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Me browsing the internet this week: oh, this is the bad place.

I was not expecting LinkedIn of all places to start doing good proper honest human constructed Sudokus. Not only that, they’re by Thomas Snyder a name anyone who has watched Cracking the Cryptic should recognise.

Hopefully it starts a trend and newspapers will stop publishing boring algorithmically generated grids.

Many years ago, I saw a job application form with the biggest tell that the company was run by toxic wankers.

“How many mouse clicks do you take to open your editor when you turn on your computer (we’re serious)?”

I still occasionally think about how much I’d hate to work for those people.

I released a new SEO WordPress Plugin last week: Simple Search Submission for IndexNow.

I thought the official plugin was over-engineered and had an unnecessary top level menu so wrote one that got out of the way and just got the job done.

It’s also available on GitHub (issues and pull requests welcome) and via composer: composer require peterwilsoncc/simple-search-submission

I guess we all should have seen believing medical science is woke (pejorative) as a natural extension of believing climate science is woke (pejorative).

I’m sure some people saw it coming but it didn’t occur to me.

Bookmarking: A random list of RecipeTin Eats cooks I’ve done. I’ve even started looking up things I know how to cook for ways to improve.

• Sausage Bake with Potatoes and Gravy
• Roast Chicken
• Pad Thai
• Slow Cooked Lamb Shanks in Red Wine Sauce
• Gravy Baked Chicken (thighs & drumsticks)
• Slow Roast Leg of Lamb
• Honey Mustard Baked Chicken Drumsticks
• Poached Chicken Breasts
• 5 Minute Fall-apart Massaman Lamb Shoulder

80s styled curried sausages is missing from the list because it wasn’t a success.

In our house, we like chicken and we like lamb.

There are admissions of guilt and then there’s node recommending that node should only be used with a package manager.

I needed to do a test the tests commit to verify failures.

I can confirm that the test suite fails for node version 42.

I finished writing my latest WordPress plugin over the weekend.

Its working subtitle is “Why write 1200 lines of code (including 700 lines of tests) with no build dependencies when you can write 3,200 lines of code (without any tests) with 73 build dependencies?”

It’s hardly catchy but I think my version of the plugin is better than the latter.

Usually the cat sits under my desk during the day.

Yesterday I took her to the vet to get a vaccination so today she is sulking at the other end of the house.