Phil

Phil

@jpk.lol

Web dev, tech lead, obsessive code reviewer, devoted cat servant and cranky old gamer.

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did i mention i listen to _a lot_ of music? not very special or interesting music, mind you. but a lot of it.

Looks like I was finally in early on something big for a change! Now how does this work, do I auction off my account or does Bluesky just pay me or what

You’d never be able to tell, but she is positively furious, appalled and disappointed that her bowl is devoid of food (a few minutes after she inhaled it’s contents).

Listen, when you’re a company selling smart home security products and services, one thing I definitely don’t want you to do is to send me a password, unencrypted, via email. Makes me wonder what else you didn’t realize might be a bad idea.

ahhh, that magical type of meeting where you actually seem to know _less_ coming out of it than you thought you did before... 🙃

i realise i shouldn't complain about being paid for sitting on my arse, but man, the amount of time i waste staring at build pipelines lately...

first time wearing in-ear buds with (extremely good) active noise cancellation and man, it's a weird sensation when you take them back out. outside noise suddenly pouring back into your head, like rushing to fill a vacuum. hard to describe.

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will our hero return his purchase and look for a solution elsewhere? or is he lazy and pampered enough to keep around another expensive piece of electronics just in case? tune in next week to find out! (spoiler: it's almost certainly option b)

Not that anyone cares, but I returned the Bose & ordered a pair of AirPods Pro after all. So much for all that research into better alternatives 🥲

first time wearing in-ear buds with (extremely good) active noise cancellation and man, it's a weird sensation when you take them back out. outside noise suddenly pouring back into your head, like rushing to fill a vacuum. hard to describe.

so it turns out the mic quality on the bose quietcomfort ii buds is abysmally bad. the ANC is amazing and the audio quality for music is up there too, but calls are a big reason i bought these for and they're pretty much unusable for that. le sigh.

oh, the irony. i start looking into buying a domain for the first time in a very long time and it seems to me google domains is pretty much the nicest experience around for this kind of stuff 🥲 wtf is google doing killing that off?

ya know what, imma go and use google domains anyway just of out spite. it's not for anything important anyway.

welp, i just bought _another_ pair of headphones/earbuds 🙈 this brings my collection up to at least five pairs that i'm actively using in rotation and about a dozen or so that are collecting dust somewhere in a box. this is completely normal.

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