Ross's Micro Blog

The flip side of this is: why does WordPress, out of the box, have so many basic security and performance problems? Surely simple brute force protection/rate limiting, two-factor auth, and page caching (or password-less login) are solved problems now?

Thinking I should do a “WordPress Website Drivers License” course.

So many people come to me with “Can you tweak this?” and when I get a login I end up fixing basic security and performance and privacy things.

Not their fault. They don’t know. Which is why a course may work. 🤔

I’m reminded of my daughter, whose utter delight when riding her balance bike is expressed out loud, repeatedly: “I’M DOING IT!”

Sometimes I think that *I* should celebrate what I’m doing this way.

Not out loud, of course! But we should delight in what we CAN do & ARE doing!

These little prompts in my planner/journal are sometimes cheesy and not relevant. But I think the drip, drip, drip of daily positivity does have an effect over time.

Man, I seem to be learning a load of stuff that I should have known for years today.

TIL: You can validate in email address (and domains and URLs) in PHP with filter_var:

http://php.net/manual/en/function.filter-var.php

Just discovered that Lush (cosmetics) have a super-geeky “Digital” section of their website:

https://uk.lush.com/tag/lush-digital

And that the marvellous Sarah Corbett has a new “Activist Whisperer” column!

https://uk.lush.com/tag/activist-whisperer

Amazing.

Huh. My brain has pretty much all the words to REM’s “Ignoreland” in it…

…still.

“Brooding duplicitous wicked and able media-ready heartless and labelled super-US citizen super achiever mega ultra power dosing relax defence defence defence defence. Yeah, yeah yeah.”

Huh.

TIL: Safari is SUPER fussy about parsing dates:

September 4 2018 10:40:00 ✅
2018/09/04 10:40:00 ✅
2018-09-04T10:40:00 ✅
2018-09-04 10:40:00 ❌

😬

(Note: IE is the same, but Edge gets it right – come on Safari!!)

Sodding dates. Programmers, if anything involves dates, be sure to add about 50% to your initial estimate/quote. 🙄

I don’t even know if I’m allowed to do this…?

I mean, it’s just a circle with a drop shadows and an inner shadow, right? It doesn’t represent anything, really. Totally abstract.

Your thread should have been a blog post: http://www.patrickrhone.net/4480-2/

Worth saying that no, none of this is difficult work. And yes, I’m building a simple custom CRUD dashboard.

It’s time consuming, but I’m reinforcing the #Laravel basics to get them into “muscle memory”.

Next up: Teacher Training Days!

A little coding this morning while the kids watch CBeebies. Just in time for the new term, you (well, I!) can now add/delete term dates in Schoolbot. Nudging this project along.

#notADesigner #Laravel

Church satire is a niche, but The Ship has a high profile within it and has, over the years become important to many people.

A lot of this project was behind the scenes and was about people rather then technology.

It’s a big change. We worked hard on it. I hope people like it!

I can now say: It’s been a privilege to work with the Ship of Fools team on their new website, launched a few weeks ago at https://shipoffools.com/

It seems like a simple WordPress magazine site, but there’s some custom Gravity Forms workflows and a tricky content migration too

Oh yay! Sainsbury’s are doing Create the World Lego cards again – time to update https://swaptheworld.uk then! (Need to make it GDPR compliant too!)

See also: https://oikos.digital/project/swap-the-world/

Yesterday’s wedding reminded me of my own wedding vows, promises. Perhaps this is something we need to be reminded of more often? https://rosswintle.uk/2018/09/remembering-your-promises/

Thought I should write a bit about the contexts in which I try to think about the #WordPress #Gutenberg project. https://rosswintle.uk/2018/08/on-behalf-of/

I love pretty much everything Tom Scott does on YouTube. This has some great stuff on creativity and making stuff. Love it. https://youtu.be/h0AMaW4XRCI

The #Gutenberg update seems to be presented as “advanced” users wanting a simpler interface, with the implication that less advanced users want a more complex interface? I really don’t understand the logic.