Ross's Micro Blog

This is a good summary of PHP 8.4, out this week!

My little tool summarises changes and helps you find what version they were first/last in:

https://caniphp.com/
https://mastodon.online/@cooptilleuls/113504148831750033

Saw the movie “CODA" last night. What a beautiful story and piece of film. The only disappointing thing for me was the highly-predictable ending. I mean, nicely done. But highly-predictable!

I shall now shut up about my precious thing for the day.

It has caused me lots of thoughts about product positioning, features, design, and pricing.

I hope some of them were interesting.

With the release of CommandUI there has suddenly been a lot of people looking deeply at how my own product Turbo Admin works, and comparing the two tools.

This post addresses some of the philosophy behind Turbo Admin, and clarifies some things about the tool that aren’t necessarily obvious.

https://rosswintle.uk/2024/11/turbo-admin-philosophy-and-workings/

I realised that if Turbo Admin is “finished” software that you buy, and if it’s less than 1.44MB, I could sell it on a floppy disk! 🤣

It’s is both of those things!!

And now I’m remembering “patch disks”. That was a thing, right? A program that patched a disk that had another program on it.

That always felt very risky. But that’s how we got updates!!

I also find it interesting that people call Turbo Admin’s pricing a “Lifetime Deal”.

It’s not.

It’s the old-school idea of “buying a thing”.

Literally: Here’s a thing I made. You can buy it. It costs X.

I might support it (I’ve done a ton of support the last week).

I might add to it. (I will! But that’s not why you should buy it.)

But when you buy it you should consider it “Finished”.

Weird, huh?

It's very interesting seeing the Turbo Admin vs CommandUI comparisons. No one was ever this interested in my product before!

About to write a post about some of the decisions I made along the way and the constraints that Turbo Admin has.

There may also be some kind of “Philosophy" page on the Turbo Admin site. Though I want a better word than that.

@szepeviktor Hey Viktor. I see you joined and followed. Welcome!

Ah yes. The Passport Photos thing. It's still good!!

https://maxsiedentopf.com/passport-photos/

An actual conversation I was proud of…

My son saw me using Notes on my Mac last night.

“How did you do that?”

“What? Make the text bold? Look. Cmd-B!”

“Oh. Cool!”

“Cmd-B. Bold! Cmd-B. Unbold! Cmd-I. Italic! Cmd-U. Underline!”

“What’s Cmd-O?”

“Ah, that’s when you’re not wearing underpants!”

🤪🤣😎

The Vergecast delivers again! 😂

@reckless1280 makes everyone laugh by revealing how he's using iMessage's “send later" function.

"My feeling is like if there's a little delay in the response, it makes is do that we are not about to have a conversation… I write ‘Sorry I didn't see this' immediately and then schedule it for three days from now… I have an INFINITE amount of incoming where I just need to deliver an answer and not have a 25 minute conversation”.

@adam Hello! I don't seem to be able to log in to Spake. Are you changing things up on there? Looks like some new login system?

Wondered if there was any news on it? Thanks.

Oh the Wordlers are gonna be mad today! (I know I am!!)

@ivory Is there a way to return to your timeline point after doing a timeline search/filter?

If not can you please please please make one? 🙏🙏🙏

Yours,

Someone who’s been a full-on subscriber and fanboi since … wow … 2011!!!

Is there some library that helps do type-checking of #WordPress “apply_filters”?

Surely someone has made something or has a strategy for this?

Another annoying thing about Turbo Admin being such good value for money to start with is that I don't really want to do Black Friday promotions. It’s already a smashing good deal and I don't price it for profit (if you count my time I've certainly lost $$$’s)

Perhaps I'll reduce it by 1% ($0.35) for a laugh and see if I'm allowed to add it to the deal pages.

What say you, @nathanwrigley ???

I'm kinda speechless when stuff like this happens.

Huge thanks to Brendan O'Connell for posting a review of my Turbo Admin on YouTube!

https://youtu.be/j4m0VXV0_e8

I'm an engineer, not a marketer, so I'm very dependent on word of mouth to share the cool thing I make with the world. (Even though I feel like I talk about it ALL THE TIME!)

You can bet I bought him a few coffees as a thank you. 🙏

My customers are the best!

I can’t lie. Watching Twitch streams of a lawyer dissecting legal filings over breakfast wasn’t something I’d ever anticipated doing!

Wife: “I wonder how you get a job like that. At what point do you decided that you’re going to become an expert in peat bogs?”

Me: …

… wait for it …

… yes, I did. I’m not even sorry …

“You really have to be out standing in your field!”