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Tweets for 2020

These are my tweets for 2020 (sans replies and retweets). All the URLs are still Twitter's 't.co' ones, as the Twitter API doesn't spit out the original URL text.

  • hahaha!! Also, ouch; this one hits hard! https://t.co/Sk2YHuIdnA Jan 08, 2020
  • This is the way https://t.co/VGTccW4u7s Jan 12, 2020
  • Exited to be at the documentation miniconf today at https://t.co/HJhfzBB7wa! #lca2020 Jan 13, 2020
  • YES. We don't always need never-ending shows. This was a great 1-season self-contained series. Anything more would only cheapen it. https://t.co/nQoV9Tnmef Jan 17, 2020
  • I love receiving Outlook 'recall' messages for email in my Gmail account. It makes me look at the original message with even more interest. Maybe that's the intended effect? https://t.co/olbdrTdl5b Feb 05, 2020
  • New blog post: 'Why I Have Always Hosted My Own Blog' https://t.co/3u64Sw5FJ7 So meta.๐Ÿ˜Ž Feb 08, 2020
  • I'm reading a kids Star Wars book to my 5yo, and on a page that had Admiral Ackbar, she said: "He's a fish and he's an astronaut." And she's not really wrong ๐Ÿฅฐ https://t.co/N5t9aOMigs Feb 14, 2020
  • Even professional writers like myself have lapses in memory and judgement. Today I had to double check that the past tense of "read" is in fact "read". I feel so sorry for people that have to learn English as a second language! Feb 18, 2020
  • I knew it was correct, but it on paper (i.e the screen), it just didn't look right today. ๐Ÿ˜… Feb 18, 2020
  • aaaaand 6 hours later, I notice a typo in the previous post, too๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ Further proves my point (and the importance of good peer reviews!). Feb 18, 2020
  • +1 It was pretty fun! https://t.co/8Ylv2eR9iv Feb 21, 2020
  • I was one of those 1,444 people in 2019. I received one of the 308 livers, and every day I say a prayer for my donor and their family.โค๏ธ https://t.co/k8qp5mq2Fz Feb 26, 2020
  • This = me ๐Ÿ˜‚ https://t.co/vDBnGP1S4z Feb 29, 2020
  • It's worse when you have a beard! ๐Ÿ˜… https://t.co/dXaVCyGtOb Mar 10, 2020
  • My daughter's school actually sings the both verses of the national anthem at assembly. I can probably count on two hands the number of times I've heard the second verse, and I definitely don't know the words! I wonder how many Aussies do? Mar 10, 2020
  • YES! https://t.co/A7TEVBKWh7 Mar 11, 2020
  • Volunteers singing "Over the Rainbow" Israel Kamakawiwoสปole-style to people entering the hospital this morning is making me happy. There are so many people here every day donating their time to help guide people and make people happy. โค๏ธ๐Ÿฅฐ https://t.co/GcNHzjscCX Mar 15, 2020
  • Also please please please follow isolation, hygiene, and distancing advice. ๐Ÿ™ There's plenty of 'young' people who are also 'high risk' for COVID-19, in my case because of all the immune suppressants I have to take after my liver transplant. Mar 15, 2020
  • Eeeep, a clarification if I alarmed anyone on my situation: I'm not actually admitted in hospital! Today was transplant clinic day. ใ€€ All transplant patients have regular appointments with the transplant Drs at the hospital for a while after having transplant. Mar 16, 2020
  • At the hospital today, I bought these awesome Star Wars-themed Aboriginal art! ๐Ÿ˜ฎ๐Ÿ˜€ It is Closing the Gap Day in AUS, and the hospital had some events and stalls on. Great timing for transplant clinic day! Here's the artist's FB: https://t.co/NF1ZZMf8Yu https://t.co/h0AbdRAPiS Mar 16, 2020
  • This product disturbs me deeply... why are we training boys to urinate into animals' mouths?! ๐Ÿ˜ณ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿ˜‚https://t.co/ocGiulmAeH https://t.co/VjDJqzZ9QE Mar 21, 2020
  • This is probably the most I've laughed at a steamed hams meme: https://t.co/cVuIUnA1BM Mar 23, 2020
  • We are now rightly taking virus transmission seriously. But, where is the much-needed action on the uncontrolled spread of glitter, especially in houses with young girls? If we had similar motivation, we could do away with it too! Let's come together on this as well! Mar 24, 2020
  • I've even heard some radical people suggesting weaponising glitter as a form of biological warfare. There is no defence against such a threat! We shouldn't wait until people start violating the Geneva Protocol! Let's eliminate this scourge now! #GlitterIsAnUncontrolledVirusToo Mar 24, 2020
  • I am disappointed I'm not in on this Microsoft employee reply-all email thread! It sounds like it's epic fun at the moment! (no, really; I'm not being sarcastic!) Mar 27, 2020
  • People have (rightly) given Microsoft flack over Windows Updates unfriendliness, but IMO, macOS patch updates are even worse! Locking me out of my computer for 30+ minutes to install a patch is terrible (e.g. 10.15.3 -> 10.15.4) Mar 30, 2020
  • My superpower is being a writer for a living, but I almost always create a tweet containing a spelling mistake or grammar error. ๐Ÿ˜Ž Also: Twitter, for the sake of my ego, LET US EDIT OUR TWEETS. ๐Ÿ˜ญ Mar 30, 2020
  • New blog post! 'New Keyboard: Logitech MX Keys' https://t.co/4oWUKygUMV Apr 04, 2020
  • ๐Ÿ“Another new blog post: 'NUC Replacement: Nvidia Shield TV Pro' https://t.co/bQyJkWBlAL It's been a while since I've done two posts in a single day! ๐Ÿ’ช Apr 04, 2020
  • Had my first video-call physio appointment this afternoon. What a time to be alive ๐ŸŽฆ๐Ÿง˜โ€โ™‚๏ธ Apr 08, 2020
  • New blog post: 'Ori & Remote Play Sequels' TL;DR: The new Ori game is great, and Steam Remote Play is still very convenient ๐ŸŽฎ๐Ÿ–ฅhttps://t.co/mLtqYT6LUn Apr 13, 2020
  • Xristos Anesti! Christ is risen! Happy Easter for everyone celebrating today! โ˜ฆ๐Ÿ’“ Apr 19, 2020
  • As a recent transplant patient, I'm high risk for COVID-19. But there's no way I'm trusting *any* government, let alone this one, with a tracking app like #Covidsafe. At the very least until the source code is released and audited publicly by respected industry experts. Apr 26, 2020
  • Finished 'Jedi: Fallen Order' (on PS4) this week. I liked the story: especially Trilla as the main villain, and the droid BD-1. But otherwise, I don't get the hype. Apr 28, 2020
  • It was very visually extremely glitchy; I can't remember the last game that had so many textures popping in and out so frequently, especially in story scenes, where you'd think they'd have that stuff locked in. Maybe it's better on the PS4 Pro, but I can only judge what I have. Apr 28, 2020
  • The the difficulty jump from easy-as 'Story mode' up to the next bump of 'Jedi Knight' (the default) was insane at times. It felt like there should have been 2 extra levels between them. Enemy targeting didn't feel great to me. Apr 28, 2020
  • Plus lame things, like: such tiny text in the UI, having to sit through the same unskippable story scenes after respawning between play sessions, and semi-frequent game pauses despite Uncharted-like transition areas for loading (it's been a while!), were all quite annoying. Apr 28, 2020
  • Overall, I'm glad I played it, but I didn't feel like it was a great game. Apr 28, 2020
  • I love this way more than I should! ๐Ÿ’– https://t.co/AqfzJaE6gN Apr 29, 2020
  • I used to be such a fan of Western Digital. But my last build experience with their 'Preventative Wear Leveling' (aka ''the drive clicks every 5 seconds, even at idle" https://t.co/CBdIBZvb2P), and now this: https://t.co/ruHBw9fRuN ๐Ÿ˜ž๐Ÿ˜ฌ May 02, 2020
  • Looking forward to this! I love it when ridiculous reality inspires ridiculous comedy. SPACE FORCE! ๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ›ฐ๐ŸŒŒhttps://t.co/u6veNecrTY May 07, 2020
  • New blog post, finally featuring a meme that I've always wanted to use! ๐Ÿ˜‚ "Migrating to VS Code" ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ปโŒจ๏ธ๐Ÿ’ป https://t.co/XvalyhFdlO May 11, 2020
  • Slack is down!! ๐Ÿ˜ฑ The horror!! How do we work, again? https://t.co/h8hDbuLE3U May 13, 2020
  • This will be extra special for me this year. It's also only a couple of weeks before the first anniversary of my transplant. https://t.co/W4TfofVRpz May 14, 2020
  • New blog post: "The 'R' Word" TL;DR: I've just experienced an episode of rejection of my transplanted liver, but I seem to be coming out of it ok๐Ÿ™‚ https://t.co/kYdlfBpmUm May 17, 2020
  • I think I've said it before, but I'll say it again: @regex101 saves me so much time creating regexs! Such an invaluable tool for someone like me who never remembers the syntax beyond ^ and [a-z] and * ๐Ÿ˜„ May 25, 2020
  • I've gotten so quick and accurate at clicking the snooze/dismiss buttons on my stretch+break reminder pop-ups, that I'm not even aware of what I'm doing I've now disabled those buttons, so if I really want to push on, I have to go through two drop-downs to do it. ๐Ÿ˜… May 26, 2020
  • Probably just me being an ageing middle-aged man not keeping up with the kids, but I get triggered by mirrored selfies (and selfie video). It's the new Vertical Video Syndrome. https://t.co/77ojx9Gbi7 Jun 08, 2020
  • A tad interested in this!๐Ÿคฉ https://t.co/9yiOrxBSNu Jun 16, 2020
  • Does anyone have any experience using LanguageTool? (https://t.co/YOTbQFyPGN). I'm looking for alternatives to Grammarly that are generally more secure and privacy-conscious (whilst of course still being decent at what it does!) Jun 16, 2020
  • It's my transplant first anniversary today! ๐Ÿฅณ๐ŸŽ‰๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿ’› Thank you everyone for all your love and support. Blog post: https://t.co/hmMf6VgizV Jun 17, 2020
  • I might consider buying the next gen PS5 without the Blu-ray drive, but I definitely won't: The Last of Us 2 from the PS Store: $99 The Last of Us 2 from Amazon/JB-Hifi: $69 I'll take a cheap, portable, and shareable disc compared to locked-in digital store pricing any day! Jun 19, 2020
  • This is what myPS3 looks like! #PS4share https://t.co/FXbrVXyTum Jun 19, 2020
  • This group is probably the most impressive thing I've seen from Harvard! https://t.co/SMNe9A1d1v Jun 28, 2020
  • I wasn't going to retweet this, but then the last shot got me ๐Ÿ˜‚ https://t.co/IBrTWC8Dxq Jun 29, 2020
  • Ugh, just finished 'The Last of Us Part II'. I have feelings... Jul 05, 2020
  • I was going to write a blog post about #TLoU2, but this Honest trailers video pretty much sums up exactly how I feel about it: (SPOILERS) https://t.co/fjeannOmrN Jul 08, 2020
  • Especially this: "Many say it's the greatest masterpiece ever, while others say it's a burning pile of garbage, while the truth is in between, it's a beautiful achievement of technology that will make you feel like a burning pile of garbage". Jul 08, 2020
  • Eh, I'll probably still write a blog post. ๐Ÿ˜ Jul 08, 2020
  • "Far Cry 6: Los Pollos Hermanos" ๐Ÿ˜‚ https://t.co/ydpGZ0zKFS Jul 13, 2020
  • ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚ Truer words have never been spoken https://t.co/u4NuFe59lY Jul 18, 2020
  • Henry Cavill making a video showing himself building his own gaming computer almost makes me interested in the DC movies with Superman. Almost. Jul 18, 2020
  • Look at that cable management! (and those guns! ๐Ÿ’ช๐Ÿ˜†) https://t.co/K2OKTVhuN1 Jul 19, 2020
  • If you'll excuse me, I need to reload my arms to remount this CPU cooler https://t.co/U4ponkFkLY Jul 19, 2020
  • ๐Ÿคฃ https://t.co/t8ZfMLpgvk Jul 24, 2020
  • It's taken around a month of building on weekends, but it's finally finished! Now to find somewhere to put it... ๐Ÿ˜… https://t.co/AJ9M7jRoL6 Jul 25, 2020
  • Today marks the beginning of this year's DonateLife week! I'm alive today only because someone made the decision to donate their organs at the time of their passing, and their family supported that decision. Please help me spread the word on the importance of organ donation! https://t.co/f5KxL80DKV Jul 26, 2020
  • I received a split liver! I hope the kid that got the other part is doing well! Sign up to be an organ donor! ๐Ÿš€ https://t.co/YQxteXKHAn Jul 27, 2020
  • Big things are happening! e.g. https://t.co/o2Mr78UIG1 ๐Ÿš€ https://t.co/bp6L1HComC Jul 28, 2020
  • ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚ https://t.co/pI3CZqfvJn Jul 31, 2020
  • ARSENAL!!! Another FA Cup in the trophy cabinet! #Arsenal #FACupFinal Aug 01, 2020
  • This process has made me giggle a few times ๐Ÿ˜„ https://t.co/HhTPkdlPk5 Aug 02, 2020
  • Got that top photo really accurate, Google Maps ๐Ÿ™„๐Ÿ˜ https://t.co/FDaTnBXept Aug 04, 2020
  • Reported as inaccurate (I reckon it's a troll, considering it has the mapped geotag), so let's see how long it takes to be actioned! ๐Ÿ˜Ž Aug 04, 2020
  • Ugh, after getting another migration prompt, I read this. "Right now, YouTube Music feels like a cash grab." "Google has been doing an incredible amount of damage to its brand and its ecosystem in recent years by shutting down product after product." https://t.co/YPKj2HnL6h Aug 07, 2020
  • lol #GhostOfTsushima #PS4share https://t.co/3EUlIh1HCJ https://t.co/htBLU0S34n Aug 15, 2020
  • I remember how much of a great feature it was when we got a computer that automatically turned off when you shut down Windows. https://t.co/rwZntcEAlz Aug 22, 2020
  • I write software documentation for a living, and I still have to regularly look up the difference between an argument and a parameter ๐Ÿ˜… Aug 26, 2020
  • Me! Meeeeeeeeeeee!! ๐Ÿ‘ Now to decide what console to get it on! Too many choices!! https://t.co/KB06290xYY Aug 28, 2020
  • Ooof, devastated about Chadwick Boseman. I was planning to watch '42' tonight before I heard, and it'll be a different experience now.๐Ÿ˜ข Please go see a doctor if you have any doubts about your colon; colonoscopies aren't that bad! I have to get one done very year! Aug 29, 2020
  • For the first time in my ~20 years of using computers for study and work, I just spilled a glass of liquid (thankfully just water) across my desk. ๐Ÿ’ฆ It was good run while it lasted! Sep 01, 2020
  • ๐Ÿ˜ฌ๐Ÿ˜ฒEeep! It's a universal thing to hate hearing your own voice, but you can hear me talk about my technical writing journey for 20mins with the awesome @UQComputing!๐Ÿ’ป๐Ÿ“ https://t.co/3ORan0vG4w Sep 27, 2020
  • It's taken about 1 year to go from being stressed about my short-term mortality to back to being stressed about work and all the rest of 'regular' life stuff. I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not...๐Ÿค”๐Ÿ˜• Oct 03, 2020
  • Great cheat sheet! I often use multiple of these in my .zshrc functions without knowing what they mean! ๐Ÿคซ๐Ÿค“ https://t.co/n39ksW9qeJ Oct 04, 2020
  • This must be @bricewords's dream house https://t.co/30Og17GbTs Oct 07, 2020
  • Umm, so a thing happened... *sweats in git blame* ๐Ÿ˜… Seriously though, you, *YES YOU*, can contribute to the GitHub docs! https://t.co/R4rHtPwLSS Oct 08, 2020
  • Genius! https://t.co/IhNUpvmWYG Oct 10, 2020
  • After trying Android gesture navigation for 2 days, I can't say I'm a fan. Although it takes up less screen real-estate, it's inferior to the ol' three button navigation for speed, reliability, and finger effort. Fingers crossed Google still keeps it as an option long-term ๐Ÿคž๐Ÿ“ฑ Oct 17, 2020
  • ๐Ÿ˜ https://t.co/4MCo6aHnvc Oct 24, 2020
  • So much this. https://t.co/TXzBREBtNd Oct 27, 2020
  • getting reacquainted with one of my favourite games of all time! #SuperMario3DAllStars #NintendoSwitch https://t.co/3c85PI1NkV Oct 31, 2020
  • Arsenal got a penalty at Old Trafford! ๐Ÿ˜ฎ๐ŸŽ‰๐ŸŽ†๐Ÿ˜ Nov 02, 2020
  • I'm so bummed to hear Alex Trebeck ๐Ÿ’”๐Ÿ˜ญ. We only recently started watching Jeopardy regularly again (hard to get in AUS). Never going to be the same without him. https://t.co/jQs25YtQ0y Nov 09, 2020
  • And after loving the SNL skits portraying him and Sean Connery, it's somewhat nice they both passed within a week of each other in real life. Nov 09, 2020
  • ๐Ÿ˜ญ https://t.co/UGMdw1Nli2 Nov 10, 2020
  • Eeeep, I just jumped on the FOMO hype train and ordered a PS5 that should be arriving early Dec ๐Ÿš‚๐ŸŽฎ Nov 12, 2020
  • I had to look up the correct term for the space inside a letter, and I laughed way too hard at this on Wikipedia ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ https://t.co/PoLjOJIHo8 Nov 15, 2020
  • This weekend I converted my ooooold website Flash animations to HTML5! https://t.co/OWcxTXl0GB Nov 15, 2020
  • ๐Ÿ˜ญBeautiful. Although I didn't have cancer, the 9 years from diagnosis to transplant felt a lot like this kind of journey at times. Although post-transplant hasn't been the smoothest ride, I'm still so thankful that I'm on it๐Ÿš€ https://t.co/k26kExGAui Nov 17, 2020
  • I wake up every day with thanks for my donor and their family. They are literally a part of me, and I get to be with my family because of them. #DonateLife #ThankYouDay2020 https://t.co/rSsZlJ1R5j Nov 21, 2020
  • YES. Valuable service https://t.co/IfNUfKg2XF Nov 22, 2020
  • lololol https://t.co/VxuQj1looD Nov 24, 2020
  • When listening to songs or watching movies that mention Imperial/American units of measurement, I often think about the potential for an app that could instantly and automatically translate/subtitle them into metric units for the rest of us. ๐Ÿ˜ Nov 29, 2020
  • This is one of the features from this today's Universe ships that I've been so excited about! It's a 'simple' (ha, not really) thing, but it makes such a big difference to not have to wait for CI or checks to complete before hitting that merge button! ๐ŸŽ‰ https://t.co/Zr0XZ9GP91 Dec 09, 2020
  • YES. Discuss! https://t.co/Qt6jZOMiUG Dec 11, 2020
  • In the dev channel here! https://t.co/SOxEVVyiop See how we open sourced our docs! Dec 11, 2020
  • We're watching 'Victoria' season 3, and whenever a certain character comes on, all I can think of is this: https://t.co/dIPsOFMYLX Dec 17, 2020
  • Sad to hear about the passing of the original Boba Fett, Jeremy Bulloch. ๐Ÿ˜ข I met him at a Star Wars conference in 2002, and still have an autographed photo on my wall https://t.co/iM4vfvvMXo Dec 18, 2020
  • Restraining myself from leaving feedback on the spelling and grammar of the feedback message https://t.co/LTy39KmQmN Dec 27, 2020

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