Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCCXXVII

[NickFitz]

Our council's introducing food waste bins next year. I'm curious to know how that's going to work for somewhere like this. We have a whole bunch of communal black (general waste) and orange (recycling) bins, and the bin paddock is only just big enough to contain them. I suppose fewer black bins will...

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a grey and windy day again, where 13°C feels like 7°; the expected high of 15° won’t feel much better. The barometers are up a tough at 995/1003mB. And tonight, it’s expected to rain

I realised last night that I’d forgotten,...

[NickFitz]

By popular demand ...

... they're back ...

... Yes, it's ...



The Fabulous Banana Marching Band

and they're playing ...


“Happy 20th Birthday TPD!”





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[NickFitz]

Lunch, BTW, was a sausage bap

This evening’s viewing was the rest of an episode of Police Interceptors that I started watching last week

I’d paused it just at the start of an ad break, and returning to it revealed a new bug in the 5 app: it started playing...

[NickFitz]

Tea has been spag bol, except with tagliatelle instead of spag

I bought the tagliatelle a while ago as an experiment but this is the first time I’ve got around to having any. It’s much the same in many ways, of course. Maybe it’s because I'm not used to it but I found it a...

[NickFitz]

That’s because of the fundamental architectural mistake in vBulletin 5: putting almost everything in one humongous DB table with a “type” field to tell what each row actually is ...

[NickFitz]

That's from the plugin for thanks and likes, and no, I have no idea what that message is trying to say ...

[NickFitz]

Our former administrator used to accept requests for custom titles, but I don't know if the new people will! But the stock ones are based on post count and haven't been extended to the dizzy heights some have now reached for many years, so I'll see if I can get some new ones in there to give us something...

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[NickFitz]

I forgot to revert the title last week after the holiday/Louvre special the week before

• The Blue Book Burglar - ”The Social Register was a who’s who of America’s rich and powerful—the heirs of robber barons, scions of political dynasties, and descendants of Mayflower passengers.

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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a rainy start out, having been a rainy night - so much so that it woke me up at one point. Apparently milder with it at 12°C, though it “feels like” 5° because it’s also windy; the expected high is 12°. The barometers are up a touch at 996/1003mB

[NickFitz]

I found time for a bit more mucking around with CoreGraphics stuff this evening. Points can now be labelled with their coordinates

And in Ambient, things are about to get complicated

Monday again tomorrow! Oh well

Goodnight all :t...

[NickFitz]

I’d been thinking for a while that it would be useful, but it would have been a nightmare to add to the present incarnation. I reckon it shouldn’t be too complicated with the new platform ...

[NickFitz]

How about a “Go to date” feature? Useful for TPD, and the Dead Celebrities thread is getting a bit big now too. People might like being able to see who died on this day x years ago and so on ...

[NickFitz]

Yes, I need to check that ignore lists have been imported correctly. Assuming they have, what I’ve read of the developer docs suggests it should be relatively easy to add the Time Machine option

Tea has been KFC leftovers

This was accompanied by the latest episode...

[NickFitz]

Lunch was some KFC hot wings, cold, with ketchup

Since then I’ve been digging into the forthcoming shiny new forum software, trying to work out what didn’t work when importing the existing forum data (well, the dump I took of it around 2020). First on the list: I couldn’t...

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a sunny day out with just some small clumps of fluff floating about. Breezy though, so those clumps are moving from west to east at a fairly brisk pace, and the wind chill is making the current 9°C “feel like” 5°; our expected high is 11°. The barometers...

[NickFitz]

The much-reduced wildlife lineup on the telly today was boosted by an episode of Meet the Chimps on Disney+, about a sanctuary in the USA that’s roughly equivalent to Monkey World

I seem to have got distracted from RealityKit stuff by working out how to use CoreGraphics for 2D drawing...

[NickFitz]

Tea was brought to me from KFC

Well, eventually. The chap must have made at least two other deliveries on the way. He gave me some flannel about having had to wait ages because the place was so busy on a Saturday night; he apparently didn't realise that the app told me when he picked...

[NickFitz]

Just had a small bowl of beef & Guinness stew for lunch. The flavours have developed nicely with a night in the fridge

And earlier, I had an orange! It’s been ages since I had one of those, which is silly really as I like them; I just don’t often remember to buy any :ro...