Author: Ross Wintle

Why doesn’t doing rhyme with boing? 🤔

We have been reminded of the most ridiculous music video we have ever seen.

May I, as a new year’s treat, introduce you to the delights of Elliot Mason?

https://youtu.be/fVn0Iq0CmvY

Working on some WordPress plugins that I haven't updated for, like, 4 years. They still work perfectly. I suspect they will still work perfectly in another 4 years with very little change.

Would this be the same if I they were primarily JavaScript? Would a block that I wrote 2 or 3 years still ago still work today? Would it be easy to update?

It doesn't FEEL like it. I wonder what the reality is?

You have spoken… and I have heard. And I own up:

✋ My name is Ross and I am a lazy developer
✋ I need to do lots of debugging in Turbo Admin because, frankly, making it work as a browser extension requires me to do some pretty weird stuff
✋ And yes, I left the console.logs in. I don't know why. Perhaps I though you might find them interesting.
😬 But you have found them annoying. And that is perfectly fair.
🧑‍🏭 I shall work now on making a debug mode.

I should say this publicly as well as in a mention…

I just used @andyfragen'sGit Updater for the first time and it's 110% brilliant. Instant purchase. Great value for money too. Thanks for making this. Love it!!

https://git-updater.com/

@andyfragen I just used your Git Updater for the first time and it's 110% brilliant. Instant purchase. Great value for money too. Thanks for making this. Love it!!

Yes! I actually got it today!! It’s properly gettable. (IMO)

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Hooray! I solved today's #WordlePress in 15 guesses! 🎉🎉🎉

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Test your #WordPress dev knowledge at https://wordlepress.com/

Ability to sync bookmarks and microblogs is a step towards where I want to be with my online presence. Really enjoying hacking on this stuff.

I've pretty much given up on instant coffee now. Took a long time but I'm pretty much exclusively black filter now.

Not sure what this says about me!

I feel like such a nerd.

I LOVED raindrop.io when I tried it yesterday. So I made a copy of my sync-pinboard #WordPress plugin that works for Raindrop.

https://github.com/rosswintle/sync-raindrop

And I also made a copy that will sync Mastodon posts from an RSS feed into a WordPress custom post type.

https://github.com/rosswintle/sync-mastodon

Neither of these will end up on the repo. But feel free to use, fork, etc.

All part of making my own "digital garden"!

I hate doing this (do I?) but this is another test post.

Epic primary school homework! By far the best way to work out the answer to “12 divided by 4”. https://rosswintle.uk/2017/07/epic-primary-school-homework/

My own code is never perfect; sometimes awful; always opinionated; carries baggage from my professional past; always evolving and changing. Can coders just agree that we’re all different and all learning. And that that’s ok. And they we’re people, and that people deserve respect?

I don’t always agree with other coders. And that’s OK. But boy I’m grateful for people who make software & tools that power my life & work.

Things I saw in the wild for the first time today: 1) A Tesla car 2) Someone trying (and failing) to buy fork handles.

Funny how, for many of us, “disconnected” and “analogue” are now “treats”. Connected, digital is default.

Inspired by Rob Bell talking of our need for more “boredom” and my beautiful Birthday pen. Think I’ll be writing more.

It’s 7:30. She’s been up for about 3.5 hours. So, naturally, she’s figuring out how to play Junior Scrabble

Voted! #thankyoutoday for our messy, imperfect, but beautiful democracy.

Design critiquing and grammar checking election leaflets. It’s not the point. But I can’t help thinking that if you can’t proof read…?