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The fourth set of ten links as I close down my open tabs on my mobile. Games, keyboards, static PHP builds, and The Death of Twitter!!

https://rosswintle.uk/2024/07/old-tabs-part-4/

The third set of ten links as I close down my open tabs on my mobile. Webcomics, business models, dev tools, and nerdy PHP and WordPress stuff.

(I actually wrote this yesterday to get ahead. Glad I did as I didn't have time today!)

https://rosswintle.uk/2024/07/old-tabs-part-3/

This is the perfect description of bored parent life on The Vergecast:

“You’re in this headspace … where you’re just exhausted and you’re like ‘I want to play a game. I don’t want to use my brain at all. And I’m going to need to play this game for somewhere between 1 minute and 5 hours.’”

I’m have bad news for @imdavidpierce

I can vouch for the fact that this is still true when they’re age 12!!! 😂

https://pca.st/episode/c1eb95ae-501a-4fc1-b74b-3fe89e700052?t=4529.0

(Someone will likely now tell me all the awful things about Tapo gear. Security and privacy and icky stuff. Right?)

Two days in a row! Yay!

I closed ten more browser tabs on my mobile.

Here's my analysis of those ten tabs.

https://rosswintle.uk/2024/07/old-tabs-part-2/

Oh, you like this idea? Well here's the first ten old tabs I've closed on my mobile. Some interesting stuff! And it ended well. REALLY well! 😋

https://rosswintle.uk/2024/07/old-tabs-part-1/

I rarely swear. I save it for when I really mean it. But f**k I can't get on with the WordPress block editor.

Is there some, intuitive way to paste a URL, as a URL, without it going batshit crazy trying to do something other than paste a URL?

😂

My open tabs list on my mobile has got silly big. Think I might blog them as I bookmark and close them down. Could be fun. 10 a day.

A worthy challenge?

Let’s see. It probably won’t last.

If no one notices the dumb jokes I’ll be very sad. 👀

Oh, and Turbo Admin is a browser extension, so I can fire up a new site with WP-CLI or Local or whatever and all these improvements are just injected into the site for me. No plugin.

I'm the only person that knows how it works and even *I* think it's freakin magic!!!

Sorry.

Will shut up now.

If you like keyboard-driven tooling and use WordPress a lot, try it though, will you? 🙏

I know I keep on about it when I'm working on it, but, honestly, if you work across many WordPress sites, and are constantly spinning up new ones to test things, Turbo Admin removes SO many little annoyances like welcome screens/panels, unwanted help modals, and adds an actually-useful command palette, and now a bunch of helpful keyboard shortcuts.

Makes me SO productive!!

(And yes, I mostly made it for me. But I’m convinced that many others would love it too.)

https://turbo-admin.com/

This new plugin developer job has me working in the wp-admin dashboard a lot more of late. So I've really been working hard on Turbo Admin in my spare time to make life easier. And it's SO much easier using the keyboard to drive #WordPress.

See how much you can do with no mouse (I used my trackpad once in this recording – see if you can spot it!)

I don't really know how to talk about the benefits of this if you're in the Dashboard a lot. So just watch this…

I learned yesterday of a game called “The Mind” that seems very cool (though I’m guessing it could quickly get boring).

Seems all you need to play are 100 cards with the numbers 1 to 100 on them.

Might have a go at making it!

(Also, yes, wondering if a static web app can replace the cards somehow… hmm)

To be clear, I’m not saying don’t charge for your work. I’m totally up for that!

But if your primary motivation is education and helping others then make the resources you produce affordable.

Good examples of this are @kenney and @b0rk and @aurooba

I liked it when people made stuff for the love of doing it and because they wanted to share what they knew with others. Now it’s all super-professional production, wrapped in dodgy-looking marketing speak, using scammy scarcity marketing pricing techniques and costs hundreds of dollars because “value pricing” or something.

Even the people who clearly already have a crap ton of money are doing it.

I liked the old internet.

You know the whole "Our devices are listening to us all the time” thing.

Well the internet just went one better than that.

About 4.5 hours ago my kid asked me “Why is it that when our bodies are 37.5°C, we feel hot when it's 37.5°C?”

To my shame, I couldn't answer.

Then… THEN!!! …

1 hour ago, @hankgreen posts this!

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7DuzSbU2PyM

Looks like there might have been a Firefox change that stopped Turbo Admin working. Looking into that now!

If you have the browser extension it should auto-update. Or you can force it from the extensions options.

I'll be updating the plugin soon!