he is definitely thinking about how he finally tricked me into letting him bite my nipple this morning

i explained to my friend how i use 25 min timers between my complex and drawn-out medication routine and he nodded and said "congrats, you've reinvented pomodoro timers"

a pack-a-day habit, but it's Coles gluten free hot cross buns

considering submitting to a conference in Japan so i can take a trip there on work's dollar to buy quilting fabrics

announced my team move today - i didn't realise it was weighing on my shoulders until now! I'm switching from doing black magic execution engine things to ... well, no one really knows what it is yet, but it's called CoreCD with a team called Modern Deployments, to give you a taste. Extremely hype!

thread of unintentional sexual innuendo from software developers, overheard and misinterpreted by my dirty mind: "let's nut it out together"

my tattoo artist just called me Rainman because she said "i think we're about halfway through colouring the ivy leaves" and i said "we are, we're at 12.5 out of twenty" (she was entirely joking and it was funny and also fair)

my favourite game to play with my husband? "guess what car this romance writer considers to be a signal of status and wealth" anyone wanna guess the most egregious contender?

having a parent in rest home care is a part-time admin job. desperately wishing for siblings right now. even if they didn't do anything, at least I'd have a capable adult as a target for all my frustration and ffs as you get older and retire, make a plan for your own care

love blocking out focus days in my calendar. i get SO MUCH important shit done while avoiding focusing on the big important thing to do.

I can't quite believe this happened, I've been offered a ticket to the Australian Open on Wednesday through work. Developers very rarely are on the receiving end of these sort of business partner invitations and i am SO excited and grateful to be going! Freaking out about what to wear though

i just bit my dog's tongue because HE stuck it in my mouth while i was talking, why am i the one feeling guilty??

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i pretty regularly check my mum's email to make sure she's not getting scammed or missing bills (with her permission) but reflexively delete/unsubscribe from pointless update emails, which I'm sure is disconcerting for a woman with Alzheimer's

Quilt #2 has been completed. So much happier with how this one turned out! It's now on its way to its new home in NZ, and I'm starting on quilt #3. I would quite like my dining table back for a bit but i want to get the third one done quickly if I can.

the joys of living in Australia: is it some sort of electrical tool or a particularly annoying cicada

ahh cool cool cool, many of the supplements i need to take daily do not help sleep www.verywellhealth.com/supplements-...

My team, Server at Scale, is being renamed. We work on the execution engine of Octopus Server - the bit that knows how to run a user-specified deployment process. Guess what we're getting renamed to? 100 internet points to whoever guesses it. it's... not good.

there is always a pug somewhere in my photos. always. even if I don't intend it anyway, having my first go at bias binding #quilting #quilt

still thinking about the guy who unequivocally said the ManageMyHealth breach was due to TLS1.2 and chuckling. In RNZ, no less. Best comment i saw: this man has never felt the cold touch of a computer

final part of my tattoo sleeve booked in for mid-Jan. so excited to finally have it finished! and branching out into having tattoos that i can't cover up with business wear - this will end on my hand

"Readers! They are the worst! Why can't we write books without people reading them?" i have learned that this is the writer's equivalent of how software engineers feel about our users. my code would be so nice and secure if people didn't insist on using it for things.

if i ever send you a video please know i probably didn't watch the last quarter of it and I'm not sorry

i am only now learning about the benefits of a protein shake after working out and honestly i feel a bit cheated. what's the point of pushing yourself if you don't get to luxuriate in the slight pain the next day, reminding you that you did good?

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