The kid just rages for a while

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It can stop raining now

I am so tired of the rain. I want to want to sit inside all day; not to have to.

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Weirdo

I was waiting outside the supermarket earlier, when one of our neighbours came up to me.

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Go go go!

A gap in the rain! Time to go out on the bike before it starts up again!

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Gang

I'm a sucker for a gang of pigeons, we all know this. When they're fidgety, all the better.

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Re-grip

I love being grumpy for no reason.

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Filament Chicken

Printed a couple of card boxes for our new-found card game phase, and I had just enough filament for the final one!

Just noticed the last five days' photos have all been centred around play. That explains why I've been in a good mood.

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Cards

We got the Uno out this evening, and things quickly deteriorated.

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Exactly two things

I have done exactly two things this weekend. Skate, and drive pretend cars.

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Race

I'm borrowing a race wheel setup for a week and I love it.

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Valentine's Day skate

Charlotte booked for us to go to a roller-disco. I love skating, in case you didn't know. I would never wear shoes again, given the choice.

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Ocarina

This evening we were at school to watch Tabitha's school play.

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Seafoam

I love seafoam. The thing and the colour. Why is the thing not the colour? Important questions.

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Drip

I got Charlotte a new dripper for Valentine's Day.

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A tree

We saw this tree on Saturday but the tide was too far in and too rough to risk going out to it.

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Catch

Had a little wander around Black Rock before going to ASDA to see if there was anything going on. Not often you see someone actually catch something!

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Light

Having barely seen daylight this week, I wanted to be outside as much as possible today. It didn't really work out that way, but this walk more than made up for it!

I love the clipboard; it's my favourite part of an OS, and it's so under-used. On my laptop, I use Launchbar, which has a brilliant built-in clipboard manager that I have come to rely on. The last week of data entry would've been hellish without it. What I tend to do is copy an entire entry's worth of fields to my clipboard in reverse order, then cmd-opt-v (paste and remove from clipboard history), tab to the next field, repeat until all fields are filled in. It saves so much jumping around between my trackpad and keyboard.

I don't know how people use computers without a clipboard manager. It's my least favourite thing about the iOS/iPadOS paradigm - I don't think clipboard managers really work on these platforms, and if they did I don't know how I'd decide which one I trust with the extremely sensitive (to me, anyway) data that often lives in my clipboard!

In iOS, my clipboard is a significant UI. Over half of my usecases for Shortcuts are either clipboard-in, or clipboard-in-clipboard-out. It feels like something that happened by accident, as a way for me to do some of the more workflow-based stuff I can do so easily on my laptop.

Apple's platforms used to be advanced-user friendly, but they've flipped since iOS got big, and now they're pretty much hostile. Knowing what you're doing, and wanting to do something that you want to do isn't just discouraged - it's fundamentally blocked. When I used to jailbreak my phone, one of my favourite things was having a terminal client on it. These devices are so powerful, it seems crazy to me that there's not an advanced-user mode which lets you use them as the actual computers that they are. A dangerous idea about being the sort of person that has a small Linux-based laptop in their pocket is forming in the back of my mind, and I should probably not entertain it. That feels like a rabbit hole.

But I digress. The clipboard is great and you might be under-using it.

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Pigeon

This pigeon was on the roof near Tesco this morning. This has been a very busy week, but it's largely my own fault.

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Data Entry

I spent around 5 hours today doing data entry. I hate data entry but it's really satisfying when it's done. I just wish you could get that satisfaction without needing to do all the insufferable work.