James Crisp

I’ll be presenting a short talk at the Sydney Ruby Group on Tuesday 8 Sept.

My old iMac (late 2015, retina 27 inch) sadly reached end of support on OSX a while back.

To see the location of an AirTag second generation, you need to have an Apple device running the latest OS.

Well now, gather around children… Once upon a time, the good developers wanted to save their users from losing changes if they left a form before submitting it.

Coding: Claude 3.7 for front-end work, especially with the help of Claude Projects to upload supporting files, and Extended Thinking turned on.

The fonts built into modern browsers are varied – it is hard to avoid loading your own fonts.

After reading an interview with DHH where he mentioned this book, and to assuage a latent interest in stoicism, I decided to check out “The Obstacle is the Way”.

A friend several jobs ago recommended I read “Predicably Irrational” by Dan Ariely.

A few months ago, when I was doing some detailed database backup and restore testing, I discovered there were, out of millions of records which had user-entered dates, a handful that had null dates in a database column.

Mysql 5.7 is reaching end of life in October, so it is becoming important to upgrade.