This is a great article on getting started in web development.
The author is clearly wise and reflective beyond her years.
“What I Wish I Knew About Working In Development Right Out Of School” https://smashingmagazine.com/2023/10/beginner-web-development-working-career/
Yay! NASA released another issue of their educational graphic AR comic thing about the first woman going to the moon.
The first one was good.
https://www.nasa.gov/calliefirst/
I just added some link preloading-on-hover to my blog (if the network conditions are right). Makes it seem super fast!
And if you have view-transitions on it will be nice and smooth too.
Have added upcoming #PHP v8.3 features to https://caniphp.com now too. 
Yay!
https://caniphp.com/ now has a complete set of PHP 8.2 features/functions/methods.
On to PHP 8.3 in time for next month's release.
(I'm doing this because I'm ill and I'm in bed doing boring things. Not so yay! So send hugs/sympathy, or if you like Can I PHP? you can also buy me a coffee/Lemsip):
Remembering.
If we don't remember, we don't have empathy.
I was sure I'd posted this to socials, but I couldn't find it.
Back in Dec 2020 my laptop died. It was adorned with stickers. And I took a photo to remember it in all of it's uniqueness.
Back when we actually owned digital music (!!) we had specific devices for playing it.
I kept my weenie little Zen Stone and I still think it’s a marvel.
Those were the days.
Just spending an evening looking through all the awesome stuff people are making and sharing.
– Music
– Games
– Talks (with write-ups)
– Little apps
I was having another little "code-off" with my kid tonight.
The internet is full of creativity that is so easily squashed by scaling and monetization. I LOVE seeing people having FUN!!!
How long do you think the current #WordPress admin dashboard design/implementation will be around?
1 year
2 years
Longer
There will always be a “classic dashboard”
This made a boring long car journey fly by!
How many London Railway/Underground stations can you remember.
We got to about 52%. Which isn’t bad given we stopped living in London about 17 years ago!
Israel/Palestine – learning about the conflict
If you are wondering: Do I trust the BBC? Yes I do. They are an ad-free (in the UK), public-funded service that I find to be reasonably centrist and impartial. Yes, they stray from that sometimes. But relative to other media they seem good at this.
I think it's really important to understand the players in this conflict.
And ultimately, I hope you will find the good and innocent people on both sides, and the support that they need right now.
Israel/Palestine – learning about the conflict
2) Rory Stewart's explainer from “The Rest is Politics" is very good too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAs5EOBUDcs
Their podcast is also interviewing people from different sides to get different perspectives.
3) I generally don't believe news flashes and information from social media. The BBC's “Verified" team seems good at transparent, evidence-based journalism for average folk. Example on the hospital: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67144061 2/2
Israel/Palestine – learning about the conflict
I confess, I'm a person that used to shy away from the Israel/Palestine conflict and politics because it seemed so complicated and confusing and impossible to resolve.
But, as I have said, I've really been paying attention and trying to understand it these last days.
Some really great resources have helped.
1) I'm not sure if you all can see this, but the BBC have a good explainer with some helpful maps: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-44124396
1/2
Ooh. I've not done the daily “Connections" puzzle before. Not bad for a first go!!
Connections
Puzzle #128
https://www.nytimes.com/games/connections
Just an early, curmudgeon’s opinion, but CSS-in-JS is more of the same JS hackery pile-on isn’t it?
– Oooh, we could do typed CSS? Could we? That would be cool!
– Oh it breaks a load of very basic things.
– Never mind, let’s pile on a bunch of workarounds rather than decide that the original idea wasn’t valid!!
– Yay, typed CSS with lots of added complexity and that’s nothing like CSS!!
Did I miss some amazing thing here??
This is a complete rip-off of someone else's idea, and so will never be published but it was fun to make.
I made tiny HTML golf game with ramdomized hole layouts!
– HTML, TailwindCSS, AlpineJS
– Lots of emoji
– Needs design work, but functions nicely
Wow. I must have not been paying attention to the news enough at the weekend. Catching up and paying attention now. The situation in Gaza looks horrific.
There are 2 million civilians in there. They have no water or energy supplies. Hospitals are about to lose power.
If you’re not paying attention, find a reputable news source and do so.
It’s really nice to have @dvk back on socials and back posting about his work and ideas.
Follow him for good takes on web/software development.
In my opinion at least. If you like my posts you will like his!!
I’ve always said I’d like to go and study something like philosophy of maths.
But sometimes I think I’d love to study psychology of computer programming.
Is that a thing?