Francis 🇾🇪 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @francis@greenplenty.social

Just shipped the first iteration of my word puzzle helper:

https://the-werds.fly.dev/

Lots more things to come

I honestly thought Baddiel had no conscience whatsoever. This is a genuine surprise, and I'm happy he does seem to have one.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/sep/15/columnists-quit-jewish-chronicle-gaza-conflict-stories

@farah I keep meaning to read it. It features in the TV series Person of Interest and I've always been curious. TY for reminding me.

New post on my programming blog

Returning to Elixir/Phoenix

https://francisfish.com/returning-to-elixir-phoenix/

@tanepiper

I tracked down the post, and yeah. My word he's been mainlining the cool aid. It's not surprising after what happened a few years ago, when questioning things got folks fired.

I love working with Rails, pays the bills. Gonna hafta hold my nose.

Well, rebuilt my RUby Gem Werds in Elixir, and this time put some comments and tests in. In the process realised the code I wrote originally wasn't the best.

https://github.com/fjfish/ex-werds

Still got some bureaucracy around putting it as a library, which I will do when creating juices are running low.

Next plan is a Phoenix app to put the library to use helping people with word puzzles.

I suspect the AI will name itself "Omimator" or something

http://smbc-comics.com/comic/version

I live in a 20 zone

It's also a little misty (but still 20 metres viz or so)

So why are clowns driving at 40 without even their side lights on?

When did thinking become such a scarce commodity?

Starmer's own staff think he's useless. You couldn't make it up. A void in a suit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0w7_sx3Txs&t=595s

In other tech news I just started using the Zen browser and also replaced iTerm with Ghostty

I've been re-lerning Elixir/Phoenix because I want to create a small personal project and Rails is far too heavy for small things.

@Daojoan

The golden age was only golden for a select few, iirc.

A land that's fit for bankers

https://www.greenplenty.info/a-land-thats-fit-for-bankers/

Well TIL that South Road can sometimes have black ice. I moved off the pavement to let another dog owner get past and went flying. Flying Fish in Birkenhead!

I'm fine, barked my knuckles a tiny bit and slight bruise on my elbow. People were so nice and helpful.

@zimpenfish this means there must be part of the country where the Apple app is more accurate than the Met Office.