Ross's Micro Blog

The other day I entered into a discussion on a Facebook group asking whether there might be some way we could make cycle paths safer for cyclists and pedestrians. The speed at which this became a cycle-hating thread was incredible.

I deleted it.

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Genuinely feeling like everyone else is WAY cleverer than me and has WAY more time to do interesting stuff than me.

Today I went crazy with Vue components, Laravel scopes, and fancy PHP classes with magic methods and actually felt like a super-competent web app developer! Yay!!!

Is 2018 on GitHub? I’ve got a bunch of issues and fixes for it that I need to contribute.

Hey, kids. If you’re gonna keep vomming can you please try and do it on Fridays rather than Sundays. The 48-hours-off rule is making it very hard to get any work done.

Three times in four weeks!? 🤮🤮😀🤮😬

P.S. I’m sorry. I love you. Get well soon.

One of those “can everyone please stop talking!!!!” mornings. And I’m reminded of the idea of a holiday club for introverted kids. More: books, puzzles, video games, craft tables. Less: loud music and discos, parachute games for 50 people at once, etc.

Oh, and, yes, I complain about bad driving, but I like to praise good driving too. My office to Castle Eaton takes in some busy single-lane roads with blind corners. There was some great waiting and negotiation and some IMPECCABLE overtaking today.

It CAN be done!

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Is that thunder? Or an F35 flying over?

Early lunchtime bike ride out to Castle Eaton to see the Red Arrows display. Not a great view, would love to have been closer, but loved the ride and the view!

More interesting to curious old me is the annual pattern of C++ and Java and the OPPOSITE pattern in JavaScript. All the corporate programmers take their summers and Christmasses off. While web programmers get busy learning and tinkering?

The increase in StackOverflow views for Python over time almost certainly represents an increase in usage, but to deem it “the world’s new top language” as the email did is making quite a big leap.

I’m not sure being top of the most-viewed list on StackOverflow is good for a language is it? It could imply your language is hard to learn, has unhelpful errors, has poor documentation. I’m not suggesting Python is/has these things. But SO views could be seen as failures?

I have about 80 mins. On a Saturday. With no kids. And no work. Just me. At home.

What the heck am I supposed to do?!

I do love our school and the teachers and headteacher who work SO hard and do an amazing job, so this is a TINY little problem. But I do wish that there weren’t so many things that parents are invited to or required to be at that are inside regular working hours. 😕

I love these values. Curiosity and creativity are undervalued superpowers. Great read and thanks for sharing, @JosephFreeman https://medium.com/@josephfreeman/what-do-you-value-87b1ff1df2b8

Has anyone yet solved the (first world) problem of getting my smartphone-app-based shopping list to join up with a self-scan-as-you-go supermarket device so scanning an item ticks it off the list and I can see the list on the scanner?!

I swear, my mornings are :

45% asking moving people to be still
45% asking still people to move
10% actually getting things done

More Schoolbot tinkering… Term dates, holidays (calculated from term dates) and meals now all available in messenger, JSON API and a WordPress website using shortcodes. All driven from the same data. 👍

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My wife has been able to walk again for a week.

She actually brings me cups of coffee now!!

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In “news from my spare time”, SchoolBot now has an API, and a WordPress plugin that uses it to display into on a website, such as menus and term dates.

Aim: one central “brain” for parent info that can send info to multiple channels: web, chatbot, and, maybe, ultimately print?!