Ross's Micro Blog

@jackmcconnell You made it!! 😃

I’m still a genius.

Lifehack time.

I got a water flosser last year. Which is great for cleaning your teeth.

But today I realised it’s basically a miniature household power washer.

I just used it to unblock the plug in my bathroom sink.

In seconds!

And gave it a clean too.

Amazing.

In todays 5 Minute Window I’ll finish making PHPStorm look nice:

https://youtu.be/EO65ypDl4wg

(The first part, if you missed it: https://youtu.be/ealOv_j-8pI)

You want to start reading something that you won’t want to stop reading? Try this…

https://brandnewbox.com/inthestacks/

H/T @chriscoyier

In todays 5 Minute Window I’ll finish making PHPStorm look nice:

https://youtu.be/I9sfCvETOBc

(The first part, if you missed it: https://youtu.be/ealOv_j-8pI)

Seems I have decided to properly embrace Blue Monday this year. Weather’s crap. I need sleep. I think I’m going to eat every single molecule of carbohydrate that I come across.

Huh. Tweetbot is back up! Sort of. But not completely. 🤔🤷‍♂️

Here we are then… this one is for @royalrex

5 minutes on how I got my PHPStorm setup looking sweet.

(With another 5 coming tomorrow! But that's it. Just 2 videos!)

https://youtu.be/ealOv_j-8pI

Gah! I have my 5-Minute Window video recorded, edited and exported. But not uploaded and published yet.

Incoming soon!!!

Tried to add PHPCS and PHPStan to this too. Gosh, coding standards are painful to set up.

Seems like some WordPress standards aren't compatible with running them in phpcs on PHP8.0 😬

Yay! My plugin that syncs Mastodon posts to #WordPress now syncs images too!

I prefer to stay in one place to both read and post social media. So doing it this way works better for me (the alternative being post to WordPress and syndicate out to Mastodon)

https://github.com/rosswintle/sync-mastodon

Does anyone know what Geometry Dash is? (Context: I do, but I’ve never heard anyone else mention it on social media)

If you do, do you know the story behind it? Why is it suddenly popular? It’s like 5 years old‽
Is it a TikTok thing or something?

Yesterday was a bit longer than 5 minutes.

5 minutes is an aspiration, not a hard limit!

Let's continue building a website.

https://youtu.be/RLm59mtsYVQ

I've not done #FollowFriday for ages, but I'd love to share:

@aurooba whose 5-minute podcast experiment is wisdom and joy, and inspired me to make things

@jessitron, who's philosophical insight is matched by the energy with which she communicates it.

Thanks to both for all that you share with us!

I'm not sure how this will go today. I don't have much of a plan.

We're building a website though.

5 more minutes…

#FiveMinuteWindow

https://youtu.be/iGVrY5jhF_k

Well here we are. You know what I’ve been saying for literally years now? I’ve been saying “Hey, Twitter! How about you let me PAY for Twitter “Pro” that’s ad-free (because I don’t click the damn things anyway) and that lets me use a fully functional API.

Yes: productize the API! Everyone that wants it values it. They’re probably already paying for a third-party client app.

This is what Twitter Blue should be.

And now it’s likely gone.

Sad times.

Gonna have to start turning these into podcasts soon! 😆

Today, let's try something different.

How much of a simple website can I build in five minutes?

(Not much, it turns out. But you get to see my little small-site starter kit in action!)

https://youtu.be/_Y-2GPOsHYw