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I try NOT to sarcastically rant too much. But, like, seriously. The last place I would think of having “AI” is in my password manager.

Why, why, why???

Static Analysis, I tell you… it’s a thing!!

So good to see the benefits of it outlined so clearly here.

My intro to it:

https://deliciousbrains.com/php-static-code-analysis/

And I’m sure I have a meetup/conference talk brewing about it too.
https://mastodon.social/@westonruter/114837363266146094

I’m down to just 1 joker to unlock in Balatro.

ONE!!!

I’m so gonna do this.

And then I’ll be free!!!!!

Some fixes for my (free, no login, multi-player, serverless) Scrabble clone today.

1. There's now a display of the current move score.
2. The move list now shows the player number correctly! (Oops!)

Feel free to start a game!

https://words.pico.games/

My friend @tnash is releasing the first module of his #WordPress security course on Thursday.

If you sign up before the end of tomorrow (Wednesday 9th) you should get a £50 discount.

Tim is that rare combination of deeply knowledgeable and experienced AND a great teacher/communicator.

Worth a look:

https://wpsecurity101.com/

Realising I’m not “move slow and fix things”.

Well. I can be.

But my preferred mode is: “move slow and do things right in the first place!”

Anyone for a game of Scrabble?

Make a move then send me the link by DM:

https://words.pico.games/

One of my faves!!! 😍
https://oldbytes.space/@retroguybry/114802597723755211

I really don’t like long drives. But a weekend in York with the family celebrating with good friends and catching up with old ones has been good for the soul.

TIL that switching from CommonJS to ES Modules applies strict mode to all your JS code, and thus, code that you have not modified suddenly errors and breaks. What fun!!!

This is great.

I might try dressing up in a floppy wizard hat with a cow plushie and buying many tins of beans to see what happens.

IYKYK!
https://mastodon.social/@fesshole/114793985255878120

Yesterday on Bluesky someone asked what our all-time favourite song lyric was and it made me go and play a bunch of my favourite songs.

So here’s a little game:

Post a favourite lyric. Don’t tell us the song or artist – we have to figure that out.

I’ll start:

“Look, here comes a Ford Mondeo, isn't he Mr Inconspicuous?”

Gosh, I was using agent mode in copilot for a simple and repetitive refactor yesterday – the kind of thing it should be so very good at – and it got it totally wrong.

LLMs have failed to earn my trust, and they can’t learn from their own mistakes.
https://chaos.social/@swetland/114763087859442862

I have received a mysterious parcel.

Did YOU send me the avocado??

It was so good to get back to @BristolWPMeetup this evening and catch up with folks after many years – and meet some new folks too!

People who run meet-ups are so precious. Organising stuff like this really isn’t my thing. So I’m incredibly grateful for those for whom it is.

"Jira for kids asking parents things"

Mark Jaquith made this and it's very good.

I love that it needs no login and… is the data in the URL? It doesn't seem to POST any data. Very good if so.

https://parentrequest.com/

As I made a product that depends heavily on the WordPress admin dashboard not becoming a React app, I think a lot about it becoming a React app.

There are so many plugins that hook into the Dashboard in clever ways.

And then I see what WordPress seems to be doing to be SQLite compatible: basically making a whole SQL translation layer! 😵‍💫

And now I wonder if this is what will happen with the dashboard. Will they write some crazy JavaScript/jQuery translator that keeps old stuff working somehow?

I'm partly upset because I volunteered a ton of time to actually make my daughter's school's website good. And then a year later some agency comes along and messes it all up again!

And now they're doing it AGAIN. And that got me looking at the sites of other local schools in the same group/collective, and they are just shocking.

This should be a solved problem in 2025.

Caveats:
1. Schools are awesome and teachers and school staff are brilliant and work so hard
2. Technology is not a core competency for schools

Having said that…

Why are school websites all so very bad? There seems to be no thought of who the site is for, or how to make common tasks easy.

School collectives should have a comms person. They should make a site template that's half good and make all their schools use it.

Instead, one school makes something awful & others copy it!

Maddening! 😠