Cranking out updates this week!
Turbo Admin 1.15 is here with a big update to List Table Keyboard Shortcuts.
That’s a clumsy name, but it means you now get keyboard access to:
– Items in most“list tables” (posts, pages, comments, WooCommerce Orders and Products, etc) (‘J’, ‘K’ on keyboard, ‘Enter' to select)
– Focus search on list tables (‘/‘ on keyboard)
– Pagination of these tables ('Ctrl-F' and 'Ctrl-B’)
“I’ve been doing this for YEARS and there’s hardly a week that goes by that I don’t learn about a new horrifying way to accidentally cause a breaking change… the rules are too complex, there’s too many of them, it’s too easy to break them without noticing … The real answer here is the tooling just need to be good.”
Great Short from @changelog !
Fun getting stuck into Turbo Admin again. Nearly completed one of my favourite long-outstanding features: keyboard shortcuts for list tables!!
This makes #WordPress + Turbo Admin nicely keyboard driven for most core screens + WooCommerce!
Hopefully coming soon to the extension and plugin. Because, if nothing else, *I WANT IT!!!!*
I keep seeing recommendations for the board/card game “Splendor”. Can someone please tell me more. What is it and why is it so good?
I like my car. It’s a massive privilege to own it. But wow is car ownership expensive and annoying and borderline scammy.
Today I’m having a small plastic triangle replaced.
£140!
Not covered under warranty because the old part broke off and was lost. Despite it being REALLY obvious that it just broke off for no reason.
I probably should just adjust my expectations of how much anything car-related costs.
Yay! I finally got a Turbo Admin browser extension update out.
This is for all the #WordPress folks who start up lots of new sites and get annoyed by:
– The Welcome Panel
– The Help guides on the editor screens
– The Choose-a-Pattern modal on the New Page screen
The “Auto-remove block-editor welcome screen” option now removes all of these things automatically! On ALL your WordPress dashboards!!
Update to v1.14 in your browser, or try it out at https://turbo-admin.com/
Here's my quick local #WordPress CLI in action. Perfect for temporary sites for testing stuff (like the latest release candidate!):
I should also note that yes, while diagnosing this, my script did create a subdirectory of my current working directory called “~”.
And yes, I DID then try to delete that with the command:
“rm -rf ~”
🤦♂️
(Backups are your friend)
Weirdly I could not find a way to replicate shell-expansion of file paths (like “~/test1”) in PHP or Laravel.
Is this because it wouldn’t work cross-platform?
Ended up doing this, but it doesn’t seem ideal.
exec(“echo $filepath”, $output);
$fullpath = $output[0];
Context: I’m passing a CLI option like “path=~/test1”
I’m aiming to get an update to Turbo Admin out soon.
Before I do that I wanted a quick way to spin up temporary local #WordPress sites.
So I got some fixes done for my CLI tool that does exactly that!
Sadly, the name I wanted to use for this is now being used by another project. 😢
I’m also not really allowed to promote such a tool. But know that it exists!!
Just me checking all the clues in the XKCD crossword to see if any of them don’t fit with the theme.
😂
I’m having FOMO for both WordCamp Canada and WordCamp Whitley Bay in the UK.
Need to get meeting my WordPress friends again soon!!!
Sportsball/England Kickmen observations
It’s probably just some weird bias/perception thing, but in all these England football games, they’ve seemed fine when in possession, but I feel like every time there was a counter attack they just got sliced apart. Every counter has felt like a moment of peril.
Is that just me?
So what did I learn in new job land today? More “How to use a mouse” tricks? Or “How not to create symlinks?”
No. I learned that, in the website programming language I’ve used for, like, 14 years, request or POST variables are only populated for requests with certain Content-Type’s.
If you POST an API request with JSON content to plain PHP, you won’t get ANYTHING in the $_POST superglobal.
How have I not found this before? Have I just been spoilt by frameworks?
🖥️ Finished my day by picking back up my series of Readable Code Tips.
Today: Use “is” or “has” for Boolean variables/functions
https://rosswintle.uk/2024/07/readable-code-tips-use-is-or-has-for-boolean-variables-functions/
Find out why I’m sharing these tips at the introduction page:
✍️ I’m on a blogging roll!
I want to talk (again) about friction. Things that slow us down. How some friction is good, and some is bad. And how this relates to decision you make while coding.
🎉 More new things… here's some more on my new job that I started today!
Best thing I learned in my first day of new job:
Shift-scrollwheel does horizontal scrolling.
On the one hand: How did I not know that?!
On the other hand: How was I supposed to know that?!
🤯🙌
🏗️ In case you’ve not heard enough about it already…
I have just moved out of my old "proper office" and into a new garden studio. Here's why and how!
https://rosswintle.uk/2024/07/the-great-office-move-of-2024/