Author: Ross Wintle

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2023-11-04 23:26:47

You can skip the first couple of emails from my “Beyond WP" newsletter. (They are preserved for posterity anyway).

The first real issue was about local development tooling.

beyond-wp.com/archive/beyond-w

I raved about Laravel Valet. But there was a bunch of links to resources and tools that let you explore the options by yourself.

I've added some new tools as updates like WP Engine's Local, @nicoverbruggen's PHP Monitor and Laravel Herd.

Perhaps something new for you to try here?

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2023-11-04 23:19:14

Back in the pandemic times, I set up a newsletter called “Beyond WP” that sought to bring tools and ideas from the broader web/software development world to developers.

I quickly ran out of steam – which I'm sad about.

But those emails took time to write. I got good feedback on them, and I was proud of them. So I'm working to get an archive online (with notes on what has changed since writing).

beyond-wp.com/archive/

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2023-11-04 19:33:21

This Cloudflare outage is really something. I’ve worked alongside data center operations and I’ve seen multiple-redundant systems fail in chaotic ways like this. It’s so hard to predict. And yet, stuff like “they needed to be physically accessed … access control system was not powered by the battery backups, so it was offline” is such an obvious design flaw with hindsight.

blog.cloudflare.com/post-morte

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2023-11-02 21:02:56

✍️ Finally getting round to putting the archive of my Beyond WP emails online.

I’d sad it had such short a run.

I think I set my standards too high.

Perhaps I will pick it up again someday.

I like writing.

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2023-11-02 19:15:09

I really want to work on a PHP code base with tests and types again.

Wrangle some data and APIs.

Try out Tinkerwell v4

What can I make? 😉

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2023-10-30 11:27:30

Honestly.

How hard is it?

“Thanks for your specific feedback. We can see how we can do better. We will try to do as you ask in future.”

It’s all I want sometimes.

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2023-10-28 22:23:16

👩🏾‍🚀 Yay! NASA released another issue of their educational graphic AR comic thing about the first woman going to the moon.

The first one was good.

https://www.nasa.gov/calliefirst/

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2023-10-24 08:02:36

I was sure I'd posted this to socials, but I couldn't find it.

Back in Dec 2020 my laptop died. It was adorned with stickers. And I took a photo to remember it in all of it's uniqueness.

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2023-10-23 22:04:42

Back when we actually owned digital music (!!) we had specific devices for playing it.

I kept my weenie little Zen Stone and I still think it’s a marvel.

Those were the days.

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2023-10-23 21:19:08

Just spending an evening looking through all the awesome stuff people are making and sharing.

– Music
– Games
– Talks (with write-ups)
– Little apps

I was having another little "code-off" with my kid tonight.

The internet is full of creativity that is so easily squashed by scaling and monetization. I LOVE seeing people having FUN!!!

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2023-10-18 21:55:01

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.