miramarco @miramarco@blob.coffee

My initial strategy – going to the swimming pool at lunchtime on Saturdays, hoping to find fewer people – was not as effective as I thought. So now I'm going to the pool after lunchtime, which means I'm having lunch after the period after lunchtime…

Yes, the project is still in a very bad shape, but at least the task I have been assigned now involves quite a bit of problem solving, which makes this job more engaging, rewarding, and bearable than usual

A special thank you to all my lovely mutuals who are putting up with my complaining and who are helping me through this tough time. You are precious and wonderful and amazing

For the records, I rewrote the code of conduct of this instance (in the ‘about’ page), so now it goes more in detail about what the general principles of moderation are.

(I wasn't intending to publish it today, but I could not change the instance settings because the previous CoC had an invalid html tag – I don't know how that happened – so I took the new CoC from my drawer, formatted it, and published it )

Omg

The custom emoji categories show up in the latest version of the Mastodon emoji picker

This means I can divide the blob emojos by mood

This changes ev-ery-thing

@Juju I think that someone would notice it, so you don’t have to worry. I remember one time that I noticed your absence on here and was about to check out on you, but then you started posting again. And I feel like I wasn’t the only one to notice that…

@Juju That’s a fear of mine as well. I get worried every time I hear about her story. I hope you and I will find ourselves in a less lonely place

@AbbieNormal Yes, for now blob.coffee is a space of my ooooooooown

(Well, it’s hosted and updated by masto.host, but I am the only admin and mod here.)

Why do I even write things in emails if the recipients are not going to read them?

At this point, explaining stuff feels less like “here’s what you need to know” and more like “I’m telling you this, because I know you’re going to complain anyway, but at least I will be able to reply with ‘I have already told you’”

@Juju This is so true

I just learned that, when one of our customers tried to call me on a Saturday morning, they also called one of our project managers.

Who was on vacation.

And it wasn’t even 7am when they called him.

But the weirdest thing is that he answered the call

This must have been the 594th “ping” sound I’ve heard in the last 10 minutes from the other side of the office.

I’m sooooo close to go there and shout “This is an open space, for heaven’s sake put that f@€&!ng phone to vibrate mode!”

Also, people know that I have a 9-to-5, Monday-to-Friday job. Do they really think I am going to answer a work phone call at 8am on a Saturday morning? Let me sleep, for heaven’s sake

@Juju I am a software developer, and the software I work on runs 24/7 in some cases, so when things go awry, they call me directly, forgetting (or pretending to forget) that we have a customer service office they are supposed to call

And once again my decision to put my work phone in airplane mode during the weekend proves to be a smart choice

@Juju Ouch

@Juju

@Juju Yaaaaay! Congrats

It’s 09:46 and no colleagues of mine have shown up at this side of the office yet, so I guess I’ll be the only one here today

Back at work