Author: Ross Wintle

TIL that switching from CommonJS to ES Modules applies strict mode to all your JS code, and thus, code that you have not modified suddenly errors and breaks. What fun!!!

This is great.

I might try dressing up in a floppy wizard hat with a cow plushie and buying many tins of beans to see what happens.

IYKYK!
https://mastodon.social/@fesshole/114793985255878120

Yesterday on Bluesky someone asked what our all-time favourite song lyric was and it made me go and play a bunch of my favourite songs.

So here’s a little game:

Post a favourite lyric. Don’t tell us the song or artist – we have to figure that out.

I’ll start:

“Look, here comes a Ford Mondeo, isn't he Mr Inconspicuous?”

Gosh, I was using agent mode in copilot for a simple and repetitive refactor yesterday – the kind of thing it should be so very good at – and it got it totally wrong.

LLMs have failed to earn my trust, and they can’t learn from their own mistakes.
https://chaos.social/@swetland/114763087859442862

I have received a mysterious parcel.

Did YOU send me the avocado??

It was so good to get back to @BristolWPMeetup this evening and catch up with folks after many years – and meet some new folks too!

People who run meet-ups are so precious. Organising stuff like this really isn’t my thing. So I’m incredibly grateful for those for whom it is.

"Jira for kids asking parents things"

Mark Jaquith made this and it's very good.

I love that it needs no login and… is the data in the URL? It doesn't seem to POST any data. Very good if so.

https://parentrequest.com/

As I made a product that depends heavily on the WordPress admin dashboard not becoming a React app, I think a lot about it becoming a React app.

There are so many plugins that hook into the Dashboard in clever ways.

And then I see what WordPress seems to be doing to be SQLite compatible: basically making a whole SQL translation layer! 😵‍💫

And now I wonder if this is what will happen with the dashboard. Will they write some crazy JavaScript/jQuery translator that keeps old stuff working somehow?

I'm partly upset because I volunteered a ton of time to actually make my daughter's school's website good. And then a year later some agency comes along and messes it all up again!

And now they're doing it AGAIN. And that got me looking at the sites of other local schools in the same group/collective, and they are just shocking.

This should be a solved problem in 2025.

Caveats:
1. Schools are awesome and teachers and school staff are brilliant and work so hard
2. Technology is not a core competency for schools

Having said that…

Why are school websites all so very bad? There seems to be no thought of who the site is for, or how to make common tasks easy.

School collectives should have a comms person. They should make a site template that's half good and make all their schools use it.

Instead, one school makes something awful & others copy it!

Maddening! 😠

Weird seeing my thing being promoted this way!

I’m no marketer. Or designer. But when the Bristol WordPress Meetup asked for some sponsorship I decided to give back to a community that has been kind and generous to so many.

To be clear: this is a tiny amount of money. I’m grateful for the chance to put my magic little thing in front of people who wouldn’t normally see it.

It’s fun… and exciting! Huge thanks to Dave, Janice and the meetup team for all their hard work. 👏 https://mastodon.social/@BristolWPMeetup/114743421912167097

🤩 Yaas!! Cassidy Williams has made a cool year-at-glance web app.

And it saves the data in the URL!

Freakin’ magic. I love it.

pocketcal.com

#WordPress developers!

I’m curious. What’s your experience with static analysis tools. State your maximum level of current use:

What’s static analysis?
I know about it but don’t use it at all.
I use it in a small way.
I use it in a big way on at least one project.

This indie app looks like a neat and fun medication tracker for iOS

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/pill-buddy-meds-tracker/id6742357512

Hat tip: The Hiro Report newsletter (@hiro)
https://www.hiro.report/22jun2025-a-really-satisfying-twisty-knob/

Politics/war

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Just. Like. What’s the point? Just stop it. Now. It’s stupid. It makes no sense.

Leadership… wisdom… strength here is stopping this destructive nonsense.

Do that please.

That’s all I got.

Is “nuclear” some special word that some people genuinely have a speech impediment with?

Genuine question because I’ve never had a problem with it and can’t mis-pronounce it the way many people do with “new-cu-lure”.

On my trip to the local arboretum on Friday, I picked up a disposable vape that had been discarded at the foot of an ancient tree.

First of all: OMG WTF???

Second: I’m now trying to recycle it. I am determined. It is ONE VAPE, and, fine, you can vape, I drink coffee, it’s good. But I am a RESPONSIBLE HUMAN BEING.

And so the journey begins. The local corner shop guy looked at me like no one had ever asked if they could recycle a vape before.

So… where now?

This is an interesting request and the replies remind me that MY favourite todo + habits + pomodoro + kanban app is the little-recommended TickTick.

It’s simple, highly customisable, you can use as much or as little of the functionality as you like, and there’s a great web version too.

I’m a very happy paid user and have been for YEARS.

But you rarely hear about it.
https://mastodon.functional.computer/@samir/114721143306699787