As part of our Christmas TV viewing @manyhues and I are rewatching the Ultraviolet TV series from the 90s. It holds up well, and was the first show I ever saw Idris Elba in. He is so good, especially in the scenes in the warehouse where he is magnificent.

TV signal has been lost. We’re facing the very real prospect of having to talk to each other over Christmas!

Just submitted a bug report for the @NetNewsWire iOS beta. Despite the rough edges it’s so nice to be able to use NNW again.

If your “podcast” is only available directly on your website, or via your app, and doesn’t have a feed I can put into my preferred player (even if it’s password protected), then it’s not a podcast. This is an unimportant thing I have strong feelings about.

Hello @github 👋 Hello @natfriedman 👋 Last night I started a new personal project, went to push it to a repo, and then remembered that you still work with ICE. I created the new repo in GitLab. I’ll probably create all new repos there from now on.

My regular morning check shows I’ve still received no response from @github or @natfriedman to my ICE question. Good thing I spend some time last night playing with @gitlab. It’s noticeably slower than GitHub, but it’s doesn’t work with ICE (that I know of) so I’m fine with that.

Nice of @github to prove that they do know how to email me by getting in touch about their livestream later today. Maybe @natfriedman could get someone to use that email address to actually reply to my original message about ICE that I’m still waiting on a response to 5 weeks later.

29 days since I first contacted @github support about the ICE contract, and not a peep in reply to that or my follow-up email. Management really are just hoping that if they ignore the criticism it will just go away.

Continuing my recent theme of releasing software I’ve just opened up Babbas (https://github.com/srushe/babbas) which powers my Indieweb Micropub media endpoint for my site. It’s a ruby Sinatra app that I’ve been using for the last year.

Still waiting on @github to get back to me after contacting them about the ICE contract. Lots of good people in that company are being badly let down by how this is being handled. Looks like I am going to have to investigate hosting my own repositories again.

I forgot to mention that I released a new indieweb ruby gem yesterday, indieweb-authorship (https://rubygems.org/gems/indieweb-authorship), an attempt to implement the Authorship algorithm (https://indieweb.org/authorship). I use it for webmentions, and it seems to be doing the needful so far.

Haven’t seen one of the neighbours cats in a few weeks, and was getting worried for her. Sitting at the desk this morning I hear meowing, look out, and see her sitting on the wall opposite looking to get in. Haven’t been this relieved in a while. Don’t even know her real name.

You can be 70 kilograms heavier, many inches taller, and have Enho in a headlock, but all you’ve done is possibly set yourself up for defeat. I love watching Enho at the #sumo

@emanuil_tolev Really good and interesting talk at #NIDevConf2019 👍🏼

Inexplicably someone at @NiDevConf thinks it makes sense to let me talk again after last year. Now I actually have to write the thing.

I’ve submitted 2 talks to the #nidevconf call for speakers. Please submit your own talks so that I can avoid the hard work of actually writing my talks! The CFP is open until midnight (https://www.nidevconf.com/cfp/)

Disappointed at the lack of SSML support in the Speech Synthesis Web API in most browsers (bar allegedly Edge), but pleasantly surprised to have the API read out 🌧 as “cloud with rain”.

I’m watching Ghost in the Shell (the movie), and manually creating an SVG sprite. One of these things is more enjoyable than the other.

I’m currently updating a project of my own to use Gulp 4.0.0. That’ll teach me for letting Javascript get into the build process for my site.

The Effectively Wild Podcast (@ewpod) co-host pre-announcement has made me a very happy Patreon subscriber. Who knew I’d care this much about who hosted a baseball podcast.

One more POSSE test for auto-posting from my site to Twitter #indieweb

This is a late-night test of posting to my site via Micropub, and seeing whether the post will syndicate automatically to Twitter via brid.gy #indieweb

Testing the flow of sending a note to my site via Micropub, having it adapted on the server, and automatically published on my site.

Theresa May can fuck right off if she even thinks she can mess with the Good Friday Agreement. Idiot.

It’s the day before the Hatsu Basho so the muting of the sumo people I follow begins now, for two weeks, in order to avoid spoilers. I wasn’t expecting this 18 months ago.