Archives: Notes

  • Teenage boy writes some letters

  • Let me use spaces in my credit card and phone numbers, you bastards. Let me paste, you bastards. Let me open links my way, you bastards.

  • Query Monitor: Keeping developers’ swear jars empty(ish) since 2013.

  • I think about Brett Sutton’s first tweet occasionally. Environmental health ✅; food safety: does having to close restaurants count??; communicable disease ✅✅✅. But probably not what he had in mind.

  • I am beginning to consider that maybe it was unwise to take my morning walk in this.

    Alt text: weather satellite showing a large patch of rain centred on a location marker.

  • “Damn, I’ve busted my local server.”
    “Oh, I forgot to boot it”

    Every. Single. Day.

  • Never read your hero’s code.
    Never read your code.
    Never read code.
    Never code.

  • Remember when you’d see a name trending on Twitter and ask yourself whether they’d died rather than what they said this time? It cost us some childhood heros on the way but I miss those days.

  • Remember, the inauguration isn’t until January. Until then the correct title is President Loser.

  • Don, you’re fired.