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2024-06-14 09:14:24

I’ll be glad when all this change is over. Job change. New garden office arriving (and getting out of old office). All the annual car-owner shenanigans. Extra accidental car-owner shenanigans.

😥

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2024-06-13 23:43:02

This is public enough that I can probably say it here now…

I have a new role at WP Engine!!

Three years ago I joined Delicious Brains as a web developer. And it was always my hope that there might be a path to working on the product teams there.

Two years ago WP Engine bought Delicious Brains and I got put in their web dev team in marketing (which is a SUPERB team!)

But on July 8th I will fulfill the goal and begin work on the products developing WP Migrate and Offload! Yay!! 🙌

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2024-06-11 12:26:17

UK Politics

I heard a bit of Rishi’s manifesto launch.

I literally want to pay more tax and for you to invest in clean energy.

So it sounds like your “clear plan” is clearly not for me.

Though I’m not expecting much from Labour either.

I guess that makes me a socialist or something.

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2024-06-05 21:36:45

Garden office news.

The people that lived here before us didn’t do many things right when they renovated the place.

BUT…

They did think to run a tough pipe with electrical and CAT-5 cable down the 30m garden.

The electrics checked out a few weeks ago.

Today I crimped a couple of RJ45s on to see what will happen. Turns out I have a working cable already running to the site! 🙌

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2024-06-05 09:19:20

Product idea for UK primary school parents: A re-usable dressing-up costume for special school dress-up days. Hear me out…

Take a toga-style dress and sew on a bunch of Velcro patches.

Then sell kits of stick-on adornments. Fur (for cavemen day), a sash and gold bits (for Romans Day), red dots (for Comic Relief), coloured dots (for Children in Need) and various attachments for world book day!

Win!!

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2024-06-04 10:08:00

Why is everything about me so in-betweeny?

I'm a late Gen-Xer, but an early/borderline Xennial.

I was born and live in Swindon which is kinda on the border of West, Midlands, South and South West England.

I rarely hold extreme opinions.

I'm destined to be middle-of-everything.

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2024-06-02 11:12:20

Finally, while I liked the real buttons, there was shiny edging in the interior that, at times, reflected bright sunlight at me from several directions at once.

Oh, and the display brightness setting was buried in an obscure menu in the touchscreen. Which totally threw me when I first turned the lights on and could barely see the display.

Just SO badly designed. Was glad to hand it back.

Yes. First world problems or whatever. Thanks for enduring my rant.

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2024-06-02 11:09:07

The steering wheel was small as well. Which meant that… you could not see any of the controls on the stalks! Which is fine if it’s your car and you’ve memorised everything. But I only had a week and no instruction manual.

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2024-06-02 11:07:28

The drinks holder was also too high meaning that resting my left arm meant resting it ON MY DRINK! 🙄

Who thinks of these things‽

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2024-06-02 11:04:47

Well… it was really (adjusted for my own expextations) big on the outside but surprisingly small on the inside. It must have had very thick walls. But in the front it also had the MASSIVE central console thing that meant that I felt really cramped as a driver.

The console also had a ridge on it at about the height of my knee, so resting my left leg against it was actually painful.