rob @rfox@mastodon.technology

makes me want to yeet all the computers in to the ocean

The best thing about not getting enough exercise is waking up at midnight several nights in a row, then anxiously wondering if this is just how your sleep pattern works now

shine, iced tea and tropical fuck storm

I guess this is the quarantine vibe?

previously he's expressed pretty typical boomer views

had dinner with the folks last night before the restrictions on gatherings of >2 people come in

Dad makes a comment along the lines of "well it's a capitalist system - it's inherently unstable"

now I don't know if Dad's slowly drifting left or he's gone full ecofascist????

some users tested a website I've been building for a volunteer org today

none of them had any major complaints - we found like 2 bugs and there's a few other things to do before pushing to prod

but given that I have like..no UX training/knowledge and everyone seemed to think that the UX was good, I'm pretty fuckin stoked.

"hey that's weird behaviour, I wonder why it's happening"
*open up code*
"oh"

well, that's an easy fix

love 2 find a work item where the only information other than the title is the acceptance criteria:

- Bug fixed
- Unit test

...one of the most egregious examples in Google’s privacy policy, in which it says that data collected in existing services will “help us develop new ones”. 

“The consequences of that are, how can I exercise my right to object or to erasure? I do not know what data is going in to develop new services, and I cannot object to my data being used when I have no idea what they are building,”...

- Ravi Naik (AVO Legal)

huh, so there's currently a case in the EU that Google's """privacy policy""" goes against GDPR

https://www.ft.com/content/66dbc3ba-848a-4206-8b97-27c0e384ff27

Weh, so fidgety right now.

Glad I didn't get everything I need at the shops today, means I have an excuse for another bike ride

been doing some dev on the side for the social hockey league I play in

fortunately I don't have to touch The Cursed Language

turns out I like web dev, as long as it's not JS?

When he spends most of the day chilling like this, he's not exactly high maintenance

One of the many good things about having my parents dog over for the day while my gf and I wfh:

She (a cat-lover) is becoming more on-board with getting a dog.

the more I learn about COM, the more I'm amazed that 90s Windows worked /at all/.

Starting to appreciate how awful DLL hell was, given I'm too young to really have experienced it

love to start the day with a "Operation Failed. [-10004] Internal Error (Impossible)"

Nice to be able to play something with my gf, though

Ah, the old Minecraft "eat dinner and oh fuck it's time to go to bed already???"