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Martin Gaston

@squidmania

nice engineer @8thlightInc. my surname masks the fact I do not possess any French ancestry.

 London, England
Joined January 2009
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Blake Robbins
@blakeirOct 15
this is the best breakdown I’ve seen of the dark arts behind Block Blast!, the most downloaded mobile game in the world last year intentionally making players lose to optimize which ads they see, the sophistication behind such a “simple” game is stunning.
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@thatguysjokesJul 6
That Dan Burn cameo
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bart@soxbartJun 9
“It’s filled with popcorn.” Yeah not falling for that. Literally how they tricked Troy.
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@DiscussingFilmJun 9
First look at the Trojan Horse popcorn bucket for ‘THE ODYSSEY’.
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telling googles ai that im eating and drinking increasing amounts of salami and monster energy until it starts shouting at me to get help
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HLTCO
@HLTCOMay 19
There’s a level of pride that comes with managers like Pep Guardiola and Jose Mourinho waxing lyrical about Selhurst Park. As we often say, it may be a shithole but it’s our shithole and I wouldn’t change it for the world. ❤️
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@footballontntMar 12
"I'll miss Selhurst Park as well!" Pep Guardiola on the games he'll miss as a manager when he decides to retire from football 🏟️
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Gavin Brown
@gavinrbrown1May 6
Gradient descent does not work. I will die on this hill.
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Cormac
@cormachayden_May 3
software engineers before vs after agents
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what's so interesting about washing the dishes right after you have a meal is how quickly the food goes from being your friend to being your enemy. it's upsetting to me.
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Gavin@PrimaryCinemaApr 19
Dont mind me, just setting my Now TV avatar to Hermann Göring my favourite character from Nuremberg
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Ruu | 🏆#14 |@ruukayo_Mar 5
These Tottenham championship meme videos have been killing me 😭
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Joe Walker 🦅@ohjoewalkerFeb 24
It’ll never catch on…
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Men in Blazers
@MenInBlazersFeb 19
EZE'S FA CUP-WINNING GOAL FOR PALACE, IN HIS OWN WORDS 🏆 Sponsored by our great friends @newbalance ❤️💙
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Jack Pierce@Jackpierce88Jan 10
Palace and Liverpool meeting five months after the Community Shield comparing notes about their respective defences of the FA Cup and Premier League.
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OptaJoe
@OptaJoeJan 10
1909 - Macclesfield are the first non-league team to eliminate the FA Cup holders since Crystal Palace knocked out Wolves in the 1908-09 first round. Fairytale.
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wanye
@xwanyex4 Oct 2025
One thing that’s annoying about being a software engineer is that you’re surrounded by people who have strong opinions about the stupidest possible stuff that couldn’t possibly ever matter even a little bit. This is your whole career. It’s just arguments like this one over and over and over and over again and they literally never matter. The years roll into decades and nobody ever stops talking about this stuff and it didn’t matter in 1980 and it didn’t matter in 1990 and it didn’t matter in 2010 and it doesn’t matter today.
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@mehulmpt4 Oct 2025
enabled: boolean isEnabled: boolean I trust you more if you use the second convention with booleans
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scum
@scumitchell10 Oct 2025
Reminder that @htmx_org can only be properly enjoyed using authentic 3.5" floppies. Anything else is stealing.
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Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.
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Joe@LFC_JG2323 Aug 2025
“Yeah mate I’m gonna triple captain Jurien Timber”
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