Scott Mallinson

The past couple of days I’ve been playing with GitHub’s new Copilot Agent, and I’m impressed. Whilst I don’t believe it’ll take my job (just yet!) it certainly helps by iterating over issues/obstacles in code and providing solutions.

Today has been a good day. I taught my son how to ride his bike with pedals. Major proud dad moment!

Gutted to hear that read.cv is shutting down. Shen, Mehdi and Andy were able to build an awesome community in 4 years.

Spent the afternoon yesterday at the Parc del Laberint d’Horta. First time I’ve visited and I wanted to go before it undergoes restoration this year.

Some good has come out of an otherwise pretty rubbish day. I’ve managed to get multichannel audio from external sources passed through a switch to our surround sound system that our ageing TV isn’t capable of doing.

Now I’ve got an export of my tweets and bookmarks from Twitter/X I’m going through the process of zeroing my account. Unfollowing everyone, deleting likes/favourites, direct messages, and all my tweets.

A view from the afternoon.

My Black Friday gift to myself is to unsubscribe from all the newsletters that have been in hiding until now.

I have conflicted feelings about deleting my Twitter/X account. On one hand, I don’t agree with the cult of personality leadership and lack of/removal of mechanisms to make it a safe platform. On the other, some of the tweets were very personal, became quite significant, and act as a time capsule of fond memories to a specific period in my life.