Tag: rss club
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F-Day plus 234
234 days since we got flooded out of our house, and it sometimes feels like we'll never get to move back in. Delay after delay, problems with the construction, disputes over the quality of the repair work... and then yet more delays for good measure.
Last month, the insurers insisted that we give notice to leave our temporary accommodation by early December. Now they've agreed that we can retract that notice (which I'm sure must be annoying for our landlord and letting agents) because we (eventually) got them to agree that there's a fast-dwindling chance of any guarantee that their contractors can complete the work to a satisfactory standard by that point.
I want my home repaired. And I want to go home. And it feels like the insurance company think that those two requests are like wanting to have my cake and eat it too. Sigh.
And... it makes me sad and angry and tired to still be having the same arguments with them after so many months and still be getting nowhere.
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What Should William Do?
I'm just doing my annual Preventing Workplace Harassment training at work, and one clip in particular stood out as... especially half-hearted.
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Re: How do I go back to the library?
Evan's done with Twitter and Reddit. But where should he go next? I make some suggestions.
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I called out a scam... but now I'm not so sure...
A few weeks ago I called out a scammer after they asked me to advertise their free deed poll service (which is like mine... except it harvests personal information and provides an inferior output). It's pretty bad... but after talking to its creator I'm no longer certain that it's a scam. What do I do next?
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That's what I said in the first place!
This post is secret; you can only find it via my RSS feeds (and places which syndicate them). It's okay to talk about it or link to it, though. Thanks for being part of RSS Club! Day 1: Senior management ask me about a proposed change. I tell them it's not worth doing. They tell …
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Sleepy Legs
This post is secret; you can only find it via my RSS feeds (and places which syndicate them). It's okay to talk about it or link to it, though. Thanks for being part of RSS Club! This weekend, I (a) carried a 1970s Yamaha organ around the place, (b) took a beginner lesson in Argentine …
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The elder child took me to the cinema to see The Amazing Digital Circus: The Last Act tonight. I was pleased and impressed that it didn't take the (ample) opportunities for a trite nor easy way out, instead finishing its arc in a satisfying way that did justice to everything that had come before it. Like its original source material, this wasn't a story about people escaping or overcoming their antagonist... it was a story about found family and coming to terms with the reality that we're given, for both its joys and tragedies.
(Unlike the story the inspired it, though, it is of course not completely bleak, and is even hopeful right up to the very end.)
So yeah. Not bad. Was a good crowd to see it with, too. The audible gasp from the entire auditorium at the moment that it becomes apparent that Caine still exists was enjoyable to be part of.
Oh, and in case you haven't seen any of the bajillion places that have doubtless already leaked the "store exclusive" merch QR qode that appears at the end of the movie, here you go: https://glitchproductions.store/pages/u2fsdgvkx19pzajepvyzbljzzv48kjlz331hmw9mith7fo5l1tzw3vji92nudusk
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You know it's been too hot and dry when, as soon as the rain starts to fall, your first thought is to go sit outside in it!
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Dan, a white man with a blue ponytail and a goatee beard, wears purple t-shirt, tracksuit bottoms, and crocs to sit outdoors on garden furniture in light rain.
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Last night I wrote a stupid userscript to exploit a stupid XSS vulnerability to add a stupid feature to a Web-based chat room I'm in.
Everybody else's name is coloured in accordance with the theme they're using. But mine... can be a rainbow, or an image, or something else entirely:
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Animation showing Dan Q typing a chat message and selecting a 'style' from a dropdown, which is then applied to his name in the sent message, making it black-on-white rather (or rainbow-coloured, or the Dan Q SVG logo) rather than just plain coloured text.
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The Frosted Pane Again
Spotify's RNG and Pagan Wanderer Lu conspired together to throw The Frosted Pane in my way, causing me to trip up and fall into a blog post I read 15 years ago and can now reflect upon with the knowledge I've gained since (about myself, about psychotherapy, and about what it's like to be displaced by your house flooding).
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Fucking Vibe Coding
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Happy Dead Dad Day to those who celebrate (which I guess, in reality, is just me and my sisters).
I could have really appreciated being able to phone my dad, today, to talk about the ongoing challenges with making my house habitable after the flood.
Ah well. At least we've now got (some) electricity in (some of) the house: that's an exciting development. And we've got somewhere to live for the next two weeks: that's good news, too.
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Note to self: when running a big ol' 13 amp dehumidifier through an extension cable that's longer than you need, do not leave the excess cable on the spool, or else what you've made is a 13 amp electromagnet and that shit gets hot. 😅
(Fortunately nobody is stupid enough to sell me a 10 metre, 13 amp extension cable without a thermal cut-out.)
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Sometimes I feel like I'm resting on my laurels.
The most-important thing that I've given to the world is almost-certainly Three Rings. Three Rings facilitates several volunteer-years of volunteer work every day. Over the last 23 years it's become so essential a service that several major charities - and innumerable smaller grassroots groups - can't conceive of how they functioned without it.
A distant second is probably FreeDeedPoll.org.uk, through which I've helped tens of thousands of people to change their name for free. Plus, through this I've learned enough about the law that I've been able to support people fighting discriminatory behaviour by high street banks, and trans kids whose parents don't support their identity, and dual-citizens standing up against illiberal laws in their 'other' countries, and divorcees whose estranged exes won't let them share their name with their children.
Everything else is a far-distant third. All the voluntary work, all the open-source, all the... everything... will probably never leave a mark so significant as, y'know, those two. (If any of this sounds like a humblebrag, I'm sorry: that's truly not my intention.)
What if I waste the second half of my adult life producing... nothing? At least: nothing of even remotely-comparable value? Have I "peaked"? Have I already done the most-good for the world that I ever will? Where will that leave me in five, ten, or twenty years?
Ultimately, the problem is that I might never be "enough" for my own standards. Possibly what I need isn't to "make more things", it's to "have more therapy"!
But for now: this is what weighs on me from time to time.
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I feel like I've spent the last week or so half-assing everything. Both at work and at home I've started countless tasks but finished almost none.
Not entirely sure what's gotten me. Some opportunistic bug that's left me feeling run-down, but not quite enough to call myself "sick"? An insufficiency of sleep? Too damn little sunlight this time of year? Not enough fibre (which is apparently the solution to everything this year)???
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Ron Swanson, from Parks & Rec, posits that you should 'Never half-ass two things. Whole-ass one thing.'
Whatever it is, my body and brain wish I were hibernating, and are making known their displeasure at my having to do useful things like wrangle children and code. Thinking's a little bit like wading through treacle.
Wake me when it's spring. Meanwhile, I've picked out two tasks that, if I can complete today, will at least make me feel like I've achieved something this week. Let's see how we get on.