Month: August 2023

There’s some really good people on this here internet.

If you know any good, senior-level front-end devs with React and NextJS skills who also do WordPress and are interested in or have used headless WP, that are looking for a job, do send them my way.

Also looking for unicorns, faries, and the Loch Ness Monster.

Oh, they could get to work with me and my awesome team! 🙌

This seems right to me.

"AI is defined by aggressive capitalism… the most realistic promises of AI are going to make the world worse."

https://drewdevault.com/2023/08/29/2023-08-29-AI-crap.html

But the possible upside is that people get incredibly bored and disillusioned with the internet and start walking up mountains, riding bikes, swimming in the sea, and enjoying time with other people.

Took the kids climbing at the “fun walls”.

Gosh I still hate auto-belay machines!!! 😬

Are all non-fiction books now 10% content and 90% fluffy stories.

I’m sure this works for some people. But it drives me bananas and stops me reading interesting stuff.

It’s like:

All dogs have four legs.

Let me tell you about John. John is a dog. When he was born he had 4 legs. He continued to have 4 legs all through his life. He swam with 4 legs. He chased balls with 4 legs. There was this one time where we went hiking where he really put those legs to use. And yes, he died with four legs.

Hah. Funny.

“You can blame this Pixies song for Google Assistant canceling your alarm” https://www.androidpolice.com/pixies-where-is-my-mind-dismissing-alarms/

This post on deep-dive perf improvements in #WordPress’s back end is great.

I worry that people doing this important back-end grinding are few and far between and with the focus on JS increasing in the project people that understand these topics and do this work will continue to decrease.

It’s still a PHP project too!!

https://developer.wordpress.com/2023/08/24/speedier-php-execution-in-wordpress-6-3/

I find the implementation of the command palette in WordPress pretty confusing.

There’s some good stuff here but these feel like “micro commands”.

Like most of the things it lets you do should just be easier to do without the command palette.

🤔

https://wptavern.com/gutenberg-16-5-adds-new-commands-to-the-command-palette

Here’s an idea for all SaaS marketers:

How about a “Solo business” plan with all the business plan features, but without the constant marketing/prompts/nags to upgrade to a “team plan” with “team features”.

😬

It’s great that USB-C plugs go in both ways up. But man, you gotta find the tiny hole in the first place!

MagSafe still wins.

Sportsball excitement

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Well. Spain deserve this. Great entertainment regardless of result.

Sportsball excitement

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Flippin Mary Flippin Earps You Legend!!!!!!!!!

Woah!

“The bizarre incident … began after a snake suddenly fell out of the sky and landed on her. Before she could remove it, the hawk attack began.”

Texas woman injured after hawk drops snake on her

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-66446697

🆓 FREE WEBSITES!!!

Clickbait? Moi?

Well… No? I actually build, deploy and host my own side-project websites for (virtually) free.

You have to know what you're doing to some extent. But this post goes into how I quickly spin them up.

https://rosswintle.uk/2023/08/free-websites-for-side-projects/

FREE WEBSITES!!!

Clickbait? Moi?

Well… No? I actually build, deploy and host my own side-project websites for (virtually) free.

You have to know what you're doing to some extent. But this posts goes into how I quickly spin them up.

https://rosswintle.uk/2023/08/free-websites-for-side-projects/

Oh wow! WordPress 6.3 fixed the annoying list-editing behaviour!! Hooray!!

(Note: This is not impressive. We are finally where we should have been a long time ago with editing bulleted lists.)

Hmm. Weird that those last two posts were the wrong way around. Oh well. You’re smart. You’ll figure it out. 😃

In general though: I still basically hate long, far away holidays. Such enormous amounts of faff and stress, and for what? To be somewhere where there’s a greater selection of cheese and bigger insects?

I don’t get it.

Normalise staying at home and doing nothing!