One of my faves!!! š
https://oldbytes.space/@retroguybry/114802597723755211
2025-07-06 19:00:36
I really donāt like long drives. But a weekend in York with the family celebrating with good friends and catching up with old ones has been good for the soul.
2025-07-04 13:38:01
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!!!
2025-07-04 11:39:45
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.
2025-07-03 08:24:39
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 hereās a little game:
Post a favourite lyric. Donāt tell us the song or artist – we have to figure that out.
Iāll start:
āLook, here comes a Ford Mondeo, isn't he Mr Inconspicuous?ā
2025-07-03 08:19:44
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 canāt learn from their own mistakes.
https://chaos.social/@swetland/114763087859442862
2025-07-02 23:19:00
It is time. I have seen enough.
Back to basics.
Let's do computing like it's 1993!!
2025-07-02 13:40:23
I have received a mysterious parcel.
Did YOU send me the avocado??
2025-07-01 22:12:01
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 isnāt my thing. So Iām incredibly grateful for those for whom it is.
2025-06-29 12:37:50
"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.
2025-06-26 08:46:08
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! šµāš«
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?
2025-06-25 23:11:20
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.
2025-06-25 23:08:46
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 thatā¦
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! š
2025-06-25 21:32:54
Weird seeing my thing being promoted this way!
Iām 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. Iām grateful for the chance to put my magic little thing in front of people who wouldnāt normally see it.
Itās fun⦠and exciting! Huge thanks to Dave, Janice and the meetup team for all their hard work. š https://mastodon.social/@BristolWPMeetup/114743421912167097
2025-06-24 22:40:37
𤩠Yaas!! Cassidy Williams has made a cool year-at-glance web app.
And it saves the data in the URL!
Freakinā magic. I love it.
pocketcal.com
2025-06-24 21:46:48
#WordPress developers!
Iām curious. Whatās your experience with static analysis tools. State your maximum level of current use:
Whatās static analysis?
I know about it but donāt use it at all.
I use it in a small way.
I use it in a big way on at least one project.
2025-06-24 21:36:17
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/
2025-06-23 19:58:22
Politics/war
Just. Like. Whatās the point? Just stop it. Now. Itās stupid. It makes no sense.
Leadership⦠wisdom⦠strength here is stopping this destructive nonsense.
Do that please.
Thatās all I got.
2025-06-22 14:56:34
Well this is a fun new stage of life⦠video game concerts!!!
2025-06-22 10:15:03
Is ānuclearā some special word that some people genuinely have a speech impediment with?
Genuine question because Iāve never had a problem with it and canāt mis-pronounce it the way many people do with ānew-cu-lureā.