Ross's Micro Blog

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!!

Heard some stuff about quitting list-making and celebrating successes.

Perhaps to-do app have a “backwards” mode where tasks are greyed out and struck through to show when INcomplete, and revealed and highlighted in black once complete to show “Yay! You did this!”

Second #WednesdayWonders : My family, of course. I’m biased but I think they are the most beautiful, smart, brilliant, funny, creative people I know. Seeing my boy thrive at school is 💯. Seeing my girl dance through life is 🙌. Seeing my wife nailing work + parenting is 😍

First #WednesdayWonders : cycling and exercise. I’ve been injured for a few weeks and unable to cycle to work. I REALLY miss it. Heart pounding, blood flowing through my veins, the freedom of flowing through the world under your own power.

Hoping to be back soon. 🚴🏻‍♂️😃🙌

I know this will sound all fluffy & Marie-Kondo, But the last few weeks have been pretty…🤔…overcast? I’m making an effort today to focus on what brings me joy & makes me feel alive. Why not tweet your things too?

This needs a hashtag. How about #WednesdayWonders ?

Improving internal/team comms. I keep saying “It’s not a technology problem, it’s a people problem!” and I wrote this in a Facebook group today which sums up my experience & gives some tips! https://rosswintle.uk/2019/01/improving-internal-communications-its-a-people-problem/

Inspired by Andy Bell’s week notes concept (honestly, nothing is my own idea!), I’m trying to get back into writing my week in posts, projects and pins. Here’s my week:

https://rosswintle.uk/2019/01/the-week-28th-january-2019/

So on to geek tweets…

Having tinkered with TypeScript a bit, I’m now starting to realise “Oh, I can do type hints in my PHP too” and trying to do that where I can.

Type hints are not for everyone – you can take them or leave them – but I LOVE the predictability and safety.

I know that most of my posts are

– unfathomable technical gobbledegook
– interesting coding tips & references*

But I desperately hope that those that aren’t are fun, interesting, informative or uplifting in some way.

And THANK YOU for following!

(* Delete as appropriate)

This is not me wanting to blow my own trumpet. And I’m 100% not about numbers. But this number fascinates me. I honestly don’t understand it. And I was listening to a podcast this morning that made me realise that this number comes with some responsibility.

My wife got me doing some Myers-Briggs-type stuff tonight. I’m such an ambivert. I’m a more introverted version of the E*** profile, and a more extroverted version of the I*** profile. But otherwise it pretty much nailed me again!