Apparently I am enough of a train nerd to be curious about the metro tunnel. Please listen for announcements does not seem great though.
Archives: Notes
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Having a milestone birthday this week has got me thinking about the last ten years.
Buying a home has got to be a highlight, that it was the place we’d been renting for ten years beforehand is gravy. We knew its sins going in but also that we loved living here in good ol’ 3011.
A lot of professional achievements. From memory, I had the first functional commit on the CMS re-platforming for Fairfax but if not, it was one of the first five or six. I sometimes worry that that will be the biggest project I ever work on but I thought I’d worked on big projects ten years ago so who knows? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
These days I make regular decisions that effect a “try not to think about it” number of websites. But I also get to help other developers contribute code to these same sites. Often is the people who have been showing up for years, but sometimes it’s a new contributor who then becomes a regular contributor and, finally, an old hand.
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Me: Oh good, I slept through another major internet outage.
…arriving at my desk…
Internet: fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
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AC/DC playing Melbourne reminds me of the best concert I never went to.
Last time they played Melbourne, they were at Docklands Stadium. As a concert stadium it has a nasty habit of letting all the sound go straight up out of the venue.
We were living in North Melbourne at the time and the wind was just right for sending a perfect mix in to our living room.
We threw open all the doors and just listened to the concert for about an hour or two. At the end of the show there was a huge guitar solo: we looked at each other and said “that crowd is going fucking wild right now, right?” “Yep”.
I miss that flat in North Melbourne for many reasons, acca dacca being one of them.
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I’m a little sad that the Peekaboo Bug page no longer resolves (it redirects to the site’s home page). The content isn’t lost, it’s just another reason to be thankful to the Web Archive.
Youngs, don’t worry about it… but ask an old why you’d prefix a CSS property with an underscore or an asterisk if you want to be entertained some time.
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Alternative headline: Liberal cabinet agrees to lose more seats to Teal independents.
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As a democracy nerd, I’m enjoying Annabel Crabb’s Civic Duty on iView.
The first episode was basically a love letter to the independence of the AEC, describing them as beige as a term of endearment. It made me want to gift one to America. No division of a population will be perfect but it’s really nice not have gerrymandering as just a thing we live with.
Not since the days of Joh, anyway.
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I remember being in tears of laughter when the Daily Show went all Simpsons Rake Theory with the phrase “Dick Cheney shot a 78-year-old man in the face”.
In their corporate wisdom Paramount have deleted it from the internet.
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I like getting bots to do things, even when there will be no long term time savings. As I find ways to improve a process, I can just do it once and actually forget about it.
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I’ve added the plugin check action to my WordPress plugin template repo now that security reports are created for each plugin update.
I’ve used the most basic configuration and will customise it based on each plugin’s needs.
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I’m going through the notes section on my website to check for broken images and quickly check links.
Turns out I’ve been posting to my website first for twelve years now. First to syndicate to Twitter, when it was fun, and now to Mastodon.
At various times I thought about giving up and leaving my more ephemeral content for Twitter because I liked it. I’m glad I did not.
Host your own content, you never know when your favourite social media site will become your X-favourite site. The Nazi bar. Or both.
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Not a good puzzle day… gave up on Wordle and had to send through my very impolite filler word and I broke the LinkedIn 6×6 Sudoku, although I’ll go back later. At least I got additional.today out nice and quickly.
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Councils prioritizing private development over locals is one of those things that gives me the screaming shits and entirely reasonable amount.
In this case, the footpath that’s closed for so long that it needs a permanent sign leads up to pedestrian lights so, of course, people are crossing a reasonably busy road without the benefit of those traffic lights.
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It really seems that the Police Squad! TV series has been disappeared from the internet. I know a lot of it made it’s way in to the first Naked Gun movie but I’ve been wanting to re-watch it but it’s just vaporized.
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Last night, the YouTube app on my TV was mostly showing music in my suggestions. Mostly related to what I’d listened to on YT Music during the week.
Stupidly, they were mostly audio only clips of tracks I’d listened to. Because obviously when I turn on the TV I want to listen to music.
I’m assuming they’ve turned up the Gemini in their YT algorithm.
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Yay, I managed to update about 1500 notes on my site without accidentally sending a single one to Mastodon.
The code alongside the comment “don’t share old posts to Mastodon (magic number alert)” just paid for itself.
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Last night I watched a video of the Rocky Horror cast on the 50th anniversary.
I first watched it when I was about 10 and it’s a big part of why I love musicals and, I suspect, the reason why I go on a Broadway adventure every few years.
As a teen I saw it live with the extended family with some guy called Russell Crowe playing the role of Frank. Recent productions have been really bubble-gummy which takes away from the slide in to darkness after the Rocky’s awaking. I’m glad I got to see it in it’s original form.
