Archive: 2024-12
Week 207: The Incident
The week started inauspiciously at work when an application started reporting continuous errors from a problem with the API that it uses to synchronise messages with an email inbox.
Week 206: The Queen Elizabeth II Memorial Sewage Treatment Facility
I’m writing this extremely late this week, because the usual chaos of the last working week of the year has combined with some unexpected chaos. But that’s for next time.
Week 205: Decades happen
We both took Monday off and went to see the 80s photographic exhibition at Tate Britain. It’s an interesting mixture of big events (the miners’ strikes feature large), everyday life, and images of minority and subculture experiences that give a different view on the decade.
Week 204: Gravitational event
I broke my laptop. I normally cycle down to Peckham, but on Tuesday evening I discovered that one of my front brake pads was prematurely worn, so on Wednesday I went in on foot instead. I was dressed and ready in plenty of time to catch the infrequent-enough-to-need-planning (four trains per hour) service to Peckham and arrive before I had to join a Teams call. (That must be the most depressing four word sequence in the English language.)
Subscribing to feeds that Cloudflare blocks
If you run your own feed reader (I use Miniflux) you might find that you can’t successfully follow some feeds that are behind Cloudflare, because their aggressive “Bot Fight Mode” is doing what it says: aggressively preventing automated access, without any regard for the fact that automated access is exactly the point of RSS and Atom feeds.