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[NickFitz]

Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was Project Hail Mary (2026) which I’ve been looking forward to since I read the book sometime around the start of the year. I thought it was really good

I’m hoping its success is enough to get the film of his novel Artemis off the starting blocks, because I reckon that would make a good film too

After that, a rewatch of 21 Bridges (2019) which is a good take on the copaganda theme of the cop with an undeserved bad rep dealing with a situation where only his style of policing will get the job done

And finally, the final episode of S1 of Pluribus, which was clearly written once they’d been guaranteed S2, and none the worse for that as it sets up a new direction for things, suggesting the alien group mind may not be as impenetrable as it seems

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been a thick-cut ribeye steak with fried onions and chips

This was accompanied by the rest of the shoplifting thing from yesterday

This afternoon, I thoroughly investigated the matter of tulips; specifically, the replacement of the word “tulip” with “tulip”. I’d forgotten that this isn’t done using vB’s naughty words list, which will only replace things with *s, but using another feature that allows for replacement of arbitrary strings. In XenForo, there is no such global replacement feature but the censored words feature can do replacement. The importer doesn’t do anything about either of them, so I need to add a custom step to make that all work as it currently does

Fun fact (may not be that much fun): the replacement happens as the page is rendered, so all your naughty words are safely in the database, awaiting an age that’s more linguistically relaxed

[ladymuck]

Much laundry washed and dried out in the garden. HWMBO hadn't unpacked from holiday so it was all my stuff that got done. If it's not in the basket, it doesn't get washed! Although I was kind and did his jeans.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: a roast beef bap (white) and a bag of plain crisps

Very Simpsonesque out now. No need for the air conditioner yet, but I suspect it’ll be proving its worth some time this weekend

Some bedding is in the wash

[ladymuck]

Om.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Om.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Blue sky with occasional wisps. Currently 21 degrees ('feels like' 24) with a high of 27 expected Barometer down to 1025 mBar.

Sunrise 05:00; Sunset 20:57 BST

Looking at the 10-day forecast, it's going to be in the 30's for most of next week. Marvellous.

Gig1 have found some money down the back of the sofa for a 2 day a week extension for two months, so I'll be lingering on until the end of August. Gig2 have confirmed the project will end, due to lack of innerest, at the end of June. Gig3 continues to be a well paying mess.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Sunny start, with just some areas of mare’s tails high up to add texture. And it’ll be a warm one: already at 19°C (“feels like” 17°, as if that matters), it’s expected to soar to 26° this afternoon, though it’ll also get cloudier then. The barometers are steady at 1012/1020mB - though strictly speaking, they’re down a couple of notches in the decimal places; but I assume that isn’t significant

I had a very good night’s sleep, only to be awoken a little after seven by a knot of cramp in a calf muscle

I got up and hopped around briefly until it eased, and went back to sleep for another hour. The second time of arising, I had a bit of a limp as it was still painful. But pottering around and showering seems to have eased it for now

[DoctorStrangelove]

The Middle Kingdoms have become infested with Habsburgs! It’ll take centuries to get rid of that lot

And they got a bit lippy. .

Morning.

Friday.

Dry.

Blueish sky with high white cloud.

Wanly sunny.

17.6 deg in here, 19 in the kitchen, 18 in the leanto, 17 in the saltinghouse.

1017 mBar, 30.03 in Hg, 762.8 Torr, 14.75 psi, (unchanged), 69% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 28th of March 2020 AndyGarbs, BR14, LM, and I popped in, with Brillo providing the drivel.

Washing frenzy in progress.

Shopping trip to Aldi done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away.

I'm definitely slowing down a lot. Took a deal of effort to walk out there & back. Must be dying of something after the bad knees & the bad shoulder.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: R4 waffling on about flowering plants. Makes a change from last week's discussion of sodomy. . Not being at all judgemental of course. This week: plants that flower underground and the Corpse Flower. .

Shirts in off the line & duly met the iRon, now airing upstairs. Only a small amount of birdtulip so far this week.

2 lawns mowed. Found two orchids in my lawn. WTF is going on?

Tea: Mr Brains faggots etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM. 18 o'clock news. News Quiz.

Book. Other book.

Taggart S10 E6 "Black Orchid". The first Non Taggart Taggart ep. The Evil hypnotist one.

[WTFH]

Morning all .

TFIF, etc.
CBS, etc.

Catching up on the last Late Show.

Lots of 502 errors this morning.

[NickFitz]

The Middle Kingdoms have become infested with Habsburgs! It’ll take centuries to get rid of that lot

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been some M&S chicken thighs in a spicy Korean glaze of some kind, with chips. Quite nice, though the suggestion that it would serve two seems unduly optimistic

The cooking instructions were weird. After twenty minutes, I was ordered to “Remove from the oven, increase the temperature, and cook for a further ten minutes.” I don’t know how the people of M&S live their lives, but I can increase the temperature of my oven without taking the food out first

This was accompanied by E1 of Police Interceptors: Taking Down the Shoplifting Gangs

I have no idea why they mention Police Interceptors in the title as although there are occasionally coppers in cars, it consists mostly of CCTV, suspect interviews, and detectives talking about detecting

[xoggoth]

Usual old farty day, Mahjong this morning, local cabaret this afternon with ll1 followed by call in at ll3 place. Did me usual loony dancing at the cabaret and a lady who organised it came over and asked for my phone number, not sure what I've got meself into there.

[NickFitz]

Tech Debt day has been fairly quiet. It usually starts with a team-wide huddle on Slack for an hour or so to chat about any stuff of interest, but a lot of people had gone to London for the planning meeting yesterday and were travelling home, so that didn’t happen. However, I had several automated security PRs for dependency updates in our project’s codebase to deal with. These are usually quite straightforward: check tests have all passed, merge, maybe go and poke at staging to check it’s all still working, release. However, our codebase has a couple of Heisenbugs that only manifest in CI, and today they manifested a lot

Another problem is that running all the tests on CI takes a while. The Heisenbugs tend to manifest about fifteen minutes into the process, so there’s a lot of waiting around and restarting the tests if there’s a failure. Usually it passes the next time, but today they kept on failing repeatedly

And as there were several PRs, more time was consumed by the fact that once one was merged, the next one in the queue had to be updated from the main branch, and had to run its tests again!

So I ended up leaving the final PR running its tests when I set out for Not-as-Big Sainsbury’s to do the shopping at lunchtime. This was accomplished, and the PR had passed by the time I got back, so I was then able to finally get all the updates released to production

Only after that did I have time for lunch: pâté on toast

Immediately after, we had a meeting with the UX designer to consider some visual changes the users had asked for. Luckily, he wasn’t too bothered by any of them, largely because he knows it’s an internal tool and is expected to be decommissioned next year anyway

I’d already made most of the changes so although it’s not really Tech Debt, I just did the last two and pushed them up, and will shove them on hotfix for the end users to marvel at. And that will leave me with about an hour to fill with some straightforward and unimportant task

[sadkingbilly]

I only just saw this - thanks for reminding me!

nae borra