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[NickFitz]

Another pretty productive day!

I got bogged down for a while this afternoon tracking down some weird behaviour in a React component. I think I figured it out in the end; at any rate, it’s doing what it ought to now. The other dev was busy with some other stuff but she knows much more about React than I do, so she said she’d have a look tomorrow to check I haven’t done something else weird that merely happens to work at the moment

It rained quite heavily for a while after lunch, but the sky cleared a bit towards the end of the day so we got an hour or so of sunny spells

[NickFitz]

Lunch: a sardines-in-tomato-sauce toastie

Still grey here, though the drizzle stopped

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Wednesday.

Grey.

Sunless.

Dreary.

Chilly in here at 13.8 deg, 12.5 in the kitchen, 12 in the leanto.

981 mBar, 28.97 in Hg, 735.8 Torr, 14.23 psi, (up from 979 last night), 67% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 16th of March 2020 BR14, covbob, LM, and NF popped in, and I bought this very chromebook from an Argos shop that isn't there any more.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the rain. Dry to start & didn't stay that way for long. Ho hum.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: the 11:45 thing. <click>.

Foyle's War S8 E2 "Trespass". Begin's finest hour: killing 90 odd people in The King David Hotel bombing. Getting his hand in for later. Then bringing their terrorism to London. Plus the rent-A-Nazi follower of Moseley MBGA.

Sun came out & it turned into a pleasant looking afternoon, rather more pleasant than this morning's grey & miserable walk.

Book: Mercator has ended up in prison for Believing The Wrong Things: such as Reading the Bible in Translation and Evil Things like that. Fortunately his wife burned all his letters before the inquisitors had chance to read them. . Otherwise Mercator would probably have been and not in a Good Way. .

At least William Tyndale was strangled before he burned unlike the unfortunates in this country under Bloody Mary.

Tea: Tesco battered (or might be breaded) cod. A bit meh, if I'm honest about it. Entertainment: PM <click>

Scotland Yard.

Yesterday: Abandoned Engineering.

TLC: Bad skin clinic.

Elementary S1 E13.

[WTFH]

Morning all
Gentle spitting at the start of the walk, but within a few minutes that had stopped. Miracle of miracles.
A bit breezy out, but the dawn chorus was in full song by 6:45

[NickFitz]

On my way to newClientCo for Day1. A "stand up" that takes an hour every week is at 9 am so I've been asked to turn up at 8.30 am to be shown around etc. Decided to take the train instead of drive as it's hopefully a more predictable journey. Google maps was estimating between 1h10m and 2h if I were to drive it.

Commuting!

Old skool

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey day, and drizzly too at the moment, with more of the same likely off and on. Mild enough at 8°C with 10° expected by lunchtime; there’s no breeze to speak of, so the “feels like” figure of 6° is down below the fold. The barometers have plummeted further to 969/977mB

[ladymuck]

^^ om



Morning all

The sun is not yet ris. Cloudy. Wet but no active precipitation. Currently 9 degrees with a high of 12 expected. Barometer down to 983 mBar.

Sunrise 07:23; Sunset 17:09 GMT

On my way to newClientCo for Day1. A "stand up" that takes an hour every week is at 9 am so I've been asked to turn up at 8.30 am to be shown around etc. Decided to take the train instead of drive as it's hopefully a more predictable journey. Google maps was estimating between 1h10m and 2h if I were to drive it.

[NickFitz]

Much mucking about in Xcode this evening, trying to get SwiftData to do something it seemed unwilling to do. But I cracked it in the end

This meant that I only had time for a couple of chapters of The Jane Austen Project, in which the time travellers’ subterfuge is starting to unravel

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea: lamb steaks with chips and beans

This was accompanied by Police Interceptors, which turned out to be the last in the series - but another series has already started!

[NickFitz]

No rain here yet, but the radar suggests it may arrive soon

I did, in fact, manage to get some stuff done this afternoon. There was one thing which I thought was going to be quite tricky involving a complex React component, but it turned out after I read the docs for it (and understood them, and read part of a basic React tutorial to make sure I understood) that it was really easy to do! So that was pleasing

But then I got waylaid, having to work with the other dev on filling out a long and incredibly tedious form for the forthcoming annual pentest of the app. This involved things like dumping out a list of every URL in the app, then going through them comparing them to the same list from the form a couple of years ago (last year’s has been lost) to check what to include where. Using a diff tool helped with this, but it still wasn’t exactly exciting

But that’s Tuesday done, meaning I’m halfway through the week

[ladymuck]

The forecast light rain is now heavier rain.

[xoggoth]

Not too rainy on my short walk after old farty arty thing but pretty wet now. My conservatory roof is leaking, had to put a big plastic storage box underneath. Won't be able to seal it until the warm dry weather comes.

[sadkingbilly]

Lunch has been a ginster's cornish pasty with lots of HP sauce, in true manly fashion.
still bloody raining though, bugrit bugrit bugrit.............................

[NickFitz]

Lunch: a roast beef bap (wholemeal)

We’re remarkably free of meetings today! I may even get some stuff done this afternoon

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Overcast and damp. Some spits and spots of rain. Currently 9 degrees with a high of 11 expected. Light rain forecast all day. Barometer down to 988 mBar.

Sunrise 07:25; Sunset 17:07 GMT

I was up and out reasonably early for a Tuesday morning for a 09:10 blood test.

Annoyed the agency sorting out Gig3 because the contract review raised some red flags even though the overall assessment was OK. "You may not get the outcome you desire" Gotta love a thinly veiled threat. Such things don't scare me! I'll still be starting tomorrow but at least I have a paper trail of me asking for some clauses to be reviewed. It really annoys me that the 'senior recruiter' references employment in all of their communications. It's not hard to drop that word.