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More for puzzlers… today I discovered the “BlackBox" game on iOS. Like an escape room on your phone.

A really neat puzzle game. Worth doing the free stuff at least, if you've not already done so.

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/blackbox/id962969578

I’ve always been a frustrated cryptic corssworder. I really want to get good but never have.

This week I discovered the daily Minute Cryptic, and it’s a really good way to get learning with good explainers and not the frustration of an entire puzzle to do.

https://www.minutecryptic.com/

Oh come on. My SonyEricsson K750i had this five years earlier than that!!!

https://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/mobile-phones/retro-phone-review-sony-ericsson-k750i-1299208
https://www.threads.net/@tomwarrenuk/post/C_vy3xzOcKG

@davatron5000 Also… was interesting to hear more of your thoughts on “Second Brains”.

FWIW I made https://notes.veryuseful.app/ which saves a single JSON file with all my Markdown notes in it to a local file. The only limit being how much you can load into your browser at once.

(The made this because corp IT doesn’t have a markdown notes editor approved. 🙄)

I had a plan to sync to Dropbox as my next step. This wouldn’t merge but would make it cloud-available.

Might be something to think about.

Do any #WordPress folks here know which Facebook group turbo-admin.com was mentioned in today? Got a nice bump in traffic and some sales, but I don’t know where from.

📖 Seriously – I’m really churning through books. This one was short and for good reason. It’s an excellent book of information and strategies for ADHD adults. I often feel like I’m non-neurotypical despite not having a diagnosis of everything. There’s definitely stuff I relate to in here and definitely some great tips and strategies!

https://rosswintle.uk/2024/09/book-extra-focus-jesse-j-anderson/

I’m fascinated by international parcel tracking.

UPS have a parcel for me that left Philadelphia at 11:08 this morning. And it’s scheduled for delivery by 10:30 tomorrow morning.

It’s probably got to get to a UK airport, then to a distribution centre, then to the local delivery hub, and then out for delivery.

Race on!!

🍿 ⏱️

📖 Weird how I’m reading so many books all of a sudden.

Blake Crouch’s Recursion was fun, though too long and ended with a whimper.

My notes contain mild spoilers, but probably nothing you couldn’t figure out from the blurb.

https://rosswintle.uk/2024/09/book-recursion-blake-crouch/

OK. Who did this?

https://wpetch.com/

Not sure if I’m laughing, or despairing.

📱 I am sort-of liking the new Reeder app. I’m missing either integration with Feedbin or an email-to-RSS feature.

Thoughts: https://rosswintle.uk/2024/09/the-new-reeder-app/

I know the response to the Minecraft Movie trailer has not been 100% positive, but it turns out that the music on it (and the sung parts) are by an acquaintance of mine!

That’s quite a gig!!!

I still think… if you work in an environment where there is code review, you need to give the reviewer as MUCH information as you possibly can.

This might be in the code.

It might be in comments.

It might be in the pull request.

It might be in coding standards.

But I want context, descriptions, explaniers, and typehints.

And use tooling and standards to minimise questions.

Because writing questions well is effort!!

Oh heaven help my. New colleagues. I basically can’t review code without type information. My brain can not do it. And I have so many opinions about how you should write and structure code.

I’m kind and many comments are phrased as questions or marked as optional/style/nitpick. But even so. It’s got to be rough! 😬

What does this mean:

“Compared to human drivers, Waymo recorded 100% fewer injury claims”.

So… is that zero?

I note that this would be a good Cards Against Humanity card:

“Thanks to the power of Facebook and some lovely members of the community, we have finally found __________.”

There seemed to be a bit of a something going down in a Costa Cafe this afternoon. So I popped in to Facebook (a rare occurrence!) to check the local community notice board.

Nothing. So I searched for “Costa” in the group and the first result said…

“Thanks to the power of Facebook and some lovely members of staff at Costa…

…the teeth have been found!”

Which is great for the owner of the teeth. But also made me laugh out loud. Not what I was expecting.