“Kill It With Fire” which is a great look at dealing with legacy computer systems.

“Lessons In Chemistry” which is a delightfully draft novel about fifties feminism.

Spent the weekend watching my wife grind through all the TOTK side quests.

Meanwhile I plowed through two ebooks.

Win for both of us!

Just got a new solar battery installed, so I’m going to spend some time poking it and making sure it’s working. COME ON SUNSHINE!

That’s what the law says.

The MP might not be selected by their party to stand in the next election. But there’s no law about MPs behaving in a way contrary to the wishes of their electorate.

Indeed, how could an MP do their job properly if there was? If they’ve got a slim majority there would be almost endless recall petitions from opposition parties.

If they voted against their party, they could be fired by the party against the wishes of the voters.

What bar so you want to set for voters’ votes to be invalidated? At the moment we have criminal acts and suspension. What other thresholds would you add - and how would you stop people from abusing them?

A recall petition is only available under very limited circumstances.

https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn05089/

Nadine has neither been suspended nor convicted of a crime. So there’s no petition.

Even if there were, the threshold for the petition succeeding is only 10% of registered voters. And you can bet that opposition parties would easily he able to drum up that level of support.

Discord is where information goes to die.

Please just stick things on a website. I’m happy to help you set one up.

The campaign website belongs to the person - or political party - running it. They aren’t official government websites, so they aren’t eligible to be automatically archived at https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/webarchive/

OMG! I still have my DataLink watch somewhere. I remember thinking it was amazing and showing off all the phone numbers I’d programmed into it.

Will your code work with any flashing LED? Or does it need special hardware?

Thanks! We have chatted with OSM. At the time we started there wasn’t an inscription field. I think there now is. We’ve also signed a waiver so they can use our data if they wish.

The slight issue is that our photos are generally taken with a phone’s GPS and may not be suitably accurate for their needs.

We also aim to be a lot easier to add to than OSM. So there aren’t many checks.

OSM is a big, well funded project with lots of users and governance. OpenBenches is just me and my wife. We’re not aiming to be them 😀

Huge if true.

New client day! So I’m off to their office to pick up a laptop, password, ID, time sheets, etc.

Commuting is, thankfully, a one-time thing.

The Watchy - my review https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/06/review-watchy-an-eink-watch-full-of-interesting-compromises/

I ate too much pizza yesterday and stayed up until 2am gaming.

I am going to spend today designing watch faces for my new eInk watch. This will be a challenge as I’m a terrible artist and an even worse C++ programmer.

Luckily ChatGPT is slightly better than me 😀

I think you’ve answered your own question - be less meticulous. Oh, and memorise less.

A good programmer knows where their knowledge boundaries are. For example, if you’re working in JavaScript, you probably don’t need to know bit-shifting.

A good programmer doesn’t know every feature; they know where to go to find that information. They know how to read the manual of an unfamiliar feature.

The most important thing you can do is do practical work. Build a website. Try new things. Look up how to implement something and then do it yourself. Find a project that interests you - like building your own website - that’ll stave off the fatigue.

You don’t need to memorise how to implement a linked-list - you need experience in building.

Good luck.

Oooof! Yeah, I don’t think I could cope with that.

Not everyone has the same level of mobility that you do.

Incidentally, do you get off your arse to change the volume on your TV?

If you are planning to put a memorial bench there - or anywhere - you can add it to our crowdsourced list at https://openbenches.org :-)

It is so nice today that I’m going to be WFG (working from garden). I hope my laptop doesn’t overheat.

Anyone else planning the same?

I loved teaching Scratch. And I’ve written about DRAKON - https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/04/why-arent-there-more-visual-programming-languages-an-ode-to-drakon/

I think they’re useful for building algorithms. But the tools themselves aren’t powerful enough for anything too complicated. I hope that changes though!