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Week 197: Teams playerhttps://po-ru.com/2024/10/15/week-197-teams-player#weeknotes#blog
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On an early train to Edinburgh. If the train co-operates, I'll be there in time for lunch and an amble before @haggisruby tomorrow. #haggisruby
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The train is called "Azuma" (an archaic Japanese word for "east", presumably because it's a Hitachi trainset on the East Coast Mainline) but the way they pronounce it makes me itch.
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Been in Edinburgh 10 minutes and I've already had a vegan haggis roll. (Delicious, by the way.)
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What do people do with dirty towels? A single towel isn't enough to put a wash on, but you can't put a damp dirty towel away to await a wash, as it will only get worse in the interim.
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Every time a formerly successful company goes down the toilet, you can just search for $COMPANY_NAME + "private equity" and realise that all this was foretold.(If your employer is acquired by a PE...
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I created a Wikipedia page for a black Tanzanian artist who, despite currently having a retrospective on at the National Galleries of Scotland, lacked one, and someone who described themself as...
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The world of work is someone @-ing the entire organisation to say that Global Business Analysis Day is coming up on Friday. Am I really to be expected to take this stultifying nonsense seriously?...
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Week 199: Embrahttps://po-ru.com/2024/10/28/week-199-embra#weeknotes#blog#haggisruby
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How I earn my living:Them: How do you make a text field readonly?Me: I think it inherits from the Rails text field, doesn't it? In which case you can probably pass in `readonly: true` Them: I tried...
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I have a grudging respect for people who are so deep into the Apple fandom that they can remember the order the codenames go in, but I have no idea whether Mohawk is newer than Ocelot or what random...
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I can't use my own bike due to evening plans and there's no Overground this week, so I tried a Lime bike. It was my first time, and my first time using an electric bike.- Surprisingly slow: you can get...
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Discovered that the mute/unmute shortcut in Teams is exactly the same as "switch to mobile emulation mode" in Firefox dev tools when instead of unmuting me it shrank my browser to a postage stamp.
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I don't know why anyone uses Microsoft Teams. I mean, sure, it came for free with Office, but a fly-tipped piss-stained mattress is also free, and also full of unpleasant bugs.
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"You've signed out of your account. It's a good idea to close all browser windows." It would be a better fucking idea if you didn't automatically sign me out several times a day.
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There's an interesting follow-up to this. The same developer came back to ask about making more kinds of input fields disabled, so I asked, why do you need to disable so many fields? Why show them at...
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USPol, European perspectiveIf Trump wins, everything goes to shit.If Harris wins, it's still quite shit and we're back here in four years with the same worries about the next freak. At some point we...
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USPol, European perspectiveSorry if you have to live in that country. We have to live in your world and we don't get a vote.
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