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Hey there, friend! ๐Ÿ‘‹๐Ÿป

I'm Andy. You can find me primarily on Mastodon (but I am also in other places in the #Fediverse).

I'm a maker at Forge & Craft, and I co-run the HackWimbledon "pop-up hackspace" meetup.


Recent blog posts


More about me

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  • I'm one of the co-hosts of the weekly technology podcast ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ Games at Work dot biz - you can find us on all the major podcast directories. Let us know what you think!
  • My website is where I post blog updates, and the most recent posts are listed above.
  • I have a newsletter ๐Ÿ“ฎ which gets sent to subscribers on an occasional basis.

Code (outside GitHub)


Fun facts ๐ŸŽฑ

  • ๐ŸŒฑ Iโ€™m spending time learning ๐Ÿ MicroPython, and ๐ŸŒ Fediverse (Social Web) APIs like ActivityPub
  • ๐Ÿ“ Most-used editors: VS Code (GUI), neovim (CLI)
  • ๐Ÿ’ป First computer: Acorn Electron (and, I still have an Acorn Risc PC that I need to dig out from cobwebs sometime soon)
  • ๐Ÿ’ป Current systems: Framework 13 (Fedora), Chuwi Minibook X (Fedora), StarLabs Starlite Mk V (Fedora), MNT Pocket Reform (Debian), MacBook Pro M1 Pro (macOS Tahoe), Homelab (Proxmox w/ Debian LXC, VM etc)

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Bonus badges ๐ŸŽ–๏ธ

One of my commit sha starts with "ab". I pushed a commit with "cafe" 6 times. I made cosmetic commit. I rolled before Covid-19: Survivor of the Great TP Shortage I committed on the day Doctor Emmett Brown invented the flux capacitor! I used only emojis in my commit message. I made an epic commit with a message over 500 chars. My favorite word is "signed-off-by:". I did 2 sequential fixes. I joined GitHub 15 years ago. I am a polite coder. I have participated in pull requests with 10 or more people I committed on the Halloween! Boo! I'm a star gazer! I found the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything! I commit in the morning. I commit in the evening. I commit at midnight. I got more than 10 thumbs down. I got more than 10 thumbs up. I committed on Friday the 13th, Oneโ€ฆ By Oneโ€ฆ I pushed a commit with "dead" once. I merged a PR with failing checks I collected 1000 stars. I closed an issue that was open for 8 years May the 4th be with you! Happy March 14th! I committed on a Pi Day! I committed on St. Patrick's Day! I committed on Isaac Asimov's birthday / National Science Fiction Day! I committed on the day when the crew of the USCSS Nostromo made their fateful landing and discovered the Xenomorph on LV-426! One of my commit sha starts with "a". I joined GitHub 5 years ago. I joined GitHub 10 years ago. I contributed to My Badges! I closed an issue that was open for a year I closed an issue that was open for 2 years I closed an issue that was open for 3 years I closed an issue that was open for 4 years I closed an issue that was open for 6 years I closed an issue that was open for 7 years I have participated in pull requests with 5 or more people I collected 100 stars. I collected 500 stars. I've starred 7 my own repositories.

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  1. A GNOME Shell extension to stream sounds of the Fediverse from The Indie Beat

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  2. A curated list of awesome MicroPython libraries, frameworks, software and resources.

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    * [Selling the Dream - Guy Kawasaki](https://guykawasaki.com/books/selling-the-dream/)

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    * [The Business Value of Developer Relations - Mary Thengvall](https://www.persea-consulting.com/book)

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    * [Developer Relations: How to build and grow a successful developer program - Caroline Lewko & James Parton](https://www.devrelbook.com/)
  4. Switch off fingerprint auth when the lid is closed.

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  5. A new refreshed Hackwimbledon

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