Month: June 2018

I’m cautious about asking this, but I’m both curious and in need: Do any graphic designers do open source or creative commons design work the same way developers do open source work for fun/learning/practice/public benefit and, yes, exposure?

And…even though I’m 💯% sure that the Fathom (analytics) guys have an infinitely superior product, Kownter has lots of benefits (for me!) over it right now.

It’s super simple, ugly and pre-Alpha really, but if anyone wants to try it on a low volume site do let me know!

Somehow, in the last few days, I’ve chilled out and wound down by making some incremental improvements to my Kownter analytics. There’s now a 24-hour top pages view AND it does some user-agent lookups to get browser/not names. Should pave the way for excluding bots.

And by teaching programming I don’t mean “writing code that does cool stuff”, I mean “helping people understand how their code that does cool stuff works and does what it does”

Teaching programming principles has been a thing I’ve wanted to do for a while. I’ve tried making some short videos on the topic. But listening back I realise this: teaching programming is HARD!

Today in #learnToLoveJS, I explore getting data from PHP into JS, how objects don’t make a good substitute for arrays, and why I still hate “this” and scoping. https://rosswintle.uk/2018/06/more-struggling-with-js-how-the-php-js-interface-is-broken-and-why-this-is-painful/

And, thinking about this…as a PHP dev the interface between PHP’s associative arrays and JS’s arrays and objects tends to be JSON, with somewhat inconsistent results as JSON arrays have no specific indices. This is a major pain point.

Like: How do I iterate over this thing in JS? Oh, it’s an object. I can get the keys, but surely there’s an easier way? Isn’t there a for…in? Or for…of or something? But don’t they include properties that I don’t care about? Maybe loadash helps? Yes, but method naming 🙄

In my “Spare” time today I tried to #learnToLoveJS by writing some Vue and Axios

It was a pretty spectacular failure.

JS seems to just want to trip me up at every step.

The APIs for arrays and objects are inconsistent.

this is different with arrow functions.

Just….ARGH!!!!

OK, so, this seems to be the thing. If you’re using Vue components, go all-in. Mixing reactive JS frameworks with standard page-reloading back-ends doesn’t work well.

I’m not sure I like that. I’d like adopting JS frameworks to be more incremental. But hey. #learnToLoveJS

Seriously…do I have to do all this just to delete a thing in Vue?! What am I missing?

https://rosswintle.uk/2018/06/adding-a-delete-link-to-a-vue-component-representing-a-laravel-model/

WebDevs: Please tell me that adding a delete link to a Vue component that represents a Laravel Eloquent model isn’t as hard as I just made it out to be?

We were contemplating the cost of home-made #sourdough. Even with premium organic flour there’s about 60p of flour in a 750g loaf. Other ingredients are water and salt, which are negligible cost. Only other cost is running the oven. No idea what that is.

New oblong banneton = new bread shapes! Plus Shipton Mill flour, so I’m expecting good things. Even remembered to score it!! #sourdough

Having seen it in Fathom (analytics) and realised what a missing-jigsaw-piece it was, this looks like a neat package for command-line user registration in Laravel: https://github.com/michaeldyrynda/laravel-make-user

Weird. Not used eBay for weeks – suddenly started getting emails from them 2 days ago about a saved search. Logged in to find I had an email subscription to that saved search. But why did emails only just start being sent? Anyone else have this?

Why is email on your own domain so hard? Putting it in your hosting account sucks. Forwarding is bad. GSuite and Office365 are total overkill. What are the simple options?!

Is there a YouTube channel dedicated to showing dads who’ve never had long hair how to manage their 3yo daughter’s long hair?!

50% wholemeal then. Definitely less rise. I forgot to score before baking, which didn’t help. But pretty delicious warm and smothered in butter.

It has become apparent that my cheap, industrial, non-organic flour may be hindering my rise. I am officially a #sourdough #baking nerd!