Went to Wagamama. Accidentally made the "Order of the Beast".
(Plus a similar side, for those who read binary.)
Seventy years ago, residents of this part of London would take shelter from V1 and V2 bombs in a tunnel beneath my feet. And today, I'm going down there to take a look!
I got kicked off LinkedIn this week. Apparently there was "suspicious behaviour" on my account. To get back in, I needed to go through Persona's digital ID check (this, despite the fact that I've got a Persona-powered verification on my LinkedIn, less than six months old).
After looping around many times identifying which way up a picture of a dog was and repeatedly photographing myself, my passport, and my driving license, I eventually got back in. Personally, I suspect they just rolled out some Online Safety Act functionality and it immediately tripped over my unusual name.
But let this be a reminder to anybody who (unlike me) depends upon their account in a social network: it can be taken away in a moment and be laborious (or impossible) to get back. If you care about your online presence, you should own your own domain name; simple as that!
I've eaten "doughnut holes", but I've never seen anybody market "bagel holes". Untapped opportunity?
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I spent most of a day getting my new development environment set up, because I kept hitting issues that nobody at my new employer had experienced before. A "perfect storm" of coincidences that conspired together to completely wreck my chance of a simple setup.
The factors?
- Apple's M4 processors remove the SVE architecture and its instruction set, which was present in the M1 through M3
- The Colima dockerisation tool still reports to arm64 containers that SVE is available
- Java < 24 will, by default, use SVE for some functions if it's told that it's available
- Opensearch 2.x will not run on Java > 23
If ANY ONE of those statements were not true, I wouldn't have had any trouble. But the combination of all four of them meant that I was getting proper segfault-death crashes.
I blame Apple. Who removes instructions from a processor within the same family‽ (I'm sure that in reality there's probably some important reason for it that's beyond my ken, but still!)
#note #apple #programming #computers #technology #docker #firstup #job #work #employment #java
Off to my first day at Firstup. Gotta have an induction: get my ID badge, learn where the toilets are, how to refill the coffee machine, and all that jazz.
Except, of course, none of those steps will be part of my induction. Because, yet again, I've taken a remote-first position. I'm 100% sold that, for me, remote/distributed work helps me bring my most-productive self. It might not be for everybody, but it's great for me.
And now: I'm going to find out where the water cooler is. No, wait... some other thing!
#note #firstup #work #job #employment #telecommuting #teleworking
As the UK's heatwave continues, the dog and I were delighted that this morning was sufficiently overcast that we could manage a proper walk without completely melting.
Her breed copes badly with the heat and we've lately had to keep her indoors or in the shade more than she'd like, so a chance to run around among the trees was very welcome!
I know how I'm SUPPOSED to read it, but when I see this I can't help but imagine a conversation like...
"What shall we call our car wash?"
/waves hand/ "I dunno."
Sometimes LinkedIn's approach to anonymising who looks you up isn't very effective.
I wonder who that could be?
#note #socialNetworking #anonymity #wordpress #automattic #funny #stalker
Via: https://danq.me/2025/07/01/founder-at-wordpress-viewed-your-profile/
New this week: Obsidian plugins for devs, time trackers & visual thinkers.
Mark Open Files
Prettier Auto-Format
JIRA & YouTrack Support
Cut the Fluff
Simple Password
Image Border Style
Outliner Cards
Timeline Lists
Full showcase → https://obsidianjourney.com/posts/obsidian-plugins-showcase---june-28th-2025/
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Sometimes all you need to complete the perfect offset geocache is a GPSr, some hand tools... and the willingness to unilaterally declare a remote bench to be a memorial to a fictional person, just to get a particular set of numbers out into the world!
Pretty sure there isn't a prize for Throwing Wet Sponges At Children during the graduating year's "fun run" at the school sports day... but just like the kids are asked to, I'm going to try my best.
#note #school #stantonHarcourt #racing #fun #children #education #sport
Not just a global issue but a local one too. A local one... almost everywhere.
#note #oxford #climate #environmentalism #infographics #graphs
New Obsidian plugins to clean, convert, sort & explore your notes:
Checkbox Sort
Base64 → PNG
Notes Explorer
Tasks Cleaner
Markdown Flip
MemoChron
Easy Keep View
… and more!
Read it all → https://obsidianjourney.com/posts/obsidian-plugins-showcase---june-21th-2025/
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Happy Stone Circle Sunday! The youngest and I went out to Avebury Henge, the world's largest neolithic standing stone circle and henge.
#note #stoneCircleSunday #history #walking #archeology #children #parenting