What's going on with the weather this month? Yesterday it was freezing and I got drenched in ice cold rain on the dog walk, so this morning I wrap up & I'm sweating buckets because it's 9c and dry. Apparently it's going to be 11c & sunny tomorrow which seems bonkers for the week before Christmas.

I know Evri have a bad rep but my local guy is brilliant and I give him 5 stars every time I get one of those automated review emails in the hope it actually means something.

Prepare accordingly? I need to work out how to get into the house first

Despite being advertised as “never worn” and “from a smoke-free home”, your new jacket still apparently needed de-smelling, leaving you to conclude that the seller must have been trying to kill you to ensure your silence. Full article on Patreon here: www.patreon.com/posts/142496...

Still haven't weeded the driveway 5 months later and watching the birds still pecking at the bugs and bits between the gravel has been one of the highlights of my year 😍 bsky.app/profile/jemj...

MoneySavingExpert's credit club thing sent me an alert this morning so I've logged in for the first time in a while... it's simultaneously telling me that I'm not using credit that's available to me AND that I'm using too much credit that's available to me. Make that make sense 🫠

They've chosen a bangin' tune for this year's John Lewis Christmas Ad.

I noticed a WordPress developer out there has been pushing a "Doom" WordPress block to all the major socials. I did it a year ago ;) dwinrhys.com/2024/05/08/c...

You’re loading fonts wrong (and it’s crippling your performance) - via @jono.id‬ #seo

Calm your tits New Look, it's been an hour

all the best windows software in history is called something like "joe's thing doer". it does the thing and nothing else and is available on a html website in plain text and takes up under a megabyte of space and uses default windows ui elements and will work until the heat death of the universe

I've changed my phone, & forgot the master password to my 2FA app so can't copy it over. While I still have access I'm migrating 2FA codes elsewhere, but in doing so I've discovered a surprising amount of websites allow you to disable / change 2FA settings without requiring an existing code. 🤯

I'm still on the hunt for another WordPress developer to join me full-time at a food & beverage marketing agency. Hybrid role in Minneapolis/St Paul. Reach out to me! #WCMSP #WordCampMSP @wordpress.org

Nice.

I decided I want to go back to not drinking, I use this great app I Am Sober a huge part of which is the community feature where you can make friends and get support and motivation, it’s now unavailable for UK ppl due to the online safety act….in case teenagers are illicitly trying to get sober?

I find it weirdly annoying that you can search for an order by ID in WooCommerce but you can't search for a standard post or page by ID.

The perfect host.

Absolutely fair play to the door to door saleswoman who just came halfway down my drive, saw me through the office window, showed me her flyer and then nodded and turned away when I shook my head 'no'. Quality respect for my time and hers 👌

It's not just you...I've checked a client's site and I get this...and it's definitely new.

Potentially taking on a new client so have backed up their site to download and audit it first (pretty standard stuff). Backup completed OK but the host wants to charge extra to download it? This is absolutely outrageous upselling. Looking at you Siteground.

Thanks Google, I don't know how I'll cope with the emotional impact of you bringing up this memory.

Went to my partner’s grandad’s 90th birthday last weekend. Many years back I was asked to photoshop my gf’s brother so his hair wasn’t so messy. Naturally I gave him dicks for ears thinking SOMEONE would notice. The prints are now sun-bleached but they’re still on grandad’s sideboard.

Who stole summer, and how do I get it back? 🥶

I got mad about AI so I made this comic about The Fucking Point of it all (1/7)

It has been six years since the Gender Autonomy Act was passed in Iceland. In those six years, none of the usual fears that anti-trans advocates warn against have manifested - and trans people, non-binary people and intersex people have enjoyed increased rights and protections.

Every UK petition is like this

are you tired of being brainwashed by the mainstream media?

Take a week off work and suddenly I'm getting angry at 3am and committing to doing stupid social media challenges. If nothing else, it gives me something to blog about for the next few months... 😂 www.jemjabella.co.uk/2025/angry-a...

Really interesting post. 🙌 I have so many THOUGHTS after being in tech for a bazillion years and benefiting from WiT style groups (and also sometimes definitely NOT benefiting from them) so definitely going to digest, come back, read again. 💡

Google workspace/gmail has been doing a bang up job of blocking cold email spam for years and now suddenly it's gone to shit and I'm getting tons in my inbox every day. Wonder what's happened 😬

The tree that grows 40 different kinds of fruit - www.atlasobscura.com/places/tree-... Science is cool, man

The Drawn Chorus. Quite a nice way to spend a day.

The first rule of anagram club is: YOU DO NOT TALK ABOUT ANAGRAM CLUB. The second rule of anagram club is: NO GOO? BAD LUCK. BUM A TOY TARANTULA.

Did Snowdon with @jemjabella.com today. Somehow got a sunburned head despite the weather being… well, look at the photos. Legs ache, but I can still move! I’ll take it for being my (literal) first mountain climb!

Edinburgh Marathon has the most convoluted entry process of any race I've ever entered.

We used to build websites. Now we build pipelines, frameworks, and hydration strategies - just to publish text. This isn’t progress. It’s complexity, by design. We need to escape the JavaScript framework trap. www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/j...

A system already exists to over-confidently state incorrect facts to women, thanks, we don’t need another one

Dealing with namesco technical support on behalf of a client and it's taken nearly 24hrs to get a response and they haven't even read my support ticket. Absolutely useless.

Had a bit of a biscuit craving this morning so raided the dregs of the biscuit barrel. Some interesting textures and flavours happening in there 😬

Blessings to the two little goldfinches digging through the weeds and wildflowers on my gravel driveway who've just given me permission to hold off weeding it that much longer 😎

I've worked on 13 separate jobs today, had a 40 minute team meeting and a 20 minute new client call. And they say auties can't context switch (I will be ruined tomorrow)

Doing some fixes for a new client running a WP plugin with a vulnerability that scores a 9.8 CVSS and the changelog for the next version just says "improve securities" Understatement of the year.

Awesome resource: annebovelett.eu/whitepapers...

I’m not into fishing, but I’m reasonably sure that if you’re using your genitalia to do it, you’re doing it wrong

Although I'm not taking part in the workshop, this resource from Ryan looks extremely helpful for developers working with the #WordPress Block Editor.

Just had a bizarre call on my biz number from someone claiming to be from the "safety campaign for schools", adamant that they were returning my call from October because I'd definitely promised to support them. Except she kept calling me Jemma ❗

I was very efficient last night, hung all the washing out to get ahead of today. So yeah, sorry for all the rain 🌧️

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