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Originally posted by NickFitz View PostRight then. Twitter are turning off their streaming APIs tomorrow because they're gits, so I've got to completely rewrite the bot that saves everything off my timeline
Luckily I wrote it in such a way that it's decoupled from the rest of the application by a message queue, so there's only a single component to reimplement to use a completely different API. Still annoying thoughOriginally posted by NickFitz View PostGot absolutely nowhere with this so far, because I instead got bogged down trying to work out why the Chef stuff I use for deployment had stopped working. Turned out some dependency I hadn't pinned had been updated to a newer major version, which has a completely different API to any older version and no backwards compatibility, because that's what Ruby people do
But it turns out it's Thursday the API switch-off occurs, so assuming I've finally sorted that lot out, I can crack on with it tomorrowOriginally posted by NickFitz View PostTurns out I have sorted that lot out; the Chef recipes are all working again now, assuming that having spun up a functional application server is evidence of working
Today it's 20.4 in the living room, 18.6 in the laundry room, with a laundry room min of 18.
It's grey.
It's dark.
It's drizzly.
So I can't do any outside painting.
It's also Diamond Day.
So I could wander along to B&Q with all the other s
Just made the mistake of clicking on a Wail article.
It attempted to serve me with 83 ads.
The Italian Bridge collapse looks like a thing of nightmares.
I find it difficult to believe that people survived that.
Now to research viscous deformation of concrete.
In with the hoi polloi.
A grey old day & no mistake.
Happily enough, Not A Lego Day.
<taps screen>
Is this thing on?Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 15 August 2018, 09:44.When the fun stops, STOP.Comment
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Weather mixed - ranging from bright grey to apocalyptic depending on the direction. Fingers crossed there's a south westerly blowing in and not a north westerly!
Lunch was salt and pepper chicken, which was meh but better than the other limp looking offerings.The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't existComment
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air con in the building broke so it's a bit sweaty
so bored of the usual lunch I am going to have to go for a wander to find something interestingComment
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Face lurgy less painful but more hideous.
I shall just have to stay indoors and drink tea for a few days.Comment
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Originally posted by mudskipper View PostPatient Liaison services are the people to whinge to - with my mum they did actually get the problem (her being stuck in bed in a ward where literally every other patient had dementia - one who kept threatening to kill her) sorted after 4 days of the ward being unable to.
Its just so blooming frustrating. The Poor chap hasn't got long and he positively hates being hospital.
I do wonder why such simple things take so long, they are constantly complaining about a bed shortage, he would happily vacate his and go home if he could.Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.Comment
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Originally posted by mudskipper View PostFace lurgy less painful but more hideous.
I shall just have to stay indoors and drink long island iced tea for a few days.
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.Comment
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