Kevin @kevinhiggins@mstdn.social

@walfischbucht nice! And what a snappy, bouncy groove from the band!

Facebook ad 1: "Have we given the language of trauma too much power?"
Facebook ad 2: "Collective Trauma Summit 2022"

Been jotting down lots of melodies recently, and it seems that every time I check, I'm humming in the key of B. Well, all those sharps are good notation practice #Music

When you think hard about a programming project, make some little tests, get it nicely conceptualised, then realise... you have other stuff you need to do

Bleurgh - just realised the MS Edge homepage on my work computer is set up to intersperse content from my work chat channels with news items. I hate blurring the boundary between work and non-work

Holy f! "Mad" Mike Banks (as the Martian) getting very funky... Detroit, 1995 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pTM4dmjE35w

Classic crapitalism... my travel insurance claim has been outsourced to an entity that auto-replies to every email with a warning about "experiencing high volumes" and admonishes me to include all my claim data with every email (I.e., do their job) - good thing it's only ten euro. The brand was Easytrip and the company I'm dealing with now are Mapfre.

Because I work remotely and we rarely turn on cameras, I think of my coworkers as tones and cadences of voice and characteristic rhythms and phrases

Whoa, there's a decent DJ Premier interview in the weekend's Financial Times Life & Art section. He's not a great interviewee, frankly - he's always struck me as an awkward nerd who speaks in loud soundbites as a coping mechanism - but it's a nice homage nonetheless #hiphop

Something kinda peaceful about deleting payees in the banking app... "I foresee no circumstance in which I will ever again give this person money"

@tfb One of the very few tunes I used to play at weddings without getting sick of

I bought and then forgot a €4 block of cheese at the supermarket today. For some reason, it stings more than just losing a €20 note (which happened to me a few weeks back).

I've been going out drawing around my city for the last two weeks. One nice side effect is the feeling when my eye unthinkingly falls on something I already drew a few days ago... a sense of attraction, recognition, meaning, satisfaction - what they call cathection, maybe

Google Street View seems to have switched off filtering for low resolution images (the first ones to load) so you see nice hard-edged pixels - the same aesthetic choice the Quake 1 modding community has made over the last decade. Aliasing is nicer!

It would be cool if you could tell Gerrit to diff against a file in another repo, to show the actual changes in the case when you've copied code from elsewhere

Was architecture's turn away from ornamentation partly to obscure wealth? As in, yes rococo scrolls everywhere can get annoying, but mostly because they scream money. So we got rid of the scrolls but not the inequality

Is it just me or is the blurb on Lipton's mint tea - "Perfect for a deliciously relaxing moment as the day draws on" - deeply melancholic?