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I get unreasonably excited about wearing leather shoes these days and this week I’ll get to wear them two or three times!

I know I could wear them in the home office but that’s not something that works for me.

Typecasting edge cases sure are fun.

console.log( !! '0', !! '0.0', '0' == '0.0' ); // (JS) true, true, false

var_dump( !! '0', !! '0.0', '0' == '0.0' ); // (PHP) false, true, true

I’m not sure there is a right answer here.

I used Yahoo! when it was on a .edu domain.

https://twitter.com/trumanboyes/status/1462541668138164229

Decades later, the Colin Hay Overkill opener for Scrubs season two is still great.

YouTube reaction videos but it’s developers reading their own three year old code.

For the first time since March 2020 the rain has beaten me and I’ve given up on my morning walk.

I just did that slightly silly looking thing of half waving at someone before realising it wasn’t the friend I thought it was. The friend I was thinking of lives on another continent. 🤦

Is there a slack or discord sole traders can use to scream about superannuation rules for sole traders? It was fixed so sole traders can at least pay super tax free but there’s extra paperwork to deduct the contributions you paid in as deductible. It’s so fixin’ fixed!

I like writing in the WordPress block editor.

At my last job for @theage, @smh, @FinancialReview, the journalists who got to use the block editor loved it but not all article types had been moved across as of Oct last year.

As you’ll see in a talk I did a while ago, the stack is complicated. It kinda needs to be for some of the most popular sites in the country. Very. Complicated.

Entertaining myself by checking my spam folder to see how many unsolicited emails I get about joining a hosting company’s affiliate program, so far it’s six. The company is also known for selectively quoting developers to make it appear they endorse their product. All class.