2025
About 9 years ago, while visiting the USA on a work trip, I went to the Elephant & Castle in Washington, DC. Someone recommended it to me, but I was frankly underwhelmed: not what you’d typically get at a pub around here. Today I learnt that it’s actually a chain of pubs, which probably explains it.
Just one of those weeks where nothing is working at all. Computers, transport, the gym. Probably should just write this one off and regroup next week.
Eyeing this course on screencasting. Might be a good skill to develop. I’ve recorded a few screencasts for work in the past and not only did I find it a good reference to share to others, it was fun to do.
Via: Chris Coyier
Should turn in my software development credentials right now. Thought I fixed a bug which failed QA because it didn’t work when multiple items were submitted. I didn’t test submitting multiple items, I only tested singles. Effin’ amateur hour! 🤦
🔗 MacSparky: A Remarkable, Unremarkable Thing
We often talk about how people can’t put their phones down while in line at the market, but what about during moments of joy? When taking in a theme park with your family, at the beach, or on vacation? Those moments are found solely in your immersion in the now.
A thought-provoking post.
It’s striking how few Substack writers have setup their own domain name. Every link I see in the post I’m reading bar one is something.substack.com. Is it just too difficult to do? I thought that service attracted those that want to go out on their own. This feels like going halfway.
Oof! Interviewing always takes it out of me. And I’m not even the one being interviewed. 😩
It’s DNS. It’s always DNS. It always will be DNS.
Train line outage is still ongoing. Apparently there’s been a derailment due to pantographs getting entangled in the overhead wires. So the new rolling stock experience continues. Today’s is a brief ride in a Siemens, complete with driver pointing out landmarks of interest.
Got lucked into getting a Comeng train. Haven’t ridden one of these in years. They’re being retired so may be one of the last times I get to ride them.
Making lemonade out of the lemons that is a total outage of my train line by seeing areas of the network that are completely new to me.
I feel for anyone that needs to write any code that deals with audio. Hope you like big arrays of numbers and small quanta of time.
Ooh, has it been 5 years already?
Overheard the barista talk about watching a YouTube video of someone who owns an expresso bar taking a minute to make a coffee. “Why does it take him a minute to make a coffee? I can make 5 coffees in that time. I understand pride in your work, but if I were waiting for that…”
They go on to debate the expectation of customers of a cafe verses those going to such fancy establishments. But if it were me, I wouldn’t have the patients to wait a full minute for a coffee. Or if I do, it better be the best damn coffee I ever had.
An online tool for generating images of message screens from retro 90’s games. Quite a selection of classic game message screens. Now, my egotistical side will think it beneath me to use this for posting lame memes here. To that part of me I say…
Via: Robb Knight
Devlog: Godot Project — Some Feelings
Progress on the Godot game has been fulfilling yet tinged with doubt about its value and purpose.
Amazing Dithering this week. Loved the discussion on why Apple is so driven to remove all software chrome. Never considered that it was because of how the various teams are organised (spoilers in the included clip).
Everything’s been so quiet around here. The school holidays explain it in part, but I wasn’t expecting it to be this quiet. Is everyone away? Or maybe they’re just staying indoors trying to keep warm. In any case, makes going to the cafe and being the only customer a little awkward.
Moan-routine: LO's Predicate Signatures
A critique of function signatures the ’lo’ package offers for functions like Map and Filter.
Look, I’m no fan of Amazon and I’d like to get off using Kindles eventually. But the alternatives can sometimes be downright unusable. Behold: using the Kobo reader on an iPad in landscape orientation.
