On the plus side, I completed not one but two climbs I’ve been struggling with for some time today. On the negative side, good God, my entire body aches now.
I’m very much enjoying having A Project but it’s not doing my sleep cycle any good at all. Or more accurately my sleep deficit, because unfortunately just because I’m going to bed an hour or so late most nights doesn’t mean I can get up an hour or so late the next day.
I always find the build up to remembrance day difficult - because the mainstream way to remember is not the way I remember
Because many who say "lest we forget" - remember only what they choose to
Because we have forgotten to fight nazis
Because the UK forgot that the EU was the way we ensured "never again"
Because they gave everything and went through hell to save our world - now we argue about giving up plastic straws to save it for our kids.
I left my ISP a less than perfect Trustpilot review yesterday, broadly summarised as “good internet, wish they’d stop begging for a good review”. Their response was to call me, and then when I didn’t pick up email, to see if might be persuaded to make the review better.
I’m tempted to go drop it a star in response. Regardless, this is now going to be my response to all NPS score emails where it’s clear the answer won’t result in a callcentre worker getting bollocked.
News site developers who push your site’s home page into the history stack over the top of wherever I came from: there’s a special place in hell for you.
It’s not terrible or anything. Just an eternity of mild annoyances getting in the way of going where you want to be.
Please enjoy this photo of Tolly, a cat who can do the very best impression of the idealistic anime cat face.
I’m building a thing in a framework that includes Tailwind for CSS and thought stay with it and see just how bad it is.
The official documentation recommends “use multiple cursor editing” as an approach to manage the vast amount of duplication everywhere. Someone actually sat down, wrote that, and recorded a little video to go with it.
They do concede that sometimes you might, shock, horror, write your own CSS class. This should be avoided though.
Today in Dutch crime:
— There was a tax officer with legitimate access to a database of information on citizens, needed to do his job
— His lookups in the database increased an order of magnitude, often after work hours
— The people whose information he looked up were peculiarly likely to experience a mafia intimidation crime (such as fireworks-in-the-mail-slot) shortly afterwards
This is why thorough audit logs are such a crucial part of computer security. If your org handles sensitive personal information, you should be proactively looking for users with an unusually high number of accesses, or who are looking up celebrities, politicians or their own family and neighbors for no clear reason.
Finally. FINALLY. Defeated one of my nemesis boulders this evening, one that is well within my abilities until the last two moves which I just could not get. I’ve been trying this one for about a month now, and tonight I spotted the move I’ve been missing which makes it all fall into place.
This is why I enjoy climbing as a hobby, it’s exercise, but also it’s defeating little puzzles with grades attached to them. Basically catnip for my brain.
Your call is important to us. But not important enough for us to hire enough staff that it will be answered anytime soon, don’t get too full of yourself.
Once again woken up mad that we have made a world where the number one priority is that the money is happy
My brother and I nerd sniped each other and now we’re plotting a YouTube series which is a combination of Jet Lag and GeoGuessr called DashCam which we’ll probably never make, but I reckon it would be a banger if we did.
The BABY CHANGING STATION is where you can allocate ATTRIBUTE POINTS to raise your baby's ATTRIBUTES, and unlock SKILLS with SKILL POINTS. You can also replace your baby's EQUIPMENT.
Just saw the most egregious use of YouTube face in a thumbnail while browsing some Google Cloud documentation. Nobody needs to be doing that to themselves for a video entitled “Manage CAs with Terraform”, either I’m interested in that or I’m not, you’re not getting driveby views on that regardless of how excited you look about the prospect.
Everything may be shite but this will make you happy, albeit briefly.
Promise.
I’ve managed to lose an AirTag. I can say for certain it’s somewhere in my bag telling me the battery is low, but I’ve checked all the pockets and I can’t find the thing to change its battery.
I’ve been setting up a curiously large amount of software for acquiring Linux ISOs the last couple of evenings. Think I’ve got it down now, it can automatically find ISOs of interest and then make them available via the ISO viewing software on my TV for ease of browsing.
I see OpenAI have invented Alexa Skills. Lots of copy in this documentation saying how they shouldn’t be used for ads, or promoting users to come back to your company’s app, while these will absolutely be used for ads and feature prompts to come back. https://developers.openai.com/apps-sdk/concepts/design-guidelines/
I introduced the boy to git today (with a UI in VS Code, I’m not a monster), leading to the wonderful question “shall I make a commitment” when a change seemed like it was done. Took me a minute to work out what he meant.
The boy dropped “I want to make a Peak mod” on me this morning. Our history with “I want you to make an X mod” is that we attempt it, everything is terribly documented, and after several hours of getting gradually more annoyed we both lose interest (generally I lose interest a bit after he does).
Shout out to the Peak/Unity games modding community for making it not hateful. He’s added actual code that does something already, even said he enjoyed the process!
I think I need to switch software I’m using for my Fedi instance. Does anyone have a reasonable reference on what needs to happen for followers to stay following me?
I’ve been reminded again of Swatch Internet Time, which has a (still online!) powerfully 90s web page including the mention of someone meeting their cyberfriend.
I think I’ll adopt cyberfriend, it’s better than “the people who live in my phone”, so hello cyberfriends!