So what did I learn in new job land today? More “How to use a mouse” tricks? Or “How not to create symlinks?”
No. I learned that, in the website programming language I’ve used for, like, 14 years, request or POST variables are only populated for requests with certain Content-Type’s.
If you POST an API request with JSON content to plain PHP, you won’t get ANYTHING in the $_POST superglobal.
How have I not found this before? Have I just been spoilt by frameworks?
🖥️ Finished my day by picking back up my series of Readable Code Tips.
Today: Use “is” or “has” for Boolean variables/functions
https://rosswintle.uk/2024/07/readable-code-tips-use-is-or-has-for-boolean-variables-functions/
Find out why I’m sharing these tips at the introduction page:
✍️ I’m on a blogging roll!
I want to talk (again) about friction. Things that slow us down. How some friction is good, and some is bad. And how this relates to decision you make while coding.
🎉 More new things… here's some more on my new job that I started today!
Best thing I learned in my first day of new job:
Shift-scrollwheel does horizontal scrolling.
On the one hand: How did I not know that?!
On the other hand: How was I supposed to know that?!
🤯🙌
🏗️ In case you’ve not heard enough about it already…
I have just moved out of my old "proper office" and into a new garden studio. Here's why and how!
https://rosswintle.uk/2024/07/the-great-office-move-of-2024/
🫠 Lots of new things! (Why I’ve not been writing much)
“You could introduce a state-sponsored croissant to price into the market and then let competition encourage other vendors to sell at £1.10”
All sounds totally legit.
😂
This investigation into satirical politician “Count Binface”’s policy of price-capping croissants is hilarious (especially as it’s so dead pan in delivery) but also quite educational from an economics standpoint.
“You could have a black market for croissants that are sold above the price ceiling” spoken in complete seriousness is perfection.
https://pca.st/episode/95bb7ecd-6a30-4255-925a-ca478dd3aa77?t=1246.0
I also was writing about myself the other week and coined the phrase “intellectually nerdy but not culturally nerdy”.
I think that fits me well. It might have to go in my bio at some point.
I used to call myself a “recreational coder”. I enjoy coding. I had many side projects.
But the last few months I have been focussed on other, more physical projects!
With the physical work mostly complete, and my new job starting on Monday and requiring a real shift back to back-end development, I’m pining to get back into my recreational code.
What’s first? 😃
This is the closest I’ve got.
– Encode a media input as audio only
– Save with a known filename
– Transcribe the saved file
But it doesn’t seem to transcribe the whole thing.
I’ve been poking around with recording short audio.
I wanted an on-device transcription solution. MacOS and iOS have this built in. I can even access it with a Shortcut!
But how… HOW do I (or WHY CAN’T I) pass a selected input to this action?
AI is such a useful tool for transcribing. It feels odd that you would seemingly write off ALL AI systems when there may be options that people might want to choose to use to make their audio accessible with the least friction/effort.
I also note (as a beta tester) that it seems to keep my microphone open even when I've stopped recording – don't know if you can stop that happening?
Thanks though – really fun little tool (and a reminder I need to get back into posting to my statuslog!)
@adam Love your little audio thing. I've always been tempted by the similar feature on micro.blog (and briefs.fm, which seems to have died off, but was a nice idea).
I know you're not a fan of AI, but I would like to see if there is some way I can automatically make transcriptions – perhaps using the built-in tech of my iPhone rather than one of the new fangled LLM thingies.
SO… I'd love to be able to download an audio file if I'm logged in to do this with.
UK Pol
Trying not to do too much politics. But I have mixed feelings on our election.
🙌 YAY that Labour are in
🙌 YAY that the Tories sunk hard
😡 BOO that Reform did so well (even though it massively helped Labour)
🧐 HMM on vote shares and the system
🙌 YAY for the Greens
🙏 PLEASE don’t mess this up, Keir, this is a fragile win
UK Pol
Wow. Buckland (ex-Tory-MP in my constituency) is LIVID. He’s INCENSED!
He’s a good bloke I reckon. I’m a bit sad for him.
UK Pol
That Heidi Alexander on the telly in Swindon South is MY MP!! Isn’t she awesome?! 🙌
Well. There it is. My last day as “Web Developer” is done. I re-start in Product and Engineering on Monday.
New home office space
(Hopefully) New Government
New job
I’m exhausted!! But onwards!!! 😃
I put a big fat X in a box and I hope it makes a difference.
If you live in the UK you should do this too!
Exciting day. 🗳️