Twelve months on. It’s simultaneously a lot easier, and exactly as difficult. RIP, dad.

$ data-gathering-program --interval "1 minute" > output.json
...leave it alone for a day...
...come back to a file full of data at 1 minute intervals and start processing it in another window...
...in this window, accidentally press up-arrow, enter, thus wiping the day's worth of data collection with one single observation. Aaaargh

a neat @Vivaldi trick has been revealed to me by @brucelawson. If you ctrl-click on a URL in the address bar, it removes everything after the bit you clicked on. So if the URL reads www.whitecouncil.edi/wizards/us/chicago/harry-dresden and you ctrl-click on "wizards", it removes the parts after that, leaving you with www.whitecouncil.edi/wizards. This is very useful! I edit the URL about twenty times a day. Not the most discoverable trick, but a good one.

Just eaten a Silvermint for St Patrick’s Day

admittedly I am easily pleased, but I am childishly quite chuffed with my (cheap but much better than its rusty predecessor) hanging basket thing for in the shower.

Random #ttrpg idea. Set somewhere like Westeros: lots of houses paying the game of thrones for power. You play two characters: the head of a House, who does political manoeuvres, and a member of a House out in the field, who does regular ttrpg character stuff. Play swaps between “politics mode” and “in the field mode” regularly. The wrinkle is: the field character is from a House run by a different player.