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Never judge a pitch until both sides have batted
Two days I wrote about how India was collapsing under a relentless Australian bowling attack, and thought that the game would be over before it really started. However, I did leave a caveat; “never judge a pitch until both sides have batted”. To my American readers, the pitch makes a huge difference when it comes…
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Sensory overload
Ky and I went to a 40th birthday today, our first. It was at a place called Pindustry, which was, by far, one of the most unusual venues I have ever been in my life. It was out in the boonies, where there isn’t as much of a premium on being hip, nor being economical…
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GitHub
I don’t fully understand, but now I have a GitHub, and not only that, I use it! For those who’d don’t know what GitHub is, it’s a repository for code. It’s got a few purposes; it’s a portfolio, you can see what other people have done, and you can store the various iterations of your…
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Day One
It’s the start of the Australian Test Summer, and I’m pumped! It’s not only on at the perfect time (7:30pm start) but it’s against one of my favourite teams to see, India. It’s just hit lunch, and it looks like the Indians have really struggled. The pitch isn’t doing a huge amount, but the bowling…
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600 Club
The St Catz Rugby Club just ticked over 600 followers on social media, which is clearly cause for a celebration. Whether they’re university clubs, or sporting clubs, and especially university sporting clubs, that usually includes having a pint. Or in this case, 600. Despite not pulling on the blue and claret jersey for a while,…
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Done is better than perfect
It’s late. I’ve been working for hours on trying to do something which I thought would be relatively straightforward, but turned out to be anything but. I looked on forums, asked two different LLMs, and spent hours seeing if I could knit something together quite nicely. Turns out, I should have just made something ugly,…
