Christmas in July

So this is going to get a bit meta, but I was browsing randomnoun.com this afternoon and noticed I haven’t updated it since December last year, which is when I last had some spare time to complain about * checks notes * attempting to rootkit a TV, running a pivot query in mysql, and a litany of failed website ideas that didn’t get off the ground.

So apologies for that, but I haven’t been entirely complacent in the intervening months. I’ve been creating a ‘today I learnt’ ( TIL ) entry every week or so with notes on something new I’ve encountered or, if not new, relatively time consuming that could do with a write-up.

It’s the ‘writing up’ bit that I seem to struggle with though. It takes me a surprising amount of time to convert my disjointed notes into something I think is a bit more palatable to others. So to save myself doing that more unnecessarily than usual, here’s the very first poll on this site, which is to pick which one of these things I’ll rewrite so that it’s

• formatted up nicely,
• understandable to another human being,
• with some tastefully selected images and/or diagrams,
• together with some cleaned up source code, and
• maybe even a github repository and a maven artifact. And of course
• an amusing pun for the blog post title.

Which honestly is sometimes the hardest part of these things. Years spent sitting in front a PC has drained me of all creativity, but I refuse as a matter of principle to farm that out to some LLM.

So anyway, here are the options. You can choose up to three.

So, The Internet, which is it to be ?

I’ve got some leave planned for August, which seems to be when I get around to these things, so if I don’t receive any results in a month or so. I’ll pick one of those and send that off into the void.

Ciao for now