Author: Ross Wintle

Honestly, everyone… how on earth are you supposed to make decisions that involve spending tens of thousands of pounds/dollars?

How do you know you're doing the right thing?

Or is the trick that you don't, but you do the thing anyway?

Can any EV people (@jackmcconnell ?) tell me why I shouldn't go to the dealership and buy this used Renault Zoe right now?

Why is this so cheap? And why hasn't it sold since it snowed (see the pictures) at least as long ago as March?

https://www.fish-bros.co.uk/renault/used-cars/15382335-renault-zoe-100k-w-s-edition-r135-50k-wh-rapid-charge-5dr-auto/

Also… I went really frickin deep on EVs and I think our aging car only just got us home.

Suspect a new auto is coming very soon. And it won’t take petrol!

Home from an almost-week “up North” based in York. Phew!!

Highlights:
– Becoming English Heritage members
– Whitby Abbey
– Jorvik Viking Centre (for the first time)
– Hanging out and catching up with old friends
– LOTS of good food

Lowlights:
– Probably the longest traffic jam I’ve ever been in on the way home
– Overpriced and annoying AirBnB

Was curious about yesterdays Wordle so many people posted. Actually wound my iPhone’s clock back to see it.

Gotcha!!! Phew!!

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The Rest Is Politics podcast (centrist political chaps from both centre-right and centre-left disagreeing agreeably) discuss the politics of AI this week and it’s pretty good.

https://pca.st/episode/3cec14d5-e961-41c1-a448-e455385ceef4

Just a little reminder that PHP is a static site generator!

https://rosswintle.uk/2021/12/hang-on-php-is-a-static-site-generator/

And I have a neat starter site repo:

https://github.com/rosswintle/small-site-template

I broke the Turbo Admin plugin for Firefox users! Eeek!

I just released a tiny update to fix this. v1.13.3

Sorry about that, and thanks to those that reported it.

(I should emphasise that this was a plugin-only breakage. It did not apply to the browser extension version.)

Must. Stop. Analyzing. Every. Website. That. I. Visit.

Today: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE respect reduced motion. And don't use accessibility overlays. And don't autoplay full-screen video. And done, like, animate in EVERY element on the page. PLEASE?

I’m increasingly convinced that in the near future we are going to be forced into buying a new car.

And I’ve been thinking about what sort of car (petrol/hybrid/elec) for about two years and I STILL don’t know what to do.

It’s #WordPress’s 20th Birthday.

I’m struggling for energy today, so I’m not sure what to say. But this software has been such a huge part of my life, and I’m SO grateful for it.

From switching my blog to it in December 2008 (v2.7) to trying to get it used at work in the years after that, to freelancing as a WordPress developer and then building products with it.

I’m not a fanboi, but I can’t deny it’s utility and impact.

Thank you, WordPress and all who make it!

I love it when people buy my side project product and I have NO idea where they came from and how they found out about it.

A wonderful feeling of mystery.

If it was you: thank you!

On the one hand, I feel like a total luddite with all this “AI” stuff.

On the other hand, I feel like I've so quickly absorbed the extent of the technology's application that it's become normal and boring.

There is lots of hype, but very little actually revolutionary stuff happening now. It's all just making more words and images in different contexts.

Don't get me wrong, the making words and images is very clever. Sometimes. But the applications of it are not exciting me.

I’m sure I carry around some kind of npm trauma in my mind. I was reading this exciting thing and the moment I got to “npm install” I wanted to sigh and shut my laptop.

https://developer.wordpress.com/2023/05/23/wp-now-launch-a-local-environment-in-seconds/

I just did 2 hours (!!) of tennis lessons and I feel GREAT!!

But I can already sense that I’ll be very broken tomorrow. 😬

I’ve only just realised that:
– There is a popular WordPress SEO plugin called “Rank Math”
– “Rank” is a slang term for “smelly” or “putrid” or “disgusting”
– Many school children (and, indeed, adults) would very much agree with this name!

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I just came across universal chat app Beeper. Is this safe? Is this for real? Is anyone here using it?

https://www.beeper.com/

The experimental "command center" is coming to #WordPress core. What do I think of it? And what does it mean for my own "command palette" product, Turbo Admin?

https://rosswintle.uk/2023/05/turbo-admin-and-the-wordpress-command-centre/

I’m curious… if a person uses a right-to-left written language, like Arabic, do they do other thing RTL too, like horizontal chart axes or Gantt charts?