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I saw Turbo Admin posted in a Facebook group today with some people commenting that it was buggy. This makes me sad. I can’t make it better and fix bugs if people don’t report them!

People who have contacted me will tell you I’m properly happy to get big reports & feature ideas!

I was tempted to ask ChatGPT to make a Wordle clone in JavaScript. But I don’t actually care if it can or not. Because if this stuff starts to take over the world then we will end up with people that don’t know if language models give correct answers or not. That seems bad!

Yay! Swindon, my home town, previously the subject of mockery-by-song on The Now Show, has now been scientifically proven not to exist on The Infinite Monkey Cage! (Sort of) (Well, not really) (But it gets another infamous mention!)

https://pca.st/episode/ac8952ed-9c10-478c-878a-52415bcc659a?t=1967.0

Don’t normally share the Wordle, but this was very pleasing…

Wordle 542 3/6

🟩⬜⬜⬜🟩
🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Or maybe:

⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️
🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️ x 66
🟩🟧⬜️⬜️
🟩⬜️🟧⬜️
🟩⬜️⬜️🟩 x 112
🟩⬜️🟩🟩 x 8
🟩🟩🟩🟩

I think #WordlePress sharing should be like:

1 guess
🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️
65 guesses
🟩🟧⬜️⬜️
🟩⬜️🟧⬜️
🟩⬜️⬜️🟩
111 guesses
🟩⬜️🟩🟩
7 guesses
🟩🟩🟩🟩

190 guesses total!

(Yes, this was mine today. Lots of “suggest” button use!)

I feel like an ACTUAL product manager punting features and improvements to the next milestone! 😄

CW: Boring Daily Product Development Update

Right. No messing around. I’m punting some improvements to Turbo Admin in order to ship ship ship the new search modes. Other fixes/tweaks will be in a follow up release!

I am very much looking forward to the day when I don’t need to be the executive function for four people between 7:30 and 8:30 every morning! 😬

If you visit the WordlePress puzzle for the day, you should get a nice little surprise!

https://wordlepress.netlify.app/

It’s subtle though. You might miss it. 🔬

With HUGE thanks to Taco Verdo for his foresight and generosity.

Is it just me that thought ChatGPT was a bit rubbish?

Last night my daughter (6) invented “Noughts and Crosses for Gods”

“How does that work?”

“Well you have a 1-by-1 grid but you still have to get three in a row”

😂

And this is the post you want if you want to see the new search modes in action:

(Video on Twitter – sorry. Was a while ago and I can’t find a save)

https://twitter.com/magicroundabout/status/1575588262827073537

Checking on my tinkering to-do list from the other week:

Noting to self my “home” todos…

⬜️ Update caniphp.com for v8.2
✅ Finish old company accounts
⬜️ Add some features to the “GetOut” app
✅ Improve WordlePress
✅ Properly update and document the Turbo Admin bookmarklet
⬜️ Finish next big Turbo Admin release

Not bad going!!

And before you ask, NO, you really should not install and use a bookmarklet that downloads and executes arbitrary JavaScript!!

But then, you shouldn’t install browser extensions that do the same thing.

If you trust me with one I’m hoping you trust me with the other.

OK, this is kinda wild.

The bookmarklet (!!) version of my #WordPress command palette, Turbo Admin, is now the latest beta version complete with all the new search modes (inc WooCommerce).

Feel free to test this out and send feedback. Bear in mind it’s beta so it may be buggy.

https://turbo-admin.com/bookmarklet.html

The fix for Chrome will take a few days to get processed by Google.

Thanks to https://motern.media/@herchenroder and https://twitter.com/JiveDig for reporting and helping diagnose. 🙌

Eeek! There was a sporadic bug that sometimes (randomly) occurred when the Turbo Admin browser extension was first installed. NOT fun. I’m so sorry if you tried it and it didn’t work.

A fix for the Firefox version is already deployed. Update like this:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-update-add-ons