Oscar

@osc.sh

Tech lead 💻 • DEV CONTENT Antarctica contractor 🐧 First person to deploy NodeJS in Antarctica (unverified) 📍 London 🇬🇧 (but now Riga 🇱🇻)

Man, every time I have a new show-stopper lucrative business idea I swear some fancy pants LLM shoots me down…

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Average email from HR: “Ok we’re transitioning to Salarya, but payroll is still in Bullfrog—Catch up with your training on Qualulu then send me a knob on Chapati once you’re done. Do NOT upload your melon without YAMMER! approval”

I think the whole “Elon Nazi salute” thing boils down to an Occam’s razor situation. What is more likely? You think he’s ACTUALLY a Nazi and wilfully did a nazi salute or he’s just a bit autistic and over-excited and mis-communicated a “throwing heart out” motion?

Been getting more into mini quad FPV flying recently. Here’s a little rip around from yesterday—with a crash

Our key fob for the shared garage stopped working and I didn’t have a button-cell battery but I did have a lipo cell and a charging circuit… it’s at least USB-C rechargeable now!

Garage key fob
Garage key-fob with Frankensteined lipo cell and charging circuit

Been enjoying IIFE (Immediately Invoked Function Expressions) a lot recently. I feel like they nicely separate pools of logic relating to specific things (parsing, transforming, slicing) and reduces the need for variable reassignment

Code screenshot example of an “Immediately invoked function expression” in Typescript/Javascript

Throwback to about a year ago doing weather station maintenance on the Antarctic plateau. It’s a very strange place because it’s totally flat and there are basically no land features for hundreds of miles. Kinda reminded me of the infinite white room from The Matrix.

I swear the Shopify API team are on a mission to keep us devs in employment — they've been very trigger-happy with these depreciations recently

Over the past week, I have been testing this Radxa Zero 3W single board computer and it’s been great fun

A hand, holding a credit-card sized Linux computer

I’m usually pretty nonchalant about the incredible technology I rely on every day, but when I get a phone call in a cosy café—from an Iridium phone deep in the field on the Antarctic plateau—it always stops me in my tracks. This is so bloody cool

When you ask the UK-based developer if their new feature works in different timezones

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One curse of being a GMT+0 developer is that it is not easy to see errors relating to local time zone offsets

I’ve decided that one thing I really want to improve on in 2025 is my storytelling ability. There’s a real skill to forming a memory into words and having that play out vividly in the listener’s head in a captivating way.

The best thing about React Native is getting everything working well on IOS and then Android just decides to shit its self with some out-the-blue java.lang.ui.bollocks exception

I’m following too many clever ML people on here now. Barely have any idea what anyone is on about