Laura@CodeBoom

Creator of guizero. Co-author of ‘Create Graphical User Interfaces with Python’. Someone’s mum. Formerly @raspberrypi_org

lawsie.github.io/guizero
Joined December 2011
Just popped in to say, why do all the food colourings that actually work always have the bad E numbers? 😩

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Shout out to that time 4 years ago at Picademy Bath when Travelodge staff decided to restock a cupboard at 1am, twice. 😖
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Not sure it gets more vintage than this. A 30 year old Maltesers box containing Thunderbirds cards, labelled with a DYMO.
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Replying to @krn
Got this ad on Facebook and thought of you 🤣
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Feeling right chuffed, just 100%ed my L2 cert in Food Safety for catering 😎

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Replying to @Snotlady5
Don’t be frightened of it if they offer it tho - the risk is extremely low and they are prepared and alert for a reaction. It also looks like Guinness in a drip 🤣
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Peeka Hurt You Cup 2023, @bathrollerderby let’s DO THIS!! 🌈🥰❤️🛼 #PHUC #PHUC2023
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Perhaps my next job should be at @xkcd 🤣
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Brilliant Google translate fail! 🤣 (I’m pretty sure it’s actually a choux bun)
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Oh. My. God.
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I wish I could buy these Friends pants for my *checks notes* 8 year old, but I don’t want to.
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I had a Friends diary in about year 11, but a tie dye stationery set? I KNOW.
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I mean, could this BE any more of a flagrant lie? 🤣
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Replying to @davejavupride
Current status 🙄
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Oh dear, just found this in a job spec for a very large company 😩
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Replying to @martinohanlon
Sev-EN! Also can’t even remember what the last one is 🤣
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Kitten defo living her best life ❤️ (but now I can’t move!)
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I'll be presenting at #CSTA2023 on Wednesday (this is 4pm UK time) - come along and find out how to get started with the Python library #guizero which @martinohanlon and I created
A photograph of Laura Sach with the caption Create Graphical Interfaces with Python, 7/12/23 11.00AM - 12.30PM PT

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Replying to @twostraws
This was even at Birmingham New Street! 🤷‍♀️
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Replying to @krn
😬

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Replying to @Ki113r_7
Make sure to also equip lots of metal

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FAB day today with friends at the @BreastCancerNow 10 mile #PinkRibbon walk ❤️ Best fun I’ve had in ages! Love the snack stops 🤣
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I mean, who am I to argue @LinkedInUK 🤔 🤣 Maybe it’s a bit like how going to school means you know how to teach? 🙄
Job ad for a clinical research fellow on LinkedIn which it says matches my profile, but I have zero medical qualifications

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I swear that this @nytimes game teaches me more about which words are not a thing in US English than anything else 🤣 🇺🇸 🇬🇧
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Are you drunk, LinkedIn? 🤪
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My birthday cake, which has turned out to be an Ishihara test of whether you can see fudge chunks 😂
A birthday cake with the number 39 on it which looks like the tests for colour blindness with the coloured dots.

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Reached laundrybox zero!! 🎉🎉

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OTOH this one was amazing ❤️
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At @BlenheimPalace (otherwise lovely) and been served a “cappuccino” so awful I couldn’t bear to drink it. 🤷‍♀️ Please do some basic barista training 😬
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This is my mince pie pastry recipe - you can either do it with a whole egg or only yolk and some water. 👍
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Today was my last day at ⁦@RaspberryPi_org⁩ ❤️ Definitely a lot of emotions, it’s been a wild ride.
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I just had some super good health news so I just want to say OH YEAH 😎

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Not really sure about this new Bon Jovi song.
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Replying to @yoz @simonw
Haha it was a while ago now! Not sure if I have the slides, but it was a talk for the UK Bebras finalists at the University of Oxford.
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Replying to @judy2k
When you planned to get things done once your kids had gone to sleep, but it’s now 8pm and every ounce of motivation has left your body

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Am I the only person who can’t stand that the Twitter font for @ handles is different to the main font and the l has a curvy bit so it isn’t consistent?! (Sorry @wilbossman you were the last straw!)
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On the last of my 2022 Sloe Gin (with soda) 👍
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Horrendous day, I haven’t stopped crying. Said goodbye to Tab, my friend for 15 years. She was the best cat you could wish for. I am broken. 💔
Tab, the best cat you could wish for

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Um…OK then Amazon 🤔🤷‍♀️
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Um nope, never heard of it, New York Times. 🤷‍♀️ We don’t even use the word broil!
Crossword clue “Meat Entree in the United Kingdom” and the answer is “London broil”

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Never made a Swiss roll before, let alone a yule log, so I’m pretty chuffed with this chap. Cheers @Nigella_Lawson 👌
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Replying to @martinohanlon
Good enough?
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Well there we go! 💪 #Duolingo365
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Well this basically sums up my experience with the @BootsUK website (and no, I didn’t intend to put 76 items in my basket). 🤷‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️
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Dear me. Turns out the pies are 58p EACH and from Waitrose, so the story is actually “Waitrose makes expensive but good mince pies”. No shit.
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I just noticed that my daughter’s play kitchen has the world’s first Fridge/Oven combo?! 🤪
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Picked a zillion tomatoes from our garden and immediately converted them to chutney. Can’t get much fresher than that 🍅 💅
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Tomorrow is the one year anniversary of the worst day of my life. 😞 Please go and have a check👇❤️🦀
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Found this guy who surprisingly grew outside this summer 🙌
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How cool to be at work in Cambridge yesterday and today, for the first time since 2020! 😄
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Replying to @Vanderpere

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