ALAN LAVENDER @lavenderlens@social.cleverlibre.org
- Employer
- https://stayahead.com
- Big Idea
- http://mindyourself.io/
- Past Life
- http://www.alanlavender.com/
Java & Web Development Trainer, London & virtual. Author: The Frontend Cookbook. https://FrontendCookbook.com 25+ years’ prior in photography, filmmaking, web development & design for print. Someday would like to do something humanitarian with codeforireland.org and codefortheuk.com. 🌐
Joined Nov 2022
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The Roman Aqueduct in Segovia, Spain. An ancient feat of civil engineering, built without mortar almost 2,000 years ago, and in use until the 20th century.
📷: my own.
Ok so it’s my lunchtime. In true work-from-home spirit I’m in for a quick forty winks. Mrs L and I have a conversation about my upcoming flights for work. The phone pings. Then this. #crossDeviceTracking gets me every time, it really does. You can’t prove it, but it’s mighty fishy sometimes.
You know, I’m just putting this out there to those of you on #Irish Mastodon ☘️, the Dunnes pizzas are incredible. And we are using the home delivery device now: it’s so easy. Here, Cujo has his eye on the last piece. He just ain’t getting it.
Also road testing timely Christmas pressie from the Missus: steel toe cap no fuss deep treaded workman’s wellies and super thick socks. So I’m triple socking it today and I’m toasty warm 😊
Ah to get out the HOUSE! Here in Donegal we have bad road conditions on high ground, more to come this week apparently. We live halfway up a mountain so this affects us! Plus work is busy, two higher level courses this week: advanced JS Web Development and React. Only in the jump seat for React, not training it myself this run as it overlapped with my other one, but here’s the qoto bit: pair programming, equal ownership of code to learn from each other.
startups (can be annoying noise)
Time to resurrect a startup? My erstwhile investor-to-be's mission statement:
Pokhara Air Accident
A quick cursory search for Pokhara *International* Airport reveals that it opened for business on New Year’s Day and is too new to have a IATA code yet. (Anyone want to fact check me on this?) Stalling on finals, VFR approach on a fine day? I’m going to speculate, which I know I shouldn’t hence the CW. The pilots weren’t practiced enough in the approach. We’ll see in time if my amateur opinion is right. For all their sakes’ I hope not. 🙏
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Do I love small acts of nature reclaiming man-made spaces? Unequivocally, yes.
Do I want it to be evidence of rain water seeping into the internal structure of third floor walkways at my place of business? Not particularly, no. #Mosstodon
Fascinating article about made-up languages, often but not always from movies like Avatar: The Way of Water, trigger similar MRI scans to real ones, from a #cognitive and computational #neuroscience point of view.
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Since launch Jan. 1, my new collection Lilies on the Deathbed of Étaín is the third bestselling #poetry book on the marketplace my publisher uses, over 30 days
I am now crossing every limb to hope it can reach number one, even for a day. It would feel damned amazing.
If you dig #poetry, and want to try something pretty unique, and help it get to no.1:
It's the 10th bestselling book in 90 too.
#writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #art #writing #literature #poem
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Fittingly, 42 years to the day since The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy was first broadcast on TV.
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I counted them. Feynman’s total publications were about 48 or 49 papers throughout his career. Well, it is still below for most of us yet they are very impactful, launched new areas like nanotechnology and quantum computing. I need to slow down and focus on meaningful work and publications rather than rushing to generate and compile publications.
My church choir last night (without me)😊
I’ve just returned, tired but happy, from 4 1/2 hours’ filming. To hear the familiar sound of the boom stand rattling in the back of the car on the way home was music to my old photographer’s ears again. But these days, now I code, I’m not depending on each shoot for the next pay check. And that makes the world of difference. Filming, even with a stabilisation rig, is a young man’s game. Too physical to keep the camera movements smooth. Tonight I only had optical stabilisation. Too bad.
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My friend was showing me his tool shed, and pointed to a ladder.
"That's my stepladder," he said. "I never knew my real ladder."
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Good series so far: “The Dalai Lama’s Guide to Happiness” 5-part series on the Ten Percent Happier podcast. https://pca.st/episode/4ba67ff5-2902-4ce7-b35d-c62f9714f6dd #buddhism #DalaiLama #happiness
- Employer
- https://stayahead.com
- Big Idea
- http://mindyourself.io/
- Past Life
- http://www.alanlavender.com/
Java & Web Development Trainer, London & virtual. Author: The Frontend Cookbook. https://FrontendCookbook.com 25+ years’ prior in photography, filmmaking, web development & design for print. Someday would like to do something humanitarian with codeforireland.org and codefortheuk.com. 🌐
Joined Nov 2022
