Ross's Micro Blog

This “Lift the Flap – Computers and Coding”
Book is a bit rubbish. It only has 4 flaps to lift! 😉

Been meaning to add a little “Maker Log” to my blog to record some of what I’m up to:

* Add a WordPress post type
* Add a custom widget
* Make a WP-CLI remote command to post to it from the command line

Neat!

All at https://rosswintle.uk

Product idea: a plate with a cover that’s connected to a sensor in a cushion you put on a chair. The cover only opens when it detects the presence of a child sitting fully on the chair. You HAVE to sit on the chair to be able to eat the food!

Now someone please make this. Ta!

I still have a large bunch of content updates to do, but I wanted to get this out. There. It’s done! *phew*

BREAKING! (probably literally): I had this crazy idea for re-making my personal website/blog. I’m still not sure if it’s a great idea, or a terrible one. But go have a play anyway and let me know what you think. Still a work in progress, somewhat.

https://rosswintle.uk/

I also had the “Aha!” moment of discovering the Statamic “Stashe” (the index of content that it builds). Suddenly lots of things make sense.

Also: my laptop goes pretty crazy when rebuilding the “Stashe”!! 🔥🔥🔥

Also: Love that I can version control all my content changes. 🙌

In other news, in my “spare” time I’m continuing to play with Statamic. Have exported all my blog content from WordPress (~630 posts) and imported to a test Statamic install. Mostly easy, but the export missed out post tags…I think?

Just realised I can run business-critical Slack workspaces inside Wavebox (alongside my Gmail and other stuff) and “community” Slack workspaces in the Slack app. Thus letting me “kill” community work spaces all at once.

Nice!

Having a bit of a digital spring-clean too.

– Deleted Medium account – one whack-a-mole I’m bored of and don’t need now
– Deleted Quora account – same reasons
– Removed myself from several noisy Facebook groups

If, like for me, today was your let’s-start-spring-cleaning day, let me know you stats.

Mine are:

– Rooms cleaned: 0.3
– % Time spent placating bored children: 92%
– Random, un-planned DIY jobs achieved: 1
– Marie Kondo score: 1/10
– Lego pieces hoovered: 0 (!!)

Great to see not just one but a forthcoming series of articles about urban cycling in Swindon!

https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/17467817.swindon-has-spaghetti-of-cycle-routes-to-explore/

As I’m going to be in a co-working space over the next few months, I set up an Algo VPN today. Took a while to get going (my fault: RTFM!) but was ultimately pretty simple.

WireGuard made setup easy on MacOS and iOS too.

Thanks to @javorszky for advice and help!!

I didn’t say in my #weeknotes, but I’ve been getting myself sorted with PHPCS and coding standards. It’s a little set up to get up and running (Sublime was easier than PHPStorm) but I’m really into it now. I love that it takes away micro-decisions about formatting.

Short #weeknotes from half-term week. Exciting things to come though!!

https://rosswintle.uk/2019/02/the-week-25th-february-2019/

I just used the phrase “being a bit Theresa May about it” to refer to something I’m procrastinating about making a decision over.

I know I’ll sound like a snob but I was a bit sad to only submit one talk to WordCamp London. The thing is, I have REALLY high standards. I had several ideas but only one that I could imagine being interesting and entertaining as a talk.

It’s been SO good to be back on my bike this week. 👍👍😃😃😃

Bring on spring and longer weekday rides.

Actually properly playing with Statamic tonight. A few “huh, really?” moments. But mostly good and the documentation is excellent. The only thing I can’t do (easily) is something that I probably can’t do easily in WordPress either.

Taking my personal site redesign to a bit of an extreme. Will probably reign it in a little as ALL the mono-space is SO hard to read. #notADesigner

Never-to-be-repeated parenting moment.

4 balloons – 4 kids

Me: Let’s have one each
Child 1: I want the pink one!
(Me, thinking: Oh crap)
C2: I want the yellow one!
(Me: this will end in tears)
C3: I want the blue one!
Me (to C4): Which do you want?
C4: The red one!

PRAISE BE!!