Ross's Micro Blog

🫠 Lots of new things! (Why I’ve not been writing much)

https://rosswintle.uk/2024/07/lots-of-new-things/

“You could introduce a state-sponsored croissant to price into the market and then let competition encourage other vendors to sell at £1.10”

All sounds totally legit.

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This investigation into satirical politician “Count Binface”’s policy of price-capping croissants is hilarious (especially as it’s so dead pan in delivery) but also quite educational from an economics standpoint.

“You could have a black market for croissants that are sold above the price ceiling” spoken in complete seriousness is perfection.

https://pca.st/episode/95bb7ecd-6a30-4255-925a-ca478dd3aa77?t=1246.0

I also was writing about myself the other week and coined the phrase “intellectually nerdy but not culturally nerdy”.

I think that fits me well. It might have to go in my bio at some point.

I used to call myself a “recreational coder”. I enjoy coding. I had many side projects.

But the last few months I have been focussed on other, more physical projects!

With the physical work mostly complete, and my new job starting on Monday and requiring a real shift back to back-end development, I’m pining to get back into my recreational code.

What’s first? 😃

@adam

AI is such a useful tool for transcribing. It feels odd that you would seemingly write off ALL AI systems when there may be options that people might want to choose to use to make their audio accessible with the least friction/effort.

I also note (as a beta tester) that it seems to keep my microphone open even when I've stopped recording – don't know if you can stop that happening?

Thanks though – really fun little tool (and a reminder I need to get back into posting to my statuslog!)

@adam Love your little audio thing. I've always been tempted by the similar feature on micro.blog (and briefs.fm, which seems to have died off, but was a nice idea).

I know you're not a fan of AI, but I would like to see if there is some way I can automatically make transcriptions – perhaps using the built-in tech of my iPhone rather than one of the new fangled LLM thingies.

SO… I'd love to be able to download an audio file if I'm logged in to do this with.

UK Pol

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Trying not to do too much politics. But I have mixed feelings on our election.

🙌 YAY that Labour are in
🙌 YAY that the Tories sunk hard
😡 BOO that Reform did so well (even though it massively helped Labour)
🧐 HMM on vote shares and the system
🙌 YAY for the Greens
🙏 PLEASE don’t mess this up, Keir, this is a fragile win

UK Pol

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Wow. Buckland (ex-Tory-MP in my constituency) is LIVID. He’s INCENSED!

He’s a good bloke I reckon. I’m a bit sad for him.

UK Pol

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That Heidi Alexander on the telly in Swindon South is MY MP!! Isn’t she awesome?! 🙌

Well. There it is. My last day as “Web Developer” is done. I re-start in Product and Engineering on Monday.

New home office space
(Hopefully) New Government
New job

I’m exhausted!! But onwards!!! 😃

I put a big fat X in a box and I hope it makes a difference.

If you live in the UK you should do this too!

Exciting day. 🗳️

I get to vote tomorrow.

It’s odd seeing people on the news saying “I don’t think I’ll vote. There’s nothing in it for me.”

IT’S NOT ABOUT YOU! It’s about ALL OF US!!!

When did we start thinking that the purpose of a vote is to get what WE want?

See also: “He seems like a nice bloke.”

Can’t lie. I crushed it today. 💪

I’ve been working on a Big and Important Thing at work on-and-off for about 8 months. It concluded today with a go-live that was, as far as we know, totally error free. Which, given the complexity of the job, is quite something. I’m gonna put this down to:

– Tests
– Structuring your work well
– Reviews by excellent colleagues
– Detailed planning
– Anticipating and mitigating for problems

100% Rocket Turtle stuff!! 🚀🐢

Hands up if you regret not wearing a jumper on your morning walk.

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SUMMER????‽!

Hah. I’d kinda forgotten WordlePress. Fired it up and today (Monday) was a properly guessable one.

Not sure what time it rolls over to Tuesday.

Hooray! I solved today's #WordlePress in 7 guesses! 🎉🎉🎉

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Test your #WordPress dev knowledge at https://wordlepress.com/

Tech help:

I have a NODE_ENV=production in my terminal but I don’t know what is setting it.

It’s ONLY there when I run iTerm. Regular terminal.app doesn’t have it.

I can’t find anything in my iTerm settings that would do this.

Any ideas?