2024-05-05 19:51:16

Saw this hilarious game on Taskmaster season 12.

I think I know what my next turn-based web game will be! šŸ˜‚

2024-05-05 18:41:03

Forget social media and video games…

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

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2024-05-05 15:02:46

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

2024-05-05 14:28:41

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.

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2024-05-03 21:28:56

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

ā€œI 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.ā€

2024-05-03 21:09:39

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 ?? ā€˜ā€™)

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

2024-05-03 12:36:31

UK Politics


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.

2024-05-01 20:46:20

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

VERY interesting!

2024-05-01 07:57:45

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.

2024-04-30 23:54:14

People with publicly visible tattoos… how do you feel about people asking about them? Is it annoying? Or do you like it … is that the point?

2024-04-30 22:45:44

Thinking that, at some point, when I have some more time. I'd like to revive my Beyond WP newsletter/blog.

In some ways it makes sense that the WordPress news is all about WordPress. But there's SO much going on elsewhere in tech that's cool and I think more WP developers should developers should be looking outside the WordPress ecosystem and there doesn’t seem to be anything that caters for this.

2024-04-28 23:42:28

Weekend hacking after @topher1kenobe pointed me at ā€œOttendorf Cyphersā€.

I’ve heard about these, though I didn’t remember the name.

It’s a cypher/code where two people have the same book and the code is page/word/letter.

Topher tried to do this with web pages once. I made my own version with bookmarklets.

page-cypher.veryuseful.app/

(My original attempt at building something failed because CORS!!!! 😬)

2024-04-28 16:54:25

I have discovered a new physical force.

It is a force of strong attraction.

And it seems to exist only between the toes of young children and solid objects at ground level.

Very curious. Physicists should investigate. There’s a PhD thesis in here somewhere!

2024-04-28 16:52:35

I have to say, co-pilot is pretty dang good at giving me simple algorithms for game rules.

It’s written quite a lot of my static scrabble game for me. Simple loops with variations that, yes, I could write myself. But it already did the boring grunt work.

It wrote a better version of ā€œmaybeScoreVerticalWordā€ than I did!