I think my 2 posts from this time 6 years ago still hold up. Brexit remains a complete waste of time and energy, a Tory psychodrama from which none of us can escape.
Notes
Everything Everywhere All at Once is the multiverse done right: original, vibrant, funny, surprising, thought provoking… Doctor Strange could learn a thing or two from Evelyn Wang.
If Apple updates their macOS apps like they updated Safari last year (poorly conceived features, confusing design, bug-ridden implementation), then I think I might cry. #WWDC22
Saw a DeLorean pull up outside the Monte Carlo Casino and no, it wasn’t a dream.
Absolutely wet through. Sought shelter under the grandstand alongside everyone else. Hope we get a race today.
Grey clouds cling to the mountains above. A few spots of rain have fallen on the grandstand. This race might not be the usual parade. 🤞
Sat opposite the pit lane, it’s fascinating to watch the pre-race build up. It almost looks like a zoo, with suspiciously monied visitors taking photos of the specimens on display.
Monaco, probably the only Grand Prix circuit where you enter the venue via a primary school.
Even my dreams aren’t safe from Tom Cruise popping up to promote Top Gun: Maverick.
Outside Churchill Square, Dianetic ‘stress tests’ are being conducted directly opposite a police recruitment van.
Scientology or the Freemasons, the choice is yours.
Doctor Strange and the Actors Who Were Available at the Time of Filming.
The first of a few side-projects I’ve been working on to help teams within government, a plugin for Eleventy. Use it to quickly build marketing pages, blogs and documentation sites.
Huzzah! @Higgidy have finally replaced the plastic trays for their quiches with cardboard ones. Now all that’s left is that damn plastic window…
Am reminded of Jon Stewart’s view that the conflict is not left versus right but corruption versus not-corruption; ‘contrarian narcissists who trade as “free-thinkers”’ sit firmly in the first camp.
Lovely bumping into @yandle earlier. Compared notes on working in government, and reminisced about ‘that trip’ to New York in 2013.
Proof, if it were needed, that Google ruins everything. 🤢
2 weeks banging my head against a wall trying to get something to work, but getting nowhere.
10 minutes explaining the problem to @roobottom this morning, and have now figured out the correct solution.
It’s good to talk.
Posting photos from @tryglass to my own website using @microdotblog’s iOS app works seemlessly. Still, would rather cut out the middleman and syndicate directly to my website from Glass using the Micropub API.
Given it’s #ServicesWeek, here’s the presentation I gave last year about using a design history to document your work.
How wonderful to spend an evening in the company of @dhuntrods, @roobottom and @vivdoc. Here’s to more socialising in the new, new normal.
Honestly, sometimes I think it’d be easier and quicker to train as a builder instead of spending weeks trying to find somebody willing to do the work or is capable of doing a half-decent job. See also: plumbers, electricians and window fitters.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩Introduced to Roblox by nieces and… I feel old!
This turned out to be quite a big release. And there’s more to come!
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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩Licorice Pizza was so much fun! Such a beautiful, funny and uplifting story – too early to call it my film of the year? Such a joy to see John Michael Higgins on screen again too… “I don’t speak Japanese”… brilliant!
Kirby is 10 and Eleventy is 1.0.0. Web 1.0 is alive and well.
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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩How wonderful to start the new year and have @jesseyuen be in the same virtual building. Again!
Happy 5th birthday, Micro.blog!
Such a wonderful way to start the new year. Less so the “fish fingers”.
Over the years, @armstrong has been diligently working away on @niiceapp. No hype or bluster, just laser focused on meeting his customers needs. That’s pretty inspirational, if you ask me.
Doing a silly voice, I started chuckling away to myself; such a rare occurrence these last few months that this response actually shocked me.
The drugs do work.
As 12 weeks of working from home has morphed into a state of perpetual home working, I’m so done with all the various ‘productivity’ apps that assume users have powerful computers and super fast broadband. Metaverse? I can barely use Miro.