Month: July 2024

To be clear, I’m not saying don’t charge for your work. I’m totally up for that!

But if your primary motivation is education and helping others then make the resources you produce affordable.

Good examples of this are @kenney and @b0rk and @aurooba

I liked it when people made stuff for the love of doing it and because they wanted to share what they knew with others. Now it’s all super-professional production, wrapped in dodgy-looking marketing speak, using scammy scarcity marketing pricing techniques and costs hundreds of dollars because “value pricing” or something.

Even the people who clearly already have a crap ton of money are doing it.

I liked the old internet.

You know the whole "Our devices are listening to us all the time” thing.

Well the internet just went one better than that.

About 4.5 hours ago my kid asked me “Why is it that when our bodies are 37.5°C, we feel hot when it's 37.5°C?”

To my shame, I couldn't answer.

Then… THEN!!! …

1 hour ago, @hankgreen posts this!

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7DuzSbU2PyM

Looks like there might have been a Firefox change that stopped Turbo Admin working. Looking into that now!

If you have the browser extension it should auto-update. Or you can force it from the extensions options.

I'll be updating the plugin soon!

Cranking out updates this week!

Turbo Admin 1.15 is here with a big update to List Table Keyboard Shortcuts.

That’s a clumsy name, but it means you now get keyboard access to:

– Items in most“list tables” (posts, pages, comments, WooCommerce Orders and Products, etc) (‘J’, ‘K’ on keyboard, ‘Enter' to select)
– Focus search on list tables (‘/‘ on keyboard)
– Pagination of these tables ('Ctrl-F' and 'Ctrl-B’)

https://turbo-admin.com/

#WordPress

“I’ve been doing this for YEARS and there’s hardly a week that goes by that I don’t learn about a new horrifying way to accidentally cause a breaking change… the rules are too complex, there’s too many of them, it’s too easy to break them without noticing … The real answer here is the tooling just need to be good.”

Great Short from @changelog !

https://youtube.com/shorts/_qd1zW8gxUU

Fun getting stuck into Turbo Admin again. Nearly completed one of my favourite long-outstanding features: keyboard shortcuts for list tables!!

This makes #WordPress + Turbo Admin nicely keyboard driven for most core screens + WooCommerce!

Hopefully coming soon to the extension and plugin. Because, if nothing else, *I WANT IT!!!!*

I keep seeing recommendations for the board/card game “Splendor”. Can someone please tell me more. What is it and why is it so good?

I like my car. It’s a massive privilege to own it. But wow is car ownership expensive and annoying and borderline scammy.

Today I’m having a small plastic triangle replaced.

£140!

Not covered under warranty because the old part broke off and was lost. Despite it being REALLY obvious that it just broke off for no reason.

I probably should just adjust my expectations of how much anything car-related costs.

Yay! I finally got a Turbo Admin browser extension update out.

This is for all the #WordPress folks who start up lots of new sites and get annoyed by:
– The Welcome Panel
– The Help guides on the editor screens
– The Choose-a-Pattern modal on the New Page screen

The “Auto-remove block-editor welcome screen” option now removes all of these things automatically! On ALL your WordPress dashboards!!

Update to v1.14 in your browser, or try it out at https://turbo-admin.com/

Anyone want to play Scrabble?

Start here and send me a link:

https://words.pico.games/

Here's my quick local #WordPress CLI in action. Perfect for temporary sites for testing stuff (like the latest release candidate!):

I should also note that yes, while diagnosing this, my script did create a subdirectory of my current working directory called “~”.

And yes, I DID then try to delete that with the command:

“rm -rf ~”

🤦‍♂️

(Backups are your friend)

Weirdly I could not find a way to replicate shell-expansion of file paths (like “~/test1”) in PHP or Laravel.

Is this because it wouldn’t work cross-platform?

Ended up doing this, but it doesn’t seem ideal.

exec(“echo $filepath”, $output);
$fullpath = $output[0];

Context: I’m passing a CLI option like “path=~/test1”

I’m aiming to get an update to Turbo Admin out soon.

Before I do that I wanted a quick way to spin up temporary local #WordPress sites.

So I got some fixes done for my CLI tool that does exactly that!

Sadly, the name I wanted to use for this is now being used by another project. 😢

I’m also not really allowed to promote such a tool. But know that it exists!!

Just me checking all the clues in the XKCD crossword to see if any of them don’t fit with the theme.

😂

https://xkcd.com/2957/

I’m having FOMO for both WordCamp Canada and WordCamp Whitley Bay in the UK.

Need to get meeting my WordPress friends again soon!!!

Sportsball/England Kickmen observations

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It’s probably just some weird bias/perception thing, but in all these England football games, they’ve seemed fine when in possession, but I feel like every time there was a counter attack they just got sliced apart. Every counter has felt like a moment of peril.

Is that just me?