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I finished off the second series of Flowers this week.

They did check the passport!

You think this is late, but no, check yo timezones.

TIL that CockroachDB is Postgres compatible.

I signed up for a BrickEconomy account this week.

Quite grumpy this week.

Somehow it is September.

I’ve started a new side-project – yadda, yadda.

Posted on a Tuesday?

Greenfield, Brownfield… Blackfield?

Implement the bin/rails boot command This is handy.

I upgraded to macOS Sonama and it seems to have happened without incident.

Queueing – An interactive study of queueing strategies.

The weekend was dominated by a solo trip to Bristol for a standup comedy gig with a friend.

Apparently I’ve been writing weeknotes every week for 3 years now!

I don’t want to sound like a broken record, but another busy week.

Our first ever Tuesday posting!

Mood: Generally a bit fucked-off.

You know when something is obviously going to be a problem, but the person you’re talking to insists it will be fine?

Current status: Overwhelmed.

CSS Isn’t Real ‘I need a twelve column grid layout.

Apparently we don’t need rel=noopener and I only started adding it recently… My car was at the garage until Friday when I decided to call for an update.

Normally I recommend things to watch, but this time a warning.

My car decided to start losing coolant.

On Monday we needed to drive back from our new house to collect our cars.

I am the storm.

The weeknotes have really suffered this week; can you guess why?

Another late weeknotes Jordan?

You may have heard of security issue taking over the Internet this week.

Swipe down to die – It seems a lot of car manufacturers are realising that physical controls are good, actually.

The house: One step forward.

My Swift UI learning has continued steadily.

Now Apple says it won’t disable iPhone web apps in the EU – great news.

Installing my new smart lock was very not easy, even with the skills of my good friend helping.

This week I’ve been making lists of drain, gutter, and woodworm experts.

This week I’ve been I’ve been borderline obsessed with McAlmont & Butlers' Yes.

In Loving Memory of Square Checkbox Mastodon published a vulnerability this week – Remote user impersonation and takeover.

Season Two of Jon Ronson’s Things Fell Apart is now available and is as interesting as ever.

I’ve got so many small tasks to do at the moment that I’m feeling pretty overwhelmed at times.

Vim magic 🧙 Delete all lines that don’t start with rails.

Christmas is over, thank fuck for that.

Another year almost over.

Christmas, again.

Have you heard of git rerere?

I went to London for work on Monday.

A new feature in Rails – ErrorReporter#unexpected to report in production but raise in development This method is intended for reporting violated assertions about preconditions, or similar cases that can and should be gracefully handled in production, but…

Ok, why do Mince Pies have “brown butter” in them this year?

2023.42 OTA Update Issue We made an error with the 2023.42 OTA update - a fat finger where the wrong build with the wrong security certificates was sent out.

I was prompted by this Rob Knight post to make the RSS feed for this website more visible.

Scavengers Reign is really good.