Imagine if it was possible to write some code on your online shopping website so that instead of putting an "out of stock" flag on items in your search results that are out of stock, you could simply exclude them from the search results in the first place.

Good news: current guidelines to feed babies peanut products and other potential allergens is working in the real world to massively reduce the number of kids with allergies later in life:

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So I went to start giving my kettle a proper clean and discovered that the plastic is actually just quietly disintegrating into microplastics in various places, so I guess my search for a new kettle just stepped up from "Tempting but silly luxury given my current one works fine even if it's a bit ugly" to "Yeah this is definitely happening within approximately *now*." I would like to have a moment's silence for the old one though. It's my second kettle. My first kettle was ceramic, and broke in the February 2011 earthquake. This was a problem because all water (if/when you could get water) needed to be boiled. A few days later, my mother took me and my sister on a shopping trip to Tower Junction since there wasn't anything open on our own side of town. I went into a store that looked from the outside like it might sell kettles, only to immediately realise that it did not sell kettles. But when I told the shop person what I was looking for, she told me to wait right there, and she came back with the electric kettle from their staffroom and insisted I take it. 😢 It's been a good kettle. It'll be sad to see it go. I don't suppose anyone would want it for the electronic parts, which are all still perfectly fine?