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Trying a standing desk. Wonder how long I’ll last in the morning.

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#standingdesk update: it’s been 2 hours. Legs aching, back on fire, sweat breaks out across my brow. Never has anyone striven for so much, so long. Rescue unlikely, expecting the sweet embrace of death. Tell my wife I loved her. #drama

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Wow, I’ve been a terrible #opensource maintainer… I need to re-familiarize myself with pystatsd https://github.com/sivy/pystatsd/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+sort%3Acreated-asc

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From work chat: “ie, perl-ish. which is a bit like elv-ish. amazingly powerful, but say it wrong and you’re a toad” #perl

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while being a privileged beneficiary thereof, I can say that #capitalism is objectively terrible

~ # 19:13 ~

Achievement Unlocked: used “chuffed” correctly with a native brit

~ # 19:48 ~

Christian Clauss is working on moving pytatsd to Github actions for automated testing and builds https://github.com/sivy/pystatsd/pull/109 #python #statsd #opensource

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