Another short Kownter update in which I:
a) show what’s been done so far (not much, but it works)
b) ask, again, why the heck I’m doing this
c) rediscover my own analytics and the curiously popular pages I’ve made
https://blog.kownter.com/2018/03/11/why-am-i-doing-this-again/
In a slightly bizarre and genius turn of events, my 6yo son’s primary cultural obsession seems to have switched from Star Wars to Calvin and Hobbes. Light Sabres and X-Wings have been replaced by cardboard-box Transmogrifiers/Duplicators, a small toy tiger, and the cheekiest boy!
Yay! I get to hang out with this cool kid today!
So, umm, in some of my “spare” time, I’m working out if it’s possible/worthwhile to build my own, self-hosted, open-source, cookie-free, privacy-aware analytics. I may fail, but it’s fun so far. Come along for the (geeky) ride! https://rosswintle.uk/2018/03/building-analytics/
PR merged. I guess I’m now a WordPress Gutenberg project code contributor! ? https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/4690
This was nice to realise. Had my free NHS health check today (he shows his age!)…
“Do you do any exercise?”
“Well, not really. But I cycle to work as often as I can, so I guess that works out as 40 mins every 2 or 3 days on average.”
???
I’ve just realised that while “normal” means “the usual thing”, it’s also used in geometry to define a thing that is perpendicular to the original.
So it means both “the usual thing” AND “a thing going in a totally different direction”.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
ARGH. WHAT’S HAPPENED TO ME!?!
I keep doing:
$str1 + $str2
to concatenate in PHP.
Does this mean I’m a JavaScript developer now?!
?
Does anyone else, when writing CSS, want to use a variant of BEM that works out as BME? Is that allowed?
e.g. can I have: search-form–inline__input ?
Lol! “Is there a word for that, when your principles align with your laziness?”
(via Twenty Percent Time podcast)
Is it just me that hates buying stuff with the Stripe JS modal box thingy? I’ve no idea where my data is being sent. What’s my protection here?
Observation: cafe’s that make mediocre coffee talk a LOT about how great their coffee is.
Cafe’s that sell awesome coffee say nothing about their coffee.
Super interesting discussion with a friend about our first forays into TDD (Test Driven Development). How useful are basic tests? Should you test framework functionality? How can you get better feedback from HTTP tests? How do you “discover” functionality of the test framework?
VS Code tip: This is what I want…keyboard shortcut to focus the terminal. Make it your own: https://gist.github.com/rosswintle/30f198a64bd0c606c28c5f160229088f
Does Boris Johnson really think that “remainers” are going to believe an ounce of anything that he says? He’s not credible. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-43045553
Business idea: after-school/holiday clubs for introverted kids. Books. Lego. Video games. Puzzles. Board games. Individual treasure hunts. No group activities. NO SHOUTING!!!!
How do I explain to my boy (6) why it’s not appropriate for me to paint his face so he looks like Mace Windu?
Finally watching the news from America. I am SO cross. How can Trump stand up and say “your pain is our pain…we’ll do anything we can do” and NOT crack down on guns. As the senator said: people die – children die – because of their inaction.
I can’t do ANYTHING at the moment without disappearing down a rabbit hole.
Trying to: update portfolio with screen grabs of projects
Rabbit hole: found a Chrome bug with built-in screen-shotting when using vh units! (https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=761136)
Is there a way to eat popcorn that doesn’t look like you’re trying to eat something twice the size of your own hand?