Jack Ryan

Jack Ryan

@jmfryan.bsky.social

Principal engineer at Intercom. Father of two. Not a secret agent.

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The Zoopla "Redesign" feature is completely bonkers. It will happily reshape windows, heighten ceilings, or move the property from the middle of a city into beautiful countryside. But it has absolutely no idea that it could possibly put the sofa on the other side of the room.

TIL that Time.now in Ruby has different precisions on OSX and Linux. On OSX I can save a a time to MySQL and retrieve it with no loss of precision (6 decimal places). On Linux it starts with 10 and then comes back with 6 after save & retrieval.

I’m not one of those people who goes out with wipes and spare clothes. I trust my kids to deal with the world in a sensible way. Today on the bus my 4 year old put a chocolate egg in his mouth. Chewed it. Then said he didn’t like it and spat it into my hand. I wish I was one of those people now

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