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“Pay for privacy plus” says the cookie consent banner on a news article I barely cared about to begin with. It is 10am and I already want to burn everything down.

@mattl @CatherineFlick while I applaud the sentiment, no, I would not install a third party tracking system on my website in the year 2025.

Not saying the postman is juicing his stats but the parcel that was due before midday and marked as delivered at 11:30 just got posted through my letterbox at 16:45.

“Astro introduced something called "Island Architecture," and once you understand it, you'll wonder why we've been doing things any other way.

Your pages are static HTML by default, and only the bits that need interactivity become JavaScript "islands."

(From websmith.studio/blog/astro-is-

We’ve gone full circle folks, all the way back round to “generate HTML on the server and progressively enhance with JavaScript”.

It finally happened, I ended up on my arse while bouldering, via my elbow. Not ideal because it hurts, and I wanted to climb more, but it does mean I’m pushing out of my comfort zone. Also I got back on and kicked that boulder’s arse before the adrenaline ran out and I noticed quite how sore i was.

@adhdjesse there’s no need to call me out like that.

Grabbed some stuff out the bottom of my bag, and look who came along.

Slow clap for VOXI, who offer the memorable word option “Grandma’s postcode” and then require it to be 6-12 characters.

I think I might make my whole identity the belief that podcasts should be abbreviated to casts rather than pods. The “pod” bit is vestigial now no one is listening to them on iPods. Also “listen to my cast” sounds way cooler.

Your devices can have unlimited battery life with this one weird trick.