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I consider this my contribution to WordPress 6.3. In more ways than one!

https://wptavern.com/wordpress-6-3-will-introduce-a-command-palette

They even say it’s not “AI”!

“It’s different from most AI systems, he said, because it doesn’t require pre-trained models or extensive image labeling, and quickly analyzes unsupervised data.”

https://spacenews.com/ai-startup-using-satellite-imagery-to-trace-the-path-of-chinese-balloon/

Sheesh!!

Hey news people and people writing press releases…

Can we stop referring to “algorithms” as AI?

I mean, I’ve written some clever code in my time that probably appears “intelligent”. But there’s a line. And “ability to quickly process lots of data” is clever, but it isn’t really over that line. And I think you know it.

Thanks.

Lol. This scientific exploration of what would happen if the Universal logo was real is very funny.

“It’s pretty much not good for life on Earth”

https://youtu.be/cBxb6LRFG08

Dave Grohl just flippin loves his job, doesn’t he?

I want a tenth of his energy at age 54.

Boring thought from the pen of a new electric vehicle owner who’s now an EV bore

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I feel less “guilty” driving an electric car. And it NICE to drive.

But… in some of my driving it, I’ve still been stuck in traffic.

And being stuck in traffic is awful. It’s complete dead time. It holds me up. It holds other people up. I can’t work or exercise.

Traffic is crap. And EVs don’t fix traffic.

Electric vehicle charging thought…

Rapid charging should be cheaper.

It’s currently cheaper for me to plug in for 6 hours and slow charge.

The financial incentive for me is to stay longer (if I can afford the time) and clog up the network.

The incentive should be to charge quickly and move on.

(I’ve heard Tesla implement some kind of charger occupation fee when busy)

What did I hear on a podcast today?

Something like:

“There are so many great abstractions in web development. React sits on top of TypeScript and TypeScript sits on top of JavaScript.

It’s so easy now to make a button that you click and something happens nowadays”

Yeah, right. It is. And you don’t need any of those abstractions to do it! It’s amazing!!

Did anyone else read this and think of Severance?

For those that know…

I really think “Wayfinder” is a bad idea.

We’re already trying to undo “Gutenberg”.

One issue is the precedent we set by not following convention.

Let’s call the dashboard “Widgetville” and the admin bar “Headspace” or something.

I’m being facetious. But…

I think that from now on my signature social media post format will be the long-compound-adjective-with-lots-of-hyphens one.

Lol. The what-shall-we-call-the-WordPresss-command-palette GitHub issue is about to
blow up then!

https://wptavern.com/wordpress-contributors-discuss-renaming-command-center-tool

Reading a car recall notice (not for my car).

Good to know motor manufacturers have figured out that whole-car-dies-when-a-tiny-electrical-component-fails-thing since that dodgy Peugeot we bought 15 years ago!

I hate that I’m spending so much time thinking about … A CAR!!

Really hope it’s temporary.

Please send pictures of nice bikes!!

Someone had commented implying that my battery issue was an EV problem.

It wasn’t.

It was a vehicle electronics issue.

The same thing would have happened with the equivalent ICE or hybrid car.

The irony is that I had 20kWh of power in the car but was not able to use any of it to power the cars electronics!!

So, hilariously, my fancy new EV broke today. Wouldn’t turn on!! How?

Well, the good news is that the 40kWh main battery is fine.

But there’s also a regular 12v battery that powers…well…everything that’s not the motor. Locks, lights, sound, displays, electronics.

And it turns out that everything turns off when you open the drivers door. But this is NOT the case for the passenger door.

So the media display was left on, the 12v battery drained, and the car was dead.

I’m writing an EV (electric vehicle) "cheat sheet” that tries to combine all the different terminology and units into one, independent, succinct, place.

It's in-progress, but nearly complete now.

https://rosswintle.uk/2023/06/my-simple-ev-terminology-cheatsheet/

When researching EV's I found there were lots of articles and videos about the individual topics, but not a place to quickly learn the basics of everything. So this should fix that.

Please send corrections if anything is wrong. Thanks. I hope this is useful for someone.

I’m sorry. I’m really really sorry. But I tried the latest version of the Gutenberg plugin for WordPress and the UI is just getting worse. I don’t know how this is happening. I don’t even know how to start describing the issues. We’re really at sunk cost fallacy time. Maybe block editing is OK (it’s not, IMO)? But the way pages have been put into the site editor and the way the command centre has been plopped into the UI in several places with inconsistent affordances.

I know it’s beta. But…