Author: Ross Wintle

🙌 What a wild ride this work week has been. Took responsibility for a lot of things. Got a bit frustrated that I had to. Wasn’t sure I’d handled it right. Then, today, had some glowing feedback and affirmation that I’m doing a lot of things very right.

I talk myself down a LOT so I’m gonna bathe in this.

I’m doing good at what I do. And I’m thankful for those that support and encourage me.

So fricking nice to be coding in Laravel again.

Everything just makes SO much sense.

Thanking @jessarcher for Laravel Prompts today – awesome work! 👏

So where are people getting all their statically compiled #PHP binaries from? Is there a reputable source? Or do I have to build them myself?

I mean. I’ve been doing what I can for a really long time. I really care. I make big sacrifices and spend extra money doing the right thing. But in the face of SO much don’t-give-a-crappery and blatant disregard. I’ve been pissing in the wind … in a hurricane!

I should have been living cheap and free like the vast majority.

My enduring, polite, gentle action has done nothing.

Change from the top is needed.

How do we get that?

🌍 I’m honestly reaching the point with the climate crisis where some kind of protest or direct action on government and corporations is on my list.

EV bore

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Well we have finally done the long-ish (130 mile) journey that we hope to do semi-often with family and luggage in the electric car.

Verdict: absolutely brilliant.

Sure, we’ve only owned the car for about 7 weeks. But it has exceeded expectations in every way.

350+ miles. Lots of highway and hilly rural. We’re consistently getting more than the advertised 190 miles range even with A/C on. Still averaging 5 m/kWh.

Charging is easy.

Driving is easy.

I’m a convert.

😵‍💫 I actually did a product search off the back of an ad today.

I’m never impressed by ads.

They finally got me.

(But I don’t think they know they did?)

🏋️ Random. But brilliant! https://youareatlas.com/

Birds are definitely real. Cats though? Could totally be government surveillance robots!!

Yay. Another excellent #WordPress person is on Mastodon.

Give @elliottrichmond a follow if that’s your thing!

EV Bore

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Took the EV on another longer (non urban, mainly highway) drive yesterday. With passengers.

100 miles used 50% of the battery. With A/C on most of the way too.

Amazed that we still get 5+ miles per kWh even on a journey like that.

SO happy with our Ioniq. It’s ultra efficient and fast to charge. Definitely a good choice.

I hate that I like a car so much. 😂

@elliottrichmond I'm happy to help out here. But I am mostly here and not in the other place these days.

Welcome!! 😃

I’m pronouncing it “Cross”. It’s cross dot com. And Tweets are now “complaints”.

You are probably wondering which direction that rain is moving in? And the answer is… err… well… none of them?

After a period of not really having the time, energy or inspiration, I'm finally back in a hacking mindset and have a project in my head.

This is good.

But, Laravel, it's been too long… 😢

What on earth happened to Firefox for iOS. It’s become unusable. 🙁

And just to be clear, this is a completely regular WP install. Here's an edit of the Twenty Twenty Three theme.json file…

I see no reason this can't be made really simple to use for local, throwaway WP testing with no dependencies.

When I first saw wp-now:

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

I wondered: why does this need npm and JS and WASM? Why hasn't anyone done this with static PHP binaries and some scripts?

So… while this currently requires some things to be pre-installed, I've done most the same thing (including using sqlite) with a simple bash script.

It's not (yet) as sophisticated. And perhaps there are still reasons not to do it. But let's see where it goes.

#wordpress