mould brew
last week i made some cold brew. two litres of it in a big Kilner jar. an entire bag of peruvian coffee from a three month coffee subscription my parents bought me for christmas.
today i poured some and it smelt kinda bleachy and there were floating white things. an entire litre down the sink.
weeknotes #4: gaslit by apple maps
1.hello from the surrey hills
- we are camping and it is raining, a lot
- i just barbecued some smoked mackerel fillets and oh my god. then they got rained on and we ate them in the car
- last time we came here apple maps navigated us to a dead end seven miles away and then said “you have arrived”, very clearly nowhere near the pin on the map
- imagine being gaslit by apple maps
- this time we got it to give directions to the pub in the village
- we put a kettle on and almost immediately ran out of butane. and then it got rained on
- i love it here
2. i sold a lens to a friend of a friend
read more…weeknotes #3: business horoscopes
content warning: wild animal injury
1. been watching the Fast & Furious films with friends
- once a week, on a sunday afternoon
- we sync up the films, hit play, and pretend we're mst3k via Slack
- they're actually pretty good, even the bad ones
- also i'm spotting how much of an influence they had on the Need For Speed franchise in the early 00s
- speaking of which:
weeknotes #2: a real burger made out of cow
1. i went to the office, and it was normal
- i went to the office, and it was normal?
- i've gotten weirdly good at self-administering a lateral flow test
- Kara Brightwell: skilled at scraping her own tonsils, and inserting things too far up her nostrils
- imagine showing that my to myself eighteen months ago
- she'd probably go "oh okay so, uh, 'Kara', i see, that's a thing we did, okay. wanna make out"
- i had a desk assigned to me, and it was by a window, and it was in a building that isn't my flat, and i got to go there and not be in the same 46m² forever
- i saw like. twenty people. in an office that has capacity for like fifteen hundred.
- i had a burger, a real burger made out of cow, from a fast food restaurant, with cheesy fries
- it was so normal!
- this is genuinely the best thing i've been able to do for my mental health during the entire panettone
- i'm going back like. twice a week now, fuck it
2. trying not to burn out
read more…weeknotes #1: fried liver attack
1. WOW I HAVEN'T BLOGGED IN A WHILE
- hahaha funny ironic meta blogging joke
2. okay so i'm the Tech Lead of the FT.com Platforms Team now, what's up with that
read more…it's got rss now
hi Alice! hi Rowan
oops i broke it
see the thing with writing a blog yourself in rails is you have to maintain it and stuff
i upgraded to Ruby 3.0 because fast but it turns out major versions have breaking changes? weird
apparently URI.decode isn't a thing and also hashes don't become keyword args any more and i can't be waiting for gems i use to fix their shit so back to 2.7 it is
imagine being able to upload images to a blog
using ActiveStorage it's kind of not even a thing? i drag a file on to the browser and send a form and it just goes into the database? like this frog on a unicycle:
that's stored in Postgres as a Large Object, isn't that neat
read more…i have added a yeet button to posts
so now you can yeet posts
okay, now it's a blog
built on rails, who even does that
see, last time i tried rebuilding my blog i started writing my own static site generator because, you know
this isn't some countercultural reverse bandwagon hipster thing, it's the anthropic principle
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