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I quite like the Wikipedia snippet that @DuckDuckGo gives you when you search for “lorem ipsum”. It works far better as placeholder text than actual Lorem ipsum! Will make far more sense to clients. 👍

I will add that yes, I know about Laravel Shift. But I wanted to do this manually to get a feel for the process.

– Knowledge from Marcel Pociot Package Development course was super helpful! https://phppackagedevelopment.com/
– One of the apps had tests – I felt so much more confident upgrading that!
– Upgrading can be hard – you need to know PHP and Composer well to understand messages and debug

Yesterday I did one side-project app upgrade from Laravel 5.1 to 6.0 and one from 5.7 to 5.8 and then 6.0.

Really simple apps, I should add.

Notes:
– New ignition errors weren’t always helpful and took some getting used to.
– Had to fork the ReCaptcha package I use

Coffee to the left of me
Lemsip to the right
Here I am stuck in the middle with flu*!

(Not actually flu)

I’m sitting in bed with half a voice and feeling rubbish. But I want to do some thanking and promoting while I’m here.

Firstly, Laravel 6 was out this week. So huge thanks to Taylor, Mohammed and everyone that makes this awesome free thing that I get to use. 🙌

Finally, on headphones. When I got my not-true-wireless earbuds about two years ago for £30 I was like “Woah, you can get tech like that that isn’t terrible for £30‽‽”

I’m now doing the same with true-wireless. It’s VERY impressive.

I’ve yet to cycle with them but they seem comfy, light and stay in my ears (which I didn’t expect). They’re a bit big and stupid-looking but 🤷‍♂️. Sound quality is fine for podcasts and a bit of music, audiophiles will protest. Not tried a call yet. Mic probably awful.

Having lost my wireless earbuds while cycling, I thought I’d try “true wireless”. Apple’s things never stay in my ears and I was on a budget. I picked up these for £30 and they do the job just fine.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07SZ8V339/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_U_x_7ItCDbDB13VMN

Someone shared this sweet, joyful, innocent, beautiful, fun little father-and-daughter video years ago. It makes frequent appearances in our house. Maybe it’ll make a nice break from politics and tech: https://youtu.be/Bpu0TIXzI1w

And thank you to the orange BMW driver who did an exemplary, full-road-width cyclist-overtake and then indicated (they DO dirt them!! 😉) perfectly at the roundabout, also on Northern Road this afternoon!

Happy cyclist tonight. 🙌😃👍

I sometimes criticise bad driving I see while cycling but I try to celebrate good too. So…

Thanks to the lady in the black 4WD this morning who was a model of safe, gracious driving as she followed me down Northern Road

The Second Office. At Darkroom Coffee. Featuring Laracasts!

Yay! #Weeknotes for this week are done.

Includes a Laravel tip, a “lifehack” that amounts to “writing things down” (🤷‍♂️), an annoying Google Maps setting that cyclists should turn off, and camping equipment reviews!

https://rosswintle.uk/2019/09/the-week-2nd-september/

Gosh the drama in tech communities is draining. I get energy from trying to help and from being helped. And this is happening ALL the time. Let’s shout about it.

Tech communities are GOOD!

https://rosswintle.uk/2019/09/tech-communities-are-good/

Huh – WordPress is changing how it blocks robots. Seems I didn’t understand this as well as I thought I did:

https://make.wordpress.org/core/2019/09/02/changes-to-prevent-search-engines-indexing-sites/

https://yoast.com/prevent-site-being-indexed/

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.