ALAN LAVENDER @lavenderlens@qoto.org

After having completely wrecked my live book site yesterday demonstrating serverless to training delegates, I'm going through the motions with GitHub Desktop doing a revert. Here's hoping 🤞

We live in wonderful times, without doubt. Also: I'm so glad I got out of the creative industries.

Grenade is only half right. More like bunker busting bomb.

Cranberry and orange sunrise

Subconscious bias in #UI design? The tab on the right is my new teaching weather app. The left is my wife’s car insurance!

The word missing from the pic is “RUM”!
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When you’ve been off alcohol for as long as I have, a bar of this is as good as a night out! Delicious!

Fine way to spend a Saturday! Embroiled in the inner machinations of transferring my #Transmit ftp logins and web server #CPanel passwords to new MBP. It’s only been about 15 years now that Mrs. L has been telling me to get a little paper book to write logins in. I concede. 🤦🏻‍♂️👩🏻‍💻

Drafting interview questions for my series of #photography for #frontend instructional videos. More to come Q3 this year. From the kitchen of the FrontendCookbook.com

My teaching #JavaScript weather app now has geolocation plumbed in too. Pretty pleased.

If you’re ever in #Dublin as I currently am for #Springsteen tomorrow night, go eat at https://fishshack.ie/ Sandymount. Absolutely amazing top class.

I would say a loud and resounding F-that.
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Priority security patches that DON’T TELL YOU what the vulnerabilities are? #infosec community what say you? https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2023/05/02/apple-ios-1641-a-rapid-security-response-release-should-you-upgrade-free-iphone-update/amp/

#ios techies: what’s this?

When Apple tells you off for having too much of a good time. Roll on #summer.

Just watched #Netflix The Wildflower (dir:
Biodun Stephen 2022). Whilst I’m still recovering from such a stark harrowing treatment of a subject as old as time, I thought I’d take a few lines to give praise where praise is due. I think the Nigerian cast and crew should have by now won at least one gong for either writing or performances. Yeah it’s technically flawed. Especially the sound. Which seems like they couldn’t find a gain setting low enough to cope with the explosive motherly wisdom that was Toyin Abraham’s captivating performance. Irony was that possibly the strongest matriarch of the tightly knit ensemble cast met an unfortunate end at the hands of another type of abuse. So sad. And they always say they’re sorry and it’s the last time. Watch this but prepare to be moved. It has light and humour too and is a wonderful window into life in Lagos but by golly is it hard hitting. Literally.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt19800348/

Memory lane. What the iPhone iOS randomly throws at you. Used to hate it. Now love it, kinda. An AI’s idea of your scrapbook life.