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Woah. What’s THAT noise?

👀

Oh. Just a B2 Stealth Bomber flying over.

👍😎

Where’s the best place to get a money card pre-loaded with dollars?

And would doing so be somehow unethical?

Asking for a friend, etc.

I guess all the politicians will agree that a 6-week general election is better than closing down parliament, will they?

Yesterday I made by first ACF/WordPress Gutenberg Block with. An interesting experience. Starting to see the benefit of component-scoped styles. Not sure how you’re supposed to do this in ACF-block world.

We got QR codes the wrong way around to start with. We thought the companies should have the codes and the people should have the scanners. But it works better the other way around!

Going to try and improve my mental health by listening to music instead of politicians.

Lifehack: Family Brain!

An actual mind-reading trick for those who don’t plan life down to every last car-refuelling and bathroom-cleaning.

https://rosswintle.uk/2019/08/lifehack-family-brain/

“I Scream”

We’ve not had much gardening time this year but some things have flourished regardless. I love that our kids get to see where food really comes from.

Kinda wondering why you’d buy a Super Soaker when this beast is £9 in Screwfix! 😂

…for whatever reason, I had a tough few days this last week. The positive feedback has been really timely and important. So if you said nice things: thank you!

#humblebrag

My posts and tweets – old, new, current and ongoing – have been getting some love lately. It’s good to know that some of the stuff that makes it out of my brain is sometimes funny, useful, or whatever it is to you. And…

An excellent essay on “fast software”.

https://craigmod.com/essays/fast_software/

I wouldn’t advocate for all the techniques used here. But people figuring out how to do no-build-tools websites and applications seems to be a growing trend.

https://formidable.com/blog/2019/no-build-step/

Reminded that I have some video “courses” I’ve put together to help other WordPressers and less-experienced developers learn some tools and techniques.

https://press-ups.com/for-developers/

Some of these are unfinished. Let me know what would be useful to add and I’ll see if I can make more.

Good to get this bad boy out of storage and check it over. Too big for our garden!! Seems in good nick!!

Testing a cross-posting thingumy bob type technology. Sorry.

#testing

…
Me: Well, that’s great, but you still sent me an email in error. Are you going to fix anything?

—

Tech support is about closing tickets. Not fixing things that are broken.

This is what the wrong KPI’s do.

I don’t understand tech support:

Me: I got an email from you about something unrelated to my account. Why was it sent? And is it spam?
Support: It’s not spam. But you can ignore it.
Me: OK, so your system sent me an incorrect email?
Support: You can ignore it
…

Sorry I got all deep on you.

Go be graceful to one another.