I’m planning a trip to Mannheim in Germany and hoping to bring my bike along. That’s meant having to make sure I can bring the bike on the trains I’m mostly using for transport (there’ll be some ferries too). The bike I’m bringing is the Hercules Bikes Rob Fold R7
From the ground to the highest part of the handlebar is 108cm, the width in this photo is 82cm and the depth is approximately 20cm. So it’s still quite substantial when folded!
A HAR file is really useful when you want to capture all the network requests associated with loading a web page in a browser. It can help when troubleshooting items loading and it can help when looking at page performance. Typically you’ll create a HAR file from your browser’s development tools pane - in Chrome it’s on the Network tab of Developer Tools.
Not content with leaving the site alone once I had it working with PHP7 & Nginx I’m off fecking around again. I got cranky with the Wordpress/Wix dispute and that was enough to overcome the general dissatisfaction with the general overhead of a CMS for an infrequently updated personal site. So I’m trying out Hugo.
This also exercises my gitlab setup! I’m using a gitlab runner to build and deploy on commit.
This is a placeholder while I write up my comments
Questions 577 to 580 were posed by John Lahart (FF)
Question 577. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the urgent need to address cycle safety here; his plans to bring forward legislation relevant to cyclist safety; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29371/16]
Response from Shane Ross (broken out by me)
My current priority in road safety legislation is the Road Traffic Bill 2016 which is focussed on measures to improve safety for all road users including cyclists. The Bill provides for roadside testing for drugs and an offence of driving with the presence of specified drugs in the blood, a special speed limit of 20 km/h, and measures to give effect to an agreement between Ireland and the UK on mutual recognition of driving disqualifications.
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I’ll be updating this post over the next few days. I just wanted to put up copies of emails I’ve sent to the minister and my local TDs on the subject. I’ll note any responses here.
Update 1: First to reply was Fianna Fáil’s John Lahart who responded about 5 minutes after I sent the email. He was followed by Sinn Féin’s Sean Crowe (who I have to call back). A few days later I got a response from Katherine Zappone’s assistant. Neither Colm Brophy or Paul Murphy have replied
I started following the conversation around this tweet:
What a load of #nutribollocks -no evidence for any of this: ‘Trust Your Gut For Better Brain Health’ https://t.co/3D9IjVb4gp @lustforlife
— Sinéad Conneely (@phrenohead) August 6, 2016
when I saw
. @lustforlife @phrenohead The burden of evidence is on the giver of medical advice, not those calling them out on unsubstantiated claims.
— Chris Tierney (@stunt_penguin) August 7, 2016
The rest of the conversation from Sinéad (@phrenohead) and Chris (@stunt_penguin) is very interesting and I just wanted to add some background on two points:
Because I’m a cranky git who is largely distrustful of economists, I couldn’t let go of a sense of distrust of what was being presented in this graph:
Dan O’Brien on Twitter
The Irish economy has increased employment more in the past four years than in the 70 years from 1926 to 1996.pic.twitter.com/Ps6JFnduH6
I’m suspicious that this is simply “bigging up” Fine Gael and being misleading in doing so.
Update: These are photos of the adjustable handlebar stem
I originally put up a quick video review on the day I brought the bike home from the bike shop and it follows. However, now that I’ve put up some mileage (~750km) I thought it was time to get into a bit more detail. The bike comes in at ~€1,379; additional cost due to my customisations are shown below.
If you watched the video you’ll see that I was quite excited by the bike. Since then, nothing’s changed: I love this bike and it’s perfect for me right now.
I posted this on Twitter but I also wanted to add it here because it’s important and there seem to be an awful lot of product people who don’t understand the concept of MVP:
10 Ways To Test If Your MVP Is Actually Viable – ReadWrite
Throwing together a minimum viable product, or MVP, is a great way to test your concept and find out what customers really want before you sink more money into the game. However, there’s a fine line between tossing something together and a MVP that’s too buggy to launch.
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