My office this morning as I start the trek to #googleio. Happy to see BA have reinstated the old work area in the Concorde Room and designated it a quiet zone.
There's been a lot of discussion about masonry in CSS recently. I wrote about the Chrome team's proposal to help clarify why we have concerns with bundling masonry in with grid, and to show that a separate spec doesn't mean fewer features. https://developer.chrome.com/blog/masonry#css
Today's running mission was to find bluebells and wild garlic. We succeeded, though we got very wet and muddy in the process! Shout out to my running buddy who brought tupperware on a run to collect garlic.
The cats have discovered a hole in a raised bed which I think is made by rats. Not sure what to do about that. Get in a rat catcher? Just accept I own rats now?
@rachelandrew we had that and I even saw rats during the day which is an indication of a major infestation! I got in the council exterminators and they just put out poison boxes, which I now know are cheaply available online so you can just do it yourself. They’re pet proof! And we even caught a fox trying to get into the box with no luck so I think your cats would be safe.
@seb_ly@rachelandrew the main thing with rats, according to the guy we got in, is they are smart whereas mice are dumb. So rats may be very cautious about new stuff and you have to be careful to not have human scent on any boxes/traps.
@scottjenson@rachelandrew The VPN might be injecting an Accept header with a different order of MIME types, and WP might automatically respond with JSON if that's the first one it sees. Just a theory though and I don't have access to a computer to test it by sending my own Accept header.
My soup maker packed up. I use it all the time to make lunch, so I thought I'd get a new one. What is going on at Morphy Richards that they sell this many different soup makers?
@rachelandrew Congratulations. Now I have the picture of the Total Control soup maker, complete with a set of cute little manacles and strategic bits of leather straps on its broad chest, firmly lodged in my mind.
Sad that A Book Apart will no longer be publishing new titles. They were a very special publisher. It's great that the back catalog will still be available to buy though.
A Book Apart did for technical publishing what An Event Apart did on the stage. They gave new ideas space. It's very rare, most of the time people want you to write or speak about the latest popular thing. I was very lucky to be part of both, and the industry has benefited massively from their vision and their trust in the authors and speakers they worked with.
I've been trying to write a blog post this evening that involved looking back at old blog posts, and I realise how much I used my blog back in the pre-social media days to log my thoughts. It made me kind of sad that I've given so much of that to social media, to someone else's platform, over the past 10 years.
@rachelandrew It’s really about time that the pendelum swings back from microblogging towards a more sustainable hybrid of blogging and microblogging (along with other kind of sharing like link sharing in @adactio links style)
align-content for block and table layout is in Chrome 123 (Beta out today). If there is a chance you've used align-content outside of flex and grid layout, as it didn't do anything due to lack of implementations, it would be a good time to check your site for strange alignment. Safari and Firefox also have this on the way. https://developer.chrome.com/blog/align-content#css
I have once again managed to book into Silicon Valley's answer to Fawlty Towers. In this case it has served me well as the Basil Fawlty at the bar seemed to think that a glass of wine meant "fill it to the brim", this was after watching him take more than 5 minutes to work out how to use a corkscrew. At least this hotel isn't partially under construction, which was the case last time.
@craiggrannell Yeah, it was a complete reconstruction so in terms of range of movement and so on, it's likely it's as good as it gets. Surgeon no.2 was very impressed with what the surgeon who did the reconstruction had managed to achieve, so I feel as if I'm luckier than I could have been. The nerve damage is most problematic day to day, just because it's random and painful, though I have a reasonable handle on environmental things that make it worse.
@rachelandrew Sorry to hear it’s still sometimes crap. But I guess silver lining in that it could have been a whole lot worse. You do appear to have had more than your share of bad fortune when it comes to running injuries.