2023-07-01 13:06:35

Me: Can add the cricket for a month to my TV package?

TV people: Youā€™ll need to sign up to a premium TV package and then add the cricket on. It will cost you 10 times what you are currently paying for TV if you sign up for a 12 month contract.

šŸ˜±

2023-06-30 19:50:49

I should probably say that as the maker of Turbo Admin (turbo-admin.com) I feel pretty qualified to talk about command palettes: building them, naming them, and marketing them.

I have opinions.

And Iā€™m available for interviews and podcast appearances!

šŸ˜ƒ

2023-06-30 19:26:34

Why did the cricket people have to use the term DRS?

I donā€™t know if Iā€™m watching cricket or F1 these days! šŸ˜‚

2023-06-29 23:42:20

Boring EV numbers


First longish drive in the Ioniq today. 70 miles. Mostly motorway with some hilly rural roads.

I SHOULD get 5 miles per kWh.

So that should be 14kWh

Thatā€™s about 36% of our battery.

I charged it up to 80% on Weds and itā€™s currently on 32%.

So thatā€™s 12% unaccounted for = 4.7kWh = 23.5miles

I reckon weā€™ve done 18 other miles since I charged.

So the numbers are good to within about 5miles out of 90.

Pretty good!!

We should REALLY get up to 190miles from this thing!

2023-06-28 13:58:43

PSA: If you have Dependabot alerts for ā€œsemverā€ and Dependabot canā€™t patch them for youā€¦

Before you get into a horrible JS dependency mess, WAIT A FEW DAYS!

It looks like a bunch of popular tools are locked to semver v5.x and v6.x, but theyā€™ve only patched v7.5.x

Babelā€™s team will fork and back port the fix soon if the semver maintainers donā€™t.

2023-06-26 21:37:09

Hey news people and people writing press releasesā€¦

Can we stop referring to ā€œalgorithmsā€ as AI?

I mean, Iā€™ve written some clever code in my time that probably appears ā€œintelligentā€. But thereā€™s a line. And ā€œability to quickly process lots of dataā€ is clever, but it isnā€™t really over that line. And I think you know it.

Thanks.

2023-06-23 21:09:38

Boring thought from the pen of a new electric vehicle owner whoā€™s now an EV bore šŸ™„


šŸš˜ I feel less ā€œguiltyā€ driving an electric car. And it NICE to drive.

Butā€¦ in some of my driving it, Iā€™ve still been stuck in traffic.

And being stuck in traffic is awful. Itā€™s complete dead time. It holds me up. It holds other people up. I canā€™t work or exercise.

Traffic is crap. And EVs donā€™t fix traffic.

2023-06-23 07:53:02

Electric vehicle charging thoughtā€¦

Rapid charging should be cheaper.

Itā€™s currently cheaper for me to plug in for 6 hours and slow charge.

The financial incentive for me is to stay longer (if I can afford the time) and clog up the network.

The incentive should be to charge quickly and move on.

(Iā€™ve heard Tesla implement some kind of charger occupation fee when busy)

2023-06-21 12:29:00

What did I hear on a podcast today?

Something like:

ā€œThere are so many great abstractions in web development. React sits on top of TypeScript and TypeScript sits on top of JavaScript.

Itā€™s so easy now to make a button that you click and something happens nowadaysā€

Yeah, right. It is. And you donā€™t need any of those abstractions to do it! Itā€™s amazing!!

2023-06-20 23:18:53

šŸ˜ For those that knowā€¦

I really think ā€œWayfinderā€ is a bad idea.

Weā€™re already trying to undo ā€œGutenbergā€.

One issue is the precedent we set by not following convention.

Letā€™s call the dashboard ā€œWidgetvilleā€ and the admin bar ā€œHeadspaceā€ or something.

Iā€™m being facetious. Butā€¦

2023-06-20 22:30:58

šŸ¤Ŗ I think that from now on my signature social media post format will be the long-compound-adjective-with-lots-of-hyphens one.

2023-06-20 09:21:50

šŸ™„ Reading a car recall notice (not for my car).

Good to know motor manufacturers have figured out that whole-car-dies-when-a-tiny-electrical-component-fails-thing since that dodgy Peugeot we bought 15 years ago!