Ever since I read Deborah’s, MBE, Wikipedia entry Disco 2000 has made me a little sad. She went on to do good in the world, much more important than (in her words) being famous for sleeping with Jarvis
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I’m going to write a blog post!
… Actually spends two days tinkering on my site.
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The Share on Mastodon WordPress plugin now supports content warnings.
Very nice.
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Good lord, I’ve found a decent photo of me while giving a talk. My mouth doesn’t look like a dog’s bum, my eyes are open and my arms are in a normal position.
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Work scam email of the week: “Dear git-commit-by, I came across your resume on LinkedIn and was…”
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The local pub is doing a beef cheek special. The bad news is that I only discovered this after we had bought tonight’s dinner.
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Today, we optimise for “DX” – developer experience. Not user experience. Not performance. Not outcomes. […] The more comfortable we make things for developers, the more abstraction we add. And every abstraction creates distance between the thing being built and the people it’s for.
Jono Alderson – JavaScript broke the web (and called it progress)
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No, Peter, you’re never a wet nerd.
Come on, people, it’s not a big ask.
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I’m at my wet nerdiest when it comes to variant Sudoku (once you go variant you won’t go back). I got in to it doing the daily Genuinely Approachable Sudokus (GAS), which for many years where hiding out in a Discord for the most part.
But now GAS’s primary home is the open-web and I couldn’t be happier.
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In a throwback to my youth, I’m making curried sausages for dinner tonight. This is either going to be very good or very bad.