Ross's Micro Blog

A song for the summer:

Is this the hay fever?
Is this the summer cold?
Caught in a grass field
There’s no escape from the allergy
Watering eyes
Look up to the sky
and sneeze

Etc

I know why this is true, and I know why many are glad. But for me, personally, this is SO depressing…

“Everything… seems to default to having JavaScript be one of the primary ways to make things programmable.”

https://medium.com/@anildash/what-if-javascript-wins-84898e5341a

It’s a bit dense and unevenly risen…but… #sourdough #baking

Not bad for a first attempt! #sourdough #baking

Well… here goes! #sourdough #baking

Has a lovely texture and smell. Looks like ice cream! I’m cooing over it like a baby. Hope it works! #sourdough #baking

Oops. Last update needed a photo. #sourdough

The “stretch and fold” stage. Seems a little to dry/glutenny to me. People I saw on YouTube had much wetter dough. We’ll see! #sourdough

And so it has begun #sourdough (pic from this morning)

The best bit of our garden. Coming on nicely again this year.

This is the culmination of far too much time, effort, research, and money. But yay! 👍

Quick “Kownter” update: Tracking return visits with “The Anonymous Cookie”: https://blog.kownter.com/2018/05/10/tracking-return-visits-with-the-anonymous-cookie/

Ramblings about static analysis and text editors and how I’ve run back to PHPStorm because, frankly, I’m incompetent. https://rosswintle.uk/2018/05/give-me-my-static-analysis/

Oh, come on. This is like the Trueman show, right? Hello?! I know!! I’ve figured it out! This is funny for all you people, right? Stop mocking me!! Let me out!!

Testing Icro posting

Which reminds me of a silly discussion we had before our first child was born about #geekbabynames

I maintain that my favourite for a girl was “Ellie Dee”!

Just realised my daughter’s name is a valid CSS hex colour code. And it’s a delightful shade of pastel green! #ADA

Those perfect, beautiful curls ❤️

This is a great article/interview on electronic waste. Encouraging us to get unused electronics into the recycling loop! Always wondered what happened to it. https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/23/17270960/electronic-waste-urban-mining-materials-recycling

My first reading of this was: “This job will take take 6 minutes. Tools required: A toilet roll” 😂