Author: rosswintle

Yes, I know the interface needs a lot to be desired at this point – will work on that some time!

Gently nudging SchoolBot along while kids watch CBeebies. It has standard “knowledge” like term dates and school meals. But you can also add “Custom messages”. These have keywords to match in questions, responses, expiry dates(!) and now example questions to use in a FAQ list.

 

The flip side of this is: why does WordPress, out of the box, have so many basic security and performance problems? Surely simple brute force protection/rate limiting, two-factor auth, and page caching (or password-less login) are solved problems now?

Thinking I should do a “WordPress Website Drivers License” course.

So many people come to me with “Can you tweak this?” and when I get a login I end up fixing basic security and performance and privacy things.

Not their fault. They don’t know. Which is why a course may work. 🤔

I’m reminded of my daughter, whose utter delight when riding her balance bike is expressed out loud, repeatedly: “I’M DOING IT!”

Sometimes I think that *I* should celebrate what I’m doing this way.

Not out loud, of course! But we should delight in what we CAN do & ARE doing!

These little prompts in my planner/journal are sometimes cheesy and not relevant. But I think the drip, drip, drip of daily positivity does have an effect over time.

Man, I seem to be learning a load of stuff that I should have known for years today.

TIL: You can validate in email address (and domains and URLs) in PHP with filter_var:

http://php.net/manual/en/function.filter-var.php

Just discovered that Lush (cosmetics) have a super-geeky “Digital” section of their website:

https://uk.lush.com/tag/lush-digital

And that the marvellous Sarah Corbett has a new “Activist Whisperer” column!

https://uk.lush.com/tag/activist-whisperer

Amazing.

Huh. My brain has pretty much all the words to REM’s “Ignoreland” in it…

…still.

“Brooding duplicitous wicked and able media-ready heartless and labelled super-US citizen super achiever mega ultra power dosing relax defence defence defence defence. Yeah, yeah yeah.”

Huh.

TIL: Safari is SUPER fussy about parsing dates:

September 4 2018 10:40:00 ✅
2018/09/04 10:40:00 ✅
2018-09-04T10:40:00 ✅
2018-09-04 10:40:00 ❌

😬

(Note: IE is the same, but Edge gets it right – come on Safari!!)

Sodding dates. Programmers, if anything involves dates, be sure to add about 50% to your initial estimate/quote. 🙄

I don’t even know if I’m allowed to do this…?

I mean, it’s just a circle with a drop shadows and an inner shadow, right? It doesn’t represent anything, really. Totally abstract.

Your thread should have been a blog post: http://www.patrickrhone.net/4480-2/

Worth saying that no, none of this is difficult work. And yes, I’m building a simple custom CRUD dashboard.

It’s time consuming, but I’m reinforcing the #Laravel basics to get them into “muscle memory”.

Next up: Teacher Training Days!

A little coding this morning while the kids watch CBeebies. Just in time for the new term, you (well, I!) can now add/delete term dates in Schoolbot. Nudging this project along.

#notADesigner #Laravel

Church satire is a niche, but The Ship has a high profile within it and has, over the years become important to many people.

A lot of this project was behind the scenes and was about people rather then technology.

It’s a big change. We worked hard on it. I hope people like it!

I can now say: It’s been a privilege to work with the Ship of Fools team on their new website, launched a few weeks ago at https://shipoffools.com/

It seems like a simple WordPress magazine site, but there’s some custom Gravity Forms workflows and a tricky content migration too

Oh yay! Sainsbury’s are doing Create the World Lego cards again – time to update https://swaptheworld.uk then! (Need to make it GDPR compliant too!)

See also: https://oikos.digital/project/swap-the-world/

Yesterday’s wedding reminded me of my own wedding vows, promises. Perhaps this is something we need to be reminded of more often? https://rosswintle.uk/2018/09/remembering-your-promises/

Thought I should write a bit about the contexts in which I try to think about the #WordPress #Gutenberg project. https://rosswintle.uk/2018/08/on-behalf-of/