Lavander wants to know if the camera is food.
Status:
This afternoon was mostly spent setting up the Loaf online shop for December. I’ve been able to hand over all of my pre-CFS office duties except this one as it’s far to complicated to document, especially as it only happens once a year. So one of the gang came over with the numbers and I slowly worked through the horrifying hodgepodge of Wordpress workflows.
The issue I ran into with an online shop for a bakery was all the standard e-commerce packages assume you have a warehouse full of non-perishable items. The Amazon model, basically. They don’t adapt well to pre-ordering fresh bread with a one day shelf life. So you either go bespoke or you get in there and hack, both of which mean the system gets fragile over time.
Apparently we’ve had a guy in to talk about re-doing the website next year and he recommends Shopify. I remain sceptical, but he seems on the level and, crucially, it’s not my problem any more!
(This is also why there’s bugger all links to click today. Brain too pooped to surf. Crash probably incoming…)
Overnight listening:
- Empire: Tintin, Nazis, & Soviets - always interesting to hear people discover something you’ve known about for ages. This is a pretty fair appraisal of Herge’s journey out of a colonial mindset.
- Night Tracks
Watching:
- The Tick - the original 1990s cartoon series, not the (equally good) more recent Peter Serafinowicz live action.