Ross&#039;s Micro Blog

11/09/2019, 19:21

Heh. I wrote a simple button-driven vanilla-JavaScript chatbot framework in 50 lines of code.

#winning

😂

11/09/2019, 19:21

Pretty sure NatWest could save a significant %age of my £5 monthly business account fee by not sending me details of my £5 monthly account fee in the post. 😂

11/09/2019, 19:20

Worse than “the tech you use sucks” is the more personal “who the hell works with this tech?”

Because, for a large number of other people, the answer is “Well, actually, I do!”

And you just shunned them from your community by making them feel stupid.

11/09/2019, 19:20

Observation (of a minority of people):

JavaScript: PHP sucks
PHP: WordPress sucks
WordPress dev’s: Page builders suck
Page builder users: All the other page builders suck

Can we just accept that there are different tools for different jobs and then be nice to each other?

September 9, 2019

I quite like the Wikipedia snippet that @DuckDuckGo gives you when you search for “lorem ipsum”. It works far better as placeholder text than actual Lorem ipsum! Will make far more sense to clients. 👍

08/09/2019, 14:17

I will add that yes, I know about Laravel Shift. But I wanted to do this manually to get a feel for the process.

08/09/2019, 14:17

– Knowledge from Marcel Pociot Package Development course was super helpful! https://phppackagedevelopment.com/
– One of the apps had tests – I felt so much more confident upgrading that!
– Upgrading can be hard – you need to know PHP and Composer well to understand messages and debug

08/09/2019, 14:16

Yesterday I did one side-project app upgrade from Laravel 5.1 to 6.0 and one from 5.7 to 5.8 and then 6.0.

Really simple apps, I should add.

Notes:
– New ignition errors weren’t always helpful and took some getting used to.
– Had to fork the ReCaptcha package I use

08/09/2019, 14:14

Coffee to the left of me
Lemsip to the right
Here I am stuck in the middle with flu*!

(Not actually flu)

September 6, 2019

06/09/2019, 09:00

I’m sitting in bed with half a voice and feeling rubbish. But I want to do some thanking and promoting while I’m here.

Firstly, Laravel 6 was out this week. So huge thanks to Taylor, Mohammed and everyone that makes this awesome free thing that I get to use. 🙌

05/09/2019, 18:34

Finally, on headphones. When I got my not-true-wireless earbuds about two years ago for £30 I was like “Woah, you can get tech like that that isn’t terrible for £30‽‽”

I’m now doing the same with true-wireless. It’s VERY impressive.

05/09/2019, 18:34

I’ve yet to cycle with them but they seem comfy, light and stay in my ears (which I didn’t expect). They’re a bit big and stupid-looking but 🤷‍♂️. Sound quality is fine for podcasts and a bit of music, audiophiles will protest. Not tried a call yet. Mic probably awful.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07SZ8V339/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_U_x_7ItCDbDB13VMN

05/09/2019, 18:34

Having lost my wireless earbuds while cycling, I thought I’d try “true wireless”. Apple’s things never stay in my ears and I was on a budget. I picked up these for £30 and they do the job just fine.

05/09/2019, 18:33

Someone shared this sweet, joyful, innocent, beautiful, fun little father-and-daughter video years ago. It makes frequent appearances in our house. Maybe it’ll make a nice break from politics and tech: https://youtu.be/Bpu0TIXzI1w

05/09/2019, 18:33

And thank you to the orange BMW driver who did an exemplary, full-road-width cyclist-overtake and then indicated (they DO dirt them!! 😉) perfectly at the roundabout, also on Northern Road this afternoon!

Happy cyclist tonight. 🙌😃👍