There are so many terms and sayings that come from printing: getting the wrong end of the stick, typecasting, stereotyping, cliché, mind your p’s and q’s, etc…
There are so many terms and sayings that come from printing: getting the wrong end of the stick, typecasting, stereotyping, cliché, mind your p’s and q’s, etc…
Yesterday I learned that uppercase and lowercase comes from the practice of typesetters keeping their type in cases (shallow drawers in a vertical cabinet), with the capital letters kept in a separate case above the lowercase ones.
I’m staying in a beautiful place in Sussex for a few days. It has such a lovely feel and is deep in the countryside ❤️. Aaannddd relax…
New post: Work Clean
My review of Dan Charnas’ book ‘Work Clean’ on adapting the working practices of professional chefs to other kinds of work.
Ooof. I just got the ‘Barbecue Meatbag’ achievement on Carrot weather with the current 36C temperature. Do not want. 🫠
New post: Sprucing up the design again
I’ve had a tidy up on the blog, added dark mode and search!
New post: Setting up a development environment with Nix and Home Manager
Paging @NatHarari and @patbak who expressed an interest in this 🤓
I somehow persuaded myself to try using Nix to to manage my dotfiles and command line environment again. Things have changed since I last tried it, and so far I am finding it magical. Two different Macs (with different architectures) set up identically just like that!
Day 31: Despite the smiley clippy, marking exam scripts is a bit of an endurance test. 📷 #mbmay
Day 30: fish 📷 #mbmay
I’ve currently got zsh set as my login shell, but when I start a fish shell using an iTerm profile, I obviously don’t inherit $PATH etc. as I would if calling fish from a zsh shell. But I don’t want to duplicate that stuff if possible. I’m not sure of the best way to handle it.
I have a question for fish shell users: do you use fish as your login shell, and have you encountered any problems with that if you do a lot of scripting with external tools?
Day 29: Thankfully only one of those stripes! 📷 #mbmay
Day 28: The weather was very fair that day. 📷 #mbmay
Day 27: written. One of Eric Ravilious’ lovely dust jackets. 📷 #mbmay
Day 26: May’s schedule has been very busy. 📷#mbmay
Day 25: Not quite a mountain, but the closest we’ve got in the Midlands - British Camp on the Malverns. 📷 #mbmay
Day 24: This nerve plant has an intricate pattern of veins. 📷 #mbmay
Day 23: Today the rain in Spain Birmingham has been falling mainly on the plain. 📷 #mbmay
Day 22: textile. This linen blend textile is one of the nicest I have bought for making clothes. It just gets softer as you wash it and I have worn and washed this shirt many times. 📷 #mbmay
Has anyone else had this warning pop up constantly after the latest Apple Watch update? The watch seems to work fine. When Mr B got it and tapped continue his watch got permanently stuck pairing 😔
New post: Gravitas Picket Pen
In which I review my lovely new copper pocket fountain pen 🖋
Day 21: symmetry. This finger post marks the line of the Greenwich Meridian dividing the Earth symmetrically into Eastern and Western hemispheres, so you can have one foot in each! 📷 #mbmay
Day 20: My beverage of choice (water) during the work day today. 📷 #mbmay
Day 19: indulgence. If you live with cats you have to indulge their world view that any receptacle is potentially (and actually) a cat bed. 📷 #mbmay
