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Paul Hallett

@paulwrites.software

🐍 Python & HTTP APIs 🌐 Creator of pokeapi.co ⚜️ Clientele: clientele.dev πŸ™ Lead software engineer @ kraken.tech πŸ’» https://paulwrites.software

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I waited in line for a midnight release, and got a special DS case with my preorder. This generation solidified PokΓ©mon as one of the hobbies that would stay with me forever.

06.03.2026 13:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you.
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Threads thread: thriller_instinct 3d Is it okay to bully 40 and 50 year olds who are on social media just for being on it, cuz like why are you here - 254 Q 3.1K G 28 746 corporateash 18h β€’β€’β€’ My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you. 852 Q62 G6 72

β€œI have usernames older than you.”.
Holy shit

06.03.2026 01:05 πŸ‘ 20774 πŸ” 4425 πŸ’¬ 767 πŸ“Œ 1139

Imagine preferring to live in a giant liminal shopping mall in an oven and now also in a war zone because you don’t like being taxed back home in the UK.

03.03.2026 09:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Something about the sunny spring weather motivating me back to a previous hyper fixation... analogue photography. Gonna go take photos over lunch, forget about the wider world for a while.

02.03.2026 12:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

They shot down their own planes

02.03.2026 11:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Pretty fuckin' crazy to see those USAF planes fall out of the sky. They are the planes I see doing combat training over Norwich every day. It hits home.

02.03.2026 09:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Gosh darn it, /r/aviation has turned into warporn again :(

02.03.2026 09:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Fuck yes it is sunny and warm

02.03.2026 09:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

First day of spring but every fuckin’ outdoor activity / nature reserve place is Norfolk has their doors shut until Easter hdhahrkkgkltllelwlqodjcj?!? B

01.03.2026 08:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

One of my favourites things:

Visiting a band I barely listened to as a teenager / in my 20s, and discovering their drums absolutely fucking slaps.

(The Chemical Brothers, in case you were wondering)

28.02.2026 08:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The real story is the fact that all the other big players in the LLM game haven’t come out and said β€œautonomous murder machines bad”.

28.02.2026 06:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It all marks sense. This is why all advanced technology and knowledge about how it works is lost in Warhammer 40k.

28.02.2026 06:37 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I keep seeing this, and it's so fucking annoying. I am asking humans because I want HUMAN INPUT

27.02.2026 10:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

First real β€œjam session” with my son - him bashing away on the piano, me on the drums. I could make this a regular activity with him. I would like that.

26.02.2026 15:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

code and tests aren't the moat. they never were. no need for agents to copy a project. forking was always an option. the moat of an oss project is its community, its governance, and its ecosystem connections. agents will never be able to replicate that. don't hide. let's build in the open, together

25.02.2026 19:30 πŸ‘ 169 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 5

Read the whole thread

26.02.2026 13:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Funny to think a very possible outcome for FOSS soon is to put all their test suites into closed source projects so AI can’t copy & paste and build a clone easily.

26.02.2026 12:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Best handheld of all time fight me

26.02.2026 08:14 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hey look at that, got vim working with atpcli for posting messages!

25.02.2026 08:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Sunny warm weather unlocks the infinite optimism glitch in me.

25.02.2026 08:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Lexicon here: github.com/phalt/atpcli...

Installable with `uv`: `uv tool install atpcli`

Docs here: github.com/phalt/atpcli...

All very intentionally minimal because time spent setting up and tweaking projects consumes 90% of my free time.

23.02.2026 10:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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It's a simple annotation / "I was here" / guestbook app for websites called spice. Currently it just lets you make small notes and graffiti for a website. In the future I might build a way to view notes for the website you're on, or something like that.

23.02.2026 09:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Built my first real atproto app. That was insanely easy 🀯

23.02.2026 09:50 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Something so nice and pure reading bsky from the CLI, without images. Just text. (I can shift+click to individual posts when I need to)

23.02.2026 08:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Political people love to debate who the worst modern PM in modern times was but it's unquestionably Cameron.

10 years ago this week he gambled the prosperity and fragile unity of the UK on a referendum on an issue that most people didn't even understand to placate back benchers and fucked us all.

22.02.2026 23:07 πŸ‘ 3013 πŸ” 635 πŸ’¬ 209 πŸ“Œ 36
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The 1989 Sony D-Z555 is gorgeous

22.02.2026 13:30 πŸ‘ 605 πŸ” 95 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 9

I absolutely do not like the whole push towards automating the entire write/review code loop. One of the big advantages of deliberately inserting yourself into the process is that it gives the generated code more time to sink into your brain

22.02.2026 03:53 πŸ‘ 121 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Hello from atpcli! Now with proper handling!?@WQ$Β£W$Β£

20.02.2026 14:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hello from atpcli

20.02.2026 14:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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GitHub - phalt/atpcli: AT PROTO cli written in Python AT PROTO cli written in Python. Contribute to phalt/atpcli development by creating an account on GitHub.

Wanted to learn atproto, built a simple python cli tool for browsing your bsky feed: github.com/phalt/atpcli

Definitely not feature complete, and will be a low effort support from me, but a nice way of browsing bksy none the less.

Might write my own gist tool for atproto at some point.

20.02.2026 14:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0