mastodon 4.7.3British-American living in Brooklyn, NY. Old school XP’er, cloud architecture, DevOps, AWS, Serverless. Working as https://symphonia.io .
he/him. Runner. Puns. Cats. Theatre. Board games.
Spouse's 5 year old Dell laptop kept running out of disk space. Me, a non-Windows user, didn't hold out much help for fixing it. But turns out 2 mins after installing "WinDirStat" (which, apparently, is legit and not chock-full-o-spyware) I realized the problem was the buggy and unused "Dell Support Assist" software filling half her hard disk with snapshots. Uninstalled it, and problem fixed. Amazing.
Rainbow over Prospect Park this morning #nyc
Home from my first trip to Montreal in 16 years. Amazing how a city so comparatively European is a mere 58 min flight from NYC.
Turns out you can go to your first hard techno night of your life at age 48 and it’s all fine. Not sure I’ll do that specific type of music too often, but because #NYC has such a huge dance music scene, it turns out, I have many other options.
Today’s the 20th anniversary of me leaving the UK and moving to New York. I thought I’d be gone for a year or two. Maybe three. Funny how life turns out.
RE: @lambdasierra@hachyderm.io
I coded Clojure for a few years back in the early 10’s ( @lambdasierra@hachyderm.io in fact co-led a training course on it that I went to! ) . This documentary very much made me miss it. I wonder if there's a way I can dip my toe back in its waters.
Did I watch the launch today? This is some of my lego, so I’ll let you guess.
But damn, I wish my default emotion to human launches was still excitement and not anxiety. Oh well.
This is very cool. Apart from anything else I haven't seen someone play the desk at a tiny desk concert before.
Saw The Chameleons last night in Brooklyn and they were flipping great.
The Chameleons formed in Manchester and made three albums - all very good - in the early / mid 80s. They could have been another New Order / Depeche Mode / Smiths / etc. but blew apart before they got big.
I didn’t hear about them until university in the late 90s, which was just in time to see their first (brief) reforming in 2001.
Two of the original 4 members (including the frontman) are in the band today, plus 3 others. But 40 years on from the classic albums they still sounded tight and energetic.
Sara and I were lucky enough to see the Groff / Mendez / Radcliffe version of “Merrily We Roll Along” off Broadway a few years back, and so weren’t going to watch the recorded version of the Broadway run, currently on Netflix. But tonight we did anyway and hooboy it still hits. The lead 3 have to be phenomenal for this particular Sondheim to work, and they all are. #theatre
My 7.5 year old iPad Pro is still happily trucking along but the keyboard / cover (“Smart Keyboard folio”) was falling apart and shedding pieces of rubber. Apple don’t sell replacements any more, I don’t think, but https://www.backmarket.com/ sell them refurbished. So I ordered one and I can’t tell it’s not new. I’ll definitely be using Back Market again.
William Orbit died. While he was best known for producing / co-creating Madonna’s Ray of Light album, I used to listen to his solo Strange Cargo 3 and Hinterland albums on repeat back when I was at university. This is Water from a Vine Leaf, with Beth Orton on vocals, from that period: https://youtu.be/PneAIfv30jA?is=Bi96F4XmIzXn4dbs