Excited to be going to #esug2024 - #smalltalk is alive and innovating 44 years on …
ALT Esug poster facing conference building
I hadn’t used @gitlab in a while - but wow it really does offer a compelling end to end experience that made me smile. Every time I thought “it would be nice if it had X”, blimey, X was there to try. It’s nice to smile
Maybe it’s me, but its not obvious that if I build a Docker image in a gitlab pipeline and store in its registry (amazingly simple to do) that to run it locally, I need to docker login to that registry and then pull it, to then see it to run it. Took me ages to think this way,
Don’t you love it when the reply from a company is “the developers say this is expected product behaviour - it was decided by the R&D managers”. @ShellyCloud - not remembering light switch passwords more than 5 hours is ridiculous!
@Gatwick_Airport - am really annoyed, our BA flight was listed delayed, you suddenly declare boarding - rush over, leaving a meal half finished to find it’s a lie and the hub is freezing. ???
@British_Airways you should pursue this with Gatwick - so annoyed to abandon a meal, rush to “boarding“ gate, discover it’s fake and freezing… airports are awful these days (and it’s not that busy)
I'm curious on the legal stance for companies like @SiemensHome where they can advertise products like this hob : siemens-home.bsh-group.com/u… but you can't actually get it delivered? Today marks my 1 year anniversary for not having this hob! Shocking? How do they get away with it?
ALT Worktop with a missing EX807LX67E Siemens induction hob.
Irony sometimes helps, so I wrote a #Siemens review for my missing EX807LX67E hob, complimenting it on energy efficiency but lamenting inability to heat. @SiemensHome replied, and suggested changing pans. It seems they don't do Irony (or delivery).
It looks like e-toys doesn’t work on newer OSX versions (OS X Msg: needs to be updated), but can you run it in Squeak 6? Anyone have any simple instructions, as I wanted to kick start some half term creativity…
What a workaround, put silence at top of your playlist to give Alexa a chance to kick in shuffle mode. @amazon There’s a PR/Faq for you…
ALT Second of Silence track on Spotify
I’m loving my @SiemensHomeUK StudioLine induction hob… so energy efficient… wait where is it? 11 months after ordering no updates, they haven’t got a clue. #wtf #CustomerService
ALT Lovely Siemens StudioLine induction hob (missing)
Impressed to hear the winner speech of Ana DuCristea for the 2022 JRMPC high school programming competition - so encouraging and thoughtful, it bodes well for a future generation of programmers youtube.com/clip/UgkxhtUA9pS… #smalltalk
I read this ~35 years ago not realising it was practically clairvoyance… now we have AI, exoskeletons and robots on Mars… I hope @elonmusk has read it though? audible.co.uk/pd?asin=B004EU…
It’s a comedy of errors at @Gatwick_Airport this morning, it’s as if they weren’t expecting any planes … first no stairs, then no-one to operate them and now no buses.
Having sorted out getting off the plane, stunned to find a full complement of @UKBorder (we’ll done), but hopes now dashed seeing earlier passengers sleeping in baggage pickup area… what a farce
So infuriating that companies like @SiemensHome blame covid and global supply chains on long appliance delays … i’m now 8 months waiting for a freezer and they have no clue on production times … incompetent? Thoughts @realbenrickard ?
Partially good news @SiemensHome, 9.5 months after ordering, I finally have a freezer to go with my fridge . Still 6.5 months and waiting for an induction hob… shocking
To be clear, I partially understand supply chain difficulties (chips in particular), it’s @SiemensHome lack of customer updates, and support that’s the issue. It seems that products are unfairly diverted for politics, hence lack of transparency #NoCustomerService