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[NickFitz]

I got distracted by some Swift stuff for this app I’m working on, and decided I couldn’t be bothered with cooking - also, I didn’t have anything in that I fancied. So I went on Deliveroo and ordered something from the Turkish place

It arrived in ten minutes! Definitely the fastest food delivery I’ve ever received

This was accompanied by a further episode of 999: What Happened Next on 4. Turns out driving to a tiny village in the middle of nowhere during the Covid lockdown to commit a crime made it extremely easy for the police to track your movements via CCTV and ANPR, as there were hardly any other cars on the roads

[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