Martin Costello 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🪿

@martincostello.com

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Software Developer. Nerd. Cynic. Has lovely, soft, floppy ears. Nerdy on main, 24/7. Rainbow person. I help .NET o11y 🔭 at 📈ana. He/him/his. HONK 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺💻

A view of Tower Bridge, the river Thames and The Shard. There’s also 4 red London buses including a Routemaster.
Vic Reeves as Lloyd Grossman as an alien
An obscured 3D rendering of the ENG ARG match from BBC Sport
Microsoft MVP Communities You've been accepted to the Microsoft MVP Program! Martin Costello, We're pleased to invite you to the Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVP) program in recognition of your outstanding contributions to the community in the following technical area(s): • .NET
A framed map on a wall
A 10 day forecast where the lowest high is 27° for the next 8 days
A diner(?) at night. There’s a man with his back to us sat at the counter, a couple talking over a coffee 90° to him, and an attendant wearing white behind the counter.
A man wearing a white t-shirt with a picture of a goose with a question mark next to it
Drand Radium Brand CREAMERY BUTTER This butter is churned from pure pasteurized cream and in this carton will retain all of its original goodness and purity.
A birthday cake that looks like Neapolitan ice cream
A picture of born-on-this-day heartthrob, me. Smiling uncharacteristically.
Marge Simpson’s face smeared on a T-shirt
A word pair match challenge in Duolingo where all three pairs of available options are hello and bonjour
The Thomas The Tank Engine book "A Cow on the Line" showing Percy stopped next to two cows on the train tracks
The eyes of the suspicious dog from The Simpsons
A Virgin Media service outage with an estimated fix time of 5pm
A screenshot of a Mr Beast post from LinkedIn
32° | Mostly Sunny ~ AVERAGES +15° above average daily high Today Average 8 FEELS LIKE 33° H:35° H:20° It feels warmer than the actual temperature.
A free-standing air conditioner showing a temperature of 28°C
A stormtrooper stood outside on a residential balcony
Apparently I know approximately 70,250 words
Morbo from Futurama shouting at his colleague on the news desk "Caffeines do not work that way!"
ST. IVES. BREWERY WHISTLING UP THE WIND IPA PEACH, JUICY, CREAMY, THICK
Me holding a stuffed Paddington Bear toy with a copy of "We’re going on a Bear Hunt" on my lap
A goose sat in the shade in a field
A small black goat
A packet of tic tacs that are "Fruit Adventure" flavoured
Bart and Lisa Simpson talking. B: I thought you came here looking for a challenge. L: Duh. A challenge I could do.
A dolphin in a harbour.
A view of the sea. The water is calm and there are a number of small boats.
A harbour. The water is calm and clear with no clouds in the sky.
A title card from Star Trek Voyager with the title "Delete the wife"
Groundskeeper Willie from The Simpsons in a classroom dressed in a beret and striped blue top. The blackboard behind him has "BONJOUR" written on it
Trixie and Katya with the caption "We’re having WEATHER!"
A Crunchie bar
A handwritten post it note that says "Harry is very clever" dated 04/07/2017
The bugs bunny tuxedo meme: "I wish all Wes Streeting a very nope"
The old lady with glasses looking at a computer meme
Martin Prince sat on the school bus looking down proudly at his t-shirt which has “WANG COMPUTERS” printed on it
My notifications tab with a large red error bar saying "Forbidden!"
NO. HE LOOKS LIKE SOMETHING MIGHT BE DISTURBING HIM. PROBABLY MISSES HIS OLD GLASSES
Edward and Tubbs in The League of Gentlemen. Tubs is shouting “We didn’t burn him” to a man leaving their shop.
A push notification: Fitness+ Try Something New Challenge yourself with a free HIlT workout, this month only.
(-Not [string]::IsNul10rEmpty(§{env:GITHUB_SHA) 76 SadditionalArgs += "--logger:GitHubActions; rer 77 $additionalArgs += "--logger:junit;LogFilePath 78 SadditionalArgs += "--blame-hang" 79 additionalArgs += "--blame-hang-timeout" 76 SadditionalArgs += "--hangdump" 77 additionalArgs += "--hangdump-timeout" 78 SadditionalArgs += "180s" 79 $additionalArgs += "--report-junit" 80 SadditionalArgs += "--report-junit-filename" 81 SadditionalArgs += "$([System.IO.Path]::GetFil
What: Fix a small typo in the README setup instructions. Why: The current text says contining, which should be containing. How: • update the README wording in place • keep the change to a single file • avoid any dependency or refactor changes Scope: ≤2 files, ≤80 LOC, no deps, no refactor Testing: Not run (Cl only) Issue link: none (observed README typo)
Green Day at the National Indoor Arena from 15/04/2005
A Duolingo screen showing Dutch to French marching pairs for “Latin” and “Todo”
Major Carter from Stargate SG-1 writing some code on a whiteboard in marker pen. Apparently reading from a file is really important to off-world space travel.
A BBC News headline: "Trump urges UK and other nations to send ships to help secure Strait of Hormuz after Iranian attacks"
A photo of a robin sat in a bird feeder with the caption: "Is this robin abnormally large?"
A shared sentence in French from Duolingo. "We will give ten of them to Marc" with the comment "And Marc will be satisfied with these inches 🤗"
A screenshot from a LinkedIn invite: "Hey Martin! I saw your typo fix in Cosmos package README on the Entity Framework Core and thought you'd be perfect for a project I'm running where we collaborate with top SWEs to push the capabilities of leading LLMs. Want to hear more?"
Thorgy Thor about to say "Love Pink"
Lisa Simpson lying on her bed staring at the ceiling with a blank expression
A man wearing a t-shirt under a zip hoodie. The caption appears to read "Ebel cum"
Jeremy from Peep Show with the caption "That wasn’t very jubilant of you"
A ticket attendant at Euro Itchy and Scratchy Land from The Simpsons shouting « my children need wine »
The drinking bird toy from The Simpsons pressing the Y key on a keyboard over and over
A fresco of a drunk(annoyed?)-looking saint
Homer and Marge Simpson in their car, Homer is talking: “ BLAME THE GUY WHO CAN'T SPEAK ENGLISH. AH, TIBOR, HOW MANY TIMES HAVE YOU SAVED MY BUTT?”