Lots of people seem to be leaving Github lately, after some management changes or something (I seem to remember similar rumblings when Microsoft bought them, but I don’t think they ever came to much). I have loads of random repos on there, but hardly use any of the site’s features, and I’d be reluctant to leave, as I was almost one of the first thousand people to sign up (user ID 1194), which puts me in the earliest 0.001% of users.
Wednesday was FRR’s annual Two Rivers handicap race/social – starting off at Landguard Fort in reverse order of speed, picking our own routes (not that there are a huge number of sane options) and converging at Felixstowe Ferry about five miles later. It was hot and hard work, and I fell behind the people that started around the same time as me, and got overtaken by most of the faster ones. I still managed to pick off a few of the runners who started before me though. Then to the pub, naturally.
I heard a noise outside on Thursday night that sounded exactly like one of those squeaky toys for dogs. On investigation it turned out to be a frog, which was a source of fascination for the cats. After failing several times when it hopped out of my grasp, I finally managed to catch it and put it over in the corner of the garden where there may or may not be the remains of a water feature.
A rare weekend away, heading back to Totton for Tim’s birthday barbecue. It was good to see lots of old friends, and to stop off and take my dad out for lunch on the way home on Sunday (although we ended up being subjected to the Saints–Ipswich game on the pub TV!). I did Bartley Park parkrun while I was down there, and managed my highest-ever finishing position of 7th (albeit only out of 124).
After adding my parkrun result to my spreadsheet (what, don’t you all have a parkrun results spreadsheet?) I spent altogether too long trying to work out why conditional formatting in a column was colouring rows that it shouldn’t have. After I deleted the rule and the colour didn’t go away, I eventually realised that some previous copying and pasting had somehow brought the colour with it. In my defence, that feels like a bug, and at best another example of why “paste as plain text” should be the default everywhere.