Ross's Micro Blog

Yay! Microblog WordPress plugin I made now has a posting widget! 🙂

Wow. Local dept store closed after fox falls through ceiling panel. “obviously being in House of Fraser is not where she wants to be.” I know that feeling!

http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/15499267.House_of_Fraser_evacuated_after_fox_falls_through_ceiling/?ref=twtrec

Testing the new widget in my microblog plugin.

I feel like it’s a very special thing to actually enjoy an annual meeting with your accountant. Thank you Jessica!!!

I love some of these drainage ideas! Rain Chains & Musical Drains: Downspout Alternatives Put Drainage on Display http://99percentinvisible.org/article/rain-chains-creative-downspout-alternatives-put-water-drainage-display/

If you’ve seen my “UX is for Everyone” talk, you’ll know home links are non-trivial: Best Practices for Homepage Links https://www.nngroup.com/articles/homepage-links/ (If you’ve not seen the talk it’s https://wordpress.tv/2016/05/28/ross-wintle-user-experience-its-for-everyone/)

Nicely done: Above the fold is a myth. http://abovethefold.fyi/

This 99% Invisible podcast episode on how the stethoscope changed medical diagnosis and culture is fascinating. http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-stethoscope/

Ah. Just remembered how hashtags in micro.blog+WordPress SHOULD work: it should actually create a WP tag! Need to make that happen.

#platformsILikeButNoOneUses Anchor doing clever audio stuff: Anchor can now transform podcasts into shareable videos https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/8/16106924/anchor-podcast-social-videos-twitter-facebook-instagram

Seems drones are the new turtles: An eight-year-old reviews a codeable Parrot drone https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/8/16112014/tynker-drone-flying-parrot-mambo-review

Oh. Nice. Nested tags in my favourite notes app (Bear)! Didn’t know about that! http://www.bear-writer.com/blog/nested-tags/

There’s some serious geekery going on on the other side of my office this week. Nice to come back from holiday to!

So I tried a Monzo card while on holiday. Interesting. Sign-up UX & support is good. Still not convinced of benefits with my usage patterns.

Ah no. #hashtags just need #white space after them. I’ll refine the RegEx.

Agh. It only did one #hashtag. Never mind. More sometime soon.

Cool. So with that simple (for now) plugin, when posting from the micro.blog app, URL’s become links, #hashtags do something clever, and I pinched @Colinwalker’s title setting code too. #winning!

Made a MicroBlog tools plugin for WordPress…testing: https://github.com/rosswintle/microblog-tools

Gah! Stupid link formatting in micro.blog + WordPress. Time to make that plugin!

Interesting stuff on user tracking in WordPress and the new “Gutenberg” editor. https://wptavern.com/user-tracking-to-be-removed-from-gutenberg-in-upcoming-0-8-0-release