B & Q & queue & queue

The bin workers are outside, dragging around the wheelie bins, just as the thunderstorm has started, which is making me feel all kinds of disorientated

Imagining a system where when someone uses their phone without headphones, everyone in Bluetooth range gets a "Is this noise annoying you?" pop-up and more than x% saying yes auto-mutes them (and/or sends them to jail)

Bank has decided after using my credit card abroad, in a new country, for the last week, now it's time to block it for fraud

Curious as to what kind of pattern analysis says "yes it makes sense he's suddenly on the other side of the Earth, as long as he doesn't spend too much or for too long..."?

Sat in a hospital waiting room, waiting for someone else who's being seen, and still every time they come in to call a name I'm like "oh, my turn?"

Appreciate I don't have much reach on here, but does anyone happen to have a recommendation for a good managed hosting provider for a medium size e-commerce site?

PHP, MySql, Dedicated IP, and Tech support required

"Quishing, a contraction of 'QR code' and 'Phishing', is a cyberattack that uses QR codes as a vector"

Nope, nope, nope

Let's put that term straight into the word bin, never to be used again please

As the propaganda and denials seem to be starting already (www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...), just posting this here in case someone finds it useful...

Oh YouTube Premium, you decided to get greedy & greatly overestimated your value to me, so in the bin you go

Instead I'll funnel that money into supporting specific creators directly via Patreon, and deal with the ads, which are not that annoying tbh

Had a lovely week in Malta in early October & would heartily recommend. Not too hot, but nice and sunny. Just ambling about, discovering random beaches, landmarks, historical things, hiking, boat trips

Recommend getting a car, though driving was interesting at times. No worse than London though

A real mixed-feeling situation when you accidentally DDOS yourself by sending out a mailer

On the plus side: Wow, I really nailed the content and click-through

On the down side: The engineering not so much

Not me this time, I'm keen to add (though I won't claim it hasn't happened in the past...)

Oh great, Google have decided to kill off yet another thing that I found useful: Ski runs and lifts on Google maps

Yes, there is a cost to maintaining things, but that's also where your value comes from. Or did

And I think that's increasingly summing up Google for me these days: *Did* have value

I think the BBC might be trying to gaslight me

5 second ads for Gladiators every half an hour, but then the Gladiator in the listings actually being the movie with Russell Crowe

"If you find yourself alone, riding in the green fields with the sun on your face, you shall go on my first whistle"

When there's an imbalance between calories and taste, the excess calories should be returned as store credit, and redeemable against future meals

Wish I could find someone who loves me as much as IDEs love indexing

I don't know if you're aware of this, but apparently there's not much time left before Xmas

At least that's what the 12 different promotional e-mails I received this morning tell me...

Doing some IntelliJ plugin development and it's amazing just how hard some things, that seem so simple, can be

Trying to keep "This was designed by smart people, doing their best, and with good reasons" in mind, but it's not always easy

(The error count is right there, why can't I just get it!?!?)

I continue to be of the opinion that using a car horn should result in you getting a mild, but painful, short electric shock

Cycled past the farmer's protest today. Bit of a mixed bag on the placards:

* Farmer's are important - Yep
* Climate always changes - Uh...
* We need to talk about Brexit - 100%
* Net zero = anti-farmer - Oh dear...
* End of family farms - Hmm...
* "Down with this sort of thing" - This person wins

Spent a bit of today completing the transfer of a few domains into Cloudflare, and then tidying the DNS records

Something I've been meaning to do for a while, so nice to tick that off, as well as finally getting to play with the service everyone else seems to be using. All nice and easy so far...

I like when companies have somewhat silly names

It means I can do things like put "Expect call from Octopus man" in my calendar

I've been really enjoying Emberward of late

It uses an innovative tetromino based approach (along with some of the more common tropes) to go from standard Tower Defence to a fun roguelite experience

A wider field view of Westerlund 1. A dense cluster of bright stars, each with six large and two small diffraction spikes, due to the telescope’s optics. They have a variety of sizes depending on their brightness and distance from us in the cluster, and different colours reflecting different types of star. Patches of billowing red gas can be seen in and around the cluster, lit up by the stars. Small stars in the cluster blend into a background of distant stars and galaxies on black.

this is literally what it feels like to have astigmatism

That and the Quorn cocktail sausages. Can't get enough

Had a lovely time at #bclxiii #barcamp #london today

Including an interesting talk by @alice.mosphere.at, which finally inspired me to get this account setup properly and make the move from that other place

Now to find some people to follow...