Paul Johnston / is on Nostr

CTO, Strategist, Brit 🇬🇧, expert in serverless, have researched and been interviewed about tech and climate, ex AWS, currently consulting at GDS (UK Govt), live in Milton Keynes.

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2023-12-21 10:42:31

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@npub1vu7…nmuv @npub13us…qafs @npub1psd…9sr7 it does. So how do you identify which is profiteering and which is not? How do you determine which are the "right" ones and which are the "wrong" ones to fund? It's not always obvious which is going to work and which isn't.
And ... if, like me, you have a medication that can have significant effects when not available, and then there's a worldwide shortage, how do you ensure availability of supply for people that need it?
This isn't simple at all.

2023-10-12 15:41:33

Just sent an email about my new garden room/cabin to customer services. It's being installed in just under 2 weeks!
What I meant to say in the last line:
"I can't wait for my new cabin"
What I wrote:
"I can't wait for my new cervix"
😱😱😱

2023-08-30 12:58:35

There are moments when I realise I know *a lot* about how to do a lot of things...
...but because I have really struggled to be able to stay in a job for any length of time for my entire life (only diagnosed with ADHD in 2022 which explains why) I have never been able to stay in any job long enough to, for example, vest stock which could have risen in value.
I have watched people with far less experience become wealthy without really being that good.
I know that wealth is not a sign of skill.

2023-08-14 11:13:57

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@npub17ge…hgsu @npub1yqq…djzl how much is straight ActivityPub and how much is Mastodon?
Surely it would make sense to build on top of ActivityPub instead of making it purely Mastodon?
Or is that making it more complicated?

2023-08-12 13:10:37

Quick question @npub17ge…hgsu:
Does Mastodon have an "official" OpenAPI document that is available?
I could build one from the spec or from other open source implementations but the last time I looked I couldn't find one that was "official".
Am I just looking in the wrong place?

2023-08-04 09:55:31

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Wondering if @npub19lt…qfjk might know a good shapefile viewer...? I suspect it's the kind of thing he'd know.

2023-08-04 09:45:36

Trying to find a good shapefile viewer.
Shapefiles are what UK Govt uses to display geodata.
It's just not straight forward finding out which are the good tools for displaying that data.
It may be "obvious" to some people, but it's not obvious to me.
I can manipulate and use the data, that's easy. But I just want to view it.
Is there a good browser plugin? Something like that?
Really annoying.