Tried to describe my job at the weekend to an older, less technical person:
– if there’s architects and builders for buildings then there are the same for websites. I’m a builder.
– Well, actually, I’m building the tools that builders use. So I’m like DeWalt or Ryobi.
– Hmm. Well. In fact:
Imagine that I’m the janitor who looks after the DeWalt store building where other builders buy the tools they use for building.
– Does this make ANY sense?! 😂
Hmm… I kinda expected more from the template for the Easter egg design competition…
🤔🤷♂️😂
Is it cos I’m old? Or British? Or Gen X?
Dunno.
But the Super Bowl half time show was totally underwhelming.
🤷♂️
Over on Twitter someone has asked for photos of your oldest #programming book.
Depends what you mean by oldest!
SICP was written in ‘85 but I didn’t own it until ‘95
The Little LISPer was published two years later, but I owned it a year or two earlier.
Ah yes. The BEST version of Tetris is now on the Switch! 😃
I’ve never done WordCamp Europe. But I got looking through the attendee list and genuinely might seriously consider it purely to meet and hang out with some of my favourite online people.
Has anyone built an AI that I can run presentations through that expands all acronyms to their longform versions?
Why are there so many abbreviations?
Does it actually help the reader/viewer? Or is it the content producer being lazy and/or gatekeeping?
These layoffs are now getting far too close to home. Sad for everyone involved here. 🙁
(And in ALL the places I know that have had layoffs/redundancies this week)
Ah yay! @courtneyr_dev just pointed out that https://turbo-admin.com/ got a mention on @nathan’s weekly show/podcast.
Thank you Nathan!!
(Looks like I need to work on that SEO! 😬)
“Hey, ChatGPT…
Write me a story about a builder called ‘Beaver’ who goes on a quest. He should be aided or hindered (you decide) by a series of friends or villains: a scientist called ‘Rocket’; a wizard called ‘Varnish’; and a dragon called ‘Cloudflare’.
The quest is to discover the contents of the mysterious cache, and deliver it to Prince DOM.
The quest is ultimately successful but only accomplished by the solving of numerous, complex and inter-related puzzles”
Finally getting my Tweet archive up on my own (#WordPress) website thanks to @shawnhooper's excellent importer.
https://github.com/shawnhooper/twitter-archive-to-wp
Don't use it yet though – wait for my PR with media improvements to be accepted! 🙏 😉
(No hurry, Shawn… it's a substantial change.)
I'm sorry… what?
Twitter's export doesn't include alt-text for images?
🙄
Totally theoretical but…
I heard about this story of ovarian cancer showing up in purchasing patterns in retail loyalty programmes.
And I wondered if… IF you could train something like GPT3 on medical records. Could you then input your own medical record and have it complete possible future health problems?
Is Twitter shutting down oEmbeds too? Is that part of the API?
That could be fun!!
I’m not a manager, and I don’t really aspire to be one. But this book comes so highly recommended and I want to devour it in one sitting!!
When was that “Blue Monday” officially-most-depressing-day-of-the-year? And why is it not over yet?
The news today is crap.
Yesterday was crap.
My body is old and crapping out.
Can it just be spring now please?!
Today I learned about Lake Peigneur which, due to a mathematical accident, turned into a giant whirlpool one day and went from being a 3m-deep freshwater lake to a 60m-deep salt-water one!
Oops!!
I swear I am making the slowest progress of any player ever on No Mans Sky, but I’m enjoying just pootling around.
Today alone I:
– Discovered it’s easy and safe to just shoot Sentinels
– Found that swimming is fun
– Made my Cadmium Hyperdrive (!!)
Question though: is there any point at all to exploring half-buried ancient buildings?
Doing a big sync of bookmarks to my personal site. There’s some cool stuff in there.
This Rubik’s Cube explorer is great!
I've been looking for a way to get a reading list that works between browsers and machines and platforms, and that ties in nicely with an existing tool.
I don't want to have to push to Pocket or something.
I don't want to use something that syncs with iCloud.
Today I discovered that Raindrop.io does a GREAT job of this, and the apps even have a nice built-in reader UI! And it's super simple to then convert reading list items to bookmarks! Yay!!