Month: December 2023

I suppose what I really want from a chat/community is to very selfishly round up all MY favourite people and talk about all MY favourite things on MY preferred platform and with MY rules.

That doesn’t sound like a positive thing for everyone else though.

*sigh*

I love you all, people!!! 💚

Follow up…

I remembered that, thanks to two awesome people who may see this, I am in two brilliant chat groups. (Hopefully you know who you are and I'm very grateful 💚🙏).

But I find myself wanting something bigger, with channels/separate topics, and more diverse in terms of tech and location.

Trying out @changelog’s Slack to see how that goes.

I re-posted earlier about isitchristmas.com having chat in the console.

This is a good write up: https://konklone.com/post/how-to-hack-the-developer-console-to-be-needlessly-interactive

But I want to know how the back-end of this works. Presumably just a light-weight process for connecting people together in "rooms”.

Some useful bash aliases…

If nothing else, this will inspire me to create more of my own!

https://chuck.is/alias/

I also (in addition to dev mid-life crisis podcast) really want, like, some chat or telegram or Discord group that's polite, friendly, supportive, no-shitposting, dad- (and mom-) jokes allowed/encouraged, creative, fun, geeky-but-tech-agnostic, worldly-wise.

Curmudgeonly-grumping allowed. But where even I get told off if it gets personal or unwelcoming.

I kinda have this, but it never quite works out as I'd hoped. I think my standards are too high.

I'm starting to wonder why my podcast feed isn't now full of podcasts about surviving the mid-life developer crisis. With topics like:

– What am I going to do for the next 15 years before I retire?
– How do I work with all these young people who know more than me (but lack the wisdom of years)
– How do I stop feeling bad that I have no spare time for hacking/side-projects/gaming because I have kids who need to be taken to their swimming class and stuff.

Seriously?

And no, I won’t.

Yes! At last! The firehose of brands emailing me a happy Christmas has been turned off!! The silence in my inbox is, frankly, deafening. Can it be like this all the time?

(I know…unsubscribe)

First time queuing to charge the EV! Was at services at lunchtime yesterday on the big Christmas travel day. So unusual.

Nice self-organisation by everyone (apart from the posh Jag/Porsche owners – entitled guys who just drove right in to the broken charger bay! 😂)

But an interesting thing to experience. And a thing that I guess will become more and more common. 🤔

I wrote some tests for an important API today. Found about three bugs that hadn’t been spotted before.

Write tests! It’s a slog sometimes, but even just the process of writing them can reveal things about your code that aren’t right.

✏️ There's a lot going on right now and I've been having a lot of thoughts about what is going on. In some cases I think I've expressed these thoughts well. In other cases, other people have expressed things that have helped me.

Here are some quotes and thoughts…

https://rosswintle.uk/2023/12/quotes-and-thoughts/

Digging into the WordPress interactivity API this week.

Hang on… did we stop using PHP to generate HTML on our sites? When did this happen?

I mean, it’s all good. Apart from the fact that we are rolling out own thing with Preact. I love me some JavaScript sprinkles.

I’m just baffled as to why it needs to be justified with “We need to do SSR in PHP” like that’s something we forgot we could do?

The following re-posts are because I, too, have noticed the proliferation of annual wrap ups…

I’m only just now realising that there is a cohort of web developers that simply don’t think about sending HTML over HTTP. The suggestion of such a thing must be alien and surprising to them because it’s not really in their vocabulary.

How can we nurture relationships between use-web-standards-first folks and use-the-JA-from-JAMstack-first folks?

It’s SO DARK. Did they change the clocks again? Did the sun forget to rise?

Today I realised that not only do Vercel make NextJS, but they are a main sponsor of Astro and, through employing Rich Harris, basically own Svelte as well.

What the heck?

Why?

And which will die first?

Oh yay! I found an actual post on Facebook?

It’s not an ad!

Oh wait.

No.

It’s some misinformation about how it takes “100KG of RAM chips” to make an EV battery.

Lol 😂