If you asked me how to raise a confident, strong-willed, capable girl into this world, I wouldn’t have an answer. But that very much seems to be what we are doing.
The (Working) Introvert Parent’s Day…
Finally figured out how to attach this thing to my bike. Yay! Family adventures here I come!
Argh. Now this “storage box” is in the house I realise what I ACTUALLY bought was a boat/spaceship/train/stool/craft table/shop. ?
Today’s job: safety check Sally’s bike. Spin-off tasks:
– tidy path
– tidy shed
– trip to tip
– trip to buy storage
– organise bike stuff
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Dang it…it’s good enough. Let’s launch something: My simple, free tool for remembering and logging daily creative action. “Today I…” https://rosswintle.uk/2017/07/today-i/
An open letter to the man on the pink scooter: https://rosswintle.uk/2017/06/to-the-man-on-the-pink-scooter/
I’m certain that Uncle Bob knows FAR more about CS and coding that I do, and yet I find myself repeatedly & strongly disagreeing with him. e.g. I’m not much into TDD but surely TDD catches a different class of errors than those picked up by strong typing? (See here)
Weird to follow a link from the Changelog Weekly to an article that references a load of stuff from my past: SPARK! https://dev.to/danlebrero/the-broken-promise-of-static-typing
Small child quote of the day “I can talk and not talk at the same time!”
This is funny…Redditors design worst volume sliders: https://www.designernews.co/stories/84443-redditors-design-worst-volume-sliders-possible
Been reflecting on my Webpack learning experience. I THINK the problem is that it’s TOO flexible. It needs opinions or decisions to be made.
Ah. Just found the WordPress “Update services” setting. Should speed up posts to https://micro.blog
The amazing thing about making the Swapsies app was less the building-an-app part, but more just how quickly you can now:
* buy a domain
* deploy an app to cheap cloud hosting
* set up HTTPS for free
* deploy subsequent changes
Web development really has come on a lot. The tools are SO powerful now.
Inspired by conversations this morning, I made an (incomplete) online thingy for listing your Lego Card swapsies. https://swaptheworld.uk/ – it’s not amazing and is standard Bootstrap styling, but good coding practice!
Wow. 1Password now has a “Travel Mode” that wipes cloud-based vaults from your devices. https://blog.agilebits.com/2017/05/18/introducing-travel-mode-protect-your-data-when-crossing-borders/
Reminded of something I heard last week: ‘love, grace, joy, connection, solidarity; what makes the whole thing matter, there is no shortage of that and it can’t be divided’
Manchester. ??
TFW you think you should have a bad feeling about something but you can’t remember what it is. ?
After some months, I’m seem to have got to grips with the Laravel service container. A simple example helped: https://rosswintle.uk/2017/05/getting-grips-laravels-service-container/