Ross's Micro Blog

This is brilliantly nerdy and geek-funny. A chap who visited roads named after every day of the year. 5 min lightning talk.

https://youtu.be/MwRbr-MjwII?feature=shared

Dang it – didn't quite get everything updated. But a @chriscoyier post referenced Turbowatch and Live.js as a simple file watcher/browser reloader combo.

I want something simpler than Turbowatch though, and more modern than Live.js.

Live.js also didn't work with Laravel Valet. 😢

BUT… I got it all working! It's 55 lines of shell script and 10k of modernised JS (uncompressed). I will build it into my small static site template and write up soon!!

😃

I’ve been thinking a lot about code style recently. Naming conventions. Simple refactors. Stuff like that.

I can’t think of who in #WordPress is doing this (outside of recommending PHPCS and WPCS).

Am I missing something/someone? Or is this a gap that needs filling?

This Dragons Den pitch (UK’s Shark Tank) had me giggling the other day. It’s a masterpiece of editing to bring out all the non-verbal communication and very funny.

https://youtu.be/1k2hUor6tRg?si=uHJngm_QCXgYwzR2

I was also discussing sport with a Canadian this week and she told me that because “hockey” means “ice hockey” by default they need a term for hockey-on-grass.

And that term is “floor hockey”

Which for some reason makes me giggle.

Words that Americans seem to use a lot that I think carry cultural weight that I, as a Brit, don’t understand:

– “compelling” (as in “That’s a compelling tool”)
– “appreciate” (as in “I appreciate you.”)

I wonder what I say that carries cultural weight that my other-side-of-the-pond colleagues don’t understand.

Today will also require careful management of sugar/caffeine levels. Will be very easy to overdo it.

Yes, I’m middle-aged and these are the things I think about now when I’m socialising. 😂

I’m travelling to London today to… err… socialise with people in real life?!

Will I remember how?

Tips/advice?

Best worst advice wins.

This is a great post. I feel so much of senior dev woe!

Falsehoods Junior Developers believe about becoming Senior https://vadimkravcenko.com/shorts/falsehoods-junior-developers-believe-about-becoming-senior/

My friend Tim is running a workshop. He’s really very smart, has a TON of experience, and he’s entertaining too:

“I'm running a workshop on how to clean a hacked #WordPress Site, it's on the 21st March and I hope I can tempt you to come! I'm excited, I think I have managed to get the balance between technical and accessible, so that it genuinely is useful to everyone.”

https://timnash.co.uk/workshop/

Hang on… ChatGPT’s voice is terrible at reading out long strings of digits? What?!

(Sound on…)

@gilest Hello fellow Wiltshire person! I seem to follow you already and I feel like we’ve interacted before. But hello again! Thanks for following.

Another week, another single-page web app gets spun up. These are the new domain names. 😂

This one is secret for now. But real fun to make.

Figuring out in-browser background removal with JS/CSS. Plus turning HTML into images to print.

Cool stuff!

I really need to bookmark my open tabs! 😬

US Politics + “Oh my eyes!” design.

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Even if you thought Trump was a good politician, would you really look at this and think you’d want to spend $400 on them?

Keep scrolling too… there’s a VERY special offer at the bottom.

https://gettrumpsneakers.com/

Here it is then: My manifesto for small, static web apps.

If you wish to comment/reply on this, please read the intro on what a manifesto is before you do.

https://rosswintle.uk/2024/02/a-manifesto-for-small-static-web-apps/

With that in mind the summary is:

– Static first/only
– No login
– Don't store user data
– Use the smallest JS library possible
– Use web standards as much as possible
– Use simple build steps that won't break
– “Done” is a goal
– Zero-maintenance (and easy maintenance) is a goal
– Don’t minify
– Be accessible

I try hard not to dunk on WordPress because I still love it, for all its flaws.

But when patterns first arrived I knew it was the wrong model.

And now we’re at what they should have been. But because it’s built on the wrong legacy it’s “Synced Pattern Overrides” 😬

Surely I wasn’t the only one that (fore)saw this?

Anyway, here’s the video…

https://youtu.be/VGw3aNIwTNw

In the newsletter that linked me to this video I also read:

“Gutenberg meets the needs of fewer than half of respondents”

🧐