Some things on the internet are inexplicably difficult. e.g. Bloom (WordPress email opt-in plugin) + MailChimp + Groups + GDPR fields. They really do NOT work together.
Yet.
https://rosswintle.uk/2018/08/blooming-mailchimp-groups-and-gdpr-fields/
27/08/2018, 18:52
It seems that MailChimp’s own forms are the only way to set their GDPR consent on a new user. Is this right? Or can I pass it in using the API?
27/08/2018, 18:47
Huh. Interesting day. Mostly admin, but ended with realising that Bloom (WordPress Plugin) + MailChimp Groups + MailChimp GDPR forms really doesn’t work – whichever way you slice it! And most of my workarounds to get it working we’re fruitless too.
27/08/2018, 08:57
Man, embedding your own video on micro.blog and Mastodon is painful.
26/08/2018, 18:18
More holiday fun: loved Glendurgan’s gardens – especially the maze!
26/08/2018, 17:53
Fun with automata at Falmouth Arts Museum
26/08/2018, 17:45
I try not to post about being ON holiday. But I’m back from a fantastic trip to Devon and Cornwall. The chaos resumes!!
25/08/2018, 09:38
#css Well if I haven’t been using :before and :after incorrectly all these years… https://css-tricks.com/to-double-colon-or-not-do-double-colon/
25/08/2018, 07:17
This will be a bit boring for people that know me, but I wanted to start writing more about what I’m up to (learning and working and life) and this serves as an introduction and background.
What I (actually) do! : https://rosswintle.uk/2018/08/what-i-actually-do/
22/08/2018, 21:16
Today’s little writing: Things that are harder when you…STOP EATING THE GRASS LIKE A DOG!!!
22/08/2018, 14:56
All this mass of user interface in the WordPress #Gutenberg editor and can I work out how to turn a paragraph into an unordered list?
No. I cannot.
Still not convinced I can sell this “experience” to clients.
21/08/2018, 20:47
The brilliant Chaz Hutton on drawing comics, even if you can’t draw!
https://medium.com/@chazhutton/how-to-draw-comics-when-you-cant-actually-draw-dd0b8b684562
21/08/2018, 20:12
Today, I took the boy to a cartoon-drawing workshop in a library. A brilliant free activity. I didn’t quite know what I was getting into, but I think I had more fun then he did! https://rosswintle.uk/2018/08/cartooning/
19/08/2018, 11:31
Some in my industry rally against the use of the knowledge-assuming word “just”. (As in “Just do this thing”)
But you can avoid the word “just” and still assume a heap of knowledge and make someone feel stupid.
18/08/2018, 15:34
Maybe I should be posting more about what I do, rather than what others are doing. But…there are challenges in that. https://rosswintle.uk/2018/08/what-i-do/
18/08/2018, 14:32
Creating and Consuming – why this is a tricky thing to get the balance of, and why I want to try and get back to creating: https://rosswintle.uk/2018/08/creating-and-consuming/
16/08/2018, 13:12
I confess, this is not really the day I had planned.
If all the broken things could fix themselves that would be awesome.
Thanks.
16/08/2018, 10:54
Weird A’ Level results/going to Uni fact: The grades I needed to get my first choice Uni place were a LOWER points score than my second choice Uni.
(Do they still assign “points” to grades?)
16/08/2018, 07:09
This sucks. Twitter – which, early on, was built on the work of third party developers using their API – are locking their API down and forcing people to use their own app. This is incredibly sad.
15/08/2018, 22:13
I’ve mentioned my “SchoolBot” a few times. My crazy idea to have a central “brain” for useful primary school information. I took some time to write up what this is, what it does, why I made it, and what its status is.