it is the season of ending and decay and i really do not want it to be.
i have switched from Firefox to Floorp.
this isn’t a bit, that is the actual name of a real browser. it’s a fork of Firefox. it has some nice customisation features built in like being able to move the tab bar around and being able to use userChrome.css like Firefox could before 68 (yeah you can do that with an about:config flag still but that’s not the point). using the theme colour from the website in the toolbar like Safari does isn’t even a Floorp feature, it’s just straight up a Firefox addon.
none of this is the point: i just don’t trust Mozilla any more, and i do not trust Google. it would be nice if we weren’t putting all our collective energy into capitalism-eating-itself-plagiarism-surveillance-and-climate-change-hockey-stick-machines but oh well
my mother-in-law (who is very nice) visited this weekend. we went to the Tower of London, then saw Operation Mincemeat, the musical about Operation Mincemeat, that one time MI5 stole a corpse, dressed him up as a marine officer, and dropped him in the Mediterranean with a briefcase full of fake plans for the Spanish to responsibly return to the UK and definitely not show to the Abwehr.
genuinely one of the funniest and most moving plays i’ve ever seen. i cried a lot. the Fortune Theatre is not built for 6’1″ girls. but they do have an order-drinks-online-and-deliver-them-to-your seat thing. 10/10 go see it
everybody has a different idea of what “the Origami project” is. or, everybody is using different words to say the same thing. or, everybody knows what everybody else wants “the Origami project” to be and is lying to me about it so they get what they want from it. or, all of the above. TK too spicy rewrite this para
Origami is the design system for the pink newspaper website. there’s a new version of it coming any year now. i am to test its components and fix any technical issues with using them in the pink newspaper website. or, i am to come up with a proposal re: the pink newspaper website’s old weird CSS that is consuming the design system for us to work on. or, i am to work with the design system team and the design team on the things they want to improve about the wholesale design of the pink newspaper website that may or may not be related to the new version of Origami.
god, i don’t know. i think i’m doing all these things? for the time being at least, i’m lifting up logs and finding woodlice and then taking a flamethrower to the woodlice. most of my job for the last few years has paying down eight-year-old tech debt caused by a bunch of people coincidentally all with my deadname. again, not a bit; i’m talking about three people who are not me whose code i am very excited to be deleting.