Me to cold sales email: Please delete me – your cold calling makes you look desperate and I don’t want your services.
Reply: “Certainly not desperate to get clients. With X, Y and Z to name a few recently coming on board business has been thriving.”
Look…just…ARGH!!!!!!!
Twitter should let people write “threads” or long posts *with titles* so we can skim through the feed easily.
People could then write these on websites. Twitter could pull in the content using feeds.
Imagine, then, if there was an open feed protocol & free publishing software?!
Great quote I heard yesterday: “Complaining uses up energy that could be used to ask questions”.
I’m definitely going to try to ask rather than complain in future. Catch me if I get that wrong!
Quote from: https://robbell.podbean.com/e/wisdom-shes-all-around-you/
Notes, links, slides, and follow-up video tutorials from my talk on Dev Tools at the Cheltenham WordPress Meetup last night, all at https://rosswintle.uk/2017/11/developer-tools-talk/
So, in possibly the most 1st-world, middle-class piece of bad news, I think I might be allergic to red wine!
Random thought. In Star Wars Ep. 4 the trash compactor’s magnetic sealing deflects blaster bolts. So why don’t people have magnetic shields?
Considering a major service provider switch. Possible new provider:
a) copies a yahoo address on response to my enquiry
b) doesn’t have HTTPS
c) doesn’t have a privacy policy
?
When I’m your target market for important stuff, these are the things that matter!
I’m very much NOT a visually creative person, but today have found myself doodling/sketching for a little project! The iPad is very forgiving and seems to add a flourish!
Daddy day. No naps, it would seem. Send stronger coffee.
I said something similar myself a while back. Unicorns probably exist, but as the name implies, they’re VERY rare: https://rosswintle.uk/2014/11/job-titles/
Oh, this is a breath of common-sense scented fresh air from Brad Frost on “Full stack developers” http://bradfrost.com/blog/post/full-stack-developers/
So we survived our first school summer holiday. And the first week back in year 1. But… I feel like I have NO IDEA how school works.
“Algorithm design may be THE big design problem of the 21st century”.
Essential listen: The Age of the Algorithm
http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-age-of-the-algorithm/
Brilliant. Meeting Achievement Stickers: http://thecooperreview.com/meeting-achievement-stickers/?mc_cid=a9c78e1f7a&mc_eid=a4712c61ab
This is amazing: “when you’re walking around…you see lots of people. But you don’t really see them…You’re like a cow looking at cars.”
Wow. A spambot has been discovered and has 711 million email address records. Some with associated passwords. https://www.troyhunt.com/inside-the-massive-711-million-record-onliner-spambot-dump/
R2D2’d a bike helmet today! ?
Yay! Microblog WordPress plugin I made now has a posting widget! 🙂
Wow. Local dept store closed after fox falls through ceiling panel. “obviously being in House of Fraser is not where she wants to be.” I know that feeling!