Owen Niblock (@owenniblock) 's Twitter Profile
Owen Niblock

@owenniblock

Stand-up at night. Part of GitHub Accessibility team in the day. Autistic. Special interests include Star Trek, writing code and VR. Very slowly writing a book.

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My eldest redid a year before high school and it was the best thing we ever did. Our local authority then wouldn't let her enroll in year 7 and said she'd have to start in year 8 🤦 happy to say she's doing incredibly well now (not in the local high school though)

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Reads article: "not many people realise Jeff Bezos was so old when he started Amazon" 30. He was 30. Looks like it's too late for this crumbling old 43 year old 🤣

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There are now more than 200,000 people waiting for autism assessments in England – that’s more than the population of Reading. This should be a huge wake-up call to the Government to urgently fix this broken system, which lets down autistic people and their families:

There are now more than 200,000 people waiting for autism assessments in England – that’s more than the population of Reading. This should be a huge wake-up call to the Government to urgently fix this broken system, which lets down autistic people and their families:
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Achtung Freunde - GitHub is expanding our DevRel team, and we'd love to hire an amazing Senior Developer Advocate based out of Munich, Germany! If you know someone who would be perfect, please share this with them! #jobs #hiring githubinc.jibeapply.com/jobs/3760

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Writing friends: who does copywork and who have you copied? Have you seen an improvement to your writing and have you learnt anything specific that surprised you?

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Hear me out: a TTRPG where you play 4 bards joining together to create a band. You each get an actual instrument, and as you gain levels, it teaches you to play and sing together.

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I've got such lovely memories of seeing Tim Minchin play this at Green Man many moons ago, and of chatting with him in the comedy tent about the joys of parenting. Nice when you meet someone that high-profile and they're a lovely, decent human being 🎉

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Reading about writing in Third Person Omniscient today and realised that many of my favourite books are written in this style. Who knew? Narrator: no-one knew.

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We tried so hard to breastfeed but it just wasn't happening. In hindsight, we're pretty sure it was either a sensory or processing issue. I hope these studies have looked at whether autism is the cause of not breastfeeding rather than the other way round...

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It's a personal commitment of mine that every single image I post to my feed I include alt text for Alt text isn't just helpful for screen readers, it's also generally helpful for understanding the image It only takes a little time, but can make a world of difference