Ross's Micro Blog

I have a website you can visit as many times as you like.

You can even get a feed that you can put in an RSS reader (I like Feedbin) with other peoples website feeds.

And you can check your feeds as often as you like.

Magical.

Am I having a bad day?

Will I regret writing this?

Does it add anything to the converstion?

I don't know. But I feel compelled to write it.

"The web used to be fun and simple and easy to get stuff done with. Now it's discovering that someone who doesn't know what they were doing used a div instead of a button and fixing it involves half a day of poking around files that make no sense and fixing a broken build process.”

I'm tired of web dev!

https://rosswintle.uk/2023/07/im-tired-of-web-dev/

🚗 This is a really excellent article on the pros and cons of EVs. Debunks lots of myths. LOTS of data.

https://philsturgeon.com/unf-king-the-climate-electric-cars/

Me: Can add the cricket for a month to my TV package?

TV people: You’ll need to sign up to a premium TV package and then add the cricket on. It will cost you 10 times what you are currently paying for TV if you sign up for a 12 month contract.

😱

I should probably say that as the maker of Turbo Admin (https://turbo-admin.com) I feel pretty qualified to talk about #WordPress command palettes: building them, naming them, and marketing them.

I have opinions.

And I’m available for interviews and podcast appearances!

😃

Why did the cricket people have to use the term DRS?

I don’t know if I’m watching cricket or F1 these days! 😂

Boring EV numbers

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First longish drive in the Ioniq today. 70 miles. Mostly motorway with some hilly rural roads.

I SHOULD get 5 miles per kWh.

So that should be 14kWh

That’s about 36% of our battery.

I charged it up to 80% on Weds and it’s currently on 32%.

So that’s 12% unaccounted for = 4.7kWh = 23.5miles

I reckon we’ve done 18 other miles since I charged.

So the numbers are good to within about 5miles out of 90.

Pretty good!!

We should REALLY get up to 190miles from this thing!

PSA: If you have Dependabot alerts for “semver” and Dependabot can’t patch them for you…

Before you get into a horrible JS dependency mess, WAIT A FEW DAYS!

It looks like a bunch of popular tools are locked to semver v5.x and v6.x, but they’ve only patched v7.5.x

Babel’s team will fork and back port the fix soon if the semver maintainers don’t.

I consider this my contribution to WordPress 6.3. In more ways than one!

https://wptavern.com/wordpress-6-3-will-introduce-a-command-palette

They even say it’s not “AI”!

“It’s different from most AI systems, he said, because it doesn’t require pre-trained models or extensive image labeling, and quickly analyzes unsupervised data.”

https://spacenews.com/ai-startup-using-satellite-imagery-to-trace-the-path-of-chinese-balloon/

Sheesh!! 🙄

Hey news people and people writing press releases…

Can we stop referring to “algorithms” as AI?

I mean, I’ve written some clever code in my time that probably appears “intelligent”. But there’s a line. And “ability to quickly process lots of data” is clever, but it isn’t really over that line. And I think you know it.

Thanks.

Lol. This scientific exploration of what would happen if the Universal logo was real is very funny.

“It’s pretty much not good for life on Earth”

https://youtu.be/cBxb6LRFG08

🤘 Dave Grohl just flippin loves his job, doesn’t he?

I want a tenth of his energy at age 54.

Boring thought from the pen of a new electric vehicle owner who’s now an EV bore 🙄

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🚘 I feel less “guilty” driving an electric car. And it NICE to drive.

But… in some of my driving it, I’ve still been stuck in traffic.

And being stuck in traffic is awful. It’s complete dead time. It holds me up. It holds other people up. I can’t work or exercise.

Traffic is crap. And EVs don’t fix traffic.

Electric vehicle charging thought…

Rapid charging should be cheaper.

It’s currently cheaper for me to plug in for 6 hours and slow charge.

The financial incentive for me is to stay longer (if I can afford the time) and clog up the network.

The incentive should be to charge quickly and move on.

(I’ve heard Tesla implement some kind of charger occupation fee when busy)

What did I hear on a podcast today?

Something like:

“There are so many great abstractions in web development. React sits on top of TypeScript and TypeScript sits on top of JavaScript.

It’s so easy now to make a button that you click and something happens nowadays”

Yeah, right. It is. And you don’t need any of those abstractions to do it! It’s amazing!!

🤔 Did anyone else read this and think of Severance?

😝 For those that know…

I really think “Wayfinder” is a bad idea.

We’re already trying to undo “Gutenberg”.

One issue is the precedent we set by not following convention.

Let’s call the dashboard “Widgetville” and the admin bar “Headspace” or something.

I’m being facetious. But…

🤪 I think that from now on my signature social media post format will be the long-compound-adjective-with-lots-of-hyphens one.