This is surely a Mountain Goats song.

And the body language in this, taken at the end, reminds me why I don't organise conferences any more. :-) https://www.flickr.com/photos/thilosoph/5605360271/

And here's Zoe. That was from the 2011 conference, her second performance. https://www.flickr.com/photos/jrusch/6602232511/. Photo by Zoe's husband Jeff, now sadly gone, like many other people in the pictures.

Now I'm down a Scotruby Flickr rabbit hole. https://www.flickr.com/photos/keavy/4467301289. That looks like @emilybache behind me

While trying to find a version that works in the US I also found this :) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JI4oAQ9Lo_w

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FGT0A2Hz-uk I am once again posting that KT Tunstall TV debut last minute replacement from 2004 because she blew The Cure and Jackson Browne out of the water.

Max Theriot left my beloved nonsense “Seal Team” for his own vehicle “Fire Country”. I just tried to watch a couple of episodes and it’s truly awful. And I thought Seal Team was bad.

Oh goodness, well if *Trump* says it would be a mistake, its *definitely* the right thing to do.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cg7m3nk013mo

When I organised conferences I had no money and I made no money and the conference was only possible because the speakers came to speak for no money.

Would I get away with that today?

If I was able to raise enough from sponsors and tickets to pay for a venue and lunch, would anyone be able to afford to come and speak ?

I vaguely have the itch again but debt and/or profit is not an option.

Apparently the truck and couch story is all bullshit but it made me laugh anyway.

Re-reading "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" again, probably soon to be followed by re-reading "The Hole We're In", "Young Jane Young" and maybe "Storied Life of AJ Fikry" and "Margarettown" again. I'll skip the young readers books this time and I didn't get past the first of the Birthright trilogy. #gabriellezevin #bookstodon

And I think I miss a lot of the configuration just being in a XIB. It's a view. It has a blue background. That used to be a field in an inspector and now its view.background(.blue). I sort of want the benefits of the concrete state management and view body structure, while hiding a lot of the "noise" that used to be inspector fields.

Anyhoo, just ranting after my third attempt to refactor some code into something that pleases me to read.

I am not disputing the many benefits of SwiftUI's declarative "UI-as-code" model, but it doesn't seem to matter what I do it feels untidy and never really has that sense of good structure where you can read at one level and only have to drill down if you care. I think it's just inescapable with the model. I want to see

My View {
Header()
Body()
Footer()
}

but its litterered with @State, inits for that _state, view modifiers, private helpers etc.

You've got to love a Soap Opera character bio.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cre40875r9vo

The entire Republican Party should pay for this kind of thing at every election for the rest of their miserable existence. Its not just Trump, its half of congress and half of the senate. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cewr898jy8go

I stuck wiki.js on a VPS so maybe(!) I’ll actually do something. https://alanmanack.org

Mountain Goats new album is out today (and it’s Bandcamp Friday!) . https://themountaingoats.bandcamp.com/album/days

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1e1vg0gjl5o your tax dollars at work paying to ensure you never have cheap renewable energy and the oil companies keep raking it in.

I went to my record shelves to play "Revolution Girl Style Now" instead and discovered an Aqua Blue vinyl 25th Anniversary edition of "Reject All American" that I probably had to pay £50 for, 5 years ago.

I was enlightened.

This morning I got an email from Bikini Kill @ Bandcamp, informing me of a 30th Anniversary edition of "Reject All American" on rainbow vinyl, limited to 700 copies. It was $23 and I added it to my basket. By the time I was done with taxes and shipping, it was going to be £50. I reluctantly abandoned my cart.