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This boy is excited and ready for Spain!
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A boy smiles widely as he sits, playing with his tablet, in an aeroplane window seat.
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This child is eating sausages with one hand while playing a video game about eating sausages with the other.
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A child slouches in an airport lounge chair. Her right hand is being used to eat a plate of sausages. Her left hand is playing 'Fork N Sausage' on a tablet.
Is this life-imitating-art or the other way around? Who can possibly say?
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Off to Spain! BRB.
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Dan, Ruth, and their children on an airport car park shuttle bus.
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Day #2 of my sabbatical had a morning in which I've mostly been roped into some charity-related digital forensics... until I got distracted by dndle.app, which apparently I accidentally broke yesterday! Move Fast and Fix Things!
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Dan, looking concerned, in front of Github and Dndle.app.
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Kicking off day #1 of my three-month sabbatical from work at a hotel in Reading, at a meeting with fellow Three Rings volunteers to discuss our organisational culture and values.
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Dan sits in front of two laptops (one of which shows a photo of an echidna for some reason), in a meeting room full of casually-dressed volunteers.
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The Beeb continue to keep adding more and more non-news content to the BBC News RSS feed (like this ad for the iPlayer app!), so I've once again had to update my script to "fix" the feed so that it only contains, y'know, news.
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Screenshot from a web-based RSS reader, showing an item "Download the BBC iPlayer app"
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✅ Inbox Zero
✅ Slack Notification Zero
✅ Assigned PR Reviews Zero
✅ Owned PRs... one, but it's approved and just waiting for the right moment to mergeThat's got the be the first time in... literally years... that I've ended a workday so "clean". Feels amazing.
There'll be a mess again tomorrow, but hopefully only of a manageable size because I'm particularly clean to finish this week at "Work Zero".
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Happy International Pronouns Day! 🥳
I use he/him pronouns.
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And while we're talking about AI.
It took a disproportionate about of time to find the right (tiny) link, but eventually I managed to opt-out of my content being used to train Facebook's AI. They don't make it easy, do they?
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Screenshot of a Facebook message, including the text "we will honour your objection... we won't use your public information from Facebook... for future development and improvement of generative AI models"
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You know that you REALLY needed that coffee when you:
1. get out a mug,
2. turn on the coffee machine,
3. load the dishwasher while you wait for the coffee machine to warm up,
4. can't find your mug any more, oh shit it's in the dishwasher 🤦
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A red mug being filled by a coffee machine.
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eBay UK have changed their terms to (a) remove seller fees for most private sellers, but (b) instead of paying-out immediately, payouts are four times a year (or on-demand).
That sounds like they're trying to keep money in their ecosystem. The hope is, I guess, that by paying sellers in virtual "eBay Pounds" rather than actual money in the first instance they'll encourage those sellers to become buyers again (either of other listings, or of eBay's postage and other services). You can cash out anytime you like, but you can never leave.
You see the same technique used e.g. by the National Lottery, who pay out "small" winnings into your online account, knowing that the vast majority of winnings are on the order of only a few times more than the value of a ticket, and so players will be more-likely to "re-invest" if they're not paid-out directly.
Or maybe I'm just being cynical.
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This evening I pushed against my illness-addled brain to try to sit in on the fortnightly Zoom call with the Three Rings dev team. Unfortunately it seems like the primary symptom of my cold is an inability to string words together.
At one point, I apologised to by colleague "Beff" (I meant "Bev", but I had just been talking about "Geoff") that I couldn't work out how to stop "scaring my screen" (well, I suppose Halloween is coming up...). Then, realising my mistake, explained that it was a bit of a "ting-twister".
I should just go to bed, right?
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Playing simultaneous games against both children might have been less challenging if they hadn't both kept trying to start fights with one another at the same time! 😂
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Two frustrated-looking children each sit in front of a separate chessboard (the photographer is presumably playing both of them).
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I'm back home from Mexico (and feeling a little worse for wear), where this young lady wanted to let me know that I was sorely missed.
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Dan, lying on a sofa under a brown blanket, on top of which is a contented-looking French Bulldog.
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Goodbye, Tulum! You were delightful, if very hot. It's time for me to head back to the UK.
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Dan, wearing a rainbow bandana, with an ornate ice cream cornet in a Mexican city.