Show more

Eureka moment. Two API subscriptions and 559 combined requests later and I find out that it's cloudy outside. But it beats looking through the window for maintainability.

Show thread

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;)

Show thread

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
music.apple.com/gb/album/the-w

Ei Wada e la sua Braun Tube Jazz Band al Sonar+D. Improvvisazioni noise, tra vecchi televisori catodici.

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. ☘️👨🏻‍💻☘️👨🏻‍💻☘️👨🏻‍💻☘️👨🏻‍💻☘️👨🏻‍💻☘️

osborneart.eu/

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...

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 irishtimes.com/food/drink/2023

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.

“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

#SimpleLiving #RadicalChange #OurPlanet #Nature

Show more
Qoto Mastodon

QOTO: Question Others to Teach Ourselves
An inclusive, Academic Freedom, instance
All cultures welcome.
Hate speech and harassment strictly forbidden.