YES! YES YES YES!!! A "National Parking Platform”.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-teams-with-parking-giants-to-ensure-drivers-can-use-preferred-apps-in-all-car-parks
Can I get all this "not-parking" shit out of my enshittified parking app??
Can we compete on user experience instead?
PLEASE!!!!
Reading the tech news these days is so dull.
I’d say 90% of my news feed is “company X has managed to shoe-horn the mediocre ‘more machine’ into their product that really doesn’t need it”.
Make it stop!!!!
Tomorrow I’m having a life coaching session.
I’ve always been very cynical about the coaching industry. It feels very pyramid-schemey. And it’s expensive, and I’ve never been convinced that I would get value from it.
But the person I’m speaking to has proven themselves again and again and has some specific expertise that I really want to tap into.
Hoping it works out!!!
I am ACTUALLY doing this build myself.
This is the old back door of the original house. It’s now an alternative doorway to our “futility room”, but we don’t use it.
I’ve had the idea for ages to make it a little set of “pantry” shelves.
And despite nothing in this godforsaken house being straight – the doorway height varies by 27mm front to back! – this thing is LEVEL IN BOTH DIRECTIONS!!!! 🙌💪
Oh yes. We had about 6 weeks of perfect, dry, warm weather.
Then it’s early summer school holidays. And so…
Day 2 of "me week". A coffee chat this morning, then a swim. A nice morning start! Then…
I am terrible at DIY. Just SO bad. But every now and then I get an idea for a little project that I think I can do and I go for it. So I now have several metres of furniture board and a load of grab adhesive, and chaos WILL ensure this week. 🤣
Day 1 of my "ME WEEK”. I started with a trip to the local-ish arboretum that we recently (in a stroke of complete middle-agedness) became members of.
It was AMAZING how fast my thoughts clarified as I walked around and admired the beauty and awe and diversity of the trees.
The return to my town was, frankly, a jolt.
I'd love to start every week like this.
#WordPress folks are owed an update on my Turbo Admin browser extension!
I'm still at work on it. I've had a bit of a break to do some other things.
Here's a post with an update, and some ideas for the future (including how I was kinda thinking about model-context-protocol type things and something like the WordPress Features API 2 years ago)
I occasionally happen across old blog posts that I had forgotten I had written.
Here's an idea from 2016 for a snakes-and-ladders type game called “Daddy, Daddy!" where you have to leave your house while being constantly pulled back by the demands of small-children.
Made me laugh today…
Can’t lie. I miss the comedy #eurovision commentary we used to get on Twitter.
If I am guilty of one hypocritical and paradoxical thing, it is of being closed minded about the fact that other people should be open minded.
I won’t compromise on wanting others to compromise.
And the contradiction bothers me greatly.
I’m sensing a change in how people are talking about AI.
There's more open criticism. And I feel like even those bullish about it are starting to sound like they don't quite mean it.
Maybe that's me that’s changed?
Breaking news. Probably not what you fancy-bouncy-spinnyoring really. I'm not taking up fancy-bouncy-spinny dancing.
OK, WordPress. This is just silly now.
I know I'm a top-toolbar guy. And I've looked there.
But how do I make multiple paragraphs italic?
This is basic text formatting. And I can't do it?
Kept one of those scammy, cold-calling web agencies chatting for 15 minutes while I made lunch. Ended with:
“We do web development. Do you need any help with this website?”
“No. That’s what I do for a living. I do it myself.”
“Oooh, you’re a web developer? Sorry to bother you. Goodbye.”
I mean… is it not clear?
I get what they’re trying to do. But does this high-volume, low-effort sales process work for ANYONE???
Well. 20/20 on the Misinformation Susceptibility Test. That's good. I suppose.
I am "more resilient to misinformation than 98% of the UK population!” and I am "neither too skeptical nor too gullible when it comes to the news”.
If you’re curious (gosh I use that word a LOT!) then you can watch today’s talks back at https://wordsesh.com/recordings
https://mastodon.social/@barrd/114505557610007620
I have just learned that some people… astonishingly… incredulously…
…eat their chocolate digestives with the chocolate side down!!!
MONSTERS!!!!!
😂
I’m watching back the first of my fellow presenters’ @wordsesh talks and I’m declaring this online conference highly under-hyped.
There is some GREAT stuff here and it’s free to watch until August.
https://wordsesh.com/recordings
@rzen has done an awesome job curating this. Bravo!👏
The WordSesh talk is recorded! Hurrah!!!
A reflection: Dang, you REALLY have to ham it up to get any emotion to come across on camera. I thought I overdid it, but no. I could have gone wild and it would still look like I’m only vaguely excited. 🤣