Starting my day with some server updates, then I have some technical debt to sort out. The technical debt used to originate from my predecessor, but after 10+ years, most of it originates from me. I guess that's the way of things.

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Mixing it up this morning. Showed a support engineer how to boot a borked laptop. Offered to rip some old network cables out of a wall. Sometimes it's good to get your hands dirty.

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Sunday evening and Becky is planet hopping in Starfield again, whilst I queue up some podcasts for my journeys into work next week. I’ve just subscribed to the Fedora Project Podcast and I’m interested to give it a listen.

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My Google Chrome has just received the 2023 refresh/face-lift. Chrome isn't my first choice of browser, but I do like the new look. Anyhow, it's Friday night and Becky is playing Hogwarts Legacy whilst I'm messing around with some CSS. Rock 'n' roll.

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This morning, I'm going to continue working on the encrypted notes app that I started yesterday. The plan for this afternoon is to look at an old CodeIgniter 2 application to see how feasible it is to update it to CI4.

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Working on an encrypted notes app. I'm not rolling my own encryption algorithm, because that would be bonkers. Also, don't all note apps use encryption these days?

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Working on a digital signage display that pulls solar power data via an API and displays the data in way that a 5 year old should be able to understand.

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Tapping 3 fingers on my touchpad triggers middle-click paste. This can be a real pain in the arse when I'm using 3 finger swipe gestures on my laptop -- I often find random shit being pasted into my code editor.

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Philip Newborough and a donkey enjoying a beer.

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