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    A guide to stacking the odds in your favour to get to the next level.

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    Tips and product suggestions for setting up an effective remote workstation.

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  • Building an Accessible Menubar Component Using React

    Create an accessible Menubar based on the WAI-ARIA design pattern for a menubar widget.

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  • So you want to write a Groom’s speech?

    Advice for the groom to help him create a memorable and meaningful wedding speech.

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    An overview of the main hardware components you will need to build a desktop PC.

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  • Multiple Entry Points in Create React App Without Ejecting

    Create multiple entry points without ejecting from the safety net of Create React App.

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  • So you want to WFH?

    Tips maintaining focus and effective communication whilst working from home.

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      Let's see what all the @atproto/api fuss is about
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      I’ll be in London on May 19.
      
      Looks like I’m free in the evening. Let me know if you’d like to meet / catch up!

      AG Grid

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      London 🇬🇧 Let’s meet!
      
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      Event poster: 'Beyond The Prompt' by AG Grid × Bryntum, May 19th, IET London, UK.
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      i call my mom every sunday to share personal news and chat. she's really into celebrities, so i tell her about the famous people i've pissed off in the last week. she gets super excited.
      George Santos tweets to me: "You're insufferable ::rolling eyes emoji::"
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      Wow London you really brought the sunshine out for my birthday! ☀️🎈
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      Etape Loch Ness 2026
      
      Used Claude to help me rethink my training and fuelling strategy and knocked 20 minutes off my PB 😎
      
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      #75DaysOfMovement
      Strava post of the Etape Loch Ness, awash with PBs
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      The only day of the year I look forward to getting up at 4:30am.
      
      Walk up the hill, find the 8ft suave pig and the fiddle player; a wee pagan jig until the sun comes up, oh look the pub is open.
      Morris dancers morris prancing around Jackie while a sheep plays the fiddle
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      In response to our objection to the Prompt API, some folks replied "well, fix it. Propose something better". This is something we end up doing a lot at Firefox…
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      The @thepwhl.com games are so fun. And the tickets are a lot less expensive so I treated myself to amazing seats.
      
      The stadium was so fun, nearly 12k fans watching the @seattletorrent.bsky.social
      Me on the YouTube live stream
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      I have never wanted to buy a bucket before. I want to buy this bucket. This is an excellent bucket.

      brennan

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      it's so crazy, sometimes you feel like everything has already been invented and then something pops up that is so obviously like 'why didn't we do this 50 years ago?'
      
      would love to see how they're doing the multipart mold - internal bossed measurements and lines would likely be separate segment(s)?
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