ALAN LAVENDER @lavenderlens@qoto.org
- Employer
- https://stayahead.com
- Big Idea
- http://mindyourself.io/
- Past Life
- http://www.alanlavender.com/
Java & Web Development Trainer, London & virtual. Author: The Frontend Cookbook. https://FrontendCookbook.com 25+ years’ prior in photography, filmmaking, web development & design for print. Someday would like to do something humanitarian with codeforireland.org and codefortheuk.com. 🌐
Joined Nov 2022
upshot of this is that my delegates will not be able to choose a movie to go and see but will know whether to wear a coat to the cinema;)
Free APIs for testing. Dontcha love 'em. *Five hours later*, am back where I started coding-wise, after swapping out the IMDB one I had yesterday (500 free calls/month exceeded in one day) and have now replaced it in React with OpenWeatherMap (2k calls/day).
One minute I was working, the next stopped dead listening to this jaw-droppingly beautiful Waterboys cover by @karinepolwart
https://music.apple.com/gb/album/the-whole-of-the-moon/1455224616?i=1455224617
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Ei Wada e la sua Braun Tube Jazz Band al Sonar+D. Improvvisazioni noise, tra vecchi televisori catodici.
#art #music #electronic
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TikTok: Look! I discovered hot water melts frozen food faster!
Twitter: Look at this TikTok video showing how to defrost your food faster!
Yahoo news: Millions of Twitter users view TikTok video showing new life hack for melting frozen food!
Mastodon: Please read my academic white paper describing the impacts of public school system underfunding
I told my good friend Jim I’d have his new web site up for Paddy’s Day. It went live this afternoon. ☘️👨🏻💻☘️👨🏻💻☘️👨🏻💻☘️👨🏻💻☘️👨🏻💻☘️
The Northern Lights just now from our window in Donegal, Ireland. Shot by my daughter.
You adopt a no-code CMS for a site. You want the client to be able to make their own updates. But there’s a process of letting go. This will always strike terror into my heart.
Web designers are like buses - none around when you want them, then two come along at once...
My training setup for travelling. 👨🏻💻✈️ Web development with JavaScript. Back home Saturday ☘️
That white-knuckle feeling when your iCloud doesn't return your desktop folder...
Thought-provoking interview with U.S. Space Force command.
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He sort of gargles it. “That brings oxygen in, to bring out the flavour ... That’s what tasters do, except they would spit it out. I didn’t bring a spittoon.” He says this sadly. “That is ... pretty revolting actually.” The Irish Times tastes Prime, the stuff all the kids are drinking https://www.irishtimes.com/food/drink/2023/02/18/like-a-liquidised-my-little-pony-prime-hydration-is-1299-a-bottle-our-wine-critic-joins-a-tasting/
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Hey, folks. Big layoffs at DigitalOcean today, and my team and I were hit. In fact, so was my adjacent team, and a good chunk of my department. I don't have much reach here on Mastodon yet, but if anybody wants to discuss opportunities for a technical editor / writer / manager of same, I'm up for it.
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“Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty.”
~ Albert Einstein
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The Changing Online Language of Hearts - How to show a heart — the universal symbol of love — has shifted on the internet over the... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/14/technology/hearts-emojis-gen-z.html #videorecordingsdownloadsandstreaming #computersandtheinternet #emojisandemoticons #tiktok(bytedance) #unicodeconsortium #love(emotion) #socialmedia #generationz #googleinc #aolinc
- Employer
- https://stayahead.com
- Big Idea
- http://mindyourself.io/
- Past Life
- http://www.alanlavender.com/
Java & Web Development Trainer, London & virtual. Author: The Frontend Cookbook. https://FrontendCookbook.com 25+ years’ prior in photography, filmmaking, web development & design for print. Someday would like to do something humanitarian with codeforireland.org and codefortheuk.com. 🌐
Joined Nov 2022
