weaknotes

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 * [Programming note - these are late because I had forgotten i was going to see a comedy show on Sunday night when I would otherwise have written them]
-* POLITICS. Very exciting to see the conservative party eviscerated. Obviously, Kier Starmer is not like, my dream PM, but a win's a win! And now France is looking left too? Stop it. STOP IT!
+* POLITICS. Very exciting to see the conservative party eviscerated. Obviously, Keir Starmer is not like, my dream PM, but a win's a win! And now France is looking left too? Stop it. STOP IT!
 * A stressy week professionally, even for a chill yoghurt babe such as myself.
 * It's maybe not obvious what happens to a news site like the FT's when there's an election. Firstly, your biggest traffic surge might be from the push notification telling people there's going to _be_ an election in the first place. Everything _did_ get a bit sweaty for that. On the day of the election, the live blog will start limbering up and then overnight is when the journalists really get experimental with them. Putting mad shit together we could never have planned. In terms of site visits, it's a lot higher than usual from about 4am but real people are no match for the continued DDoSes we have weathered this year.
 * We had a team in the office overnight just to support the editorial efforts. It was a good thing they were there because the TVs all turned off automatically at some point and so naturally someone with a solid grasp of technology was needed to turn them back on.