Joe Innes

I was a Facebook early adopter. I have an email from October 2006 confirming an email change, but I don’t remember and can’t check when I originally joined. At the time, it was only open to users with an .ac.uk email address, which I’ve since lost access to. Facebook has been closely interwoven into my adult life. It documented my first, painfully desperate attempts to make friends at University. It captured my frustrations with my exams. It was a lens...

Apparently, the below is Warburton’s crumpet recipe… something fun for me to try out (just need to find a biscuit cutter): https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/food-drink-news/warburtons-shares-secret-famous-crumpet-18248844 Ingredients: Bakes six 150g plain white flour 200ml water ½ teaspoon salt ½ teaspoon sugar 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon dried yeast Method: Add flour, water and salt to a mixing bowl Mix vigorously with a whisk until your arm aches (at least five minutes) to create your crumpet batter Mix a few milliliters of water into...

So, I built an app for the COVID-19 ‘pandemic’ - it’s hosted at covid19.budapestpulse.com by Glitch - check it out! Tech info: It’s a Node.js/Express app It fetches data the koronavirus.gov.hu site, and parses it to read out key data points It saves that to an NEDB database with a time stamp If there’s a database entry within the past 30 mins, then the app will read that, rather than refetching the data