a nice little lie down on the trail ?

so far I've always survived trails / bikeparks / skateparks while all my screwups have been just jibbing near home 🙃

ah well - long may the unscathed bit persist! i had my own crashy morning a few days ago (also, thankfully, emerging unscathed) - gravel landings are horrid 😅!

wish I wore more protection, I don't think it's uncool but the heat is unbearable here (well they're uncool in that sense :) )

yeah, i started wearing kneepads when riding near home (southern UK) last year ... i don't do anything extreme, but i do come off occasionally ... but i wasn't wearing them when i crashed on hols the other day, 'cos 38℃

Had a freak crash on the trail in summer of 2018 that broke my pelvis.

I no longer dance like Elvis.

ouch - that is a bad bone to break @UE21H2HHD

Yeah, I must have hit hard, that's a big bone to break. Weird thing is that I have absolutely no memory of the crash. Riding, then coming to splatted at the bottom of a hill. I can only assume squirrels were involved.

😞 was it an arduous recovery? how are you these days?

Oh it was a bit long yeah, hospital for a week, and then a long while with crutches after I was mobile. My back is a bit wonky, so there are stretches where I don't ride at all anymore. Which is OK, I'm thankful for all the beautiful rides I've had.

gutted to hear that human anatomy is so buggy

Meh, we live, we ride, but only for so long, right? But also yeah, the design of the human back kind of sucks.

I'm curious about some scar tissue you might have acquired. 😃

Sure about that?

To me it often has been about portability, but that shouldn't be a problem build pipelines?

The build worked locally, but not on the Pipeline, so it could be seen as a portability issue

Ah, yeah, of course!

the nasty non-ISO8601 kind ?

I love the fruit kind

nah, just having to marshal between frontend and backend and ensuring the same result in dev and prod environments.

I’m mostly annoyed by the fact that JS—and thus ClojureScript—doesn’t support dates as a separate entity, without the confusion of timezones or hour of day. Would make things so much easier.

I totally read this as the Tinder kind of date, so that's where my mind is at this morning I guess

hah, I wish… or maybe not

I don’t think that would make your life simple nor easy, @U4P4NREBY

js is good enough, I guess, but when it’s not good, it’s annoying

But Clojure is not optimal for time stuff either. #instant uses a deprecated date format underneath.

yes, but in java there is LocalDate which does what I need, i.e. a LocalDate is just a slot in a calendar and it doesn’t change when you change timezones.

i.e. putting a time zone on 2022-08-09 doesn’t really help you since the time wasn’t relevant at all. Having to convert to instants/Dates—which JS wants—you suddenly need lots of defensive code that removes the hour-of-day and timezones unless you want the date to change.

Easier to keep it as strings, but then you need to make sure the sorting code sorts the dates correctly… argh!

Thanks for sharing! I'm still learning to edit down my ramblings. That last slide was made me smile (but would not if I had not read the whole deck, so clever!).

Haha, yeah, that slide had me laugh out loud, even.

I thought the Schlossbergturm is closed currently?

Maybe you are thinking of the Schauinslandturm?

No, I heard some folks talking about it in front of the also closed one on the Rosskopf. Apparently they were wrong. 🙂

I was up there legally 😅 But sad to hear that the one on the Rosskopf is closed, it‘s one of m favorite spots 😞

The Rosskopf one seems to undergo some reconstruction work. No idea how long it'll take.