How do I explain to my boy (6) why it’s not appropriate for me to paint his face so he looks like Mace Windu?
16/02/2018, 20:19
Finally watching the news from America. I am SO cross. How can Trump stand up and say “your pain is our pain…we’ll do anything we can do” and NOT crack down on guns. As the senator said: people die – children die – because of their inaction.
16/02/2018, 20:18
I can’t do ANYTHING at the moment without disappearing down a rabbit hole.
Trying to: update portfolio with screen grabs of projects
Rabbit hole: found a Chrome bug with built-in screen-shotting when using vh units! (https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=761136)
16/02/2018, 20:16
Is there a way to eat popcorn that doesn’t look like you’re trying to eat something twice the size of your own hand?
16/02/2018, 20:15
Is it bad that, even though I’m a geeky coder type, I find blockchain and crypto-currency unfathomably boring and have taken very little interest in it?
I feel like I hear more about it from marketers than from real tech people.
It’s nothing more than buzzwords to me right now.
16/02/2018, 20:15
Oh, gah. I’ve been neglecting my Micro Blog.
Here are some catch-up posts…
01/02/2018, 08:19
Tempted to start a parody Twitter account named “The Mindful Parent”. Example:
“Mindful Tip: By naming your distractions — and the root cause of them — you can catch yourself and return your attention to…HENRY!!! CLIMB OUT FROM BEHIND THE SOFA PLEASE!!!!”
31/01/2018, 22:33
This evening I did the washing up while listening to podcasts at 1.5x speed.
Can someone find a way for me do the opposite: wash up at 1.5x speed while listening to podcasts?
31/01/2018, 21:43
Yay! Successful, DIY iPhone battery replacement! Not without complication, but all is well.
31/01/2018, 13:51
Front end dev tooling is a MESS!
Bower is not really a thing any more, so Bootstrap 4 has removed it as a means of distribution. So if you update a framework that used Bower to include Bootstrap 4-beta to use Bootstrap 4.0.0 instead it all breaks!
Thanks everyone!!
31/01/2018, 13:51
Yesterday was my 10th Twitter Birthday! Ten years I’ve been on that thing. Yes, it has its bad bits, but it’s been a source of learning, friendship, opportunity, fun and, occasionally news.
31/01/2018, 13:30
Have you seen my stationary scissors? They seem to have moved!
28/01/2018, 10:15
How have I not seen “Up Goer 5” before? A Saturn 5 rocket labelled with only the ten hundred most frequently used English words. Amazing. https://xkcd.com/1133/
15/01/2018, 11:05
Great thing about having an actual blog: posts from ten years ago still turn up in long-tail search results and get commented on. It’s amazing!
14/01/2018, 20:51
I should add that I was very grateful to have my kids babysat so we could have some time out at the flicks. It was fun and very enjoyable and relaxing!
14/01/2018, 20:51
Not been to the cinema for a while. Gosh, it’s just one long series of dark patterns designed to make you spend money on anything but watching a film. Surprised the toilets were free tbh.
14/01/2018, 20:51
Product idea: an app that crowdsources the ACTUAL start time of movies at the cinema.
(Business model: cinemas pay you to not publish the times for THEIR cinema)
14/01/2018, 20:50
I have seen “The Last Jedi”. I think, overall, it was a bit too random. Or maybe there was a ton of stuff that I just didn’t get.
13/01/2018, 18:51
As Facebook lowers reach of un-paid page posts, Facebook actually becomes LESS relevant for me. Seriously wouldn’t miss it right now. Enjoying the micro.blog and blogging community again.
11/01/2018, 13:55
Product idea: hirsute-friendly event admission wristbands.