Author: rosswintle

Some further thoughts on the TDD (Test Driven Development) process I’m trying out with a couple of Laravel side projects.

https://rosswintle.uk/2018/03/laravel-further-forays-into-test-driven-development/

I wish application update prompts would happen when you CLOSE or navigate away from the application (and therefore have finished using it and don’t mind a delay), rather than when you OPEN or switch to the application and just want to get on with using it.

Random: Who’s got ideas for stupid, one-line status pages like this? Must be of the form “Has ….. yet?”

SOOOO good to be back on the bike again. A night-time 10.5 miles around the edge of Swindon. Not hilly. This was cardio.

Another short Kownter update in which I:

a) show what’s been done so far (not much, but it works)
b) ask, again, why the heck I’m doing this
c) rediscover my own analytics and the curiously popular pages I’ve made

https://blog.kownter.com/2018/03/11/why-am-i-doing-this-again/

In a slightly bizarre and genius turn of events, my 6yo son’s primary cultural obsession seems to have switched from Star Wars to Calvin and Hobbes. Light Sabres and X-Wings have been replaced by cardboard-box Transmogrifiers/Duplicators, a small toy tiger, and the cheekiest boy!

Yay! I get to hang out with this cool kid today!

So, umm, in some of my “spare” time, I’m working out if it’s possible/worthwhile to build my own, self-hosted, open-source, cookie-free, privacy-aware analytics. I may fail, but it’s fun so far. Come along for the (geeky) ride! https://rosswintle.uk/2018/03/building-analytics/

PR merged. I guess I’m now a WordPress Gutenberg project code contributor! ? https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/4690

This was nice to realise. Had my free NHS health check today (he shows his age!)…

“Do you do any exercise?”

“Well, not really. But I cycle to work as often as I can, so I guess that works out as 40 mins every 2 or 3 days on average.”

???

I’ve just realised that while “normal” means “the usual thing”, it’s also used in geometry to define a thing that is perpendicular to the original.

So it means both “the usual thing” AND “a thing going in a totally different direction”.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

ARGH. WHAT’S HAPPENED TO ME!?!

I keep doing:

$str1 + $str2

to concatenate in PHP.

Does this mean I’m a JavaScript developer now?!

?

Does anyone else, when writing CSS, want to use a variant of BEM that works out as BME? Is that allowed?

e.g. can I have: search-form–inline__input ?

Lol! “Is there a word for that, when your principles align with your laziness?”

(via Twenty Percent Time podcast)

Is it just me that hates buying stuff with the Stripe JS modal box thingy? I’ve no idea where my data is being sent. What’s my protection here?

Observation: cafe’s that make mediocre coffee talk a LOT about how great their coffee is.

Cafe’s that sell awesome coffee say nothing about their coffee.

Super interesting discussion with a friend about our first forays into TDD (Test Driven Development). How useful are basic tests? Should you test framework functionality? How can you get better feedback from HTTP tests? How do you “discover” functionality of the test framework?

VS Code tip: This is what I want…keyboard shortcut to focus the terminal. Make it your own: https://gist.github.com/rosswintle/30f198a64bd0c606c28c5f160229088f

Does Boris Johnson really think that “remainers” are going to believe an ounce of anything that he says? He’s not credible. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-43045553

Business idea: after-school/holiday clubs for introverted kids. Books. Lego. Video games. Puzzles. Board games. Individual treasure hunts. No group activities. NO SHOUTING!!!!