just discovered that tomorrow (well, today) is not a public holiday and i am working whoops would've been good to figure that out before midnight

i went bouldering again, pushed myself a bit harder, fell off the wall a couple of times. having hope that I'm actually getting healthier, and might be able to do this regularly, is incredibly scary. it's such a massive thing but it's so hard for me to talk about?? i just want to live a normal life

dotnet devs really do believe everything needs it's own emotional support SQL Server

why does doing basically anything on the linux commandline make me feel like a god? i think it's the same principle as computer games, in a way - you value achieving something if there has been the right level of struggle to get there

anyone have an NYT subscription they'd be willing to share, and/or a particularly good paywall remover? i just want to try their top 50 recipes but i keep getting paywalled and don't want to pay a subscription just for that

I'm retiring referring to my pack of three pugs as a grumble of pugs (the correct collective noun for pugs) in favour of simply calling the three clumped together "Cerberus"

I've been thinking of getting some custom embroidered patches to put on my finished quilts. need a cute name, though - i was thinking "patchwork pug by alix" with a little pug face? but i dunno, i am awful at coming up with names

forgot that I'm working in between Christmas and NYE. was very excited to get stuck into my quilting. i have regrets. send me good Tidal playlists to get me through?

went to buy a $4 applique for a quilting project. accidentally spent $400 on boxing day sale quilting fabric. i have SO MANY potential quilts to make now

first time going climbing (without friends hauling me up with ropes) since i got really sick in 2019. feels like a huge milestone and I'm so so happy and excited. here's to doing this more in 2026.

i want to get back into writing so i was researching writing tools ... but I realised I'm a software nerd at heart and all i want is obsidian and git. I don't need some fancy doc history thing, I'll pick my savepoints thank you very much

coming up on my yearly tattoo! should i get my sleeve finished, OR - outside contender - get face freckles tattooed?

my mother is at the stage of memory loss where she occasionally thinks I'm her sister. it's actually quite sweet - although a bit confusing

trying to pick appropriate books to give to kids aged 5/6/7/8 and wondering how the fuck my mother ended up deciding on Clan of the Cave Bear and Flowers in the Attic when i was 8 anyway i was thinking the Detective Beans stories, they seem cute and fun

we all learn calmness in incident response different ways - i suspect mine was from sailing

saying goodbye to my dogs is always always heartbreaking. I'm going to be away for 6 days. i always worry they think i have died, because that's the only reason they can imagine me leaving them behind

listening to a lecture by Brandon Sanderson on how to be a sci-fi/fantasy writer. key takeaways: - don't expect to be able to do it professionally (yes, not the point for me) - gardener vs architect writing style - consistency over pretty much everything else - don't be a programmer. just don't.

Principal engineer: the merge freeze ends on 6th of January - we're going to absolutely slam the CI pipeline with people merging on that day Colleague with no filter: like storming the White House!

Spent Monday spinning my wheels while Claude code gaslit me. Me: Claude, why does this class implementing this interface fail this convention test, but this class implementing the same interface doesn't fail the test? Claude: (many bullshit answers) It was a different interface with the same name.

i allow myself to buy one pug Christmas ornament a year. is this the winner this year? it's $6

is it just me or is it a tad early to start a code freeze? unseasonably cold early, perhaps?

Do you think there's a corporate cyberserveilance company out there doing "your employees' computer usage wrapped 2025"?

it's an odd feeling, being 60% of the way through a book you're really enjoying, and looking up how long the series is ... to find it's 10 books long and incomplete. I'm glad there's more but also resigned that it'll go off the rails at some point and have an unsatisfying end (if it ever does)

noticeable change since I've built up my emotional tolerance: i vent to my friends a lot less, at first because i didn't need as much support. now not venting is more intentional. i want to save that energy and channel it into productively challenging the things I don't like anyway therapy is great

We ask why are there no women in leadership? or why are there no women speaking at this conference. The lack of nursing rooms at conference is a contributing factor..imo #blogvent Here's a blog post about my alarming, but naive experience dev.to/blackgirlbyt...

pleased to report i hit my reading goal for the year. i revised it down after a tough Q1 but ramped it back up to the original target after i rallied

sending other people tiktok videos keeps me humble because they use the exact same tone to tell me that they don't use tiktok and can't see the video that i use when I tell people i don't have a facebook account

some of my favourite Melbourne experiences are sitting on the tram listening to drunk Australians be friendly with foreigners tonight it's some sixteen year old boys show off for a 26yr old German

I'm so dumb, i was reading this and was puzzled but very enthusiastic about people refusing to work with any large tech company even though i didn't know why HP was getting it. very happy to jump on that bandwagon. eventually, the second time i saw it, i realised it was the wizard copaganda thing

desperately want to get back into climbing but I've been recovering from a surgery within the last six months for about 18 months now. new goal timeframe: March 2026

🎵 he sees you when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake, he knows if you've been bad or good, so be good for the Surveillance State 🎵

i unironically love this level of pedantry from our marketing team but I'm also stumped. time to go find some founding documents of the internet ...

ASD's social media team launch an attempt to get another category added to the #hacklore "this is not a realistic threat, please stop worrying about this" list 😔 I find this advice inexplicable and hard to align with any real-world threats

one local politics thing i can't get my head around is why the politicians and the fire-fighters absolutely despise each other in Victoria, Australia like, i understand the history. it just feels surprising every time i see them sniping at each other, and it happens often.

a stranger just approached us while out for a walk and told us she's seen us out often and she calls our dogs "the three pugaliers". incredible.

Are you in #prodmgmt in AU/NZ, with experience in developer or technical tooling? We've got three product manager roles open where we're looking for you! octopus.com/careers

got hit with the developer special today - discussing a potential bug with someone and they whip out a GitHub issue to illustrate the problem. I wrote that issue 😭😭

first day back at work after a week off dealing with family stuff. my favourite project management tool is being sunset, we're probably moving to Jira, but it's okay because apparently AI will be writing all our cards in the future anyway

still recovering from a recent surgery and it really only hurts when i eat too much ... which, i am painfully learning, is every single night

I've been married and childless long enough now that when a singular friend joins me and my husband on outings, they're not a third wheel, they are our adoptive child

once again, google photos AI does not know the difference between Otto and a cat

best part of this trip home: the mini pavlovas from the supermarket best part of last trip home: kawaiicon - the NZ folks, the international folks, the work folks, the talks, the venue, Kakacon, Wellington itself not much of a competition really

i have SO MANY QUESTIONS about this article about using mini data centres for heating homes. how did the costs _actually_ go down? who is actually okay with having their data centre distributed across random peoples homes?? there is no way that can be secure www.bbc.com/news/article...

Riding the high of getting two The Chaser questions in a row correct (who was the president of France during WWI and which architectural style is the oldest out of Bauhaus, Brutalism and Baroque)

Nasal saline irrigation decreases how long you're sick with a cold and reduces viral spread to others. It also cuts unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions, a major driver of antibiotic resistance. A physician explains the science behind this 5,000-year-old practice. buff.ly/3niBdIo

is .... is it a hearse? because the idea that someone wants to be paid to coach you through funerals is far far worse

lesson i have not learned: double-stacking drinks at the start of a 90min video call is a terrible idea

Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like: saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3 and a worker tier whose emails are like: Dear Jim, First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…

doing a tiny bit of my meetup lightning talk prep every single day is working really well for me, in "unusual for ADHD people" news. first day - wrote the description. day 2, got feedback on the description, reworked it, chose the title, sent it to the organiser day three: first cut of content

Ahh yes, the traditional festive Christmas nudibranch sculpture (to continue one of my favourite of @bigshika.com's jokes)