Ross's Micro Blog

Wow. I just saw Synthetic Fluorophlogopite on an ingredients list and wondered what it is. I’m now in awe of how good @LushLtd are at auditing their supply chains and taking action on human rights issues! https://uk.lush.com/ingredients/synthetic-fluorphlogopite

Cripes. Affogato with an Aeropressed espresso. Why did I not think of THAT before?!?? 👌

It seems I’ve still not really adjusted to how Facebook has changed society. 🤔

I just had a haircut. And for the first time I actually think I’m properly grey. And in the mirror…I look proper old! 👨🏻‍🦳🙁

At this point I have pretty much no idea how Facebook works. It seems to be wholly unreliable as a meaningful and trustworthy form of communication.

I’ve deleted the apps again.

A closing piece of wisdom for the day: everyone is on their own path. Everyone. Don’t look around and see others on their paths and wish it was your path. Because you aren’t them. You are you. Uniquely, invaluably, brilliantly you. Follow YOUR path.

7yo: But…I’ll lose my place!
Me: Hmm. If only there were some kind of device someone had invented that you could use to remember where you were in my book
7yo: I know!

🤦‍♂️

This fun game I made hasn’t gotten boring in the four whole years since I wrote it. Give it a go!

https://rosswintle.uk/2014/10/whats-your-hereditary-title-name/

In shouldn’t be. But I’m joyfully flabbergasted. I’m sure this is the first time ever that not only has a support person actually read and answered EXACTLY the question I asked but they actually repeated my question back to me before answering it.

This is so simple. Why so hard?

I made a quick (un-planned, un-edited) 12 min introduction to breakpoints and debugging JavaScript in Chrome, for some people, if that’s useful to anyone.

(Assumes knowledge of JS functions, scope and stuff)

https://youtu.be/NQcm9wL0d1E

I think this pilot is drunk

I don’t post many pics of my kids. But I had a moment of great parental pride as the boy turned 7 recently. Here’s my written celebration. ❤️

https://rosswintle.uk/2018/12/this-dude/

Pareto’s principle of home baking:

80% of the bread gets eaten in the first 20 minutes after it comes out of the oven.

The last 20% takes 4 days to eat.

Woah! Had prepared myself for Steve Schoger and Adam Wathan’s Refactoring UI book to be more expensive than even an expensive book. Had prepared myself for $70 – $80. But $250 for a PDF!!? Cripes.

I mean, it’s a good kit of stuff. But even the discounted $150 is a lot.

Doing my bit for browser diversity:

And I’m sure it will do great at that. But it’s not “an operating system for the web” that was previously talked about. And this future is not hugely interesting to me as a software developer.

🤔

Notes on State of the Word: Let’s step back and consider what WordPress is to be now. It’s not a general purpose CMS – that direction seems dead. There’s nothing in its future direction about types, fields & meta. It’s a site builder. An HTML authoring tool. It’s Dreamweaver!

This delivery to my office block appears to be a box of recycled lightsabres! 🤷‍♂️

I helped someone out with a WordPress development support question yesterday, and I thought there were some good tips in the process of finding the answer. So, maybe learn something about how to find code with Github and grep: https://rosswintle.uk/2018/12/wordpress-code-diving-tips-for-finding-out-how-to-do-things-sometimes/

Interesting article from @nfpSynergy on running email campaigns addressed to MPs – contains tips that we can all take into account when emailing our MP!

https://nfpsynergy.net/blog/what-do-mps-want-charity-email-campaigns