“Hey human, are we gonna get that apple core or what?” 🍎🐶
I've been craving a pint of #Guinness the last few days. I have some in the fridge.
It isn't appropriate to drink a Guinness at 09:05 in the morning, on a Friday, while you're working from home, right? RIGHT?!
That counts, right?
Thinking About Online Communities
I've been thinking about online communities a lot lately, and had an idea about a new Masto instance, but maybe it wasn't such a good idea?
Why is #Apple #Music so fucking shit? I have a "smart" playlist that automatically downloads my playlist to my device, yet it still requires an internet connection to play the songs.
That's not to mention the random times it just decides not to play a song at all.
Everybody's Free (To Write Websites)
A parody of the \"Wear Sunscreen\" thing from the late 90s. This is just fabulous.
Could You Give Up Social Media?
I have a love hate relationship with social media. In some respects it's great, but in others it's a nightmare. I'm wondering if I could give up social media entirely...
I just went for my first run in like 2 years. I didn’t die, and my knee seems to have held up well. We’ll see what’s sore tomorrow morning… 😂
My Git commit messages are always descriptive. 🫣
(I apologise for giving all the developers out there a seizure).
I nipped out on one of the bikes earlier for coffee with friends. I just finished mowing one of the fields, and the paths in the other field. Now I'm cleaning my fish tank out and listening to a 90's "smash hits" playlist.
I have zero regrets for listening to such a playlist. This is what Sundays were made for. ❤️
Flailing About With My Mower
Back in May I wrote about an evening stroll in the field and leaving the grass to grow. Since then, things have escalated...A LOT.
There's me, resizing and reformatting all my images like some kind of caveman, when all it needed was 4 lines of code in a @getkirby blueprint to automate the whole thing. 🤦♂️
create:
width: 1200
crop: false
format: webp
Traffic is terrible round here...
Keenan’s “Alarmingly Concise” Summary of How They Built Their Site
Keenan goes into great detail on the trials and tribulations of building a new Eleventy site while possessing very little development experience.
As a "senior leader" I make decisions all day, every day. That's my job. But do you know what my hardest daily decision is?
It's whether or not to go for a piss before I go to sleep. Do I get out of my nice warm bed now and do my "final wee", or do I stay comfy and run the gauntlet of potentially needing a piss in the night?
I ran the gauntlet last night, folks, and now I'm tired thanks to -- you guessed it -- needing a piss around 3am. 😂
Getting old is shit.
I've been looking at #analytics providers, and I don't get why they limit on pageview numbers. It's so arbitrary.
Like, it's double the price for the difference between 10k and 100k visits, but we're actually just talking about a couple more MB of data in a database somewhere.
It's bollocks. Why can't there be a provider that's like "yeah, it's $5/m for whatever visits you get. It's all the same to us."
(there may be a such a provider, but I'm not aware of them)
I think this is the first time in the history of my site that I've been truly happy with how it all looks and works. I'm so proud of the design, and Kirby is just glorious to use. It's completely customised to my needs, from the ground up.
Why Have a Personal Site Instead of Social Media?
I was posting my usual waffle over on Fosstodon yesterday, and someone asked a question about having a personal site vs just using social media. So I naturally decided to write a post on my personal site about it.
Me: Oh, I have a spare half hour, I think I'll put the XBox on and play some COD.
XBox: No, no, no, sunshine. You haven't turned me on for months so you have to do these 3 updates first...
Me: 🤦♂️
New homepage, who dis?