Ross's Micro Blog

I think I'm just gonna keep doing this until my dinner's ready.

I'm challenging myself to blog my mobile tabs as I close them down. 10 a day. This is part 11.

https://rosswintle.uk/2024/12/old-tabs-part-11/

This one is mostly games. Silly games. Retro games. Word games. And more!

My habit of keeping open tabs on my mobile is still WAY out of hand. So I'm blogging them as I close them down. 10 a day. This is part 10. You can call it part 1 of season 2 if you like.

Company comms, new newsletters, WordPress plugins, and legal-ish documents.

https://rosswintle.uk/2024/12/old-tabs-part-10/

@quicheindustries Thank you for your browser. An amazing product. Don’t know how I didn’t come across it before.

I have two requests:

1) I would love a button that turns one search engine search into a different one. Like “Do this search, but in Google”. I often search with DDG as default. But it’s not good enough and I want to use Google instead.

2) A big ask, but iCloud sync/backup would just make it perfect.

Also: I would pay way more for this product.

💙

What the heck? Trying out the Quiche browser for iOS from @quicheindustries

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/quiche-internet-web-browser/id1668363952

Frickin amazing.

What’s the catch?

A superb product. Almost set it to default browser and paid for the “plus” immediately. Gonna give it a day or two. But wow.

This is what Arc should have done in mobile.

My gym is shut for refurbishment. And I never thought I’d say this but: I miss swimming!

I’m a terrible swimmer. And I had several formative experiences that put me off swimming. (Nothing dangerous.)

But I’ve been developing some technique and finding it less difficult and very “mindful”.

And I miss it.

Inspired by this… Thanks (again) Rhys!
https://toot.wales/@rhyswynne/113595624347385344

Yesterday I had never coded in Lua or built anything on the PICO-8 "fantasy console” (a little emulated retro computer).

Today I have a very basic cookie-clicker game!

Yes, the visuals are terrible. (I'm just experimenting with sprites and drawing right now). And there's no music/sound.

How many presents can you make for Santa before Christmas arrives?!

https://santa-factory.pico.games/

I just realised that it’s giving Tuesday.

I’ve had a lot of new customers for Turbo Admin recently. Which I’m really grateful for.

And I think of each sale as “buying my lunch”. Which is such a fortunate place to be.

Today I want sales to buy lunch for someone that needs it way more than me.

So any proceeds from sales today will be donated to my local foodbank: https://www.swindonfoodcollective.org/

Just buy at

https://turbo-admin.com/

before 6am UTC.

I’ll post receipts tomorrow for transparency.

Every topic that I would really like to post about now:

🤯🤐🙊

I now crown myself the world’s preeminent expert on hacking the “classic” WordPress dashboard using vanilla JavaScript only.

It’s a niche. But one I’m occupying well, I feel!

🤣

Turns out, the mechanism I used to get user switching working in Turbo Admin also works for a simple form of plugin install!

This isn't live yet – it needs polish. But it's a good prototype and means it's coming in the not-too-distant future!

Spending a small bit of Friday night accomplishing the “impossible”… 🪄

Oh frick my poor brain!

Two days diagnosing really quite complex stuff with weird self-referencing code loops, odd hosting setups, trying to make code testable/fakable without breaking backwards compatibility, and a real head-scratcher solved (hopefully) with a bit of code spelunking.

Tired. But I LOVE it!!!! 😅

Turbo Admin Bricks Integration!

Here's the initial pass at some integration with the Bricks Builder for the many that requested it.

Hope this is kinda what you were after.

Coming in a release in the next few days.

I get why recent updates to code libraries/packages may be a measure of quality.

But an absence of updates may also be a measure of quality.

A small library that does one thing well and is “finished” may be exactly what you need.

How should we tell the difference?