David Peach

David Peach

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    Overtaking — a wake up call

    Yesterday I gave a family member a lift somewhere. On the way there, entering a country road I began overtaking the car in front as I was struggling to get the person to their appointment on time. The road ahead was clear and overtaking was permitted in this particular part of the stretch. When all…

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    There’s a strange sense of joy and accomplishment that comes after mowing the lawns and thus filling the garden bin. Knowing that you’ve cleaned the garden somewhat. And knowing that you’re getting your money’s worth from the garden bin subscription. Nothing worse than seeing that collection truck go past for another week and having nothing…

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    Black Mirror: Common People

    Dark as fuck. And so brilliantly doing a send-up of the modern “subscription culture”. Both leads were great. This is the second thing I’ve seen Chris Dowd act in after The I.T. Crowd. So it was a complete departure for me. And he is incredible in it. Similarly with Rashida I’ve only seen her in…

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    Hospitals and Supermarkets

    What do hospitals and supermarkets have in common? Go on – take a moment to think about it. Got it? No? Well, I’ll tell you. Both are places where absolute fucking plebs congregate right outside the front doors, smoking. Smoking is an individual choice, regardless of how completely dumb it is, but Christ if I…

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    The Last of Us series 2 episode 1

    On the whole it was great to see the series back. I’ve played through part 2, the game on which this series is based, five or six times through. So seeing certain scenes happen in this episode that were towards the end of the game was very strange for me. But I get it from…

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    What the hell was I thinking

    “What the hell was I thinking?”; “Huh?”; “Who’s the fucking idiot who did this?.. oh. It was me…”. Three questions every developer / coder / programmer / whatever-er asks themselves from time to time. And I am definitely no different. I built an initial version of a web-based tool for work some time ago. I…

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    What to write about

    I’m having a great time keeping up to date with the blogging journey of a friend of mine. And I mean keeping up — he must post at least three times a day. And I have found it inspiring. I used to write often back when I’d commute to work. But weirdly since working remotely…

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    Trying to move my wordpress site over to using the composer-driven “bedrock” structure of wordpress. It’ll be a new server running docker, but will hopefully make it easier to make changes and deploy those changes to my site. We shall see.

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    this should work.

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    The question is, will you be returning to your favourite cafe tomorrow.

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    Holy hell. The new Cradle of Filth album is out tomorrow. “The Screaming of the Valkyries” 🤘🤘🤘

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    Been really digging this album today. Murder Ballads by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Never really heard their / his stuff other than the title song from Peaky Blinders. This album is incredible and dark. Going to be investigating more of his stuff.