Back in the pandemic times, I set up a newsletter called “Beyond WP” that sought to bring tools and ideas from the broader web/software development world to #WordPress developers.
I quickly ran out of steam – which I'm sad about.
But those emails took time to write. I got good feedback on them, and I was proud of them. So I'm working to get an archive online (with notes on what has changed since writing).
This Cloudflare outage is really something. I’ve worked alongside data center operations and I’ve seen multiple-redundant systems fail in chaotic ways like this. It’s so hard to predict. And yet, stuff like “they needed to be physically accessed … access control system was not powered by the battery backups, so it was offline” is such an obvious design flaw with hindsight.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/post-mortem-on-cloudflare-control-plane-and-analytics-outage/
✍️ Finally getting round to putting the archive of my Beyond WP emails online.
I’d sad it had such short a run.
I think I set my standards too high.
Perhaps I will pick it up again someday.
I like writing.
I really want to work on a PHP code base with tests and types again.
Wrangle some data and APIs.
Try out Tinkerwell v4
What can I make? 😉
I dressed up as a UDP packet
for Halloween. But the kids didn’t get it.
Best I could do.
Sorry.
Not sorry.
Nooo Cloudflare Pages… not today!!! 😬
Honestly.
How hard is it?
“Thanks for your specific feedback. We can see how we can do better. We will try to do as you ask in future.”
It’s all I want sometimes.
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.
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