Archives: Notes

Work scam email of the week: “Dear git-commit-by, I came across your resume on LinkedIn and was…”

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.

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)

No, Peter, you’re never a wet nerd.

Come on, people, it’s not a big ask.

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.

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.

The 2025 award for making legitimate services, notifications and everything else look as scammy as hell goes to… iwantmyname dot com.

Spokesperson: plaese see our typo ridding statment at iwmy dot third party tracking domain dot com

[BTW: I’m not clicking any links in case they are scams but I think they are legit]

The Tony Awards are taking their sweet time putting up the official footage of the Hamilton reunion. They’re going to lose so many viewers to fan-cams.

I’ll write the LAPD investigation’s summary now: the officer was unaware the woman standing in front of a camera crew describing the situation was a journalist.

I’m just a few hours from heading up to Zurich to catch my flight back to Melbourne. Switzerland is a lovely country but it’s been a busy week so I’m looking forward to getting back home.