Phil Gyford

@phil.gyford.com

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More active on Mastodon. Can't read DMs on here, but you can email me at phil@gyford.com At https://www.gyford.com In Herefordshire, UK. Also runs @samuelpepys.bsky.social and @ooh.directory

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Lisbon 21 June/1 July 1675 SIR Although my indisposition, when your admirable picture arrived here, prevented my returning you earlier thanks for so extraordinary a favour, yet this delay has not diminished that just sense I have of so great a kindness. The picture is beyond praise, but causes admiration in all that see it its so stately, and magnificent a posture, and hits so naturally your proportion, and the noble air of your face, that I remain immoverable before it, hours together. I know not how to thank you for so great a kindness nor do I see any possibility of requital but this I assure you, if I die here he bequeath it to you, or rather restore it, and if I carry it off it shall always be at your disposal.
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* Dissent: 166 issues, Winter 1974 to Spring 2018 * Fabian News, tracts, pamphlets, etc: Approx 483 issues. From 1964? to mid 1970s? * Fabian Review and pamphlets: 27 issues, around 1999-2005 * Labour Party News: 39 issues, 1986-1995 * Socialist Affairs: 134 issues, 1971-2003 * Socialist International Information: 26 issues, 1969-1970 * Problems of Communism: approx 119 issues * Renewal: 26 issues, 1993-1999
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STOP DOING DEV OPS ON PERSONAL SITES • PERSONAL WEBSITES WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE IN CLOUDS • YEARS OF BLOGGING yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for zero-downtime CI/CD PIPELINES • Wanted to put your website on the net ? We had a tool for that: It was called "FTP" • "Yes please orchestrate my deployment. Please provision horizontal scaling" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged LOOK at what DevOps Engineers have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the homepages & fan sites we built for them (This is REAL Ops, done by REAL Engineers) "Hello I would like to containerize the application layer please" They have played us for absolute fools
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