Ross's Micro Blog

Coding thought: I’ve always loved types. My first job used static analysis a LOT! With the combination of PHPStan & JSDoc letting me use types without changing my code much I’m LOVING the help & insight that types give me. Old PHP code with structured arrays is SO annoying now.

A post on strikes and taxes:

https://rosswintle.uk/2022/12/on-strikes-and-taxes/

This morning is just going to be a social media stream of consciousness from me as I process many things from the last few weeks and months. You may want to mute me. 😂

Catching up on reading. This is a great little tutorial from @briancoords@wpbuilds.social using the new #WordPress #JavaScript packages.

https://www.briancoords.com/recreating-the-quick-draft-dashboard-widget-using-the-wordpress-data-layer/

The JSX + components seem like such a no-brainer. But I realise I’m basically allergic to big piles of dependencies. If I build this, how long until it breaks? 🤔

The enter key now also submits a guess. SO glad I fixed that!

Gosh it’s a mess. I wish I could do design. 😭😭😭

New feature! May I be the first to do this:

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Hooray! I solved today’s #WordlePress in 51 guesses! 🎉🎉🎉

🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️ x 4
🟩⬜️⬜️🟧
🟩🟩⬜️⬜️ x 43
🟩🟩🟧⬜️
🟩🟩⬜️🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩

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

I saw Turbo Admin posted in a Facebook group today with some people commenting that it was buggy. This makes me sad. I can’t make it better and fix bugs if people don’t report them!

People who have contacted me will tell you I’m properly happy to get big reports & feature ideas!

I was tempted to ask ChatGPT to make a Wordle clone in JavaScript. But I don’t actually care if it can or not. Because if this stuff starts to take over the world then we will end up with people that don’t know if language models give correct answers or not. That seems bad!

Yay! Swindon, my home town, previously the subject of mockery-by-song on The Now Show, has now been scientifically proven not to exist on The Infinite Monkey Cage! (Sort of) (Well, not really) (But it gets another infamous mention!)

https://pca.st/episode/ac8952ed-9c10-478c-878a-52415bcc659a?t=1967.0

Don’t normally share the Wordle, but this was very pleasing…

Wordle 542 3/6

🟩⬜⬜⬜🟩
🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Or maybe:

⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️
🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️ x 66
🟩🟧⬜️⬜️
🟩⬜️🟧⬜️
🟩⬜️⬜️🟩 x 112
🟩⬜️🟩🟩 x 8
🟩🟩🟩🟩

I think #WordlePress sharing should be like:

1 guess
🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️
65 guesses
🟩🟧⬜️⬜️
🟩⬜️🟧⬜️
🟩⬜️⬜️🟩
111 guesses
🟩⬜️🟩🟩
7 guesses
🟩🟩🟩🟩

190 guesses total!

(Yes, this was mine today. Lots of “suggest” button use!)

I feel like an ACTUAL product manager punting features and improvements to the next milestone! 😄

CW: Boring Daily Product Development Update

Right. No messing around. I’m punting some improvements to Turbo Admin in order to ship ship ship the new search modes. Other fixes/tweaks will be in a follow up release!

I am very much looking forward to the day when I don’t need to be the executive function for four people between 7:30 and 8:30 every morning! 😬