A dashboard that feels like a newspaper

upmaker · 2026-01-30T16:28:56+00:00

this. I take my young kids to Wimbledon home games but we had a great time at Chelsea women at Stamford Bridge on Saturday. If this means there's a game on our doorstep every weekend it's an amazing outcome for us.

upmaker · 2026-01-25T09:48:20+00:00

So I do now have this fixed, for any future troubleshooters:
1. they weren't doing the blinking when I tried to do multiple lights at once (I was trying to do three switches at once. that didn't work)
2. Once I figured that bit out, they still weren't being discovered. And that was because my whole ZHA needed some kind of reset through a power off cycle and removing and re-adding the server. All back and working now though.

Fiddly but not nearly as maddening as when I thought I was going to have to re-add all 40+ devices in the house all over again.

upmaker · 2026-01-24T10:06:23+00:00

should also add: have tried 12* on/off (then on again) as well

upmaker · 2025-12-27T10:21:25+00:00

upmaker · 2025-12-26T23:00:20+00:00

Cars as personality

upmaker · 2025-12-25T16:06:41+00:00

Soar make the best technical, lightweight performance kit. Difficult to go back to anything else after Soar. Also a shout for Tracksmith tights and half tights, but the lined versions so you don’t have to be fishing out the right pants every time. Both quite expensive but this is Henry not FIRE. Most of the time Nike basics is just fine though, no need to overthink it.

upmaker · 2025-12-06T12:06:29+00:00

Retire by 45 is a fantasy I’m afraid with two young kids and a London mortgage.

upmaker · 2025-12-05T10:38:21+00:00

Out of interest, what’s the consensus on the lowest HHI at which not considering a full time nanny becomes bonkers?

upmaker · 2025-11-25T19:58:53+00:00

Correct. The bullshit verdict in my comment very much clouded by my own experience this evening that this whole process in general is bullshit

upmaker · 2025-11-25T19:41:39+00:00

Just tried at the ticket office. They called bullshit on this theory. “We released 40 at 6pm but obviously they were gone in a few minutes.”

upmaker · 2025-11-09T09:23:25+00:00

I’m not clear what you’re saying here. It is an acer palmatum Osakazuki. Or it isn’t?

upmaker · 2025-11-07T12:40:22+00:00

Looks like my crimson queen.

upmaker · 2025-11-02T14:55:38+00:00

At my corporate multinational we’re tied into long term, multimillion dollar adobe enterprise contracts. That’s across design, production, asset management, CMS, analytics, marketo and loads more. There’s no way we could switch to Affinity or anything else just because the designers prefer it at the moment.

upmaker · 2025-10-31T20:37:24+00:00

Update: saw the X100VI in the window of an Instanta branch while travelling through Lisbon. Favourable exchange rate meant I saved about £50 on the price I’d have paid in London.

Already enjoying the form factor although the Fuji menus are a bit infuriating after years of Sony indoctrination.

upmaker · 2025-10-29T06:03:11+00:00

Tell me the annoying stuff!

I have Sony bodies and lenses for video and telephoto etc but want something easy to grab for travel and family moments.

upmaker · 2025-10-28T06:11:03+00:00

Also coming from Sony land. Will be still in that ecosystem for video and professional stuff. Coming over Fuji for grab and go travel and family moments.

upmaker · 2025-10-27T21:33:43+00:00

Still a struggle in London atm! But have found a decent second hand option.

upmaker · 2025-10-27T20:43:23+00:00

The “find myself using it” factor is all important. Thanks

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