This is the first I’ve heard of Branston beans, but now I’m excited to try them when I’m back in England in a couple of weeks.

I was there for Christmas and bought a relatively huge jar of pickle before I remembered I wasn’t going to be able to fly with it. A lot of pork pie was eaten that day.

This comment really confused me after reading 6 about bum-washing.

Works for a small company. If everyone in a large company is allowed the same leeway nothing could ever ship

Oh for sure. I’ve been lucky enough that I’ve only ever worked for places with at most a few hundred employees, so my experiences of larger companies have been at best second-hand — but it was enough to know that I’d never want to work somewhere like that.

This is something I really love about my job. It’s a small company, and we don’t have any of these kinds of process overheads.

It’s accepted that people fuck up (and in most cases that’re relevant to me, I’m the people in question) but if I can reproduce the problem, I can often get the fix in the users’ hands the next day. Generally the positive effects of a quick turnaround and feeling like they matter outweigh the negatives of the problem being there in the first place.

Not to say I don’t have stuff in the “tech debt” bucket, but having the autonomy to just fix the low-hanging fruit makes for a satisfying work environment.

Padfone | Ded inside

https://youtu.be/Z2ANnpHnUrc

I watched Watchmen (2009) last night, thereby answering the question and the meta-question.

I dread to think how much energy and effort is wasted shipping these items back and forth when someone buys something online and then returns it.

It’s worse than that — a lot of returned stuff ends up in landfill because it’s not worth the cost of re-stocking it.