Ross's Micro Blog

Like: How do I iterate over this thing in JS? Oh, it’s an object. I can get the keys, but surely there’s an easier way? Isn’t there a for…in? Or for…of or something? But don’t they include properties that I don’t care about? Maybe loadash helps? Yes, but method naming 🙄

In my “Spare” time today I tried to #learnToLoveJS by writing some Vue and Axios

It was a pretty spectacular failure.

JS seems to just want to trip me up at every step.

The APIs for arrays and objects are inconsistent.

this is different with arrow functions.

Just….ARGH!!!!

OK, so, this seems to be the thing. If you’re using Vue components, go all-in. Mixing reactive JS frameworks with standard page-reloading back-ends doesn’t work well.

I’m not sure I like that. I’d like adopting JS frameworks to be more incremental. But hey. #learnToLoveJS

Seriously…do I have to do all this just to delete a thing in Vue?! What am I missing?

https://rosswintle.uk/2018/06/adding-a-delete-link-to-a-vue-component-representing-a-laravel-model/

WebDevs: Please tell me that adding a delete link to a Vue component that represents a Laravel Eloquent model isn’t as hard as I just made it out to be?

We were contemplating the cost of home-made #sourdough. Even with premium organic flour there’s about 60p of flour in a 750g loaf. Other ingredients are water and salt, which are negligible cost. Only other cost is running the oven. No idea what that is.

New oblong banneton = new bread shapes! Plus Shipton Mill flour, so I’m expecting good things. Even remembered to score it!! #sourdough

Having seen it in Fathom (analytics) and realised what a missing-jigsaw-piece it was, this looks like a neat package for command-line user registration in Laravel: https://github.com/michaeldyrynda/laravel-make-user

Weird. Not used eBay for weeks – suddenly started getting emails from them 2 days ago about a saved search. Logged in to find I had an email subscription to that saved search. But why did emails only just start being sent? Anyone else have this?

Why is email on your own domain so hard? Putting it in your hosting account sucks. Forwarding is bad. GSuite and Office365 are total overkill. What are the simple options?!

Is there a YouTube channel dedicated to showing dads who’ve never had long hair how to manage their 3yo daughter’s long hair?!

50% wholemeal then. Definitely less rise. I forgot to score before baking, which didn’t help. But pretty delicious warm and smothered in butter.

It has become apparent that my cheap, industrial, non-organic flour may be hindering my rise. I am officially a #sourdough #baking nerd!

First attempt at a 50/50 white/wholemeal #sourdough loaf. Seems about the right wetness but I’m not used to this texture. Hope it works out. (Dough made last night)

Is there a YouTube channel dedicated to showing dads who’ve never had long hair how to manage their 3yo daughter’s long hair?!

For a while I’ve been asking people to buy me “consumable” stuff like nice food treats for birthday and Christmas. This year EVERYONE took that request seriously, and I now have LOTS of nice beer, chocolate, biscuits, coffee and cake. Thanks to all who contributed!! 😃

I don’t even know what most of the non-tech news is about any more. There literally seem to be 3 or 4 big stories in the last week that have blown up on Twitter that I have no clue about. 🤷‍♂️

Trying to work out exactly WHAT Google Analytics does with personal identifying cookies. The _gid cookie seems to persist across sites, even when signed out. But I can find no reference to its use, and it’s not used in the new user deletion API. Anyone know more about this?

And actually, it’s REALLY hard to find out what Google do with the _gid cookie, which appears to be set and appears to personally identify you across different sites that use Google Analytics. There’s nothing in the Google data dashboard.

The more I dig into the question “Does Google Analytics require end-user consent”, the more I think the answer is “yes”, and the more I realise why so many websites turned on consent-driven cookie notices on May 25th.