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[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.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Tuesday.

Damp.

Misty.

?Drizzly? It probably wasn't then but it is now.

Grey.

Sunless.

Blue sky in parts (WTF?).

Dreary.

Chilly in here at 13.6 deg, 12.5 in the kitchen, 11 in the leanto.

984.5 mBar, 29.07 in Hg, 738.44 Torr, 14.278 psi, (down from 986.5 last night), 68% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 16th of March 2020 WTFH & NF discussed Italian VPNs, covbob resigned, AndyGarbs found bogroll in Aldi, Brillo popped in, and I visited the library computer room & found it almost empty, whereas covbob discovered he was the only one in the office.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: my tinnitus since I didn't feel like listening to today's ep of the 11:45 thing about living in Bristol and running a shop.

Foyle's War S8 E1 "High Castle": the naughty Septic Nazi loving businessman one.

Walk (abbreviated, towpath) walked in the light drizzle. Not as warm as yesterday.

Tea: soup etc. Entertainment: PM. Let's see how quickly it irritates me and goes <click>: all of 17 minutes.

A thing on Yesterday about WWII Luban in 1945: final death throes of the Wehrmacht.

Bit of another thing about WWII in the east, the "Eastern Wall". 32km of tunnels etc.

[sadkingbilly]

Morning

Persisting it down again, meh.................
Glad i live up a hill.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s cloudy out again, and generally seems a little murkier than yesterday. The 6°C “feels like” 3°, and the high of 9° will only show up for an hour or two mid-afternoon, with rain also expected to arrive around sunset (~75%). The barometers are heading back down at 978/985mB

I’ve started the day by looking up Apache rewrite rule syntax in relation to a weird Google indexing issue on one of my sister’s sites, before deciding it’s probably better to let time sort it out

[WTFH]

Morning all
Wide awake at too early o’clock.
I believe my wife’s flight has just landed, but haven’t heard anything from her since 11:50 yesterday morning, so I’m hoping she’s on it.
Didn’t sound like it was raining overnight, and it’s too dark to see out.

[NickFitz]

I managed a bit of mucking around with the SwiftUI stuff this evening. This app’s starting to look as if it might be usable one day

And I also read some more of The Jane Austen Project, in which the tension builds as the time travellers ingratiate themselves with the Austens, and particularly Jane

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

ConsultancyCo have hired someone who says they're going to take over tracking of projects but need the people working on the projects to provide them with all the info by inputting it into a "system". So...

I hate “systems”

[NickFitz]

Tea has been chicken madras with rice and naan

Just a mini-naan though, as lunch seems to have been quite filling

This was accompanied by the first half of E2 of 999: What Happened Next on 4, featuring a bloke who stabbed a complete stranger in Peterborough, and a chap in Wales who crashed his car, killing his young female passenger, and then drank four bottles of Peroni in rapid succession while waiting for the police to arrive. I doubt that’ll do him much good, as nowadays they do all kinds of calculations of the rate at which you metabolise the booze and get convictions that way