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Podcasters: Hi, how are you, special shout out to the big networks. Please, please, please provide transcripts. As a sweet side-benefit you’ll be about to use This American Life’s shortcut free to make sharing clips easy for your listeners.

I’ve written about heavily modifying the WordPress edit screen for a client on the Human Made blog

Sweet of @Mike_Faist to stop breaking @jltsayswhat‘s heart eight times a week as his gift for Mothers’ Day.

I’m Going Home is twice the song of Sweet Transvestite and Time Warp put together.

Don’t @ me.

Wild idea: as well as avoid words like simple and just in docs, how about we stop shit-canning development practices that work for other people too.

In work’s slack, @tareiking asked for musical soundtrack recommendations. Half an essay later, I think he’s learnt his lesson.

This data visualization by @sxywu of every line, every character interaction, every repeated phrase and everything else in Hamilton is simply amazing. (I know I am late to the party).

I really can’t tell Brands, Personal Brands™️ or spammers from legitimate human Twitter accounts these days. The end result is I rarely follow new accounts.

Just walked in on someone changing from running gear to work clothes in the toilets (no change room at the office). How do you tell someone they ought to do the nude bit in a cubical rather than the hallway doorway?

As more browsers include ad and tracking blockers, Google Analytics is becoming less useful. I guess it’s time to go back to self hosted log file analysis which comes with it’s own problems.