Ross's Micro Blog

“a next generation crypto-currency and decentralized application platform, written entirely in JavaScript” – ???

Anyone else think this is like using a blunt pencil to do brain surgery?

And yes, we totally take the internet for granted. With any other family IT query I’d be sending pictures, or screen-sharing or getting him to allow remote access to help him out. Without internet I was working blind and that was what made it so hard.

Paper-clip-reset incident update: I managed to, over the phone, with no visual on what was going on, use a PDF of a 10-year old NetGear router manual to help my father-in-law piece together enough information to get back online. Man that was hard work!

Actually, I remember now. BT asked my father in law to factory reset a router that *I* provided him to replace a single-port, WiFi-less USB modem years ago. Resetting would delete the ADSL connection settings anyway. So unhelpful.

The BT customer support person that told my father in law to stick a paper clip in the back of his router needs a really good talking to!

Love this. A real SpaceX rocket scientist is Kickstarting a book for 6-10 year olds about Rocket Science. Theres a few Christmas presents sorted! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1734237858/rocket-science

I love this. I never gave up on RSS. It’s still simple, elegant, useful. “The case for RSS”: https://www.macsparky.com/blog/2017/11/the-case-for-rss

This is pretty embryonic, and I’m not really an open-source project kind of person, so it’s rough around the edges, but here’s oiko_s – a WordPress starter theme derived from _s with SASS, Webpack, Babel and LiveReload. https://github.com/rosswintle/oiko_s

Hosting experiments: I thought this new hosting I was trying out was fast. And it’s good. But it’s not as good as ServerPilot on a cheap DigitalOcean box. Spot when the move happened!

Nearly-6-year-old son to nearly-two-year-old daughter, while Star Wars music plays:

“Ada, this is not the Lego you are looking for!”

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Trying out the micro.blog Mac App. Hmm…

Me to cold sales email: Please delete me – your cold calling makes you look desperate and I don’t want your services.

Reply: “Certainly not desperate to get clients. With X, Y and Z to name a few recently coming on board business has been thriving.”

Look…just…ARGH!!!!!!!

Twitter should let people write “threads” or long posts *with titles* so we can skim through the feed easily.

People could then write these on websites. Twitter could pull in the content using feeds.

Imagine, then, if there was an open feed protocol & free publishing software?!

Great quote I heard yesterday: “Complaining uses up energy that could be used to ask questions”.

I’m definitely going to try to ask rather than complain in future. Catch me if I get that wrong!

Quote from: https://robbell.podbean.com/e/wisdom-shes-all-around-you/

Notes, links, slides, and follow-up video tutorials from my talk on Dev Tools at the Cheltenham WordPress Meetup last night, all at https://rosswintle.uk/2017/11/developer-tools-talk/

So, in possibly the most 1st-world, middle-class piece of bad news, I think I might be allergic to red wine!

Random thought. In Star Wars Ep. 4 the trash compactor’s magnetic sealing deflects blaster bolts. So why don’t people have magnetic shields?

Considering a major service provider switch. Possible new provider:

a) copies a yahoo address on response to my enquiry
b) doesn’t have HTTPS
c) doesn’t have a privacy policy

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When I’m your target market for important stuff, these are the things that matter!