Nick Hembery

The good thing about having a webpage-shaped business card is that when you get a new social account you don't need to get anything reprinted. nickhembery.carrd.co

I was sticking around to see if the mandatory subscription ever came around, but with the latest terms of service it's time to go. Goodbye twitter, you gave me some good friends who are no longer here because you're a bit shit now.

This year's diary is good but a bit big. Think I've got the right size for next year.

I feel like screaming. But I won't, I've tried it before and it just gives me a headache.

Why are university students trying to connect with me on LinkedIn? Why are university students even on LinkedIn?!

Weird discovery of the day: the hood of my hoodie is too small. If I wear it up, it pulls my head down and constricts my neck. This hoodie is no longer my favourite.

Ah, the anxiety of "why haven't they replied to my email?" that starts five seconds after hitting Send.

I looked in the mirror and saw a stranger. But I don't want to regrow a beard to recognise myself again.

Gap in the market discovered. I tried searching youtube for scifi book news and found one guy doing fantasy book news, lots of people with top 10 lists and THAT'S IT. No one has a regular showing of news in sci fi books. If anyone wants to start it, I'll be your first subscriber.

Found a freelancer networking website where to sign up you need to already be a successful freelancer (i.e. have a client network). If I want a network but don't have one, I can't sign up. But if I had a network, I wouldn't need to sign up would I. Who makes buinesses like this?!

Took me a minute to find an email I was waiting on because an automatically applied update switched on the Focused/Other filter and hid the email from me. We need a term for this kind of tech mess up. Auto-broke or update-barred.

It's fireworks night in the UK, the perfect opportunity to go for a walk, wait until a firework goes off with a loud bang and scream "AAAARGH! I'M HIT!"

The key to sticking to habits is to remember that even if you do the thing at quarter to midnight, it still counts as being done that day.

I thought today's Connections had a neat Batman category, but it turns out it was a deep cut trap. Puzzle #854 🟩🟪🟨🟦 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪

How typical that on the day I was going to start a new routine I wake up with a big headache and can do Jack All.

Tried an experiment to exercise/read more. Walked on treadmill while reading physical book, moderate success. Played board game while listening to audiobook, went badly. Played Minecraft while listening to audiobook, went well. Will do more of A and C in the future.

Power cut at my house caused me to realise that my only non-mains light source is my phone. So, need to get some torches.

Thinking about people who have AI psychosis and the uncanny valley. While we have built-in defences against things that look sort of like us, we don't have any for things that talk sort of like us.

Suddenly stopping playing a video game really shows you how much you actually played that game.

This wine is apparently made with AI. I find it amusing that people jumped on a bad wagon with a product that if you consume it you've fallen off a wagon.

Another day, another generic rejection email from a company. They're definitely all using LLMs to make the emails, as I've got not two but three all using the same language within days of each other.