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ross

@ross@fosstodon.org

Curious and creative software developer.
:wordpress: #WordPress
:laravel: #Laravel
:php: #PHP
#EV owner
#Parenting #Cycling #BikeTooting

Apparently I bring "energy and questions".

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Oh! Wow! I clicked a Facebook Ad and I’m not even sorry because it took me to the Randall Munroe UK your site!

https://www.fane.co.uk/randall-munroe

ross, to random
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This is EMF camp. I really want to go one day. Nerds are awesome!
https://chaos.social/@jonty/112576808689409141

ross, to random
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I, like, NEVER share pictures of myself. But this new T-shirt is PERFECT!!

ross, to random
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Been waiting for weeks to get my hands on this.

My family are completely baffled.

I’m in heaven!! 😍

ross, to random
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This week was a riot at work. We laughed a LOT! I love this team. 💙

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    ross,
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    @chris I’m sorry WHAT?!

    ross, to random
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    Oh gosh SO many good things happened today. What a whirlwind! 😃

    ross, to random
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    Garden office news.

    The people that lived here before us didn’t do many things right when they renovated the place.

    BUT…

    They did think to run a tough pipe with electrical and CAT-5 cable down the 30m garden.

    The electrics checked out a few weeks ago.

    Today I crimped a couple of RJ45s on to see what will happen. Turns out I have a working cable already running to the site! 🙌

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    ross, to random
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    Product idea for UK primary school parents: A re-usable dressing-up costume for special school dress-up days. Hear me out…

    Take a toga-style dress and sew on a bunch of Velcro patches.

    Then sell kits of stick-on adornments. Fur (for cavemen day), a sash and gold bits (for Romans Day), red dots (for Comic Relief), coloured dots (for Children in Need) and various attachments for world book day!

    Win!!

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    I'm just so exhausted with everything getting worse all the time. (Companies sabotaging their own products, mainly, because they serve the investors & not the users.)

    Tell me about some stuff that is improving in a way that actually helps people.

    ross,
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    @kboyd Local coffee roasters who buy direct from growers? (https://ravecoffee.co.uk/ are mine)

    Refillable household products that save plastic? (https://splosh.com/)

    Puzzmo? (https://www.puzzmo.com/subscribe)

    Feedbin? (https://feedbin.com/)

    1Password perhaps?

    SetApp? CleanshotX? AlfredApp? The Delta Emulator? @ivory

    https://merrysky.net/ ?

    ross,
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    This post appeared under a post from @chriscoyier so I have to say “CodePen" as well.

    And @statamic

    That will do for now.

    I note that a lot of these are indie creators/businesses, or those that charge a reasonable price for their services. It's not pump-and-dump growth. It's products with a story.

    And we need more of that!

    serialdeviant, to random
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    In a nutshell.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp1n7tzFCCE

    ross,
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    @serialdeviant He should have done the debate!

    alifeee, to random
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    what's the best DNS registrar these days?

    I'm using 123reg (a UK one) currently

    I'd like to be able to change my DNS without opening a massive React Web client. maybe remotely via a terminal...

    ross,
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    @alifeee Ugh. Always hated 123reg.

    I use Cloudflare. They sell at-cost. The registration UI is clunky and kinda hard to find. But it works OK once you're in.

    jackmcconnell, to random
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    https://jackmac87.com/blog/building-a-solo-business-is-a-lonely-job/

    ross,
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    @jackmcconnell Do you know why the Mastermind didn’t work out? I’ve had groups like that and they’ve been great.

    Why don’t you start something? Invite some people to chat?

    I find big Slack groups pretty soulless. I like a small messaging group. Feel free to count me in!

    ross,
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    @jackmcconnell Ah. Hmm. Sounds more formal than my arrangement.

    ross, to random
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    Why is everything about me so in-betweeny?

    I'm a late Gen-Xer, but an early/borderline Xennial.

    I was born and live in Swindon which is kinda on the border of West, Midlands, South and South West England.

    I rarely hold extreme opinions.

    I'm destined to be middle-of-everything.

    ross,
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    @dvk Hah. You and me both!

    dvk, to random Dutch
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    Our car got stolen tonight. In a mild shock right now. 😰

    ross,
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    @dvk Ugh. That hurts. I’m sorry.

    samir, to random
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    So, are there any alternative iOS app stores yet?

    Any worth checking out?

    ross,
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    @samir AltStore : https://altstore.io/

    SetApp: https://setapp.com/join-waitlist

    ross,
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    @samir I’m not in the EU so 🤷

    I know AltStore has the Delta Emulator (also on regular App Store now) and a popular clipboard manager.

    ross, (edited ) to random
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    Site for the garden office is so very nearly clear! An exciting transformation about to happen!!

    ross, to random
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    @nathanwrigley Did you shut down the WP Builds instance?

    ross, to random
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    Back from holiday! Yay! So what was the story with the hire car?

    Well. We had some credit with a hire car company from a booking we cancelled years ago. We needed something bigger than our EV for this trip as we were taking an extra passenger. So we used our credit to hire a Peugeot 3008 “crossover”-style car. Petrol. Automatic.

    What did I hate about it, apart from being really noisy at low speed and the jolts of gear changes that we weren’t used to?

    ross,
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    Finally, while I liked the real buttons, there was shiny edging in the interior that, at times, reflected bright sunlight at me from several directions at once.

    Oh, and the display brightness setting was buried in an obscure menu in the touchscreen. Which totally threw me when I first turned the lights on and could barely see the display.

    Just SO badly designed. Was glad to hand it back.

    Yes. First world problems or whatever. Thanks for enduring my rant.

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    sarajw, to gardening
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    Gardening has just sort of happened to me.

    I never understood how it could be interesting. My mother and both her parents were avid gardeners, I couldn't have cared less.

    Now I realise it has to do with having your own space in which to garden. It's a privilege. Allotments are so important to those who otherwise have no land around their homes in which to potter and plant.

    It's a joy isn't it? Pruning, planting, tending and weeding. Not a chore. A slow, gentle, growing joy.

    #gardening

    ross,
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    @sarajw that doesn’t work great in my experience. Beer traps though! (Cleaning up can be unpleasant) 🍺 ☠️

    ross,
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    @sarajw oh yes. It’s a process!!

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