Ross's Micro Blog

Will I, one day, think “I wish I’d paid more attention to BlockChain in the late 2010’s and not dismissed it as hype?”

Really feeling like I like #Vue computed properties and #Laravel‘s accessors – feels so much like functional programming, which I LIKE!!

After Tim Nash’s security talk last week, and other various things that I’ve read or that have happened (e.g. https://w4e.uk/brewhack) I find myself thinking: how is the internet not 100% in the hands of malicious hackers right now? How is it not just a broken mess?

As an introvert I do sometimes feel like I have a parenting tank. And right now it’s quite empty.

I have walked the fine line between a) giving my child pocket money, the freedom to spend it as they please and to learn about money and its limitations and saving and spending and b) controlling what they own…

…and my child now has a talking watch with games on it.

🤷‍♂️

No one’s listening here are they?

No?

OK. Rant:

Small IT companies: STOP PRETENDING YOU KNOW HOW TO DO WEB HOSTING.

Proper web hosting companies are cheaper than you and better than you at this job.

Thanks.

Rant Over

The other day I saw an ISS pass and tracking the same path and speed just ahead of it was a fainter light. I THINK it was the SpaceX Dragon supply capsule on its way back to earth. Amazing. 😎😯

The NHS choices site is really rather good. Enables easy comprehension of medium/long form technical content even on mobiles. Great job!! 👍

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.

🙁

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!

👏👏👏👏👏

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?