia apps work great on all the Windows at the time.
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk8 Dec 2021
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LGR@lazygamereviews16 Sep 2021
Ahh man, RIP Sir Clive Sinclair! theguardian.com/technology/2…
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All your UK videogame companies today were built on the shoulders of giants who made games for the ZX Spectrum. You cannot exaggerate Sir Clive Sinclair’s influence on the world. And if we’d all stopped laughing long enough to buy a C5 he’d probably have saved the environment.
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Sir Clive Sinclair, the creator of the Zx Spectrum has passed away. His influence on the UK games industry was huge. How many of today's developers coded on one of the machines he developed?
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Home computing pioneer Sir Clive Sinclair dies aged 81 theguardian.com/technology/2…
Home computing pioneer Sir Clive Sinclair dies aged 81

Home computing pioneer Sir Clive Sinclair dies aged 81

Creator of the landmark ZX Spectrum and the less commercially successful C5 died after a long illness

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Are you ready to take the first step back into your career in tech? @HolidayExtras | @hxlife | @hpoom 🏖👩‍💻
Tech Returners (@techreturners) profile pictureTech Returners@techreturners25 Aug 2021
Replying to @HolidayExtras
@HolidayExtras are hiring 16 software developers straight from our programme! #JobOpportunity 👩‍💻 All roles are remote - so you can work from anywhere in the UK! 🚀 Take the first step back into your career in tech. 👉 loom.ly/ac1qFS8 | #hiring #remotejobs
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@chris_herd9 Feb 2021
I've spoken to 2,000+ companies over the last 12 months about their plans for remote work going forward Here are a few things I've learned [ a thread ] 💻🏠🌍
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REMINDER: Wall Street hedge funds running to the exchanges to halt trading to prevent losses is another example of why the game has always been rigged in favor of the elites. When you lose it is okay, but when they lose the game is turned off.
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Great work. This you @AndrewBloch?
Jonno Simpson (@JonnoSimpson) profile pictureJonno Simpson@JonnoSimpson22 Sep 2020
Brilliant idea and execution from Burger King!
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“We used to have a tech platform with a big monolithic PHP application that pretty much ran everything on the web. Engineers were tripping over themselves.” Quote from our Associate Director Technology @hpoom. Read how HX made it better for our #engineers travolution.com/articles/113…
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Here is @andybritcliffe, CTO @HolidayExtras reflecting on the importance of engineers understanding the business and the benefits of apprenticeship programs on the @ctoconnection podcast! podcast.ctoconnection.com/ep…
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How would the results have looked if we used the same system and constituencies as EU Parliament elections? #ElectionResults2019
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New! Cassetteboy vs Boris Johnson
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