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A day of national mourning is upon us - our kettle stopped working this afternoon so we've had a whole half day with no tea ð (cries in British)
Read moreNooo! This really is quite the tragedy 😭
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My email needs: read/write emails, throw away emails, search emails. That’s it.
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The mothership has finally mandated that I use Outlook for email and jeebus what a dumpster fire. The number of buttons, toolbars, ribbons, menus, “add-ins,” “apps,” and settings is literal chaos. How does anyone use this shit?
Read moreMy work email is outlook, but very minimal. Just email and calendar. No ribbons etc.
I'm convinced that orgs like it because they can mandate shit like that.
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It was bothering me that I messed up the alignment of the compost bin on the cabinet door so I fixed it. There was exactly enough free space between the bin and hinge to move it so it exactly clears the other door.
Read moreWhen stuff fits together this nicely all dads everywhere are required to say "It's like it was made for that".
Not a great nights sleep last night… fingers crossed I can still be productive today!
I'm on a "tool-journey" for a notes app. It's crazy how much a notes app can drive and affect your life if it's used well and correctly.
My current tool of choice is Obsidian, but I've had to use Notion for work lately and quite like it. What's yours?
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Could not agree more with the sentiment here! Whatever happened to semantic markup?
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Radio buttons are built into web browsers. Why are we using a UI library that wraps another UI library that rebuilds radio buttons from scratch? Why does rendering a radio button require multiple dependencies and several kilobytes of Jav...
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Kelly Jensen’s article on the state of librarian mental health is incredibly detailed. The librarians are not okay.
Read moreWow, "mission creep" is definitely something I can relate to as a software engineer. Scope creep is the bane of any significantly large project.
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In better news, the great NAS migration of 2026 has finally come to an end. Rest in Pieces, old Synology. Your ancient CPU can finally rest. ✌🏼
Read moreHonestly it's the fear of having to manage it that's prevented me from having a NAS.
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Back in the day, independent social media enthusiasts were building their own social spaces on RSS/Atom and self-hosted publishing. There was a huge ecosystem of feed readers and publishing software, where anyone could use their own choi...
Read moreAnd besides, RSS isn't and was never dead. It's just one of those things most people don't realize is there.