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  • Ellie bearing fruit

    The cherry blossom tree in our front garden is so slow growing I’d almost given up hope.

    It was nice today to see some legit fruit growing there.

    Keep it up, Ellie.

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  • A Cathedral steeple with a long ladder going up to the top
    Ladder up a cathedral steeple.

    Seeing this very long ladder going up Lichfield cathedral triggered me earlier today.

    Absolutely terrifying. 😅🪜

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  • As a self-professed Alan Partridge obsessive I am ashamed to say I’ve never listened to this podcast.

    Currently 3 episodes in.

    As incredible as I thought it would be.

    🤣🤣🤣

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  • The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grace) — Eminem.

    First listen.

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  • Oh my God. Arthur Morgan narrating and 10 and a half hour book about the history behind the Red Dead Redemption games.

    Count me in.

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  • New Eminem album “The Death of Slim Shady” out this Friday.

    Looking forward to this one.

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  • Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Episode 6: Where do the bees sleep? S-Rank score card. Shows total score of 164913

    Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

    Episode 6: Where do the bees sleep? S-Rank score card.

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  • Starting work and this morning I’ve already took Henry and Sherlock for a walk, after S-Ranking the mission “Traitor’s Caravan [Extreme] on Metal Gear Solid V.

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  • Modern tech is cancerous – I’m going clear

    Most of modern tech, be it devices or software / digital services are corrupt and cancerous. They promise increased productivity and ease of use in exchange for your privacy and your control.

    My aim is to go clear, as much as I can, and document that journey here.

    Some things I have already done, such as switching to a privacy-respecting email provider like Protonmail. And a privacy-focused messaging service like Signal.

    My aim for these posts is to give others a kind of guide to do this themselves. Some of the steps will be difficult for those who don’t have the privilege of time and / or technical know how. This is also part of the problem – some alternatives are not easy or convenient to switch to. But I will do my best here.

    I’m not bothered about privacy — I have nothing to hide.

    people without a real clue. Also people without curtains on their windows or doors on any toilets they use.
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  • live-posting your life is a great way to let burglers know when you’re not gonna be in.

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  • I need to rebuild my site once again. Perhaps with Laravel. But definitely in line with my love of the indieweb

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  • WordPress is incredible. There’s nothing I’d rather build my online home with. 💚

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  • I’m not a “devops” person, but I’m learning

    By trade I am a PHP developer. I’ve never done devops in a professional setting. However, for a while I have had a strange fascination with various continuous integration and deployment strategies I’ve seen at many of my places of work.

    I’ve seen some very complicated setups over the years, which has created a mental block for me to really dig in and understand setting up integration and deployment workflows.

    But in my current role at Geomiq, I had the opportunity of being shown a possible setup — specifically using Kubernetes. And that was sort of a gateway drug, which finally led me to getting a working workflow up and running.

    I now want to start sharing what I have learnt and build out a fully-fledged deployment workflow. Not sure how many posts it will take, or what structure it will take, but my aim is to make devops and CI/CD as approachable as possible.

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  • The Things which hurt, instruct.

    — Benjamin Franklin
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  • Started to re-watch Breaking Bad. This’ll be my second time viewing. Think I’m gonna try and share my favourite shot from each episode.

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Album on repeat

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