Notes

That loud groaning noise you can hear is the sound of a 1000 employees at Williams Racing being told they’ve now got to use Jira.

Watched the penultimate performance of Elektra in Brighton this afternoon, before it transfers to the West End. Dense dialogue compensates for the short running time and an abrupt ending, yet the play is undermined by needless and nonsensical gimmicks (effect pedals, a random blimp, ink guns). Larson gave a forceful performance though, and was an absolute pro dealing with a mid-performance interruption (a cup fell from an upper circle).

Went to Lewes Depot this evening to watch a screening of Point Break (1991). Definitely one to file under ‘so bad it’s good’, with plenty of pithy one-liners to share for years to come.

Feeling quite proud of myself for getting my broken microwave repaired instead of mindlessly taking it to the dump and buying a new one. Only cost £45 to replace a blown capacitor.

Just received my first visual voicemail, 17 years after it was announced as a key feature of the first iPhone. 🤯

Prompted by their latest greenwashing campaign, only now twigged that Esso is the phonetic pronunciation of S.O. for Standard Oil. I prefer Jayesso, Just Stop Oil.

Binged the first season of Rivals sorry, not sorry.

Kinda wild watching a person sat on the train next to me using Twitter, and then posting an emotive, implicitly pro-Elon reply. Anyway, curiosity got the better of me and I logged in for the first time in ages; the site is unrecognisable, overflowing with spammy ads and pornography, with a user base of boiled frogs digging ever deeper trenches in one man’s manufactured culture war. It’s all very sad, bizarre and dare I say it, weird.

How should September be abbreviated?

• Firefox: Sept
• Chrome: Sept
• Node.js: Sept
• Deno: Sept
• Safari: Sep 👀

This is for en-GB, en-IE, en-AU and en-NZ locales (maybe more); for other English locales, everyone agrees it should be Sep. Standards!

At Stuttgart Kunstmuseum to see the Sarah Morris exhibition All Systems Fail, and saw actual Sarah Morris. 🤩

Thank you, Gareth – for everything.

HOW THE FUCK ARE WE IN THE FINAL!!!? YEEEAHHHHH!!! 🦁🦁🦁

It seems as though England have remembered they are playing the beautiful game. Promising first half! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

GET IN THERE LEWIS!

Never mind loveless landslides, England are practicing ponderous progression. Amazing! Unbelievable! How are we still in Euro 2024!? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Voted.

England are into the quarter finals of Euro 2024, and I have no idea how.

If a butterfly flaps its wings, it can affect a VAR decision given at Euro 2024.

Diabolical.

Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders AI-generated emoji!

Craig. Please. Stop.

Apt that my month of European rail travel started and now ends with me sat in seat 61.

No matter how many times I visit the Netherlands, I still can’t get over how throughly impressive its cycling infrastructure is; proof that a better world is possible.

Sat in Wurstelprater, a public amusement park in Vienna. Within my direct line of sight, can count at least 6 different ways people are being flung into the air. No thanks.

On a train to Vienna. Advice given alongside DB’s print-at-home tickets is that they must be printed out. They don’t. But just to make sure, one customer in my carriage printed out his ticket on a sheet of A1. 😂

May or may not have spent the entire afternoon taking photos of floating trains.

LANDO!
LANDO!
LANDO!

The only difference between web design in 2004 and 2024 is that websites are now painted in Figma instead of Photoshop.

Going to miss Gladiators, the rebooted series having fast become essential Saturday night telly. There’s been some really close competitions, with contenders competing against a brilliant new cast of Glads; Legend’s post event interviews often had me crying with laughter. Bring on series 2!

The best designers of my generation are thinking about how to make buttons look the same as other buttons. That sucks.

Happy Max DNF day, to those who celebrate.

Pushed the button and shipped the first update to Indiekit of 2024. Introduces post type plug-ins as well as improvements to the first run experience and documentation. Also, now available in Swedish!

I have great admiration for those who believe they can conduct a phone call while travelling on the Brighton Main Line. I gave up on that idea years ago… wait, tunnel!

Tony Robinson single handily ruined/improved this one day each year, as I can never get through it without singing “it’s Pancake Day, yes it’s Pancake Day, it’s p-p-p-p-p-p-Pancake Day”.

Formula 1 car liveries in 2024: you can have any colour, as long as it’s black.

I really hope HISBE can get back on their feet. Not only because I depend on them for my many refills (and with it my much reduced consumption of plastic), but I think their model of local, ethical and sustainable shopping makes a lot of sense.