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Holy shit. This is amazing!! Insta-purchase! https://mastodon.social/@marcmagnin/112141300273384408

Popped back onto Twitter for some time this week. The spam replies problem there is frickin' huge and awful. How do people cope?

As well as a developer position in my team at WP Engine, there’s also a Web UX Designer role going.

Needs:
– 5 years of experience
– WordPress admin experience
– Excellent web/UX knowledge and capability

Let me know if interested. I can get you the job spec and refer you in. Thanks!

There’s an opening in my team at WP Engine for a WordPress+React dev, mostly working with our headless site which runs on Next.js using WP Engine’s “Atlas” headless platform.

It’s a great team working on some challenging stuff. We exist within marketing but are a team of highly skilled web developers.

Remote first but needs overlap with US working hours.

Happy to chat with interested people. Drop me a line!

A while ago, something I heard made me think: What if we were in some alternate universe, considering moving FROM battery EV's to petrol/diesel-powered transport? What would our objections be in that scenario?

(Note: I'm not an EV zealot. EV's are not yet for everyone. This is just a thought experiment.)

https://rosswintle.uk/2024/03/what-if-we-were-transitioning-to-electric-vehicles/

First world problems: my Apple Watch just suddenly completely died. Blank screen. Won’t turn on. Shows no sign of charging. Won’t reset.

Anyone else had this?

Two important things:

1. If you disagree with someone online you don’t HAVE to tell them. If you must disagree then at least do so with respect and curiosity for the other’s opinion, and give a reason.

2. I’m sick of seeing the abuse that minorities in tech get. Just stop it. I’m in a dev team with 2 women of colour. They are two of the best engineers I’ve ever worked with in a long web dev career. Anyone can be an excellent software developer. And kindness should be default to everyone.

Great to hear @michelle on @shoptalkshow today! Great job sharing about web sustainability. 🙌

UK Royal Photo Shernanigans

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The photo is clearly fake. Her kids are NEVER that old yet.

Are they? 🤯

Web devs: This is worth knowing about. A proposal for a standard, well-known password-reset URL.

https://github.com/w3c/webappsec-change-password-url

Poor code readability slows us down. So I'm going to post some of my code-readability tips! This is an introduction with the ideas behind it and all the caveats, and an initial example.

https://rosswintle.uk/2024/03/readable-code-tips-intro/

This is using JavaScript canvas manipulation to remove the background and CSS filters for shadows. Trying to get attention to detail while minimising dependencies! Totally amazing what the web platform can do. The only library here is Alpine.js.

This post about Divine Code Reviews is excellent.

https://bigmachine.io/software-design/divine-code-reviews/

I’ve been spending a lot of time reviewing lately. My approach is to dive into code first to understand what I should be seeing. But maybe I’ll run tests and try the change out first.

Positivity is key! You can and should say what you like in reviews!!

Today I’m working with some of my own old code (from 10 months ago) and a well documented API and it’s completely gloriously wonderful!!!!!!!! 😃🙌

Put the work in now. Reap the benefits later.

Thank you 2023-me!

I’m starting to mentor someone to get into web development.

I’m reminded of some really excellent resources that you may not know about:

– https://devdocs.io – multiple software développement references in one place. Also a PWA so works offline!
– Julia Evan’s excellent zines. The HTTP guide is a superb staring point for understanding how the web works under the hood. The debugging guide is excellent. https://wizardzines.com

I wish I had a home office I could retreat to. Our home is modest. Our “office” is the middle room and a thoroughfare. It’s not ideal. But also it’s not quiet.

There’s lots of stuff I would do if I had a decent space.

Perhaps I don’t actually need one though? Am I overthinking? Procrastinating?

I’ve also got totally addicted to a little mobile strategy game called “Turmoil”. It consumed a whole evening last night. And I’m sure the tiny graphics are ruining my eyes!