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Tag: weeknotes

  • weeknotes 22: spotlight (2015)

    there’s something unpleasant in the air. nothing seems to be going right. idk

    i “finished” the secret project. tell you about it next week. it’s only going to arrive slightly late.

    murder on the dancefloor was fun. sounds good i think.

    saturday was the movie night. watched Spotlight (2015). very good movie, great as a spiritual successor to All The President’s Men. deeply uncomfortable subject matter. i don’t want to watch it again but i’m glad i did which is the whole point.

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  • weeknotes 21: just one more meeting bro

    last night i went to bed with a migraine and this morning i woke up with a slightly less bad migraine then decided to come into the office. this is going to be a brief one.

    monday, as usual, choir. going over “No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)” and “To The Moon And Back“. we’re in phones away going over the entire setlist mode at the moment. i had been worried that we’d get everything down in time but we’re truly getting there. tonight a subset of us are practicing Murder On The Dancefloor. i’m hyped. come watch us yeah?

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  • weeknotes 20: metal… gear?

    i’m at the tail end of a cold. i seem to get a lot of colds these days. this was one of the head full of cotton wool throat full of phlegm muscles don’t work variety.

    Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots is a cinematic masterpiece of a game, my second favourite Metal Gear, and i haven’t owned a PS3 in twelve years. time marches on: it’s now acceptably playable, in an emulator, on the Steam Deck(!). so far i’m at Laughing Octopus. i think Hideo needs a healthier outlet for his kinks.

    managed to make it to Amanda’s birthday roast dinner. Morden is too fucking far away. i live in zone 2 south london and it still took eighty minutes to get there, including a half our walk, which completely wrecked me the next day because i wasn’t recovered from the cold. lovely evening though

    still not a clue what’s going on with origami. trying to get them to write things down instead of constant meetings where we all agree on what turns out to be different things we’re talking about. still cleaning up eight year old tech debt.

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  • weeknotes 19: floorp

    it is the season of ending and decay and i really do not want it to be.

    and why he ourple

    i have switched from Firefox to Floorp.

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  • weeknotes 18: intrinsic field subtractor

    last monday was a day of travelling, didn’t get chance to write that week’s notes. today is a day of travelling, but i messed up the train times and have an hour of downtime in a cafe in Buxton. for simplicity’s sake i’m calling these “last week” and “this week” despite monday. it’s just as well, this week’s entry is fairly short.

    the dermatologist(s) referred me for UV phototherapy. the first session was on the wednesday last week, at the Bermondsey Wing of Guy’s Hospital, which has great vibes in an 80s shopping centre atrium kind of way. it turned out was just a patch test of sorts: the nurse had a small handheld UV gun that fired a window pane pattern of ten beams of UV in increasing strength on my back, and a briefing on what to expect from the phototherapy itself, which left me with more questions than answers, and too much anxiety to ask them.

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  • weeknotes 17: drift limits

    let’s get the not particularly humble brag out of the way:

    i spent friday afternoon driving supercars around a track.

    not these ones tbh. i was too excited and forgot to be taking photos or video of the actual cars or driving

    so for christmas my parents got me a Virgin Experiences voucher to go abseil down the big red spindly sculpture thing in Olympic Park. except when i tried to book it it was was no longer available. i was able to exchange the voucher for another Experience, and looking down the list it was like:

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  • weeknotes 16: loose fruit

    i fixed the rss feed url, you’re welcome all you rss nerds.

    i left my fan at the studio on friday. today was the hottest day of the year. i was surprised by the rain but at least surely it would make the heat more bearable. did it fuck

    i had an angry couple of days on wednesday and thursday. i don’t know why. i’m sorry everyone, you didn’t deserve it.

    good news: my work private health insurance covers shooting me in the face with lasers to the tune of twelve and a half grand. bad news: they have some specific laser shooty face people who are not the people who have been shooting me in the face with lasers for the last five years. i will miss you

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  • weeknotes 15: ten boroughs

    i write this on the train home from the choir. we got back from camping this afternoon. i have been in ten london boroughs today, that feels like a record. please let me sleep now.

    busy week: moving a cat cage from streatham hill to wandsworth road; meeting a new catsitter Haasje who is the loveliest and made sure kettricken loved her too by the end of the weekend; moving andy and piers’s camping gear from wandsworth road to nunhead.

    and then camping. we’re getting it down to a fine art. our tent goes fwoomp, it takes literally two minutes to put up fully. i can turn a bag of logs and a box of matches into a campfire. the replacement stainless steel mesh i put eyelets in for the portable bbq works great. i’m pretty sure i have a phobia of wasps.

    they’re shipping some Curves by rail just over there.

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  • weeknotes 14: angel oak

    in summer the choir apparently scatters to the four winds. monday there were about ten of us, and the person teaching To The Moon And Back wasn’t one of them. we just sat on the floor and ran through basically our entire setlist. a lot if which i don’t know yet! really gonna have to learn them before our gig in october.

    so a friend worked on Deadpool & Wolverine. her partner couldn‘t make it to the cast & crew screening, so she put a message out on our Discord. sorry folks, i am More Online Than You,

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  • weeknotes 13: five dermatologists

    oh wow it’s actually joever, didn’t see that coming.

    we’ve been trying to diagnose a Weird Problem at work, the kind you’d see in breathless Medium posts or SCP containment reports. me, Ivo and Rowan had each spent a few days trying to understand what was going on before getting burnt out, and the CDN support engineers were clueless.

    on tuesday i got everyone together around the breakout area table in the office, trying out stupid things like editing the CDN config live to add more logging and point it to a temporary app i wrote and deployed in five minutes to log full request details we weren’t getting from the CDN logs themselves. by the end of the day things were pointing to the WAF as the culprit. the next day we narrowed it down with the help of a WAF support engineer to the WAF’s CDN loop detection (crucially not the CDN’s CDN loop detection, which we’d already configured our way around).

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