Not gonna lie. All creative activity is kinda on hold until @loopconf is done.
Will my talk be perfect? Nope.
Has it taken on a life of its own? Hell yeah it has! I think it is writing me at this point!!
Will there be way more than a half hour talk’s worth of stuff? Oh yes!!
Should you attend? If you’re a UK WordPress dev then there’s not been a WordCamp for a while. The speaker line up is great and I know a bunch of awesome folks attending.
Discount code ROSS50 gets you £50 off a ticket.
Oh heck… 😂
I won’t link it but I read a post on X today (*) that was basically “WordPress has discovered package management and static content sources”
But, of course, it’s done it in its very own, proprietary way rather than using existing, mature tech, and arrived there through a very circuitous route.
Again!!
(*) – Yes, I still have an X account. No I don’t actively use it except for reading specific posts occasionally. And yes this post was only on X (as far as I know).
And it all feels so rational. Things WERE better.
Is this how my parents feel/felt?
Or did I grow up in some golden age?
Oh gosh. So many things about me are grumpy-old-man-longs-for-things-to-be-like-the-olden-days right now!
I keep discovering people who are going to @loopconf and it’s getting VERY exciting! So many people I finally get to meet in person. 😃
I increasingly find myself pondering just how incredibly lucky I was to have been born in the place I was born at the time I was born into the family I was born.
None of that is my frickining. And as I look around at the world I realise how so many people suffer through no fault of their own, just because of what they were born into.
And it makes me frickin mad that it's such a lottery.
I'm getting my music collection out of the cloud. Here's a write-up, including the apps I'm using on MacOS and iOS to do it.
Digital music is great. Discovery platforms are great. But I want to OWN my tunes.
@kagihq Where should I report the fact that Kagi doesn’t understand the difference between UTC, GMT and BST? And summer time timezones in general? Maybe?
This is an excellent podcast episode on the benefits of sit/standing desks. Confirms what I thought, that alternating position is the best thing!
I’m working in React a lot again. Building a component system from scratch. Separating concerns. Using best practices.
Was actually starting to like it.
But it’s still SO verbose and you have to do so much thinking about the implementation.
It’s really painful to work with still.
Am I still, somehow, doing it wrong?
I just came across a product called “WazChat”.
Is it just Brits that will think this is a poor choice of name?
(With apologies if this is your product!)
I'm curious…
Are there any large companies or web agencies out there that are doing anything with building static websites using web platform tech?
I only ever hear about individuals doing this kind of thing, but surely there are benefits for microsites, or landing pages of some sort?
I swear, the EE website is the WORST website in the whole of the UK.
I can NEVER do what I want on it.
I usually enter a weird redirect loop at some point.
And crap like this happens.
It's AWFUL!!!!
I’m still contemplating the idea that software can be “finished”.
Is this an idea that has value today?
Are the things that you would have to do to make “finished” software good things to do?
And under what business models is finished software a good idea?
I’m thinking of my Gameboy. That’s, what, 35 year old software? Never updated. Works flawlessly. And not even some simple embedded microcontroller. Way more complex than that!
I’m contemplating the idea that software can be “finished”.
What do you think is the oldest thing that you own that contains software but that has never been updated?
This is a fun little thing. Stick-on capacitive controller for you phone that works with a web-based "OS" that loads up games and touch controls for the controller to work with.
It won't be anything like a real controller, but it looks fun and accessible.
This is such a wholesome episode of Scott Hanselman’s podcast about the development of Hank Green’s Focus Friend app.
Really gets me thinking about how to use my skills and experiences to do something innovative and what making my own luck might look like.
There’s also a segment at around 18:45 about how “there isn’t a lot in the app that can crash, luckily” which is not actually luck but the result of some good decisions being made.
How have I only just discovered this newsletter. I just browsed the last few issues and it’s GREAT!!!
https://front-end.social/@stefan/115090789410294914