Ross's Micro Blog

Breaking news: 2.5 year old has developed strong opinions about whether or not she wants to go to nursery. 😱

Also: has anyone seen my 6yo’s scooter?!

I hate the name “Daily Greatness”, but going to ty to start using this again. I don’t use the business parts of it much. But I like the weekly/daily planning and time-blocking and creative/motivational aspects.

Some things on the internet are inexplicably difficult. e.g. Bloom (WordPress email opt-in plugin) + MailChimp + Groups + GDPR fields. They really do NOT work together.

Yet.

https://rosswintle.uk/2018/08/blooming-mailchimp-groups-and-gdpr-fields/

It seems that MailChimp’s own forms are the only way to set their GDPR consent on a new user. Is this right? Or can I pass it in using the API?

Huh. Interesting day. Mostly admin, but ended with realising that Bloom (WordPress Plugin) + MailChimp Groups + MailChimp GDPR forms really doesn’t work – whichever way you slice it! And most of my workarounds to get it working we’re fruitless too.

Man, embedding your own video on micro.blog and Mastodon is painful.

More holiday fun: loved Glendurgan’s gardens – especially the maze!

 

Fun with automata at Falmouth Arts Museum

I try not to post about being ON holiday. But I’m back from a fantastic trip to Devon and Cornwall. The chaos resumes!!

#css Well if I haven’t been using :before and :after incorrectly all these years… https://css-tricks.com/to-double-colon-or-not-do-double-colon/

This will be a bit boring for people that know me, but I wanted to start writing more about what I’m up to (learning and working and life) and this serves as an introduction and background.

What I (actually) do! : https://rosswintle.uk/2018/08/what-i-actually-do/

Today’s little writing: Things that are harder when you…STOP EATING THE GRASS LIKE A DOG!!!

https://rosswintle.uk/2018/08/things-that-are-harder-when-you-stop-eating-the-grass-like-a-dog-have-small-children/

All this mass of user interface in the WordPress #Gutenberg editor and can I work out how to turn a paragraph into an unordered list?

No. I cannot.

Still not convinced I can sell this “experience” to clients.

The brilliant Chaz Hutton on drawing comics, even if you can’t draw!

https://medium.com/@chazhutton/how-to-draw-comics-when-you-cant-actually-draw-dd0b8b684562

Today, I took the boy to a cartoon-drawing workshop in a library. A brilliant free activity. I didn’t quite know what I was getting into, but I think I had more fun then he did! https://rosswintle.uk/2018/08/cartooning/

Some in my industry rally against the use of the knowledge-assuming word “just”. (As in “Just do this thing”)

But you can avoid the word “just” and still assume a heap of knowledge and make someone feel stupid.

Maybe I should be posting more about what I do, rather than what others are doing. But…there are challenges in that. https://rosswintle.uk/2018/08/what-i-do/

Creating and Consuming – why this is a tricky thing to get the balance of, and why I want to try and get back to creating: https://rosswintle.uk/2018/08/creating-and-consuming/

I confess, this is not really the day I had planned.

If all the broken things could fix themselves that would be awesome.

Thanks.

Weird A’ Level results/going to Uni fact: The grades I needed to get my first choice Uni place were a LOWER points score than my second choice Uni.

(Do they still assign “points” to grades?)