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👋 Hi! I'm Tim 🔬FE dev working in visual lab tech 😍 React, Typescript, UX, coffee, crows, drum machines 😡 bright lights in offices, glamorgan sausages on fry-ups, seagulls 📍Bristol, UK
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Wordle has been a crock of shit lately.

Kind of ashamed I never had the curiosity to do this youtube.com/shorts/rLxjs...

Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: "Working from home makes us happier." A 4-year Australian study found that remote work boosts happiness, health, and productivity. Especially when chosen. It saves time, improves sleep, diet...

"Rodney Trotter's gone on holiday to one of America's smallest states!" "Delaware?" "I presume he'd have mentioned his holiday to Connecticut to his brother, yes."

Props to Enterprise Car Club for their particularly shite UX today - 1. Can’t get verified without committing to a year’s membership with no guarantee on how long it takes to get verified 2. Cannot paste in any forms 3. After submitting, can’t log in in any way to cancel subscription until verified

Trigger Happy TV would not work for viewers these days given that the premise was “lol imagine if someone was a really annoying prick in public and videoed it”

Eye drops are the new vaping

An hour on hold for the GP. A photo of my shit eye uploaded to the NHS pre-questionnaire (which works great I must admit). 5 min chat about the issue and what I’ve been using. Prescription ordered to pharmacy. And when I collect it… it’s the same ingredients as what I’ve been using (which cost less)

Overjoyed to have glass-like fragments come out of my eye this lunchtime following an inexplicably excruciating morning where I thought I had the hayfever from hell. Turns out my toddler got sand in my bed which overnight migrated into my eye. Another of the wonderful benefits of parenthood.

I've spent so much of my adult life thinking to tank up on caffeine gets you to be intense and focus and be more productive. I think that's true for drudgery type work but not always true for cognitive efforts. Being rested, peaceful, without distraction is how you cultivate space for deep thought.

I feel like conceding that all forms of sympathy for those less fortunate than you should be considered being Marxist is potentially a win for Marxism.