Ross's Micro Blog

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!!!!!!!

Twitter should let people write “threads” or long posts *with titles* so we can skim through the feed easily.

People could then write these on websites. Twitter could pull in the content using feeds.

Imagine, then, if there was an open feed protocol & free publishing software?!

Great quote I heard yesterday: “Complaining uses up energy that could be used to ask questions”.

I’m definitely going to try to ask rather than complain in future. Catch me if I get that wrong!

Quote from: https://robbell.podbean.com/e/wisdom-shes-all-around-you/

Notes, links, slides, and follow-up video tutorials from my talk on Dev Tools at the Cheltenham WordPress Meetup last night, all at https://rosswintle.uk/2017/11/developer-tools-talk/

So, in possibly the most 1st-world, middle-class piece of bad news, I think I might be allergic to red wine!

Random thought. In Star Wars Ep. 4 the trash compactor’s magnetic sealing deflects blaster bolts. So why don’t people have magnetic shields?

Considering a major service provider switch. Possible new provider:

a) copies a yahoo address on response to my enquiry
b) doesn’t have HTTPS
c) doesn’t have a privacy policy

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When I’m your target market for important stuff, these are the things that matter!

Daddy day. No naps, it would seem. Send stronger coffee.

I said something similar myself a while back. Unicorns probably exist, but as the name implies, they’re VERY rare: https://rosswintle.uk/2014/11/job-titles/

Oh, this is a breath of common-sense scented fresh air from Brad Frost on “Full stack developers” http://bradfrost.com/blog/post/full-stack-developers/

So we survived our first school summer holiday. And the first week back in year 1. But… I feel like I have NO IDEA how school works.

‪“Algorithm design may be THE big design problem of the 21st century”.

Essential listen: The Age of the Algorithm

http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-age-of-the-algorithm/‬

Brilliant. Meeting Achievement Stickers: http://thecooperreview.com/meeting-achievement-stickers/?mc_cid=a9c78e1f7a&mc_eid=a4712c61ab

This is amazing: “when you’re walking around…you see lots of people. But you don’t really see them…You’re like a cow looking at cars.”

Wow. A spambot has been discovered and has 711 million email address records. Some with associated passwords. https://www.troyhunt.com/inside-the-massive-711-million-record-onliner-spambot-dump/

R2D2’d a bike helmet today! ?