Ross's Micro Blog

I still want to properly fix the charts in the Petition Tracker. This will hopefully come. They’re really not as good as I’d like them. Chart.js has defeated me.

Yay! After a (not very) brief period of being broken, Petition Tracker is back up and running! Track a UK government petition’s growth at https://petition-track.uk/

I guess my websites will be in a minority if I set no cookies whatsoever – which I’m hoping they will soon (some already do).

I feel like I should display a pop-up notice proudly announcing the fact!

Just because I LOVE Sunday night so much, I’m doing a proper write up of the conversation I keep having about analytics cookies laying out my current interpretation of what you need to do.

I know how exciting this is.

Watch this space…

…or some paint dry.

👍

Self-destructing file-uploads from Mozilla. Awesome.

https://send.firefox.com/

See also https://onetimesecret.com/ which I often use for sending passwords to others

Who’s the person you’d least expect to have a take on GDPR then? Mr Scruff has to be pretty high on the list! https://www.mrscruff.com/gdpr

Can anyone explain the biological imperative/evolutionary advantage of small children having “I’M NOT TIRED!!!!” tantrums when they clearly are very much so?

I know Swindon has a bad reputation, but seriously, even the bad weather avoids us!! We’ve had a tiny bit of rain, but mostly it’s skirted right round us! #weather

It 8:12. I’ve baked a loaf of bread, poured a filter coffee, helped make 2 masks for children. Looks like the start of another busy and creative day! #YouAreCreative

Round three. Aided by my currently-partially-disabled wife. But I messed up putting it in the oven and got a weird shape. Lovely texture though! #sourdough #baking

I keep meaning to give Lidl kudos for this. So many nappy brands only show women. Aldi’s entire baby range is called “Mamia” for heaven’s sake. I applaud Lidl’s branding. 👏🙌

Dear world, please forgive my transgressions into rampant kiddie-commercialisation/consumerism and pester-power. My wife is out of action and half term is coming. These things bring temporary relief. Thanks for understanding.

If you don’t listen to 99 Percent Invisible (you don’t? Why the heck not?!) this is essential listening on accessibility. It starts in the physical world, but moves to digital at the end. 💯👍😃 https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/curb-cuts/

An interesting experiment today: I wrote a project proposal online in WordPress! The eventual aim is to have forms for sign off/acceptance here, but even this simple initial experience seems (to me) to be pretty neat, and blocks are re-usable too!

Oh cripes. Today and tomorrow are going to be GDPRmageddon in my inbox, aren’t they?!

I can’t help but think that the manufacturer ever so slightly mis-read the product brief…?

I know. I’m a completely middle-aged, middle-class, hipster, sourdough-making bore now. But this is SO pleasing!! #sourdough #baking

Round 2… #sourdough #baking. Forgot to score it!! 🤦‍♂️ Darker than the first one, but has risen more.

A song for the summer:

Is this the hay fever?
Is this the summer cold?
Caught in a grass field
There’s no escape from the allergy
Watering eyes
Look up to the sky
and sneeze

Etc

I know why this is true, and I know why many are glad. But for me, personally, this is SO depressing…

“Everything… seems to default to having JavaScript be one of the primary ways to make things programmable.”

https://medium.com/@anildash/what-if-javascript-wins-84898e5341a