Dear SaaS and PaaS products: it’s great that you provide granular permissions and flexible, robust access control. But if you don’t provide good documentation and tooling on how to configure it and someone has to be a member of an arcane priesthood to make sense of it all, you’re just going to end up with two types of customer: one who are perpetually annoyed and frustrated with you, and another who are just going to give everyone admin access to everything. I don’t see how either of these are good outcomes.

New (minor) swimming milestone! I have been regularly managing twelve laps rotating 1 lap of breaststroke, 1 freestyle, then 1 backstroke in around 30 minutes. (Interestingly, I always struggle the first two sets on the freestyle laps until I hit my stride and something more efficient kicks in.) Today I was feeling extra energetic and managed to skip the last lap of backstroke and replace it with another freestyle lap without any issues!

First proper lap swim of the year. It went better than I thought it would but now I’m really tired. #swimming

I wonder how many other folks have a dream that ends with some phrase or word that almost obsessively sticks with you. Today I woke up very stuck on the phrase “Lake Powys”. Then I had to look it up; there’s no such place but there is a big lake *in* Powys, which I never really have been to, despite a short stint in Ceredigion when I studied abroad at the University of Aberystwyth.

Sigh. Bad news from the vet’s. Little Miss Flower the rat, almost age 2, has cancer of the nasty kind. We will say goodbye and send her off in the kindest way possible on Sunday. Gonna miss this little Chaos Potato.