Sophie

Christmas break has been a good recharge but must not trick self into committing to things I can not manage which is how I always feel after additional rest!

Bad day to work at Cloudflare, it seems. Own up. Who shot the hamster spinning the wheel keeping everything powered up?

Tabloid: the clickbait headline programming language Tabloid is a real, turing complete programming language written in JavaScript, inspired by cilckbait headlines.

A level of petty I van get behind tabloid.vercel.app

AI code assitance? LUXURY, I had to use Notepad and tap one key at a time due to carpal tunnel.

The Yorkshiremen sketch but make it front end.

Kids these days will never know the pains of floats and styling for IE6.

I am! I'm going to start with static on github pages for now but worth looking into the options for later. This is helpful, thanks!

To make redoing my website more fun, I decided to do it in Svelte, just to make a change from React. It's great but looks like github pages won't cut it with what I want to do. I've got Netlify, Vercel and Render as options so far. Anything else? Any opinions? Free is preferredif possible.

YouTube video by Modern Software Engineering Standout BAD HABITS Even Senior Programmers Have

I feel better about myself now but then again imposter syndrome seems like a fact of life (If you'd like to hear my own anecdote, ask me about parsnips. I tell it best in person). youtu.be/nY6RExFP0G0?...

Development tools are ever evolving, but there is a skill to using those tools well.

Things mentioned in this article reminded me of how I started 20 years ago - with visual editors such as Frontpage and Dreamweaver. I quickly learned the underlying code produced was garbage though and learning it was essential.

Refining my online presence at the moment and took a minute to reread this and then it's follow up article. It's not as bleak as it sounds!: www.joshwcomeau.com/blog/the-pos...

Happy birthday!

Strawberries - so happy to have seen bees on it including this one I managed to capture. There is something I'm not doing right tho - over watering the larger pot and not enough room for 3 in the smaller? Going to wait and watch

Baby strawberrys

Olympic pistol shooting - could hear a pin drop (aside from the fired shots obvs). Was really dull though. The clay pigeon shooting was a lot better.

'Ethel' the strawberry plant has produced her first flower! Have heard that first flowers could be pinched off for better growth, and as an experiment I'm going to do that with the other pot o strawberries

Why is chocolate so yummy and difficult to resist?

Not everyone but too many people.

Turns out Le Pen is not mightier than the fraud.

That with another problematic tooth that I would rather get looked at sooner then later and an ongoing metallic taste in my mouth means I am very likely to be paying a chunk to go private. Lucky I can but also annoyed because I look after my teeth and they are stil terrible.

Dentist called to push appointment back two weeks for an appointment I've already waited 6/7 weeks for that is a big repair on a huge gap in my teeth that is causing quite a bit of sensitivity in the area. They didn't offer me any alternatives and I feel like this is quite urgent or could get worse

Lady who does a once a week general clean has consistently not dusted away cobwebs. They are difficult but not impossible to spot and her eye sight is bad, but we've had numerous conversations about it and next week i will insist she dusts room edges whether she can see them or not.

And their version of 'Hush' is the best version btw

I listened to them a lot in secondary school. Where they any good?

I hate being forced to use it when I already have a passkey gen app I'm happy with. Just reminds me of the days when IE was forced (even if IE/edge is so much better these days)

Anyway now it is tidier, and hopefully the lavender will look less sad this year though there are still some weeding to do near them. Also testing myself by growing strawberries and if I manage to look after them nicely, I'll reward myself with more plants next year

I do feel massively guilty for it's neglect. We have a large space and not done much with it when we could be helping out pollinators and growing food.

How long is my current focus on my garden going to last? Place your bets. Absolutely correlating with the decent weather I suspect...

Unrelated to last post but here's a TV show concept: The Great Pantry Chow Down in which amateur cooks whip up a meal from whatever they can find in an unsuspecting but consenting relative/friends/neighbours home