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People who complain about environmental protestors remind me of that guy who sued Mr Incredible in the Incredibles.

re: UK politics, Extinction Rebellion 

The funny thing is, for all the people complaining about it, is that this isn't even particularly new for Bristol.

A few years ago we had a recurring event called Make Sundays Special, where most of the city centre would just be closed to traffic, the space given over to deckchairs and games and a giant water slide once—and it was frickin' awesome.

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UK politics, Extinction Rebellion 

Onto day three of XR's occupation of Bristol and it's actually really swell.

Traffic isn't really any worse than normal. Large areas of the city centre are devoid of traffic and much more pedestrian friendly. I've seen way more cyclists about, and my commute actually takes less time because roads aren't an obstacle anymore.

The actual occupation site is like a chill festival. There's information tents, live music, children playing in the streets, small wares and what I think was a clothes swap. And incredibly tidy too. It's really an ocean of calm surrounded by chaos.

Overall, I kinda prefer it this way.

I installed me some macOS Catalina beta (on my main computer, no less) and—though there's some annoying little bugs—the only real problems I've had have been with third-party app incompatibility.

As someone who has recently stopped using Facebook, it’s cray just how much of a walled garden Facebook is. There’s virtually nothing you can see on it without logging into an account first.

I need to fix up the time formatting on the Mastodon integration something fierce.

I went away, ate dinner, came back, realised a super easy way to test this stuff without spamming people’s timelines AND fixed my problem in less than five minutes.

Sometimes y’all just need to take a break, folks.

Why must you do this to me @Gargron.

(I know why this is the case, but it sure doesn’t make my life any easier.)

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CORS headers have been the bane of my existence these last two evenings.

I started properly diving into Vue's components and CLI build tools last night after skirting around it for a while and heck this is actually quite nice.

The Mulan remake is the first to have actually gotten me interested cause it doesn’t look like a lazy “cartoons but live action” movie but an actual goddamn reimagining.

I saw and played Pokken Tournament for the first time just now.

I played a few rounds.

I won every single one.

What???

This weekend I was at the second annual Bristol Pride Game Jam. Play our queer as heck games here: itch.io/jam/2019-bristol-pride

Technology has managed to take mankind where most have never been able to set foot.

Oops. (@ Showcase Cinema de Lux - @ShowcaseCinemas@twitter.com in Bristol) swarmapp.com/c/a6a9S1og56h

♫ Do you like peanut colliders
And getting lost in the rain?

Client-related rant 

Dear client,

You have already signed off the functionality, the wireframes, the design direction and the static mockups of the homepage.

You have had eight months—eight MONTHS—to provide feedback, and you have chosen two days before we build it to decide it's not good enough.

We have literally specced, UX, designed, built and released entire websites in less time than you've had to review a single page, and you evidently couldn't even do that properly.

So like, maybe don't shout down the phone at us like a jackass, 'kay?

Yours sincerely,

~ Kim, who was very close to actually shouting all of that back.

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