Jon Wood

CI/CD means "crashes immediately, can't debug"

I have reached DS9 in my rewatch of the Star Trek I grew up with, Next Generation, DS9, Voyager. I’d forgotten how hard it goes from the outset, and how well they used season 6 of TNG to lay the groundwork.

(Sorry Original Series fans, I tried watching that as well but I’m afraid it’s aged like a pint of milk on a summer’s day, especially the “HD” version where it’s incredibly obvious everything is made of polystyrene)

Geez, this language seems weird.

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This is on account of the fact that if you drink enough of it your heartbeat will be so fucking regular you can’t escape it.
https://halo.nu/users/theguardian_us_news/statuses/115524859471160044

browser extension that automatically blocks the opening third of every informational article where they tell you, who are looking for specific information about a named grain of wood, what a tree is

Jesus Christ. I ordered some takeaway from Uber Eats because it’s the only app that store is on and their website is awful.

As I was plating: “Did the food get delivered? Tell us when, help us train our model.”
20 minutes later: “Rate your meal”
Just now: “Pweeeease will you rate your meal?”

STOP BEING SO NEEDY COMPANIES.

@dltj @misty it’s truly upside down land when lending out digital copies of books costs substantially more than doing the same for books printed on actual paper.

Tried to climb this evening having not registered the 12km I’ve walked today because it wasn’t recreational walking. To the surprise of nobody but me it was unimpressive, gave up after 40 minutes of barely dragging myself up the simplest boulders.

This morning I have cleared a drain pipe of a minging fatberg, and replaced a plug socket. Pretty sure this entitles me to 1 (one) week off being an adult.

Achievement Unlocked: Planted into the mat from near the top of a boulder because while I’d got up, I had insufficient energy left to get back down again.

I’ve decided I’m dubbing VR headsets “funny metaverse hats”. Sorry, Zuck, you brought that one on yourself.

Me, 90 minutes ago: I’ll see how far I get on this in half an hour.

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.

#remembrance #antifa #sacrifice #hope

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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.

https://www.at5.nl/nieuws/235052/jim-b-ambtenaar-explosies

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.

Result: disappointing.

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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