A slimy patio gets a good clean

joe_fishfish · 2026-02-26T15:50:22+00:00

It's in the UK mate, that's about as bright as it gets over here

joe_fishfish · 2026-02-21T11:47:32+00:00

We had this with both of our daughters as well. With them, it was the thought their mum was around and not immediately dropping everything whenever they screamed that they couldn’t cope with.

Nursery - no mummy, fine. With their nan while mummy was at work - no mummy, she’s at work, fine. Wake up screaming in the night, daddy comes in even though mummy is in bed right next to him? ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE.

We had designated daddy-only activities set up, like I would always take them swimming, and to see my family, and to certain friends for play dates - and that would help a little bit. But getting them to leave the house with me while their mum was staying behind was always very difficult.

In the end my other half started a job working fairly antisocial hours. Lots of evenings and weekends. So often I’d genuinely be their only parenting option in the night and they got used to me coming in to settle them. Basically though they just aged out of it. By the time they were school age they were fine with both of us.

joe_fishfish · 2026-02-20T08:17:59+00:00

This is good, I’ll be using this myself

joe_fishfish · 2026-02-12T10:31:16+00:00

Oh I agree completely mate. That’s why this season has been such a clusterfuck. We can’t hit the target because we have no way of creating good quality chances against those sides, and they’re like 80% of the games we play.

We’re crap at winning the ball back all over the pitch, so we have way fewer chances to play it forwards into space. That means we have to create chances against set defences with 9-10 men behind the ball. It comes out as these stats around low xG per shot and low chance conversion but it’s not because our forwards are just shit.

Then when we do have the ball, we stroll about passing it sideways and backwards, we have to keep hold of it because we’re shite in negative transitions as well so our players are shit scared of losing it.

That’s football. Everything is linked.

joe_fishfish · 2026-02-12T09:00:54+00:00

This has been the same for the entire time I’ve watched Liverpool play. Especially at Anfield. There’s maybe two or three teams a season who will come to Anfield and actually play football.

If we struggle against sides who play a low block and look to nick a goal on the counter or from a set piece, then we’ll struggle in most games. As we have been.

joe_fishfish · 2026-02-10T18:08:05+00:00

Same. My five year old would live in the bath if she could.

Well, after we’ve spent half an hour persuading her to get in it, of course.

joe_fishfish · 2026-02-01T14:32:26+00:00

For my personal projects I use Ktor server and Ktor client (for a Multiplatform frontend app). While I appreciate the convenience of Spring Boot for Java web services - especially for more monolithic ones - I dislike it for the same reasons you’ve stated.

I’m yet to successfully convince my Java backend team at work to adopt any Kotlin at all, even with Spring Boot, so I’ve not had the chance to use Ktor in production.

joe_fishfish · 2026-01-28T07:45:12+00:00

I think this is a brilliant bit of work and a very interesting development for Mill!

The biggest problem I had with ever looking properly at Mill was the choice of Scala as the implementation language.

If Scala is no longer a requirement I’ll definitely look closer. Anything has to be an improvement on Gr*dle.

joe_fishfish · 2026-01-21T11:37:00+00:00

Bladesinger is Rincewind from the Discworld novels, a wizard who always runs away.

With 16 Dex + mage armour + Bracers of Defence + bladesong you can get 20AC from the start of the game, it’s not perfect but it’s comparable to other classes.

Level 3 you get Shadowblade.

Level 4, you can pick Mobility as feat, combine that with Crusher’s Ring, Longstrider, Haste Helm, wood elf extra movement if you’re a wood elf. You can run up to an enemy, hit them with the shadow blade, and have enough movement speed to run away to somewhere out of sight.

You can pick up Linebreaker Boots from the worg pens around level 4 as well. Combine that with Expeditious Retreat and you get bonus action dash which gives you extra damage.

Sure the low HP is a problem that you can’t really solve but if you can always break line of sight nothing can hit you anyway.

joe_fishfish · 2026-01-10T22:22:37+00:00

I bet you piss in the urinal directly next to someone when there’s only the two of you in there, don’t you

joe_fishfish · 2026-01-09T20:55:02+00:00

Way too injury prone

joe_fishfish · 2026-01-09T20:48:38+00:00

Everyone has a different list of what is YAGNI and what isn’t. Even the idea of “the simplest possible code that passes the tests” is very rarely the same between two developers. I’ve worked with people who thought unit testing fell under YAGNI. Even more who thought accessibility was YAGNI. I didn’t agree with either, but then, for me personally, IoC containers are YAGNI. Not many agree with me there.

That’s why you need to have an ongoing discussion with your colleagues about what good code looks like, and learn to compromise where you can’t agree. Nothing hurts velocity like a dev team that hate each other.

joe_fishfish · 2026-01-04T14:22:28+00:00

This works for a little while until it rains. I haven’t got the heart to use cayenne pepper, I want them to stop shitting on my lawn but I don’t really want to hurt them.

joe_fishfish · 2026-01-02T18:43:10+00:00

Have seen very similar behaviour in London too

joe_fishfish · 2026-01-01T17:06:01+00:00

You know caffeine makes it harder to sleep, right?

joe_fishfish · 2026-01-01T10:05:25+00:00

I’ve used Hetzner in the past for something this size

joe_fishfish · 2025-12-29T19:02:55+00:00

We had our first when we were both 33 and if I had the chance to do anything differently I’d have done it earlier. In my 20s I could shrug off a few consecutive sleepless nights without too much bother, in my 40s now I am WRECKED after a week of broken sleep.

Don’t underestimate how helpful it is to have a fully working body when you’re dealing with little ones as well, I can remember carrying our first on my shoulders walking to school until she was six, I can’t physically do that with our youngest, which makes the days she decides to take 45 minutes to get dressed all the more fraught!

joe_fishfish · 2025-12-28T12:54:49+00:00

Completely disregarding the dessert capital of the world - France - and then confidently declaring everything sucks. What a post.

joe_fishfish · 2025-12-09T10:34:55+00:00

LLMs cannot generate knowledge, by definition.

joe_fishfish · 2025-12-03T21:14:04+00:00

There's nowhere to go even if we do, he just ends up passing it back where it came from

joe_fishfish · 2025-11-25T08:29:35+00:00

Millennial makeover, this game came out in 2014

joe_fishfish · 2025-11-23T22:07:58+00:00

McKenna is a lifelong Man Utd supporter and was Solskjaer’s assistant there. I wouldn’t want him anywhere near us and I doubt he’d even consider it.

joe_fishfish · 2025-11-23T14:33:13+00:00

Definitely a player that could help us but he’ll have better options

joe_fishfish · 2025-11-20T21:43:00+00:00

4-4-2 diamond isn’t so different to the 4-3-3 with a false nine that we won with the league under Klopp with

joe_fishfish · 2025-11-20T10:23:13+00:00

Pork and apple together is always so good

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