Starting my mini sabbatical off with some chilled out keyboard assembly
Notes
Short-form thoughts, links, and updates.
If password managers spent as much money on YouTube adverts as VPN companies the world would be a better place.
Watching the episode of Voyager where Janeway has to use her own personal holographic smut fiction barkeep to rescue her own crewman from the holodeck.
God I love Star Trek.
Oof £45 import fee on £35 keyboard switches from aliexpress.
Why buy a SAD lamp when I can just set my IDE to light mode?
Listening to a lot of old video game soundtracks while working these days.
Please enjoy the original unreal OST: youtube.com/watch?v=NgRqKu6n5SU
UK Vegan Christmas Sandwiches review thread for the coming month:
Me as a child: Eurgh all these stickers on this laptop are so lame.
Me now: I need a bigger laptop so I can fit more stickers on it.
Up first M&S. Cracking name. Suprisingly crunchy despite so much veg 7/10 festive but a tad slimey.
Video from my last talk come comedy show earlier in the year at Brighton Ruby is online now. Ever wanted to see a few hundred people play Pac-man? But only after some stressful live debugging?
brightonruby.com/2023/new-game
They have made the new Ultimate Peter Parker unnecessarily hot.
Fully on board with this.
#ffconf in general is a good vibes conference, but there is always a talk or two that makes me go “oh god we’re all doomed”
Starting with the “oh, it me” talk to kick off the day at #ffconf with a talk about imposter syndrome.
I dunno gang, maybe this whole “internet” thing was a mistake #ffconf
Shameless plug to an old project I did at the BBC back in the day about html, css, js and using a house metaphor to describe it to non technical folks #ffconf
bbc.co.uk/gel/features/builder
Let’s gooooo #ffconf
“Just use the damn selector” is the best quote of the day so far #ffconf
Heading off to @ffconf once again thankful for thameslink going straight from Finsbury Park to Brighton.
The world if cookie rights were a browser level API rather than every goddamn website asking me every goddamn time:
Bought a new Christmas vinyl off Discogs and it came with all these FANTASTIC danish stamps on it
