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We attend Thursday night trivia at Hard Road Brewing in Eastern Melbourne. There’s a regular question on these nights asking “On which Melbourne Metro Train Line would you find…?”. We are bad at this question.
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["I'm a DevOps-oriented Software Engineer currently making my way in team leadership"]
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Macbeth
While I was playing around with Ubuntu Studio today, on a cruisy low-work day, the postman arrived.
First assume a perfectly spherical website
I woke up despondent today.
Using Alpine.js to load mastodon statuses
So, I wanted to write a little loader for my Mastodon Toots on this here blog. So I cracked open Alpine.js and started hacking. Here’s some of the things I - as someone who stopped writing front-end code around the era of JQuery - discovered.
I Started A Company
Yep, the title kinda explains it, but what makes this different to the companies I’ve set up before and not done anything with? Well, this one started with a client and an income right out of the gate. Here’s the story.
The ADHD Diaries - part 1 - ADHD at work
So, I’ve started a new role recently. I posted earlier about my job search hassles and how the first quarter of the year was terrible. And the starting a new role has made me rather thoughtful about my ways of working and how they fit into a new workplace.
Crosswords 2! Guardian Friday Cryptic 29,367
Dave Gorman - aka Bluth, aka Fed - dropped an experimental video onto YouTube recently, which I spotted while browsing YouTube and then spotted again via Dave’s Mastodon account. It’s worth a watch. The idea is, essentially, that Dave creates a custom cryptic for a friend - in this case the actor Tony Gardner - and uses it almost as a casual interview or chat. Tony dives in and does the solution,…
Weekend Update 21 Apr 2024 - what's going on?
Sunday April 21 2024. Liege Bastogne Liege day. Well, technically the day after because I got a little caught up in double-screening the race coverage alongside playing Steamworld Build on the XBox, so I’m catching up.
I updated this blog a bit
So yesterday’s blog post was quite well received on the fedi. By which I mean a few people read it and I got some feedback saying “Do more!”. So today I spent a little while actually making the site Better For Blogging.
Crosswords! The New Quick-cryptic, and Guardian Cryptic 28,880
The Guardian just launched a new cryptic crossword format, and it’s a beauty .