Notes

Recent notes

  • It seems as though England have remembered they are playing the beautiful game. Promising first half! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  • Never mind loveless landslides, England are practicing ponderous progression. Amazing! Unbelievable! How are we still in Euro 2024!? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  • Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders AI-generated emoji!

  • No matter how many times I visit the Netherlands, I still can’t get over how throughly impressive its cycling infrastructure is; proof that a better world is possible.

  • Sat in Wurstelprater, a public amusement park in Vienna. Within my direct line of sight, can count at least 6 different ways people are being flung into the air. No thanks.

  • On a train to Vienna. Advice given alongside DB’s print-at-home tickets is that they must be printed out. They don’t. But just to make sure, one customer in my carriage printed out his ticket on a sheet of A1. 😂

  • The only difference between web design in 2004 and 2024 is that websites are now painted in Figma instead of Photoshop.

  • Going to miss Gladiators, the rebooted series having fast become essential Saturday night telly. There’s been some really close competitions, with contenders competing against a brilliant new cast of Glads; Legend’s post event interviews often had me crying with laughter. Bring on series 2!

  • The best designers of my generation are thinking about how to make buttons look the same as other buttons. That sucks.

  • I have great admiration for those who believe they can conduct a phone call while travelling on the Brighton Main Line. I gave up on that idea years ago… wait, tunnel!

  • Tony Robinson single handily ruined/improved this one day each year, as I can never get through it without singing “it’s Pancake Day, yes it’s Pancake Day, it’s p-p-p-p-p-p-Pancake Day”.

  • 2024 has already got off to a winning start: Pret have started serving their legendary Roasted Tomato and Egg Mayo Baguettes again. Missed you!

  • In a rare case of watching a popular television series, I binged both seasons of The Bear over the Christmas break. Everything written about this highly acclaimed show is true. It’s a love letter to Chicago, the hospitality industry and the act of making and serving food. Beautifully staged yet incredibly stressful to watch, while Fishes is the chaotic high point, Forks was easily my favourite episode from season 2.

  • Starting to wonder if I have a slight manic tendency towards web development. I have limitless feature ideas, improvements and bug fixes I want to address across a growing range of personal and open source projects that, alongside work too, comes at a cost to my overall wellbeing if not kept in check. Time to touch grass.

  • Fair to say that my Duolingo year in review (I’m a world champion language learner, apparently) is less embarrassing than my Apple Replay year in music where the top artist, song and album spots have all been taken by Steps. 😂

  • I wonder if anyone can help me solve this long-running conundrum. I can’t get new emails when I’m in my bathroom! I can browse the web, update RSS feeds, use apps etc., but my email server fails to respond when I’m sat on the loo. How is that possible!?

  • Every TypeScript project on GitHub might as well include a CONTRIBUTING file that states ‘Ha ha, nope’.

    Using this verbose and complex meta syntax (that offers little over what can already be achieved with documentation, commenting and JSDoc) is nauseating gatekeeping.

    The sooner this ludicrous, frustrating and wasteful fad passes, the better. Fuck TypeScript, and all those who perpetuate it.

  • What Deutsche Bahn gives with one hand (train arrived in Frankfurt 2 minutes early), it takes away with the other (connecting train to Brussels has been cancelled). 🙄

  • A beautifully unexpected series of talks at border:none today. With the theme of retrospection and finding our place in the world, at times the talks were very personal and deeply moving. That being said, I’m planning on skipping the sessions tomorrow morning so that I can visit the DB Museum! 🚂

  • The week I find myself nursing acute neck and shoulder pain has unfortunately coincided with a week spent carrying a heavy backpack and travelling across Europe by train. My hotel bed in Nuremberg had better be comfortable!