Ross's Micro Blog

This delivery to my office block appears to be a box of recycled lightsabres! 🤷‍♂️

I helped someone out with a WordPress development support question yesterday, and I thought there were some good tips in the process of finding the answer. So, maybe learn something about how to find code with Github and grep: https://rosswintle.uk/2018/12/wordpress-code-diving-tips-for-finding-out-how-to-do-things-sometimes/

Interesting article from @nfpSynergy on running email campaigns addressed to MPs – contains tips that we can all take into account when emailing our MP!

https://nfpsynergy.net/blog/what-do-mps-want-charity-email-campaigns

Interesting. Seems they can’t/don’t/won’t make polygonal chocolate coins. So 10p is the biggest they can do now. To cope with inflation they’ve started making “chocolate notes”! I guess rectangles are just easier.

Isaac drew this a few weeks back. His explanation is that it’s someone who fell over in Strictly Come Dancing and their partner is sad because they fell over. All the judges gave it zero apart from Bruno who gave it one!

😂😂😂

Here’s a little thing I started making ages ago to explain how DNS works to people: https://dns-explained.com/

It’s not finished, needs images (I started drawing some!) and a glossary and pages 12+, but it’s a start.

Useful?

Perfect. Site migration day.

“I’ll work from home because the internet is faster and more reliable!”

Internet goes down. 🙄

I’m not going to vouch for its integrity, but I dare and command-line user to sit in a cafe or on a train and run this: https://github.com/GitSquared/edex-ui

Owning a Facebook page is so much like playing whack-a-mole.

GO AWAY, NOTIFICATIONS. I WILL POST AN UPDATE WHEN I HAVE ONE!!

This #peoplesvote petition is growing slower than I thought it would be. But then it’s only been open a day. One to watch!

Growth tracker: https://petition-track.uk/check-petition/232984

Sign it!: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/232984

I wrote this, but don’t think I promoted it. A write up of my first impressions of Statamic: https://rosswintle.uk/2018/11/statamic-first-impressions/

In short, it’s great, but the database-in-flat-files weirds me out a bit.

Has to be done:

Staying here tonight. This room was impossible to find!!

😉

Feel a bit like: [adopts gruff Yorkshire accent] “Aah twas LOADS better in t’olden days when you wrote XHTML on punch cards and did table layouts with GIFs and scrolling marquee elements and accessed t’Internet over a screechy 9600 baud modem using FreeServe. Them were the days.”

I should really hang out here more. It’s a nicer place.

Of course, this roughly translates to:

Drivers:

STOP DELIBERATELY DRIVING YOUR SODDING GREAT BIG METAL BOXES AT ME AND MY BIKE COS I’D QUITE LIKE TO GET HOME TO MY WIFE AND KIDS IN ONE PIECE!!

I’ll be ridiculously polite about my bike ride home today.

Drivers:

In the dark it’s harder to judge distances & speeds. I’m seeing a worrying trend of people mis-judging these things.

So please do remember that cyclists probably needs more time and space than you think.

Here, back in 2018, I sense that change is afoot. I’m not sure if it will be big change or small change. Hoping to explore some ideas in the coming week!

I don’t really know what to say about war. I’ve never been close to the military. But I’ve paused and reflected and remembered and prayed. I’ve spent time among the poppies and silhouettes at St Augustine’s. I’m grateful for the sacrifice of others and sad for their loss.

One thing that really struck me from parent’s evening yesterday. Our kid reads. A LOT. He devours books. And teacher said something like “it all starts with reading”.

Read with your small children. It doesn’t matter what. Comics, picture books, newspapers, novels. Enjoy reading!

Still not quite getting the rise I want on these whole meal sourdough loaves, but this is delicious and beautiful bread!!