Israel/Palestine – learning about the conflict
If you are wondering: Do I trust the BBC? Yes I do. They are an ad-free (in the UK), public-funded service that I find to be reasonably centrist and impartial. Yes, they stray from that sometimes. But relative to other media they seem good at this.
I think it's really important to understand the players in this conflict.
And ultimately, I hope you will find the good and innocent people on both sides, and the support that they need right now.
Israel/Palestine – learning about the conflict
2) Rory Stewart's explainer from “The Rest is Politics" is very good too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAs5EOBUDcs
Their podcast is also interviewing people from different sides to get different perspectives.
3) I generally don't believe news flashes and information from social media. The BBC's “Verified" team seems good at transparent, evidence-based journalism for average folk. Example on the hospital: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67144061 2/2
Israel/Palestine – learning about the conflict
I confess, I'm a person that used to shy away from the Israel/Palestine conflict and politics because it seemed so complicated and confusing and impossible to resolve.
But, as I have said, I've really been paying attention and trying to understand it these last days.
Some really great resources have helped.
1) I'm not sure if you all can see this, but the BBC have a good explainer with some helpful maps: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-44124396
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Ooh. I've not done the daily “Connections" puzzle before. Not bad for a first go!!
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Just an early, curmudgeon’s opinion, but CSS-in-JS is more of the same JS hackery pile-on isn’t it?
– Oooh, we could do typed CSS? Could we? That would be cool!
– Oh it breaks a load of very basic things.
– Never mind, let’s pile on a bunch of workarounds rather than decide that the original idea wasn’t valid!!
– Yay, typed CSS with lots of added complexity and that’s nothing like CSS!!
Did I miss some amazing thing here??
This is a complete rip-off of someone else's idea, and so will never be published but it was fun to make.
I made tiny HTML golf game with ramdomized hole layouts!
– HTML, TailwindCSS, AlpineJS
– Lots of emoji
– Needs design work, but functions nicely
Wow. I must have not been paying attention to the news enough at the weekend. Catching up and paying attention now. The situation in Gaza looks horrific.
There are 2 million civilians in there. They have no water or energy supplies. Hospitals are about to lose power.
If you’re not paying attention, find a reputable news source and do so.
It’s really nice to have @dvk back on socials and back posting about his work and ideas.
Follow him for good takes on web/software development.
In my opinion at least. If you like my posts you will like his!!
🤔 I’ve always said I’d like to go and study something like philosophy of maths.
But sometimes I think I’d love to study psychology of computer programming.
Is that a thing?
🤔 There was an interesting thing recently where, in a group of developers, the younger/less experienced ones were the ones that liked using Git on the command line. And the older, more-experienced ones shunned the command line for GUIs.
A small data set, for sure. But is there something to learn there?
🙌 This resonates so much with me. It’s nice to see a really clear justification for using boring, well-understood and slow-moving technology.
I really want quote posts. I want to say nice things about things that other people have shared. Is that bad?
I have a bunch of old projects plagued with older build tooling.
Switching to TailwindCSS v3 and esBuild is GOOD!!!!
Good riddance webpack and postcss and all the other stuff we needed.
**ME ON A PODCAST ALERT**
I can't remember how this came about, but it was a privilege to share some of my journey and thoughts with the @coderushpod guys.
I love their podcast because they're two smart, experienced and gentle people sharing what they know just for the love of it.
They put a ton of effort into this. We all hope you enjoy it, learn something and are inspired in some way.
I get that you have to rebrand every now and then. I'm in the “I’ll get used to it" camp.
But really, the use of negative space in the new Nationwide logo is odd. My brain sees the "penguin of doom" more than the house.
(For non-UK folks, this is the recent rebrand of a national organisation who are a member-owned financial organisation)
I use a little MacOS app called rcmd for app switching (no dock, no Cmd-Tabbing, no “interface” – it’s great for screencasting videos!).
But it’s kinda expensive for what it does (I’m sure it was cheaper when I bought it!)
But someone I know has now made a free tool that’s similar.
Check both out if you’re a MacOS keyboard ninja:
https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/rcmd-app-switcher/id1596283165?mt=12
This is GREAT for testing beta’s/RC’s/nightlies…
This is – and can only be – a personal project for me only. But I think it's cool.
Given a local PHP install on MacOS (and probably Linux) this CLI tool will fast-install a disposable #WordPress site.
Uses
– SQLite database
– Symlinked core files for speed
– PHP's built-in web server
Think wp-now, but without Node/npm/Express/WASM
Or like a local version of InstaWP.
💻 So nice to be working on a little greenfield Laravel thing. 😃
😀 A really restful day off today.
Recorded a podcast with some great folks.
Got a flu jab.
Worked on my secret CLI dev tool project.
Watched some YouTube.
Feeling nice and calm.