Notes – Page 31

Note #17091

I think our local red kites were mostly living on roadkill, and the lockdown means they’re not getting fed. They’ve also forgotten how to hunt: this afternoon I watched one get its ass handed to it by a medium-sized crow.

Note #17025

For the benefit of my South African colleagues on Slack, I give you the #maskchallenge #emoji:

Note #16952

I’m 100% behind the #covid19 strategy @BorisJohnson proposes in his latest letter. But then, I’ve already had my birthday this year…

Note #16899

In these complicated times, this is how I get my groove on.

Note #16868

Remotely attending #indiewebcamp London 2020 (after Covid-19 kept us from meeting in person) and hacking on some note/checkin-posting tools.

Note #16856

@indiewebcamp London – which I’d planned to attend – is cancelled for #COVID19 😢
I’m left with a hotel room I can’t cancel 😠
Overhear my brother-in-law planning to book a hotel in London 🤔
EverythingWentBetterThanExpected.jpg 🤜🤛

Note #16758

Today my #distributed #remotework office is provided by @OCFI_OI, which provides me that most #Oxford of views: simultaneously containing architecture of the 1960s… and the 1160s.

Note #16217

It’s been said that you’re not really part of a new #dev team until you break something user-facing. Today I achieved that milestone. Whoops.

Note #16213

Nice simple design, @typehut, but with no RSS, Atom, nor h-feed you’ve made a blog platform to which readers can only subscribe by email. 😢

Three Wishes

Note #16070

What’s wrong with my password, @PostOffice? Is it too secure for you?
It does nothing to fix your “old-fashioned” image that your password policy is still stuck in the 1990s. @PWTooStrong

Note #16055

That moment when you realise, to your immense surprise, that the research you’ve spent most of the year on might actually demonstrate the thing you set out to test after all. 😲
Screw you, null hypothesis.

Note #16045

Who’d have thought that my onboarding fortnight at @WooCommerce / @Automattic would conclude with a very literal “on-boarding”. Hang five! 🏄🏼‍♂️

Note #16042

Well, Cape Town, you were a blast. But now it’s time to get back to my normal life for a bit.

🇿🇦✈️🇩🇪✈️🇬🇧

Note #16037

Seconds after I took this “penguin selfie”, a third penguin snuck up behind me and bit me on the arse. 🇿🇦🐧😧