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We were contemplating the cost of home-made #sourdough. Even with premium organic flour there’s about 60p of flour in a 750g loaf. Other ingredients are water and salt, which are negligible cost. Only other cost is running the oven. No idea what that is.

New oblong banneton = new bread shapes! Plus Shipton Mill flour, so I’m expecting good things. Even remembered to score it!! #sourdough

Having seen it in Fathom (analytics) and realised what a missing-jigsaw-piece it was, this looks like a neat package for command-line user registration in Laravel: https://github.com/michaeldyrynda/laravel-make-user

Weird. Not used eBay for weeks – suddenly started getting emails from them 2 days ago about a saved search. Logged in to find I had an email subscription to that saved search. But why did emails only just start being sent? Anyone else have this?

Why is email on your own domain so hard? Putting it in your hosting account sucks. Forwarding is bad. GSuite and Office365 are total overkill. What are the simple options?!

Is there a YouTube channel dedicated to showing dads who’ve never had long hair how to manage their 3yo daughter’s long hair?!

50% wholemeal then. Definitely less rise. I forgot to score before baking, which didn’t help. But pretty delicious warm and smothered in butter.

It has become apparent that my cheap, industrial, non-organic flour may be hindering my rise. I am officially a #sourdough #baking nerd!

First attempt at a 50/50 white/wholemeal #sourdough loaf. Seems about the right wetness but I’m not used to this texture. Hope it works out. (Dough made last night)

Is there a YouTube channel dedicated to showing dads who’ve never had long hair how to manage their 3yo daughter’s long hair?!

For a while I’ve been asking people to buy me “consumable” stuff like nice food treats for birthday and Christmas. This year EVERYONE took that request seriously, and I now have LOTS of nice beer, chocolate, biscuits, coffee and cake. Thanks to all who contributed!! 😃

I don’t even know what most of the non-tech news is about any more. There literally seem to be 3 or 4 big stories in the last week that have blown up on Twitter that I have no clue about. 🤷‍♂️

Trying to work out exactly WHAT Google Analytics does with personal identifying cookies. The _gid cookie seems to persist across sites, even when signed out. But I can find no reference to its use, and it’s not used in the new user deletion API. Anyone know more about this?

And actually, it’s REALLY hard to find out what Google do with the _gid cookie, which appears to be set and appears to personally identify you across different sites that use Google Analytics. There’s nothing in the Google data dashboard.

The more I dig into the question “Does Google Analytics require end-user consent”, the more I think the answer is “yes”, and the more I realise why so many websites turned on consent-driven cookie notices on May 25th.

It probably won’t happen soon, but I should document what my issues are with JS. Some of it is ingrained behaviour & old ways of doing things that I need to shake off. But I also think JS is pretty lacking in some areas. Perhaps those opinions also need to change? #learnToLoveJS

Also in #learnToLoveJS, I re-discovered https://codesandbox.io/ and decided I should get back in to Wes Bos’s JavaScript30 that I never finished. Must just make stuff.

This looks kinda neat. Would love more people to understand AI rather than just have heard the buzzword. https://www.elementsofai.com/

And yes, I’m aware that “speed” of a language isn’t a huge factor. Writing efficient code has a far bigger effect. So I gues the question really is: does the language help you write efficient code? #learnToLoveJS

What I couldn’t find was details of when bytecode compilation is done & if a Node or browser process keeps any kind of cached compiled code (bytecode or object code) for future execution/requests. My guess is that Node, at least, would do this. References anyone?! #learnToLoveJS