2014-01-13 (Monday)

…only marred by the fix being supplied by a stranger on Stack Overflow after you’ve spent days flailing dumbly in the wrong direction.

The pride of speedily checking out some code and making a fix and pushing it to the server and feeling like you’re a competent professional…

Google making a strong early showing for 2014’s award for “Services to Twitter amateur joke-tellers”.

@tef Thanks! I’ll add it to the list of things to watch in case they delete all existing content…

@jennschiffer Which is more fun - writing the piece or responding to the comments?

@felix_cohen @pkqk Wishing I had a bigger kitchen…

@benbrown So long as I get some of the sunny and relaxed Austin bit in there too!

@gwire I assume the other side of Metaphor Street has all the betting and charity shops.

@infovore Use Node instead?

Last night I dreamed I was in Austin and it was sunny and relaxed and nice and I hung out with @benbrown and I guess that’s a “holiday”?

is it getting hot in here

Every Nest thermostat has an infrared motion sensor, in every living room with one. Now owned by Google.

This is going to work out great.

'Benedict Cumberbatch' and 'Michael Fassbender' sound like correspondents from The Day Today.