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title: "Week 10: Double Exposure"
date: 2019-08-25
category: week-notes
toot: 102685019521315596
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- It was our first wedding anniversary this week. Well done E for making it through another year.

- On the bank holiday weekend we drove out to West Yorkshire and found ourselves at Heptonstall, high above Hebden Bridge. It had been recommended to E a couple of summers ago by someone working in a nearby tourist information centre who described it as being 'like Haworth, but before the tourists ruined it'.

    {{< img src="IMG_0067-2.jpeg" alt="The view from Heptonstall">}}

    This is a perfectly good description. Built on the steep hill that rises from Hebden Bridge the village is made up of perhaps a hundred or so sandstone cottages and terraced houses, connected by narrow cobbled streets. A victorian church sits proudly in central place and in its grounds the ruined shell of it's twelfth century sibling. The graveyard is home to [Sylvia Plath](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Plath).

    {{< img src="IMG_0050.jpeg" alt="The ruins of the old church.">}}

    A steep cobbled road divides the village and provides a smattering of shops for the few tourists that seem to make it up from Hebden Bridge. Think Robin Hoods Bay but sixty miles from the sea and nearly a thousand feet above sea level. Well worth a visit if you are nearby.

- This week I have removed an old deck, built another deck in its place and then cleaned and stained a completely different deck. I am hoping there are no more decking related tasks in my near future.

- I cancelled my Amazon Prime account. When you know your Amazon delivery drivers by their first name it's time to take a step back and reassess your shopping habits.

## From the net:

- The Guardian as a long piece on how social media companies keep us hooked on their platforms. I feel like we've heard this stuff a million times now. Does it actually make any difference? I don't think people are listening, but it's an interesting read nonetheless: [The machine always wins: what drives our addiction to social media](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/aug/23/social-media-addiction-gambling) [Guardian]
- Jonathan Turner introduces 'nushell' which is, as the name would suggest, a new shell. It looks pretty interesting. If I wasn't in the middle of learning Fish I'd jump right in: [Introducing nushell](http://www.jonathanturner.org/2019/08/introducing-nushell.html)
- Ever heard of a Ha-ha wall? You have now: [Wikipedia - Haha Wall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ha-ha)
- Russell Ivanovic shows us what life is like with solar panels and Tesla Powerwall units: [Rusty Shelf - Self Powered](https://rustyshelf.org/2019/08/24/self-powered/). I think there will be a time within our lifetimes when homes no longer need to be connected to the electricity grid. Maybe we'll all have miniature [Tokamaks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokamak) in the basement, but in the meantime solar, wind and batteries seem to get us most of the way there.