apologies for some brief offline time there...
the mightiest of UPS powers and dual resilient links all bow before the accidental application of tea.
tea has now been removed from the area and everything cleaned and dried off again.
we mourn the loss of a cheap D-link 5-port gig switch (that conveniently ran so well off a USB-to-jack cable).
its duties have been taken on by its identical twin.
£6.99 well spent on having a backup I feel.
Left Meta, so I’m posting this into the void rather than to friends—but I might as well introduce myself with this pic. #handsoff
Found some teeny tiny flowers in the lawn. I like these ones, because it looks like they've just licked something unpleasant, and are trying to wipe the taste away with their fluffy hands.
Yes it does. Shush now.
Edit: apparently this post is incorrect and Oracle has, in fact, not acknowledged the breach.
Oracle finally admits its cloud was hacked https://cybersecuritynews.com/oracle-acknowledges-data-breach/amp/
Apparently Automattic are laying off around one in six of their workforce. And I'm one of the unlucky ones.
Anybody remote hiring for a UK-based full-stack web developer (in a world that doesn't seem to believe that full-stack developers exist anymore) with 25+ years professional experience, specialising in PHP, Ruby, JS, HTML, CSS, devops, and about 50% of CMSes you've ever heard of (and probably some you haven't)... with a flair for security, accessibility, standards-compliance, performance, and DexEx?
CV at: https://danq.me/cv/index.html
Steve:
frequent overthinker, compulsive fixer, digester-then-explainer, "why?" question relishing father, minor-irritant partner, excessive disassembler, original-form hacker, high-efficiency googler, borderline-competent car-fixer, expert-level car-breaker, faster-by-qwerty communicator, indiscriminate photo-taker, Leatherman owner.