Ross's Micro Blog

🤓 When I come out the other side of this very intense phase of life they call middle-age, I’m going to be more of a nerd than I’ve ever been!!!!!

✍️ I very much have a chill day off of everything.

I have lots to write.

I may blog a lot.

That was weird. Back from a trip to my in-laws. About 130 miles.

On the way there our EV did about 4.2 miles/kWh. We started at 100% and ended with 9%.

On the way back we got 4.8 miles/kWh. Started at 100% and ended with 22%.

No A/C or heating on either way. Similar conditions.

I’ve never known a discrepancy like this. Did we just have a strong headwind?

Did someone say or boost something here about links to HTML IDs not being reliable? I’m sure I saw something but can’t find it.

I know this was all very well considered. But I find it baffling that WordPress always comes to the conclusion that the best thing to do would be to reinvent the wheel… and the tyre… and the axle, creating maintenance burden on its own developers; making people that already understand wheels learn the new wheel; and hampering developers that learn the new wheel because their wheel is different to everyone else’s. And for what benefit? I don’t get it.

https://developer.wordpress.org/block-editor/reference-guides/interactivity-api/core-concepts/server-side-rendering/

I've kinda run out of interesting things to do with Turbo Admin, so instead of doing useful real world stuff, I'm building fun easter eggs! 😂

YES! I DID IT!!!

#WordPress plugin actions from Turbo Admin.

I wanted this for SO long. It was harder than you'd think.

Will be in a release soon.

And yes, plugins do weird stuff that might mean this is messy. I don't care. I do the basics. I can't handle every situation. It's flippin dark magic as it is!!

😀 I don’t mean to be trite or dismissive of all the bad stuff in the world, but we need to laugh more and be excited about small things.

I love Dave and Chris on Shop Talk Show podcast. They just sound like they’re having a good time chatting.

I love The Vergecast. They’re enjoying hanging out.

So much “content” is stale and boring and safe.

I want to hear more people enjoying themselves.

JavaScript question/help…

Context: I’m building a bunch of DOM elements from an array of configuration objects.

The objects might have callbacks that need to be called on events on the created DOM elements.

Question: Is it OK to just add the callbacks as “custom properties” on the DOM elements when creating them? Is that bad for some reason? Is there a better way?

Thanks in advance.

P.S. This is vanilla JS. No framework!!

Today I was reminded that a well known Laravel guy made an interesting-looking #WordPress plugin release automation service!

https://wppm.io/

This is good. Outlining is apparently something I take for granted, but others don’t? I'm not sure it's the advertised 10x speed improvement. But definitely a better way of approaching some tasks.

https://learnhowtolearn.org/how-to-build-extremely-quickly/

So what happened today that made loads of the Uk decide Twitter is bad?

Turbo Admin for #WordPress update today. v1.16.0 fixes a bug discovered by Phil Kurth (https://philkurth.com.au/) – thank you – and introduces a new menu-hiding feature.

This is great if you have a cluttered left-hand admin menu. You can alt/option-click items to move them to a new expandable section and then just access those items using the command palette! Yay! This is early/experimental – let me know what you think.

Docs: https://turbo-admin.com/hide-menu-items

Ahh, I like Rhys’s newsletter. #WordPress, SEO and gaming. What’s not to like? And he’s just a nice chap! 😃
https://toot.wales/@rhyswynne/112960017887096594

What's a #WordPress plugin that totally unnecessarily adds a top-level menu item? (In your opinion)

I got a bit stuck with this this week. I think the docs aren't quite right and neither Google not ChatGPT helped me out. So I'm helping me and you out!

#WordPress REST API Auth nonces in POST requests:

https://rosswintle.uk/2024/08/wordpress-rest-api-auth-nonces-in-post-requests/

Nice things…

2) For some weird reason I never discovered the Logitech wired game controller I bought a while back didn’t work with some games on my Mac. But I finally bought an 8Bitdo wireless controller and it’s a really nice bit of kit and has got me playing No Mans Sky again. It’s so much better on the Mac than the Switch. Making me happy!!

Nice things…

1) Our recent holiday was at this place: https://www.bournemouthbeachlodges.co.uk/

The lodges are really cute and well designed and equipped. Was great with 12+8 yo, but I think it would be hard with older kids as there are no “rooms”. It’s like a two-storey open plan caravan. But we were quite happy there! 😃

Recommended!!