Month: May 2024

Forget social media and video games…

… I’m gonna get such a dopamine hit when a bird finally uses my new bird feeder.

😂🐦🐦🐦

This news story is a near-perfect Ross cross-over of:

– Grammar policing
– IT system ridiculousness
– Over-enthusiastic NIMBYism

North Yorkshire Council to phase out apostrophe use on street signs
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-68942321

Oh dear. How awfully (or wonderfully!) middle aged am I now.

I have a preferred toothpaste brand.

And I’m buying bird feeders and watching the birds in my garden.

😂

Nice to see Chris being productive. I like the “right tools for the job” message here!

Launching New Sites on Astro
https://chriswiegman.com/2024/05/launching-new-sites-on-astro/

Ooof. Shots fired on the weekly satirical news quiz show…

“I haven’t been to Rwanda, but I’ve been to Swindon. We should threaten to send asylum seekers there. That would put them off coming.”

How long have I been a professional programmer?

Over 25 years. That’s how long.

What was I doing today?

Debating the relative merits of the following:

if (title)

if (Boolean(title))

if (title !== undefined)

if ((typeof title) != null)

if (title ?? ‘’)

I’m not sure if this is because of my experience, or despite it! 😬

UK Politics

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Holy Moly. Just over a year ago my council was Conservative controlled. Labour claimed it last year. There's now 41 Labour councillors and 15 Conservative!

This was a "Labour hold", but in reality the Tories have been truly demolished over the last two local elections.

TIL what the most dangerous animal (measured by how many people are killed by them) in the UK is.

VERY interesting!

Lol. Pop quiz for web dev nerds:

Why might you suddenly start seeing Stripe test card failures today?

Excellent video from @briancoords on #WordPress dot-com (!) Studio that clarifies what it is and debunks what it is not.

https://youtu.be/QEP3H17BkVI

Opens work Slack to check for alerts.

Not really any alerts. But oh my, someone let off a Slack bomb and I can see my whole morning draining away before my eyes.