Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCCXLV

[NickFitz]

I managed some productive meddling around with SwiftUI during the evening

And I read some more of The Three-Body Problem

Thursday tomorrow!

It’s our Tech Debt day. There’s some stuff the PM wants us to focus on, which the other dev has...

[NickFitz]

Pork cutlet with chips and beans for tea

And a bit of the motorway cops thing to go with it

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a cold chicken leg

It was supposed to get quite gloomy here but if it did, I missed it. It’s tending towards the Simpsonesque out there now. Still very breezy though

The daffodils in the central flowerbed have bloomed

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Sunny start with some cloud, but it’s starting to cloud over. There was some rain and quite a high wind last night and it’s still a bit breezy, so the current 7°C “feels like” 1°; the expected high is 11°. The barometers are down to 994/1002mB ...

[NickFitz]

I managed a bit more SwiftUI tinkering earlier

And in The Three-Body Problem, the plot thickens

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been leftover East African BBQ bits from Saturday night

This was accompanied by Forensics: The Real CSI on iPlayer

[NickFitz]

Another day done, and half the working week out of the way

Having spent much of yesterday and this morning trying to deal with one last small detail that was messing up the three impossible things I got working last week, I finally cracked it this afternoon!

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a cold sausage bap (white)

It’s rather Simpsonesque out now, though it still seems to be a bit chilly, judging by the fresh air coming from the open kitchen window

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

The weather app insists it’s cloudy out, but in reality there’s quite a lot of cirrus and cirrostratus with plentiful gaps of blue sky between, so it’s actually sunny right now with occasional brief spells of shade. Apparently it’s going to get windy, leading...

[NickFitz]

I read more of The Three-Body Problem, which I’m enjoying - the story seems to be developing in an interesting direction

And I also got a bit of SwiftUI stuff working that I’d thought would be more complicated than it turned out to be

Goodnight all ...

[NickFitz]

Tea: lamb steaks with chips and beans

This was accompanied by the final part of the Netflix thing about Three Mile Island. The capitalists got their way, as usual

[NickFitz]

So he is!

I checked the drone shot, but it wasn’t while I was there ...

[NickFitz]

More leftovers for lunch

The fog’s cleared, outside. In my brain, not so much

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[NickFitz]

No news is good news right now, so here's a bunch of things to read about that aren't in the news, or not very much

• How Elon Musk’s Sci-Fi Hyperloop Failed - ”Before his misadventures in government efficiency, Musk promised to revolutionize commuting with a subway that would speed passengers

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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s foggy! Not even a bit misty, but a fairly decent fog

It’s also 7°C, again, with an expected high of 12°, again. The barometers are down a little at 1007/1015mB. And it seems the cloud might clear a bit towards sunset

[NickFitz]

There was a bit of wildlife stuff on around teatime

Tonight, I resumed The Three-Body Problem, in which it appears theoretical physics is in trouble

Monday again tomorrow. Four weeks until Easter

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

‘Country Joe’ McDonald, Who Urged the Crowd at the ’69 Woodstock Festival to ‘Gimme an F,’ Dies

And it’s one, two, three, what are we fighting for?

[NickFitz]

I’ll have a look

Tea has been sausage and mash with onion gravy

And this was accompanied by the rest of the episode of Police Interceptors I started watching the other evening; and with that watched, I’m out of new episodes of that ...

[NickFitz]

Ah! Mystery solved

I found a DB dump from before the “upgrade” and used that to work out where one of the threads ought to be - and it turned out it had been merged with another thread! When I tried to visit it here on the live site, I was redirected to the appropriate point in that...