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<<is still hurt he got no love from @jasonbell for his Tina/David/Chris references>> @otfrom I did miss them as my headspace was in manifold streams and promises 🙂

But if it’s Tina adoration you’re after then I’d watch BBC4 this evening…..

Morning All 🙂

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Ugh

I wrote some code already this morning - Hello productivity!

huh, writing code - i remember that fondly @maleghast

@mccraigmccraig ah, the CTO's life?

it's snuck up on me in the last couple of months @otfrom - i've gotten almost zero code written, apart from a couple of hotfixes, and spent most of my time on customer stuff and burning ops issues

what about sales, HR, tax, and other admin?

thankfully we hired a COO to do that stuff 🌈

I was thinking your CEO was going easy on you 😛

(apart from sales which our CEO leads)

some of those ops issues have been magnesium-flare level burning @lady3janepl 😬

ah, magnesium, have you ever seen the videos of burning a NeXt cube?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkvQ-BJD2rU

blasphemy!!!!

….it’s hypnotic

anyone know of a good front-end web developer (html/css/javascript or clojurescript) than can build an animated company website (animations along the lines of this website https://crypton.trading/). We have graphics, just need to turn it into a website (fairly quickly)

I would love to know how that site is done.

Lots of lovely JavaScript I assume... I should check to see how big the file is, but it loads pretty snappy

The people that wrote the crypton.trading site are https://www.cssdesignawards.com/sites/crypton-trading/32657/, but no info on how its done specifically

that is a very clever site... and I assume that it includes lots of CSS as well

Yes, CSS transformations are very powerful these days. You can also do lots of great stuff with Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG).

yes

svg is amazing, but it’s reportedly less efficient than canvas

(which makes me sad. I so want easy scaling for different screen sizes)

but the fact that we can do it now and not have to worry about IE is pure win 😄

( pun not intended, very sorry )

meh — it’s probably adobe after effects

https://github.com/airbnb/lottie-web

I used to work at an agency with some really good interactive/animation folk and front enders, had been through the whole director/flash thing etc… My understanding was that adobe shaped current CSS/animation standards such that they suited their animation tooling… and effectively required it for anything complex.

interesting

after effects is programmable in javascript, was that why?

I have no idea how it all works… I know they have various export processes such that if you prep assets in a certain way you can add hooks in to trigger animations etc… It wouldn’t surprise me if there were tools that did the common stuff like this directly for you…. but I suspect that library lets animators effectively throw assets over the wall for devs to hook into scroll events etc…

Our designer knows about a lot of this stuff… he’s been through the adobe director mill etc… though he tends to avoid doing it if he can; simply because of the time and money cost.

I’d be very interested in your comments on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjbcayvTcKQ TL;DR: It outlines a systemic approach to property based (integration) testing.

interesting

will need to give it a watch

same here

My comment is that I would like a transcript rather than having to watch a 45 minute video

watch it at 1.5x speed

most speakers waffle to some extent

it’s the ability to reread and search-jump (or quick read-scan) to a specific place that makes transcripts more valuable to me

I tend to watch them at 1.25 or 1.5 speed depending on the speaker, that said having a transcript is very useful as well of course

People are too slow, I read a lot faster than people talk

Protip if you ever work at the BBC: read the transcript of the mandatory training videos to get them finished quickly #lifehacks

XD

video is rubbish as a format for delivering information

it forces linear consumption and forbids skimming and other non-linear consumption strategies

i watch most videos/films/tv-series at 1.75x. it’s about as much as I can manage without it getting uncomfortable

(there’s an option to speed up video on youtube, if you didnt know)

Delivering information, maybe. Learning, rubbish (because non-linear consumption strategies are how you refresh, and therefore improve your recall.)

I think most of my tech video consumption is about removing the barrier of 'this thing is weird and I don't get it' so I can then find some docs and, well, go and get it

😄

I used the read the TV reviews in the paper years ago... it would 5 minutes max and I could talk about all the interesting programs that were on the evening before.

tech conferences: a lot of people going 💡

great time saver

It's a very useful tool for teaching entirely practical tasks, like how to change the inner tube in a bicycle tyre.

(as long as the video-maker does a good job and goes slow enough etc.)

nowadays if you want to learn something new look it up on youtube first.

marie kondo how to fold a shirt

Indeed!

seeee.... I heard about that one... haven't seen it.

you don’t have to look up marie kondo specifically, but look up the japanese method to fold a t shirt

and your life will be forever changed.

<<most speakers waffle to some extent>> Oh is that right @alex.lynham;)

Hahahahaha

When we are not falling off the stage, that is...

Hey that whole falling thing is your gig, not mine 🙂

okay, but you can fold a shirt, or you can roll it up 🤯 and it's just as neat & way quicker

(too much time doing band merch)

rolling FTW @alex.lynham - you get better packing and better visibility

i haven't tried it yet, because i've only just thought of it, but it occurs to me that rolling and storing end-down might be even better in a high-density drawer

I’m struggling with the marie kondo attitude to books, I’ve got thirty books on data….. and the rest, well there’s loads of them. They’re not going anywhere.

My books are here to stay

They look nice on the shelves, to me

She's written four books. Should we get rid of those too? 🙂

@seancorfield only if you have 34 books….

https://img.thedailybeast.com/image/upload/c_crop,d_placeholder_euli9k,h_1440,w_2560,x_0,y_0/dpr_2.0/c_limit,w_740/fl_lossy,q_auto/v1531533951/180714-mcnearney-lost-masterpiece-hero_lxmbyx

First episode of Discovery season two is available on Netflix. To watch one episode a week as they come out or to binge watch them in one sitting later? :thinking_face:

I strongly suspect when she talked about books she wasn’t talking to knowledge workers

Plus, after moving several times already with ~30 bags worth of books, you know what - she’s got a point.

Most of mine are fiction

Most of mine are not

(Personal research library. I’m in the process of donating stuff either to the relevant uni library or to people who are still working on the subject.)

As I look on my kindle use however (that’s where fiction is), I have a ton of things I read once and a number of books that I reread regularly

And for practical stuff there’s this attitude of, don’t read it if you’re not going to use it instantly, otherwise you get into lifehacking/cooking/whatever “porn”.

So... I’m not saying live only with 20 books, but large personal libraries could be often thinned significantly without perceivable impact.

I can't remember the last time I bought a physical book... I have hundreds of technical books in DropBox and OneDrive (and, hence, on my laptop, phone, and desktop).