Alfred is here, and he’s here to stay

48 chestnuts, one for each year. The pan is full and I’m not complaining.

48 chestnuts

Sometimes live music gives you surprises you were not expecting.

This summer is going to be different. We cannot use the van as much as we would like. We will try to make that not mean it has to be worse.

A week working from a coworking space. A week with a mate visiting. A week changing habits a little bit. Lots of talking, lots of stories.

When you work remotely, this kind of thing feels really good.

TIL that when opening a merge request in GitLab, there is an option to link dependencies on other MRs, even from other projects or libraries: Merge request dependencies.

Never too late.

At my age, when I thought I had already seen almost everything, life still finds ways to surprise me.

Sometimes it does it by putting people in my path who are so worth meeting that it feels genuinely sad when circumstances pull them away again.

This is me right now.

Just found Vimm’s Lair and it is kind of insane. I had no idea there was something like an archive.org-ish place for old ROMs still around.

I was thinking about changing the blog engine because it doesn’t give me the same immediacy as other microposting tools. In the end, I decided to change the approach instead: using Obsidian as a bridge between immediacy and the static site, and see if I can keep it working… hopefully