WSK Pain27
I've wanted to build one of these for ages but every time I looked it's been out of stock.
Afternoon Tea at The Grand
Charlotte won afternoon tea at The Grand on a school raffle. It was for two but we couldn't not bring Tabitha!
Doughnuts
I took a day off work last week and walked into the city to get some doughnuts from Flour Pot as they only do them once a week.
Fire Club
Met up with a School Dad and sat by a fire at the beach. I had nothing to do with making the fire; I'm useless at that. Was very enjoyable to sit in the freezing cold by a hot fire and chat about stuff.
Rope
We don't go through the marina that often but I do enjoy watching people working on or around boats. I would like a boat.
Never Not Walking
It's becoming something of a routine, this walk into the city on a Saturday, and I don't mind it. This was hard work though. We were all exhausted by the end.
Walking With Lukas
Haven't seen Lukas in ages. I also apparently didn't mention him the last time we did this and now I can't find it (edit: found it!). Anyway, we went walking around Brighton and it was a lot of fun. I tried a new thing with making a video and taking stills. It kinda worked, but it was a lot of effort and I'm not sure if I'll do it a lot more.
First Person Timelapse Proof of Concept
I've wanted to use the GoPro for something significant for a while and I think I had an idea. Strap it to my chest, walk around taking pictures, edit in my results. Is it watchable? Maybe?
Bento!
As soon as I built this case, the first thing I wanted to do was take this picture.
Have you ever been forced, by circumstance, to spend time with someone you're convinced doesn't like you, who seems committed to convincing you you're friends?
I have and I can tell you it makes me feel like a character in my own life. Sometimes I feel like all of human history is nothing more than a waste of time.
Objects in the centre of the frame
I took the dog for a walk this morning. Very nice sunrise light.
Burgers and AI
We launched two sites recently, pretty much on the same day, for two very different companies.
Grumpday
It's been another week of it. My back and hip and knee are getting better so slowly, it's depressing. I basically can't sit down, which is annoying. Made some good things, and had some ideas for some other nice things. And rage-bought a new watch because I'm an idiot. If you're looking for some consultancy work for your website/project strategy, help me finance my poor impulse control.
Jokes I don't have time for freelance.
Do you ever get this, where you look at the things you love and you feel such overwhelming joy that you couldn't possibly feel more full, more successful, more contented than you do? And then you look at those same things and you feel like a complete charlatan; so undeserving, like an impostor walked into someone else's life unnoticed, and you're waiting for someone to detect your unwelcome presence and all that's left is to watch everything you know you don't deserve come crashing down at your feet. It seems unfair that you can swing from one to the other so easily, without even noticing that anything happened. Especially as frequently as this. This is maybe not the best outlet for this.
A Washed-up Buoy
We were drawn to the beach for an unobstructed view of this moody sky, and when we got there there was a buoy on the beach.
The Dispossessed
It takes me so long to read a full book these days. Motivation and time converge so infrequently. I have been reading this book for one year (with an 11 month hiatus, granted) and I have finally finished.
Guarantees
I can pretty much guarantee that if I make a change to this site, it will make me want to add some content, but the weather will be gross and I can't be bothered to go outside.
I have had an unpleasant week. Everything that could have gone wrong, has gone wrong. Even some things that had no business going wrong went wrong. Every day it was something different. By this morning I felt like I was going to have a panic attack.
I hate when life makes me feel like I suck at what I'm doing. I know I'm OK at it, just sometimes the world gangs up on you.
So I spent this evening making something to remind myself that I can do this and I do enjoy it.
Something we struggle with at my Wednesday night badminton, is who's going to play matches. You add a club (in case you play at multiple), you add all that club's members (and mark them as absent if they're away that session), then you're ready to create your matchups. Enter 2 for Singles or 4 for doubles and it'll generate a game for you. If someone sits out, you can mark them as absent for that selection round, and maybe you can change to singles.
This is going to require a fairly modern browser. It's only tested in Chrome and Mobile Safari and that's really the only intended users for it, so either use one of those or don't use this! Everything is stored in your browser's local storage so nothing you enter is sent to my server, and it never will be.
There's a couple of things missing:
- The first player in a game is chosen at random from all available players. Their opposition is also chosen at random. It would be nice if your opposition was chosen from players who had never shared a court.
- It would be nice if you could manually set x number of players in a match, then opt to automatically fill them in. That's potentially a lot of UI, though, so I want to make sure I do it in a minimalist way that is also usable.
By the way I love React. I know it's not what people use now but I'm always a late adopter for this stuff.
The new iPhone is good
I got the iPhone 13 Pro. So far, most noticeable improvements are the screen and the camera. The animation is so smooth it's really starting to feel like the things on the screen are real physical things that you can touch. I don't have much to compare because I only use Apple stuff but I love their screens. Everything looks great on them. The stills from the camera are excellent as well. I feel like it's a noticeable improvement from the 12 Pro, which is the first time I've noticed that.