Does anyone ever do a nuanced take on these big internet outages that includes a proper evaluation of the trade-offs and what the alternatives are?
I see lots of complaining about how everything is dependent on the same three or four services.
But rarely a discussion of what we could do instead amd why we choose not to do those things.
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One of those "I don't post about work much" things, but last week my ACF colleagues dropped ACF PRO 6.7 Beta 1 with…
Inline Editing for ACF Blocks!
Live, instant, intuitive editing using ACF in the background. Looks amazing! š
https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/blog/acf-pro-6-7-beta-1/
I care so frickin much about climate change.
But I also feel so completely helpless about it.
Until the People In Charge give a damn and are willing to act, what can we really do?
At some point I want to modernise my blog theme abd make https://rosswintle.uk more of a ādigital gardenā.
But honestly. Iāve not actually built a CMS-controlled website for about 2 years now. I get stuck every time I try WordPress editing these days and I canāt get my head around full site editing and block themes.
Where to even start? I feel kinda lost on how to make a website.
(Iām doing a LOT of web development – but itās tooling for others not my own sites!)
Right. I think everything is up-to-date now. Other than the things that need rebuilding. Iāll get to those.
Next up on side-project to-do list is getting https://caniphp.com/ ready for v8.5!
Not long to go now!!!
Oh fun. My anti virus/malware software says VS Code's GitHub Copilot Chat has a dodgy Base64-encoded script in it!
You'd think GitHub, of all people, would know not to do that!
Lesson 12 of my LoopConf talk was āRead your own codeā.
Chris Ferdinandi knows this lesson. And the tip on leaving reviewer notes is good too.
I'm hardly a connoisseur of fine video games, but one of my favourite games on the little PlayDate console is Hyper Meteor, and its now on Steam.
A tiny asteroids-like game, but so much fun, perfect difficulty level, I keep coming back again and again.
I'm gonna wreck a controller playing this gem.
This is incredible. And funny. If you understand why.
āHorrible edge cases to consider when dealing with musicā
https://dustri.org/b/horrible-edge-cases-to-consider-when-dealing-with-music.html
After this week's firehose, Iām back on my wanting-to-improve-school-comms train again. I'm utterly convinced that there's a relatively simple solution to 80% of most school comms issues. But I also know that schools are focussed on education and children's care, not comms, and would find process change hard.
As always, teachers and people who work in schools have my utmost respect.
A very random thing I learned today.
Occasionally this live version of the Gin Blossoms āHey Jealousyā pops up in YouTube. I quite like the 90s nostalgia of it.
Theyāre on the Jon Stewart Show, and at the end he thanks āHoward Stevenbergā and Howard Stern who are āMaking out in the cornerā for being on the show.
I never knew who āHoward Stevenbergā was. I assumed he was a rock star or movie star. But noā¦
Heās the worldās fastest reader! š¤Æ
All the other talks are up too. Go watch them!
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLod7ww284cBGTxkmJqysez86KK_1vCYyB
Oh, yay! I didnāt think my LoopConf talk recording was going to be free to watch. But itās out on YouTube.
This was an epic labour of love. Iām so glad I can share it with you.
My 25 Lessons from 25 years of software development in (a little over) 25 minutes.
I think about code a lot. I've found myself thinking about āaccessibilityā of code. Code that has affordances for manipulating it, and annotations where it's not clear. Code with the equivalents of labels, alt text and captions. Code whose meaning is clear.
And I'm thinking about how accessibility is good, not just for the physically and/or mentally impaired, but for everyone.
Does thinking about the accessibility of code in that context help us code better?
I have that most fun of thingsā¦ a swollen 20,000mAh Li-Ion power bank battery.
Putting that OUTSIDE the house until I can recycle it. š¬
This is an excellent little pop-up calendar app for MacOS. Free. Love it.
Phew! Epic day with the kids:
– Science Museum
– Minecraft Experience
– Getting lost in Westfield Shopping Centre
– Finding a Nintendo pop-up store!
– Driving to London and back
Hooray!!
I'm taking my kids to a thing in London tomorrow and I can only take in a bag that's A4 size or smaller.
WHAAAAT?!
We played a silly family car game just now. It has raised a very interesting question.
What would happen if you exposed a marshmallow to the vacuum of space?
We are now down the rabbit hole of YouTube videos titled āX in a vacuum chamberā
Can flies fly in a vacuum chamber?
Is this even ethical?
Hacktivate looks like a very interesting little game for MacOS/iOS.
Security and code-breaking challenges, that teaches text encodings, image processing, and command-line stuff.
You probably need to be at least a beginner computer nerd to not be totally confused (you will find out in the free tutorial). But this seems very clever.