Josh's micro blog

This city makes no sense

Struggling to understand why so many who write about coding projects do so on Medium, which locks most of it behind a paywall

Starting to suspect the streaming companies time the forced re-log-ins to coincide with live sports that I want to watch

It sprung!

A Cycle of Misery: The Business of Building Commercial Aircraft www.construction-physics.com/p/a-cycle…

Message from my bank warning about impersonation scams and that their employees will never ask for two factor codes. Unfortunately a lot of companies make a habit of cold calling customers and immediately demanding verification. That really needs to stop.

Blue earring

Knitter

Imagine if it was technically possible to allow someone to create an account on your online service without simultaneously adding them to all your marketing email lists. Alas

Another gloomy Melbourne day

Someday I’m gonna figure out what Bill Gates/Microsoft did to scare the Australian government so much that they refuse to share data in excel form

Might be missing Sydney

Didn’t rise properly today :(

The young’ns have it too good politicalcalculations.blogspot.com/2024/01/t…

The most important piece of information about a hotel is whether there are power sockets on both side of the bed. This is also something they never disclose on their websites 😑

Parliament poking through the trees

Super sunny day in Canberra

Went to the Archibald 100 and discovered that John Howard has worn shorts at least once

My last scribble from Sydney - a misty, sodden CBD from Watsons Bay

Never ending cruises

Just finished before we got rained out

First day of holidays!

Asking people to “do the research” on fake news stories makes them seem more believable, not less www.niemanlab.org/2024/01/a…

Health inequalities ‘caused 1m early deaths in England in last decade’ www.theguardian.com/inequalit…