Blog post! I figure if I lower the productivity of the entire economy, I’ll feel less bad about my own addiction to these games. 😛
Month: January 2018
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@FullContact I’m trying to enable sync with Eventbrite but it’s just hanging on this step. Any ideas? (Just sent in support request.) https://t.co/HutJlPj3iY
I really want to use Safari as my daily browser, but I cannot figure out how to get notifications when someone sends me a message in Google Hangouts. Anyone found a workaround?
@jnowland ONLY for that. Otherwise I miss my husband reminding me that we need coffee beans, and then nobody is happy.
@gilmae I’m narrowing my eyes at you RIGHT NOW.
@charis WTF, really? Are you sure there wasn’t a ticked ⚰️ box that you missed?
RT @yow_conf: Ever wondered what functional programming is? Here’s what Wiki has to say about it https://t.co/ic31g3Lrsd
Then want to lear…
@chaitanyakuber No idea. I just want the Gmail tab to blink when I have a message, like it does in Chrome. I’m sure it’s a Google decision to drive Chrome usage.
Fun fact – I worked on a team that was asked to develop this audio fingerprinting tech. We solved issues but told management it was super creepy and we couldn’t think of any ethical use cases. They canned it, thankfully. https://t.co/p2lUvCsdSy
Our internal codename for the project was literally “Creepy Audio.”
@mani2jeff @WinObs I don’t know of any consumer level devices available in the market beyond Cortana on Windows.
@mani2jeff @WinObs And as you probably gathered from the post, it was very personal to my experience – as someone in the iOS and Google ecosystems.
@msharp What do you mean, the number? That part’s obvious. Or is the Xwing wrong in some nerdy way?
@WinObs @mani2jeff Never heard of it. 🤷♀️ Like I said, it wasn’t meant to be a comprehensive overview of the market – just a blog post about what we use ours for.
@msharp Yeah, I didn’t see that. Granted, just woke up and haven’t had coffee.
@lynnlangit Well, you KNOW what my response is gonna be. 🇦🇺 ❤️ 🐨 🏖
Yeah. We share these on the @GGDSydney Slack channel sometimes. It’s more common than you think. (I got my first a few months back.) https://t.co/bhQygeVsoZ
@dunneteach @emd3737 I love that she brought a real life Australian for Show & Tell as well. 😛 @lozzboland
Why Bitcoin is Stupid https://t.co/EL7acEBypo // YESSSS, @mrmoneymustache finally weighs in on Bitcoin speculation and I am here for it.
@mrmoneymustache Bug report for you! Using share to Twitter link at bottom of article doesn’t use your proper domain name. See photo. https://t.co/HAPg4tOxk6
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Okay, Hoosiers and Buckeyes. You know what to do.
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@mark_sabbatical What was it??
@mark_sabbatical Ooh, something from @glasnt? I missed it.
RT @glasnt: I’ll be talking about the cross-stitch part of this pipeline at the #lca2018 Art + Tech miniconf! https://t.co/ReaOspLj3e
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@glasnt @mark_sabbatical Awesome!!
Ahhh, good ol’ @australiapost. There’s are no bike racks at the Strawberry Hills branch, and the postal pickup line is literally out the door. 😐 https://t.co/yTEpzqLHda
@australiapost And of course, I wouldn’t have even needed to come except somehow I “missed” the delivery despite working from home all day. 😐😐
@Xavier_Ho I worked from home all day. Never heard anyone knock on the gate. The result fun thing is that the Broadway office is much closer to my house, yet because it’s on the wrong side of the road, I have to schlep here.
@Xavier_Ho Hard when it’s relatives overseas sending gifts. 🙁
RT @casskhaw: 1) “Soon,” we whispered into the moon, which hung in the night a gash of white, like a cut-open throat or a smile, polite and…
@casskhaw @mmastertheone This is amazing. ❤️
@i386 omg, I cleaned out my office yesterday and got rid of a ton of shit and now it’s actually pleasant to work in!
They’re multiplying like Tribbles! https://t.co/NYPOdtAXG4 https://t.co/t395K3CEle
“GAHHHHH! HE’S IN THE SINK!” 😂 Sounds like the Snook found the spider again. (He’s named him Horace.)
Got him! 🕷 https://t.co/uX7k4BNxgS https://t.co/jYQZGU3m7D
@FourRedShoes He’s “Horace the Horrible,” apparently.
@andykelk Ha! He’d never heard of that before. Too funny. 🙂
Just watched the first @cs50 lecture! It made me miss university. 😂 Thanks @hannahcancode for organising this @GGDSydney group course. #CS50
@JennaGuillaume BEST. EPISODE. (except for the godawful karaoke)
Lucky Foods for New Year’s Day – including the recipe for the excellent black-eyed peas, kale, and pork stew that I made! https://t.co/NZKmnsKC3e https://t.co/fwwhAVRtIt
@Yvonne_Adele @jontv @australiapost @auspost Whaaaaat. You just blew my mind. Ugh. Thanks. 🙂
@Malarkey Are you going to share the results afterwards? I’m very curious!
@Malarkey On the organiser page, “Do you reimburse speakers for the following items?” is a radio button that only allows one option.
@Malarkey And same for the next question after it.
@NefariousWheel We’ve had orb spiders in the garden before. Never seen one scampering around the kitchen though!
@__nolang @BR3NDA Ooh! There was a talk about using machine learning to quantify the beautify of places at @yow_conf this year. It was by @thoughtsymmetry. We don’t have the video up yet, but it should be there soon.
@__nolang @BR3NDA @yow_conf @thoughtsymmetry Her Twitter mentions that the associated paper is here: https://t.co/tk1zWZTETT
@LukeSleeman I actually asked it “what does a Tribble sound like” after I saw your tweet last night, but it didn’t know. Come on, @googledevs. You missed a trick there!
RT @Malarkey: If you speak at, or you organise conferences, please complete this anonymous survey about fees for speaking:
https://t.co/JQ…
@Malarkey Honestly, this kept me from putting in my gender. I figured being a woman would make me stand out like a sore thumb. Of course, you can likely just extrapolate from the “no genders” then.
@LukeSleeman Oh the wonderful CLACKITY CLACKITY CLACK I could make on that keyboard!
RT @stemminist: Calling all #STEMMinists! This Sydney based bookclub is open to all. Our Jan pick is “Inferior” by Angela Saini. Follow to…
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a young woman in possession of a large fortune must be in want of a Jedi Master to train her.” ❤️ https://t.co/UmyWbSu95P
RT @msharp: @web_goddess ‘Reader, I dismembered him’
@msharp You, sir, are a goddamn genius.
@minxdragon WHAAAT. Did I know you were from Missouri? I went to a smart kids’ summer camp in Kirksville when I was 14. 😂
Another pair of shorts! My 4th go at @colettepatterns Iris in pink corduroy. Slight adjustment to pattern seems to work better… I’m 90% happy with these! https://t.co/knsetWMq1W https://t.co/ttKkijb7nj
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They’re multiplying like Tribbles!
“GAHHHHH! HE’S IN THE SINK!” 😂 Sounds like the Snook found the spider again. (He’s named him Horace.)
Got him! 🕷
Lucky Foods for New Year’s Day – including the recipe for the excellent black-eyed peas, kale, and pork stew that I made! web-goddess.org/archive/18335
Ouch. 😂
Another pair of shorts! My 4th go at @colettepatterns Iris in pink corduroy. Slight adjustment to pattern seems to work better… I’m 90% happy with these!
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Lucky Foods for New Year’s Day
A few folks messaged me on Twitter to ask about my assertion that “round foods are lucky for New Year’s.” All right, all right. I was slightly extrapolating there. There are lots of articles online about NYE food superstitions, and many of them link round or green foods to wealth in the new year. Do they specifically mention pancakes? Not yet. 🙂
One thing that many of the articles mention is the American Southern tradition of eating black-eyed peas, greens, and pork for the new year. The most famous preparation of this is Hoppin’ John, which is basically peas (which aren’t really peas anyway, but go with it), bacon, and rice. I grew up in Indiana though, and I never knew about this lucky tradition until a few years back. Northern Indiana’s got lots of Germanic folks and Amish, who don’t go in for such superstitious nonsense, I guess.
That said – if there’s one thing I love, it’s a food-based holiday occasion. (Remember when we made a haggis? And a turducken? And a giant Tim Tam? Good times.) So as soon as I heard about this tradition, I was all in. My go-to recipe for the last few years has been this: Hearty One-Pot Black-Eyed Pea Stew With Kale and Andouille Recipe. This is so, so tasty, and it’s not very hard to make* either. (You don’t need to soak the peas or use a pressure cooker or anything like that.) This year I even upped the ante by making my own chicken stock earlier in the day!
Here’s what it ended up looking like. I highly recommend you bookmark this one for next New Year’s Day!
* I’ve never been able to find andouille in Sydney, so I just get whatever smoked pork sausage I can find. This year it was a very nice smoked chorizo! I also leave out the green pepper, as the Snook doesn’t care for it.
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@j_irwin Haha, I should’ve set up some sort of affiliate referral program! DOH.
@j_irwin The Mini was on sale at Harvey Norman for Boxing Day! Not sure if that’s still on though.
Just started 2018 off by donating to @IronStache’s campaign. As an expat my opportunities to #Resist are limited, but at least I can donate where it will do some good! #BlueWave https://t.co/zk8xehj3gQ
Tradition says you eat round things on New Year’s Day because they symbolise money. 💰 😊 https://t.co/3R3AkUtiIA https://t.co/63k4cqEnAS
@amiedoubleD Love it!!
@ThePepperCherry I’m extrapolating slightly. There are lots of articles talking about grapes, beans, and cakes: https://t.co/5esh6z87sE
Stop reading what Facebook tells you to read https://t.co/bHGLQOJUgM // I’m sad that the proposed fix doesn’t include RSS. STILL BITTER ABOUT READER, GOOGLE.
@kosamari Nice! I went to a Spinners & Weavers Guild meeting a few months back and they actually got me thinking about buying a loom too.
RT @TrainsInfo: This good boy caught a train to Central all by himself today. 🐶🚉
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