Ross's Micro Blog

I am engaging in the holiday ritual of turning open tabs into bookmarks. Expect links as I share the useful stuff!

You could mute #holidayBookmarking if this gets boring.

@quicheindustries Hello! Happy holidays.

I don't expect an immediate response, but I'm a tab hoarder trying to review and archive many tabs.

I would LOVE a feature to export the URLs of all my open tabs to a CSV, Markdown, or just a URL list. Even copy to clipboard would be fine.

I'm half expecting you to tell me this already exists. But if it doesn’t, can I request it as a feature?

THANK YOU for your awesome browser. 💙

Very happy thing: some friends bought us a family card game called “Bumfuzzle” and I haven’t laughed so much in ages!! Recommended!

Frustrating thing: Boxing Day “fix the printer” for a family member. Such horrible, crappy devices!!!

Calculating how many powerful computing devices with screens I’ll be taking on a short Christmas holiday sometime soon.

I think it’s 6 for me!!
3 for the kids to share (normally 2 but… 🧑‍🎄 🤫)
2 more for the teen
At least 2 for my wife
1 for the car? Does that count?

16!!!!

This all seems so dumb.

I’m an open-minded dev. There are rarely hard and fast rules that apply everywhere. I’m happy for you to have an opinion. BUT…

The use of types in code is SO deeply ingrained in me that I find it hard to think about code without them.

Well-defined interfaces are the bedrock of a stable, understandable, maintainable system. They highlight any shortcomings fast too.

You can like dynamically-typed code. But I will never understand why you like it.

Been thinking about this a lot lately.

@mattseymour Hello mate! How are you??

I’ve also been watching Pluribus (after watching some other Apple TV shows like Invasion and Foundation) and I think Apple TV shows should mostly be movies.

We get you have big budgets, stars you can call on for cameos and directors with big cinematic ideas. But really… they’re all far too slow!!

Our 2025 Family Playlist has Maren Morris’s “Kiss the Sky” from The Wild Robot soundtrack. A really beautiful song.

But I had it on headphones the other day and I can’t help thinking the chorus needs proper
drums and some crash cymbals to drive it a bit more.

Needs a rocked up version!

@danielpunkass Do I see you on Puzzmo?

Would make sense given Black Ink, I suppose.

Was just nice to recognise a name there! 🙂

Software devs: Does anyone work in a team that labels code changes as AI generated or not for the purposes of code review? Are you gathering any data on how comments/changes are affected by AIs involvement?

I’m curious not just about the results, but about the process of measuring.

Turning off BBC Breaking News notifications. It’s got out of hand. I don’t need to know about:

– every single celebrity death
– every gory detail of every mass shooting ever including video of the event

I suspect I won’t miss it and don’t really know why I had it on.

This is so frickin cute. A browser extension that adds a little pettable bird to your web browsing. I love the whimsy.

https://idreesinc.itch.io/pocket-bird

Also found:
– an executable of my A Level computing project
– the first PHP web app that I wrote in about 2008 with no framework and clear SQL injection vulnerabilities
– a WordPress 2.9.2 install set to run on XAMPP

I found a really old disk with an “oldfiles” directory on it that contains the code for my first ever website (maybe my second? I don’t actually remember)

Iframes. Tables. Animated gifs. The works!

Such nostalgia!!

The 1 o’clock BBC News segment starting at around 1:18pm is really quite fun.

“Parenting Wrapped” is excellent.

https://www.threads.com/@jon.thedad/post/DR5Kw11EddD

#PHP 8.5 changes now added to https://caniphp.com/

I spent a few hours this evening working through all the new features and deprecations and closing a few old PRs.

If you use the “API” then this is also updated at: https://caniphp.com/features.json (<- @dianawebdev !)

After a long time away due to a long-lasting cold/flu virusy thing, I finally got back to swimming today. Straight in with 35 x 25m lengths. And didn't struggle as much with breathing as I thought I would.

I'll take that! 😄