Author: Ross Wintle

Episode 5 of series 18 of Taskmaster was just EXCELLENT!!!

🗒️ Also good, from @sarah:

“Developers all love to hate legacy code. It’s ugly, and it’s gritty, and it’s hard to work with. But do you know the one thing it has going for it? Most of the time, whether it’s beautiful or not, it works.

That’s right: legacy code in production is more valuable than the most beautiful, well-tested code sitting in a repository somewhere. It’s producing value today, rather than hope for tomorrow.”

🗒️ I occasionally dip into James Clear’s weekly email. It’s so good.

"Compete externally and you compare.

Compete internally and you improve."

🧐

So. I thought Balatro was boring after you beat it the first time. But Ooooh no!!!! There’s a lot more to discover. What a super little game.

This hit me today:

“Unless you concentrated on attuning a certain rhythm, your body would naturally choose the one that fit your mood. Therefore, it was always a conscious decision to listen to a rhythm that did not match how you felt. She did this now with Peace.”

– Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson

I just found out that a person I used to follow on Twitter (when I was there a lot more than I am now) made this amazing bulk photo-editing tools site that works all in the browser.

WHAAAAT?

Insta-bookmark!!!!!

https://photoedittools.com/

( @binarymoon are you here?)

Discovered Balatro+ on Apple Arcade.

Beat it within a week (using green deck).

Thought that was it. But now I'm 100% committed to beating the Black deck too.

I appreciate creativity, but I do find it odd that in WordPress I often see people using WordPress for things it really shouldn't be used for, and NOT using it for things it would be really good at. 🤷‍♂️

Well it’s been quite a couple of weeks. I can’t say all that I would want to. I’m exhausted. I’m sad. I’m incredibly proud of what has been achieved. I’m trying not to judge. I’m concerned about people. I have reached out to friends. I’m aware that I don’t have the whole story. I’m unsure of the future of a tech that has meant a lot to me. I’m worried about it. But I also hold some hope that we can emerge stronger.

I don’t know if it’s brain-age or my gen-X cultural baggage or what, but I really struggle with real-time decision making with online chat. Especially when it’s across multiple work streams.

The young folk just seem to be able to do this whereas I’m all: “chat is for _making_ decisions, docs are for _recording_ them.”

A #WordPress PSA:

If you use ACF free or any of the free versions of Delicious Brains/WP Engine plugins then you will want to read about how to get updates to them in future.

https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/blog/installing-and-upgrading-to-the-latest-version-of-acf/

Note that this does not apply to Pro versions. Only the free versions from wordpress.org or installed using the search in WP Admin.

@ivory oh. Ignore me. I pasted an image somehow, not a URL. Sorry!!

@ivory

What’s with the new pasting-a-URL doesn’t paste a URL thing?

Can I turn that off?

Oh this isn’t fair. I need to make a packed lunch and get a kid to school on time!!! 😬

I’m very excited that I actually get to use my computer science background in my work this week. 😃

I feel very smart.

😂

Remembered recently that I have this really neat little app called "Play" for queueing up and watching YouTube vids.

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/play-save-videos-watch-later/id1596506190

Works on iPhone and Mac and syncs with iCloud.

Share videos from YouTube using the share sheet on mobile. Curate a watch-later list from there.

Watch picture-in-picture on iOS! 🙌

Escape the algorithm and curate your own watch list.

Watched this Hands On with Meta's fancy new prototype glasses.

I'm not a fan of Meta at all. But as a technology prospect this is:
– Way way WAY more appealing than the Vision Pro
– Still not appealing at all – why would I want my computer on my face – it's hard enough to keep my phone in my pocket! Notifications sent to my eyeballs? No thanks!

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ynLm-QvsW0Q

Can people familiar with gaming terminology ( @rhyswynne ?) explain why Balatro desscribes itself as “Roguelike”?