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Week 180: It’s beginning to look a lot like a kitchenhttps://po-ru.com/2024/06/18/week-180-its-beginning-to-look-a-lot-like-a-kitchen#weeknotes#blog

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JuneteenthIf your constitutional amendment that abolished slavery includes the word "except", you haven't yet abolished slavery.

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I understand the utility of extra information and colour coding in shell prompts (I have mine set up that way, see image), but don't really understand why you'd go to the trouble of patching and...

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Week 181: I am going to murder someone with a piece of broken tilehttps://po-ru.com/2024/06/25/week-181-i-am-going-to-murder-someone-with-a-piece-of-broken-tile#weeknotes#blog

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On a train to Brighton for #BrightonRuby. It's packed but I have a seat.

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On the train back from #BrightonRuby with a can of CBD kombucha (seems appropriate somehow) after a wonderful couple of days. I've met old friends and new people, eaten plenty of very nice vegan food...

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What's the name for that genre of music that consists of high hats and melodically uninteresting three-note heavily auto tuned vocals? You've definitely heard it, because the people that listen to it...

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Week 182: A trip to the seasidehttps://po-ru.com/2024/07/01/week-182-a-trip-to-the-seaside#weeknotes#blog

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UKPol, fun activities for the General Election and, hopefully, the end of Tory governmentI made a little dynamic General Election bingo card implementation if you want to play along with friends...

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UKPol, fun activities for the General Election and, hopefully, the end of Tory governmentIt relies a lot on modern CSS, so if you've got an old iPhone it might not work. (Take that up with Tim Apple.)...

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UKPol, Daily Star front pageIs this the first time "bellend" has featured on a newspaper front page?

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UKPol, one for the big-brain sensibles

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Want a good conspiracy theory? I took this screenshot of the UEFA fixtures page yesterday, before Spain v France. They had already decided the teams in the final: two countries with horizontally...

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Week 183: Over and outhttps://po-ru.com/2024/07/10/week-183-over-and-out#weeknotes#blog

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Caused unnecessary stress by an email I received a few minutes ago."Did you just sign in from a new device?"No…"When: Wednesday 10 July 2024 11:26:50 AM"That's two days ago.If you're going to send...

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USPol, outsider perspective from someone who doesn't live there, can't vote there, but nonetheless has to live with the consequencesSeems to me that somewhere in that country of 350 million people, you...

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Reminded by current events of an 18th century war that started after another incident of nonconsensual otoplasty:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Jenkins'_Ear

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Sad to see that Fernandes Guitars has ceased operations and filed for bankruptcy.https://news.livedoor.com/article/detail/26782414/

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Swipe-swipe-swiping back to the top of a long page on mobile feels laborious, like trying to rewind a C90 cassette with a pencil. Am I missing a trick? Some gesture? Or are we all just supposed to...

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Week 184: The Return of the Thingshttps://po-ru.com/2024/07/16/week-184-the-return-of-the-things#weeknotes#blog(I forgot to post this earlier)

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