Author: Ross Wintle

I get to vote tomorrow.

It’s odd seeing people on the news saying “I don’t think I’ll vote. There’s nothing in it for me.”

IT’S NOT ABOUT YOU! It’s about ALL OF US!!!

When did we start thinking that the purpose of a vote is to get what WE want?

See also: “He seems like a nice bloke.”

Can’t lie. I crushed it today. 💪

I’ve been working on a Big and Important Thing at work on-and-off for about 8 months. It concluded today with a go-live that was, as far as we know, totally error free. Which, given the complexity of the job, is quite something. I’m gonna put this down to:

– Tests
– Structuring your work well
– Reviews by excellent colleagues
– Detailed planning
– Anticipating and mitigating for problems

100% Rocket Turtle stuff!! 🚀🐢

Hands up if you regret not wearing a jumper on your morning walk.

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SUMMER????‽!

Hah. I’d kinda forgotten WordlePress. Fired it up and today (Monday) was a properly guessable one.

Not sure what time it rolls over to Tuesday.

Hooray! I solved today's #WordlePress in 7 guesses! 🎉🎉🎉

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Test your #WordPress dev knowledge at https://wordlepress.com/

Tech help:

I have a NODE_ENV=production in my terminal but I don’t know what is setting it.

It’s ONLY there when I run iTerm. Regular terminal.app doesn’t have it.

I can’t find anything in my iTerm settings that would do this.

Any ideas?

If anyone wants a #WordPress dev rel job (focussing on headless WordPress with modern JavaScript frameworks) there's this at WP Engine:

https://wpengine.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/WP_Engine/job/Austin/Associate-Developer-Advocate_JR102241

I get a bonus for referring you in, so let me know if you're interested.

I mean, I KNOW that both of these things are people-vs-the-corporations things.

And I want BOTH of them – I want to be able to say "Hey, AI, don't scrape this", and also "Hey, don't cull huge swathes of the internet".

I WANT those things.

But the solutions are at odds with each other.

If we're saying STEAL IT then won't corporations steal our stuff and then say it was our idea?

I just read:

"Paramount dumpstering the MTV archive should be a wakeup call. If there is something you care about, STEAL IT. If you want to read something in the future. DOWNLOAD IT. ARCHIVE IT. KEEP IT. MAKE IT YOURS."

And I'm really confused about the social contracts of the web.

On the one hand, copyrighted information shouldn't be scrapable unless we allow it (see recent AI scraping controversy).

On the other hand, we actively recommend stealing copyrighted work?

An observation/speculation on recruiting a senior software developer:

The quality of female candidates is consistently higher.

I suspect (from what I’ve heard from other female devs) that they are trying hard because they feel they need to do more to prove themselves.

But if so this might imply that the male candidates are NOT trying hard.

And it’s a well paid senior gig. You should be trying hard!!

The alternative: women are just better engineers and are lining up to take over the world.

The garden office was HOT today. But surprisingly not THAT hot. It was quite work-in-able.

Tomorrow it has the electrics wired up and then I should properly move out of the old office on Saturday. It will be the end of an era as I've worked from that little office for 10 years now!

Jamie Marsland should do a WordPress "speed build" with some people who are not all that familiar with the block editor and how it works.

That would tell you a whole different set of things about #WordPress to the speed builds with block-editor experts!

Note to folks using PHPStorm or other JetBrains IDEs.

If you updated recently and got a super-laggy editor, this has now been fixed in the latest update (for PHPStorm this is 2024.1.4)

Bug details here: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IJPL-149640

Jetpack is the 2nd most popular Mastodon posting tool for mastodon.social?

Wow!😯 https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/112662023734261452

I surprised my American colleagues today with my esoteric knowledge of US airport carpets.

They surprised me by never having heard of 99% Invisible!!!

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/pdx-carpet/

For some reason this makes me think of all the other programming-pun products/services you could have. So let's start the day with that shall we?

I'll start.

Let's have a new chain of opticians called “C#”