Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCCL

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been some leftover Thai chicken bits

There was a meeting before that. We have this one every week and often manage to end it fairly quickly, but this one ran the full hour, up to 13:00

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Morning denizens

Mostly blue skies here, but with some big bits of cirrus floating around high up. It’s 5°C with an expected high of 14°, and the barometers are up a touch to 1004/1012mB

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Tonight I started reading Here, There and Everywhere by Geoff Emerick, sound engineer to the Beatles. Apparently he’s a somewhat unreliable narrator, and also had a peculiar dislike of George Harrison; but it’s good on technical details, like his idea for putting John Lennon’s vocals on Tomorrow Never...

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Tea has been Sainsbury’s chunky breaded cod loin with chips and beans

This was accompanied by the final episode (for S1, at least) of The Truth About My Murder, which was yet another demonstration that the level of incompetence some people exhibit in trying to cover up their crimes...

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After work, it was time once again to trog round to the chemist’s for the monthly prescription. They feel positively fortnightly these days

Nice sunny evening though, without being unpleasantly warm

[NickFitz]

Lunch: a cold sausage bap (white)

Bit of a challenge at work today. Something isn’t working and needs to be sorted out pretty quickly, but the other dev is the one who knows all about it and she’s on holiday this week. She’s left me copious notes and I spent some time digging...

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Links are up

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Slightly more manageable Roman numerals this week

• The Death of a Superman - in the USA, clothing donation bins are killing homeless people: ”Dennis started pulling himself headfirst into the chute; he got his head all the way in, and his left arm too. Then something slipped… The metal door

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Morning denizens

It’s a bright sunny start with some wisps of cloud here and there. Unusually, the current 4°C “feels like” 7° - the first time I’ve seen it that way round, but the specific panel for that further down the page confirms it, saying “It feels warmer than...

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I finished Rasputin and the Downfall of the Romanovs, which didn’t really work out well for anyone. Still hasn’t, in fact

At least Putin will be unhappy about this evening's news from Hungary

Monday again tomorrow, but I’m off for a week after this one’s done...

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This one was still flashing its red LED every minute even though it was supposedly off, and still occasionally chirping - the manual says it should do it every forty seconds, but it was more like every forty minutes. I tried pressing the central button, which supposedly silences the low battery alarm,...

[NickFitz]

Tea has been chicken casserole with chips and peas

To go with it, the latest episode of Ambulance

However, just after I started eating and watching, iPlayer started spinning its spinny thing and further investigation revealed that the Internet had disappeared...

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been some leftover Thai bits



I took it down - it just twists off the baseplate - and found that it should have been replaced by late 2023! I assume the smoke detector in the hall is of similar vintage. Replacements that fit the same baseplate have been ordered...

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a cloudy and blustery day, but we don’t have any rain, and only a 15-20% chance of some showers later. It’s 9°C but “feels like” 1°, and is aiming for a high of 11°; the barometers are creeping back up at 995/1003mB

[NickFitz]

Monkey Life was back after last week’s inexplicable hiatus, making the TV not entirely useless

And in the Rasputin book, he’s been murdered by a bunch of aristocrats who were wholly unsuited to the task and made a right mess of it

Very windy out, and likely to...

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Tea tonight was brought to me from the Thai restaurant in town. Very nice indeed, and they didn’t forget the rice this time

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Afternoon denizens

Sunny and Simpsonesque out, and there’s a bit of a breeze. As a result, the current 10°C “feels like” 3°; the expected high is 11°. The barometers are plummeting though: down to 992/1000mB, and a 70% chance of rain tomorrow

The heat...

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Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was Eddington (2025) in which the sheriff and the mayor of a small town in New Mexico (the eponymous Eddington) are feuding over some small town bulltulip during the Covid pandemic. Matters aren’t helped by the fact that the sheriff is into anti-masking conspiracy...

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Tea has been ribs and chips, being my own recipe mango BBQ ribs

Earlier, I bit the bullet and upgraded to the latest version of MacOS. This, in turn, enabled the AI integration features in Xcode; so I bit a further bullet and took out a Claude AI subscription, started a new project,...

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Excellent stuff!

FWIW my iPhone weather app is accurate to the times for Leicester according to https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/ so your app might be fine ...