Random thoughts on life
I shop weekly with Sainsbury’s. Specifically, I get a grocery delivery sent to home. But, I have to say, the experience is incredibly painful, due to how poor their website is. In this post, I’m going to demonstrate a few things about it, giving details of what the frustration is. It will show bad UI, performance and bugs.
I’ll be using Google Chrome because the experience on Safari is even worse (performance-wise anyway – everything else is just the same).
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On 11th January, it’s Matt Mullenweg’s 40th birthday. He’s the co-founder of WordPress and CEO of Automattic, the company I work for.
It’s nearly 13 years since I hit 40 and, despite a lot of content on this blog, you’ll find no mention of it. The reason? It was pretty uneventful. We had an open party at my house, with people coming and going throughout the day but it’s not as if I felt any different.
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As we’re now in 2024, it’s time to share the books and films that kept me entertained last year. This is just a list rather than my views on them, but if you follow the links I provide to Goodreads and Letterboxd, you can find my reviews there.
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In October 2022 I did a massive clean and made improvements to the thermal capability of my PS4 Pro – the result was something that was much, much quieter.
I haven’t gamed much this year but playing Fortnite recently has been making the Pro run loudly again. For this reason, it’s time to open it up again and see what’s going on.
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My “What’s in my bag” posts were inspired, many years ago, by similar posts written by my CEO, Matt Mullenweg. His were more aspirational, I felt, in terms of the quality and cost of some of the items that he used but, also, we’re all pretty different and so sharing my own, alternative, list was, I thought, a way to broaden the conversation.
Matt last wrote such a post in 2018 but, recently, dropped a brand new one. Once again it’s inspired me.
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