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Oh my. Jamie teaching Roy to ride a bike is the funniest thing I’ve seen this year. 😂😂😂

Oh my. Now the sleepover kids are trying to play Mario Kart. They’ve spent about 15 minutes just setting up the game rules. I think they are now making rules about how to make the rules. 😂

I’ve solved our energy crisis and saved the planet.

All we need to do is find a way to harness the unlimited energy output of children having sleepovers!! Infinite, clean, renewable energy for all.

There must be a way, and I’ll happily invest.

@aurooba Did you ever publish the last two Daily 5’s? They didn’t appear in my feed!

I was SURE I had a good, free, touch typing tutor website bookmarked. Anyone know what this might have been?

I'm not a big reader of novels. And I'm very slow. But I have got totally hooked on Sally Hinchcliffe's Hare House this weekend. So well written, gripping, atmospheric, evocative and gosh I JUST WANT TO KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON!

I am DEVOURING its pages like nothing before.

https://amzn.eu/d/f7mhEIq

How are y’all posting hyperlinks in posts here? @kev ?

And if anyone was following along, yes this was a good test of the Apple Watch:
– The battery held up amazingly (it must have been conditioning or something the first day I had it)
– Great for directions, quick messages and weather (though we fortunately didn't need it much as weather was great!)
– Interesting health stats from the trip (but I'm sure my “Move" stat is WAY under-recorded!)

I'm still not 100% convinced of this thing, but it was a good test!

Home from 2 days with 2 kids in London.

My wife had an overnight work trip to city, and I have the kids this week. So we went on an adventure and joined her!

We did Trafalgar Square to Bank on foot via South Bank taking in the Houses of Parliament and Tate Modern (briefly).

We took the Cable Car to Canary Wharf and had epic pizza.

And we had a day at the Science Museum before running like crazy for the train home! 😅

A proper adventure and we're all every proud of ourselves and each other!

OK. The Apple Watch really held up today. I’m half convinced. But I also need to swap for a 44mm case and a fabric band. This rubber is horrible.

So I’m “trying” an Apple Watch SE. Hope I can return it if I don’t get on with it.

First impressions?

1. I really hope the battery life is better on day two somehow!
2. Wake on raise is way too sensitive.
3. Wish I bought the 44mm case. It looks small on me.
4. I really don’t like the sport strap.

I’m here to be convinced.

Amazing. Brett Goldstein (Roy Kent) plays games with Elmo on Sesame Street. This shouldn’t be allowed. Hilarious.

It’s OK. There’s no swearing in the video. But your head WILL fill in the blanks. 😂

https://youtu.be/0xMSrh46H8A

This is a bit sub-Tooty but it needs saying.

There are an AWFUL lot of people in #WordPress who are still happily building with mostly PHP. Many of these are using ACF blocks to circumvent needing to deal with React and complex, fragile build tooling.

I have no evidence (yet) that there’s a mass of people who transitioned to native blocks.

These people are, IMO, a quiet majority who’s keep WordPress at work, but whose needs are often forgotten.

I have a feeling I’ve asked this before but… Nintendo fans… if someone has never played a Zelda game and could play any Zelda game on any platform, where should that person start?

You still should NOT run it. But if you were trying to and failing, my "magic" #WordPress methods using OpenAI are now working again:

https://github.com/rosswintle/wpai

They deprecated the language model that I was using and I had to patch it up!