Ross's Micro Blog

🏋️ Random. But brilliant! https://youareatlas.com/

Birds are definitely real. Cats though? Could totally be government surveillance robots!!

Yay. Another excellent #WordPress person is on Mastodon.

Give @elliottrichmond a follow if that’s your thing!

EV Bore

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Took the EV on another longer (non urban, mainly highway) drive yesterday. With passengers.

100 miles used 50% of the battery. With A/C on most of the way too.

Amazed that we still get 5+ miles per kWh even on a journey like that.

SO happy with our Ioniq. It’s ultra efficient and fast to charge. Definitely a good choice.

I hate that I like a car so much. 😂

@elliottrichmond I'm happy to help out here. But I am mostly here and not in the other place these days.

Welcome!! 😃

I’m pronouncing it “Cross”. It’s cross dot com. And Tweets are now “complaints”.

You are probably wondering which direction that rain is moving in? And the answer is… err… well… none of them?

After a period of not really having the time, energy or inspiration, I'm finally back in a hacking mindset and have a project in my head.

This is good.

But, Laravel, it's been too long… 😢

What on earth happened to Firefox for iOS. It’s become unusable. 🙁

And just to be clear, this is a completely regular WP install. Here's an edit of the Twenty Twenty Three theme.json file…

I see no reason this can't be made really simple to use for local, throwaway WP testing with no dependencies.

When I first saw wp-now:

https://developer.wordpress.com/2023/05/23/wp-now-launch-a-local-environment-in-seconds/

I wondered: why does this need npm and JS and WASM? Why hasn't anyone done this with static PHP binaries and some scripts?

So… while this currently requires some things to be pre-installed, I've done most the same thing (including using sqlite) with a simple bash script.

It's not (yet) as sophisticated. And perhaps there are still reasons not to do it. But let's see where it goes.

#wordpress

Laravel Herd looks like a great tool for all PHP devs. MacOS only, but it’s a super-fast native app.

Gonna give this a try!

#WordPress folks might want this on their radar.

https://herd.laravel.com/

😵‍💫 I don’t get why tech people find Mastodon hard.

They understand choosing servers/instances.

They understand the privacy issues of closed corporate-controlled networks.

They’re often proponents of open source.

They usually hate ads.

They like APIs and feeds and nerd stuff.

Confuses me greatly.

npm question:

Are devDependencies transitive?

If I have Babel as a devDependency, do I get Babel’s devDependencies installed in my dev environment?

Or does npm only include MY devDependencies?

(Thinking out loud. I will try to find this out myself)

The conversation was basically about what motivates us to do chores. Turns out I’m primarily motivated by consequences. “This job is important because if I don’t do it then this bad thing will happen”.

Which is not, it turns out, how everyone thinks!

Is there some trait – possibly of neurodiverse minds – that’s like an intuitive, in-brain, fault tree analysis. Where, when presented with an idea, you very quickly understand the possible failure modes.

I thought maybe this was learned pessimism or catastrophising. But after a conversation with my wife at the weekend I’m wondering if it’s innate and a gift?

Also… really want to do a masters in Psychology right now.

My son is now playing Zelda. He’s so much quicker at picking these things up than I am. Making me feel a bit stupid.