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11.04 – 11.10

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Life

I think it was to our credit that we kept the half-term activities suitably tedious and Ηη wasn’t even remotely upset about going back to school.

Em visited on Monday evening. She seemed to be in pretty good nick and the kids were really good for her. We let her read them the same book far more times than she wanted to, but she’d made her own bed by doing it so well.

Mad shit in the US again – I found that while it’s obviously awful I couldn’t really bring myself to any kind of emotional response. Our balance is so far in the red that it hardly registered.

Took Αα out on her new scooter on Friday. She’s bang into the theory of it, but gets hilariously/painfully frustrated when she can’t immediately do it. I know how she feels.

We saw Si and Lou for a pub lunch on Saturday. It’s always good to see them, but it feels like hard work to be good company at present (people don’t want to hear about the horrors of children in icu that much, and especially not while they get drunk). Fortunately they made it easy for us (and some would argue that I was never really that good company in the first place).

Ηη expressed an interest in doing Junior Parkrun so we took him to Highbury Fields on Sunday. It rapidly descended to abject disaster when about ten metres in he realised he “wasn’t going to win” (me telling him it isn’t a race wasn’t going to wash with him at all). He made it round one of the three prescribed laps (with me carrying him for about half of it) before he tapped out and demanded to be taken to the playground. I promptly extricated myself from the situation leaving Σσ to deal with him in an absolute shit of a mood while I went for a (remarkably pleasant) run. Ever the revisionist, he has since announced that he enjoyed it and would like to try it again – not sure how many times we’re going to be willing to put ourselves through it. I also don’t want to spend too long treading the wafer-thin line between bullying and encouragement.

Aila has been steady for the week, which is a relief. It sounds like the doctors think the measures they’ve got in place to help her kidneys aren’t working as well as they’d like and she’ll need a transplant.

This site

Babe new photos section just dropped. I’ve tried not to over-engineer it (yet). Not sure whether I’ll want to handle the case where images are too tall for the viewport and/or implement some zoom thing at some point, but for now I think I’ll keep it simple. I used Sanity CMS to model and host the photos. I like it. And I was surprised to see that it even has some IIIF functionality baked in (which we use/champion at work), so maybe that will facilitate future zoom-noodling. Needs RSS-ing, obviously, and a better social share card image thing, maybe.

Work

We had a summit. It was a bit dystopian. I didn’t want to be there. I left fairly quickly.

I started to work with our Content API and am in the process of swapping out where we get the article cards from for the home and stories pages. Predictable relentless battles with TypeScript will doubtless ensue.

Reading

• The stretch keyword: a better alternative to width: 100% in CSS? – this is news to me, I thought stretch was just for some flex stuff

TIL

• Warrant canary

Running

• Tuesday hills
• Thursday marshes
• Sunday Camden/horrid hill