Ross's Micro Blog

Step 1 of “never getting involved in school communications” complete. You’ll hardly notice. In fact…I desperately hope that no one notices. Because that’s the point. 😃

Further to yesterday’s Tweets, I had fun writing up some basic SEO tips:

Be careful what you write! Basic SEO is easy, important, and really boring.

https://rosswintle.uk/2018/09/be-careful-what-you-write-basic-seo-is-easy-important-and-really-boring/

Yay. My question got featured in Craftivist’s weekly “Activist Whisperer” column. Thank you!!!

She shares some creative and gentle ways to engage with your MP: https://uk.lush.com/article/activist-whisperer-0

Sadly, one of my puncture repairs didn’t QUITE work. Anyone got a patch for this?!

(Yesterday, actually…cross-posting now)

#todayIMade
✅ 90 x Beat the Street points
✅ 2 x repaired inner tubes
✅ 1 x white sourdough loaf (currently proving)
✅ 0.25 x boarded-out and better (?) insulated lofts

*phew*

😃

Amazing to see so many people out playing Beat the Street in Swindon (https://beatthestreet.me/swindon). People are being so friendly and helpful. Special shout out to drivers who are giving families loads of time and space to cross busy roads. 👍👏😃

Wondering if there’s a standard way to validate a UK town name.

Remembering the existence of “Westward Ho!” with the official apostrophe.

Wondering if any has yet named a town:

; DROP TABLE ‘CITIES’;

Wintle’s first law of Tomboladynamics (the prize conservation principle) states that there is a set of objects in the world whose sole purpose is to be tombola prizes. Without these objects the Tombolaverse will collapse into entropy.

A bit on CSS and, I hate to say it, job titles! (With both thanks and apologies to @hankchizljaw)

https://rosswintle.uk/2018/09/css-and-err-job-titles/

This post also expands on some Tweets from the other day. I really should blog first, Tweet later, I know.

This one asks: “Do website owners need a ‘driving licence’, or should websites be more ‘self-driving’?”

https://rosswintle.uk/2018/09/do-website-owners-need-a-drivers-license/

Expanding on some Tweets from the other day… ”Charging up the SchoolBot” gives more detail on recent updates, says “Yeah, there’s nothing difficult going here”, shrugs its shoulders, and walks away.

https://rosswintle.uk/2018/09/charging-up-the-schoolbot/

Last week I used the word “pragmatic” and some weren’t sure what it meant. As an example, here’s a post about what I would call “pragmatic” programming:

https://programmingisterrible.com/post/176657481103/repeat-yourself-do-more-than-one-thing-and

Also… #thankyoutoday for helpful, supportive people who take an interest, are positive, help you grow and gently nudge you to new ideas (rather than forcefully dragging you into them)

This week in projects, posts and pins. My weekly “what I’m up to”. Still not sure if this is useful. Let me know!

https://rosswintle.uk/2018/09/the-week-10th-september-2018/

Oh, gosh. Been forgetting to #thankYouToday. I already did it, really, but let’s have one for yesterday for the organisers, staff, volunteers and runners of the Swindon Half Marathon – such a great event! 👏

Wow. Really hadn’t realised there were so many strong opinions about CSS-in-JS or not. Is there some kind of basic, impartial primer on the pros and cons of each? I mean, I could guess/work it out. But…

This week in projects, posts and pins. My weekly “what I’m up to”. Still not sure if this is useful. Let me know!

https://rosswintle.uk/2018/09/the-week-10th-september-2018/

This is years old. But reminded of it today. It’s still all I got.

Parenthood: The sum of my knowledge

https://rosswintle.uk/2012/05/parenthood-the-sum-of-my-knowledge/

With example questions now alongside the custom messages, you can build a FAQ, and the WordPress plugin then has a shortcode that displays all the “custom knowledge” on a website.

Sweet!

Also added training days to the app, bot, API and plugin!

Yes, I know the interface needs a lot to be desired at this point – will work on that some time!