Ross's Micro Blog

Weird but good side-effect of deleting the iOS Facebook app in response to this week’s Laracasts Snippet podcast: vastly improved battery life on my phone!

Here is the challenge of sustainability.

“Love Food – Hate Waste”
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“Film – Plastic – Not currently recycled”

A single campaign in isolation is not enough. We need to understand the tradeoffs.

Today I shall mostly be sat at home, eliminating bugs.

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Confession of unpopular opinion:

There are many things worse than Jar Jar Binks in Episodes 1 and 2.

The problem with having a kid who’s a) really small for his age and b) really good at cycling is that you go:

Balance bike -> 12″ -> 16″ -> 20″

Not:

Balance bike -> 14″ -> 20″

This is a delightful, if expensive, problem to have!

How come I’ve not come across git-ftp before? That’s a much neater solution for old-school (S)FTP deployment where it’s needed. https://github.com/git-ftp/git-ftp

Survived cycle-assassination attempt this morning. Notes to driver:

1) NO, it is NOT acceptable to overtake cyclists on roundabouts

2) You MUST be prepared to stop at a roundabout, look right, and give way

Ah yes. It’s that time of year again. Mailinglist-unsubscribe Friday approaches. ?

“a next generation crypto-currency and decentralized application platform, written entirely in JavaScript” – ???

Anyone else think this is like using a blunt pencil to do brain surgery?

And yes, we totally take the internet for granted. With any other family IT query I’d be sending pictures, or screen-sharing or getting him to allow remote access to help him out. Without internet I was working blind and that was what made it so hard.

Paper-clip-reset incident update: I managed to, over the phone, with no visual on what was going on, use a PDF of a 10-year old NetGear router manual to help my father-in-law piece together enough information to get back online. Man that was hard work!

Actually, I remember now. BT asked my father in law to factory reset a router that *I* provided him to replace a single-port, WiFi-less USB modem years ago. Resetting would delete the ADSL connection settings anyway. So unhelpful.

The BT customer support person that told my father in law to stick a paper clip in the back of his router needs a really good talking to!

Love this. A real SpaceX rocket scientist is Kickstarting a book for 6-10 year olds about Rocket Science. Theres a few Christmas presents sorted! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1734237858/rocket-science

I love this. I never gave up on RSS. It’s still simple, elegant, useful. “The case for RSS”: https://www.macsparky.com/blog/2017/11/the-case-for-rss

This is pretty embryonic, and I’m not really an open-source project kind of person, so it’s rough around the edges, but here’s oiko_s – a WordPress starter theme derived from _s with SASS, Webpack, Babel and LiveReload. https://github.com/rosswintle/oiko_s

Hosting experiments: I thought this new hosting I was trying out was fast. And it’s good. But it’s not as good as ServerPilot on a cheap DigitalOcean box. Spot when the move happened!

Nearly-6-year-old son to nearly-two-year-old daughter, while Star Wars music plays:

“Ada, this is not the Lego you are looking for!”

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Trying out the micro.blog Mac App. Hmm…

Me to cold sales email: Please delete me – your cold calling makes you look desperate and I don’t want your services.

Reply: “Certainly not desperate to get clients. With X, Y and Z to name a few recently coming on board business has been thriving.”

Look…just…ARGH!!!!!!!