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“Where Does Book Data Come from?”

The DHH Problem — Remains as relevant today as when it was first given.

Workflow, workflow, workflow – I’ve now moved over to Snacks.picker from Telescope and I’m already 110% more productive, and ready for AI to take my job.

The Nemotode army and sticky traps are having some effect.

Giving away a mattress for free is harder than you’d think.

Macrowave – “Turn Your Mac Into a Private Radio Station”.

ChatGPT 5 was released last week so I gave it a try.

I received a cheque (ask your parents) in the post this week.

August?

After moaning about Castro (to myself, then to friends, and here) I decided to contact their support over a weird issue I’ve been having when using it via CarPlay.

Am I Becoming Irrelevant?

We travelled back from dahn sahf on Tuesday.

Three more meetings with builders this week…it’s a surprising amount of work meeting with builders and discussing extensions you can’t really afford.

GUItignore – handy for creating your .gitignore file.

I finished Station Eleven – very good indeed.

The yearly pilgrimage to Brighton for Brighton Ruby is happening next week.

We met the first of our short-listed builders this week, and also visited our neighbours up the road who have had similar work done by the same company, and graciously let us have a look around.

Tenderlove is at it again: Fast Allocations in Ruby 3.5.

Still waiting on parcels.

Still no closer to getting my parcel.

Vibe: Despondent.

I finished reading Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams this week about her time at FaceBook.

TWO HUNDRED posts!

The Last of Us is back with Season 2 🙌 Ants have invaded the kitchen.

CLVX 1 for Mac.

Would you use ChatGPT to calculate tariffs with other countries?

The number of programmers who don’t seem know how a mailing list works is concerning for the profession.

My slow puncture was repaired.

One of my car tyres has a slow puncture.

Jeremy Keith on the Web on Mobile There are mobile web proponents who are in denial about this state of affairs, who seek to place the blame at Apple’s feet for the fact that WebKit is the only rendering engine available on iOS.

Birds are tweeting.

This week I had a brand new experience.

After ignoring it for a couple of weeks I tested my keyboard and it no worky.

This week I realised that Voodoo People by The Prodigy samples Very Ape by Nirvana 🤯 iPhone 16 Pro SSD Upgrade: From 128GB to 1TB – This video was really interesting to me.

You can trigger macOS Shortcuts from the menubar.

Jarvis is still correct.

My car was in the garage this week which stoked my anxiety somewhat.

Having a real Christmas Tree is like getting pregnant with your second child.

We saw Paddington in Peru on Sunday.

The move to lazy.nvim is complete.

Last day at work on Thursday and also paid a week early.

Friends visited for a Christmas get together which was delightful because I wasn’t expecting it and I really appreciate the effort of driving 5 or 6 hours.

“You wanna know the secret to surviving air travel?”

Stop sending me emails saying that my “statement is available” when it is, in fact, not available.

Blimey it’s cold!

The “journaling suggestion” notifications that iOS produces are continuing to paint a sad picture of my life - “An afternoon in Costa Coffee” is not something I would ordinarily feel I need to process via a journal.

We spent the first few days of the week down south.

I came down with a cold during our trip Edinburgh.

The work thing I was stressing about unnecessarily has now gone to production, so that’s that.

Busy, busy week after an unremarkable ticket I was working on suddenly became important.