Success rate of my Apple Watch unlocking my MacBook Pro is now in the 90s% 👍
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> When your house is on fire you don’t wait to see if it goes out by itself, you call 999 straight away.
-- @arseblog on Arsenal's inaction over Centre Back injuries. Clearly negligent to start the season so unprepared.
As a user of an Advanced (Acorn) Risc Machines chip in my Archimedes in the 80s/90s, I'm a bit sad it's being sold abroad http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-36822806
I would love the option to check in via @foursquare when I use my @getmondo card. I may not have signal but Mondo knows where card is used.
Watching The Clangers with my son. Granny Clanger gives Small Clanger a knitted scarf. But they're each made from knitted wool so it's basically a flesh scarf. Horrific.
https://barryf.s3.amazonaws.com/clangers-scarf.png
I'm going to this evening's popup Homebrew Website Club in London: https://indiewebcamp.com/events/2016-06-15-homebrew-website-club
Ballsy recruitment experiment from @stripe: inviting whole teams of 2-5 to apply to work together.
https://stripe.com/blog/bring-your-own-team
I get spam: "It's been a busy few weeks for us here at [marketing spam co]" Not as busy as it's been for my Report Spam shortcut fingers...
Receiving push notifications (with emoji!) even before you put your @getmondo card away is pretty cool https://barryf.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/mondo.jpg
This is why you should only buy genuine chargers for your expensive laptop: http://www.righto.com/2016/03/counterfeit-macbook-charger-teardown.html
Sad about @IFTTT dropping @Pinboard, but requiring services to change integrations (and accept ToS) is back-to-front https://blog.pinboard.in/2016/03/my_heroic_and_lazy_stand_against_ifttt/
New favourite podcast: @AthleticoMince. @realbobmortimer and @profanityswan talking about football and other nonsense in their brains.
Recent communication at work is exclusively via emoji reactions (reacji?) in Slack: 👍 👏 and 👀. Living the monosyllabic reclusive boss dream.
The apps in my Panasonic TV broke last night. Turns out Netflix etc. must phone home to a Panasonic URL even if it's down https://www.avforums.com/threads/network-issue-with-panasonic-cloud-services-for-lcd-tv-with-firefox-os.1985724/page-7#post-23313595
"My Little Sister Taught Me How To 'Snapchat Like The Teens.'" Vivid reminder that teenagers are way ahead of us all http://www.buzzfeed.com/benrosen/how-to-snapchat-like-the-teens
(see also https://backchannel.com/a-teenagers-view-on-social-media-1df945c09ac6)
Love this evocative recount of the greatest league finish there will ever be: Arsenal in 1989 http://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/best-ever-title-finish-arsenals-1989-triumph-over-liverpool-told-players
I only started listening to Bowie in the last few years but I realised I'd been a fan all my life regardless. Phenomenal legacy.
Time to emerge from my post-baby hibernation to watch Stewart Lee's (almost) 4-hour stand-up marathon.
http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whatson/stewart-lee-90720
.@theryanadams' album covering all of Taylor Swift's 1989 is very listenable. Tempted to try her original.
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/sep/22/review-ryan-adams-taylor-swift-1989-first-listen-track-by-track
iOS keyboard clicks are just as anachronistic as skeuomorphic design. It's time for Apple to default to off. PS grumpy at passenger on train
New roles: I'm looking for a Ruby dev, QA and web designer to join us at @venntrodev in Covent Garden or Windsor http://dev.venntro.com/jobs/
Apple Watch feature need: push-to-talk between Watches, perhaps over FaceTime Audio. Basically a walkie-talkie on your wrist.
Tripped me up today: Heroku's GitHub auto-deployer doesn't (currently) include git submodules
Australia may have won the test today but I saw Alastair and England lift the Urn at the Oval.
Emails from salespeople chasing me for a response to their previous cold email = #reportspam
Belle and Sebastian for two nights at the Royal Albert Hall in June.
First two albums played in full.
Oh yes.
After a week-or-two of flirting with Apple Music, @Spotify's new Discover feature has lured me back. Love its selection for me this week.
Pushed a quick facelift live for our old globaldev team site to match the new company @venntro branding: http://dev.venntro.com/
Charming short film of a brave actor trying "offline dating" by approaching women in London. So many knockbacks!
https://vimeo.com/132695239
Spent the afternoon watching (and presenting) pitches for Thursday's @globaldev hack day. Cracking selection of ideas and itches to scratch.
Big collection of dating mobile apps on @ProductHunt http://www.producthunt.com/chrismessina/collections/bigdating
On my way to the sunny-rainy Isle of Wight for the Festival. Covering all bases with wellies, suntan lotion, waterproof and flip-flops.
Celebratory Burger King And Onion Rings. Loved that.
Ending today with "Man Don't Give A Fuck" at superb @superfurry gig seems appropriate
I seem to have lost all my saved searches in @tweetbot and the Twitter web app. I only had a few and can recreate but ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
Just arrived in beautiful Bath, ready for tomorrow's @BathRuby conference.
Three days of walking round a city like Prague really does boost your daily step count.
https://barryf.s3.amazonaws.com/prague_steps.png
(This may be the only post I ever make approaching a #workoutbrag)
A lovely animation explaining Hilbert's Infinite Hotel Paradox which hurt my head in Discrete Maths back at university.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj3_KqkI9Zo
(via @kottke)
Lesson learned. Pulling stupid faces in holiday photos won't stop my wife from uploading them to Facebook. #untagging
Enjoying this (much-linked) Nathan Barley 10-year retrospective which times nicely with my visit to Hoxton tonight http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/feb/10/nathan-barley-charlie-brooker-east-london-comedy
A Conference Call in Real Life http://youtu.be/DYu_bGbZiiQ
Steering well clear of Match of the Day tonight. The rugby was good last night wasn't it? Yep.
Outlook for iOS/Android: http://youtu.be/9cBfywn_CnU
Very nice. Whisper it, but it may be time to look again at Office 365 vs Google Apps.
"Look out for Barry... coming soon!" Can anyone explain this poster I've discovered on my computer?
https://barryf.s3.amazonaws.com/barry_coming_soon.jpg
Stand-up comedian stringing along an online dating scammer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyA5gzqA3nU