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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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ross, to random
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Working in marketing and eCommerce has taught me that I’m a bit of a weirdo.

  1. Tiny UX tweaks will not affect my purchase. If I want to purchase something and the cart is just a little bit shit, I’m not gonna then go and buy something else.

  2. I find cart reminder emails extremely annoying.

  3. I will hunt down your pricing page if I it kills me. Moving the link to it will make it easier/harder, but I WILL find it.

And so on…

chriscoyier, to random
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Multipage Version

Super cool zine from Mat. Me, I like HTML, and I wanted to do something with a little texture to it. So I asked a bunch of people way more talented than I am if they were down to contribute to a zine about heading elements—h1 and company, here with us for as long as hypertext nodes themselves. I ordered the print ones (because zines are cool that way), but I've already read the PDF and it's fantastic. It's funny, it's weird, it's niche, and it's…

https://chriscoyier.net/2024/05/29/multipage-version/

ross,
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@chriscoyier Link to the Zine?

prami, to random
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If you’ve found your /now page nudging you a little too hard over the past few hours, please accept my sincerest apologies! I made a small update last night that aimed to improve the process, but, well, I think it had the opposite effect in a few cases.

Will have it all sorted out soon!

ross,
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@prami Ah nice. I didn’t get any reminders for AGES and then suddenly got one today.

ross,
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@prami Oops. Yeah looks like just one.

adam, to random
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Have a quick chat and then see if you can guess whether you chatted with a person or an AI.

https://app.humanornot.ai

I’ve done two so far, and was wrong both times. 💀

ross,
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@adam is this ever human??

ross,
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@adam I’ve now had a few humans. And BEEN the human. Which is fun.

davidbisset, to opensource
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Interesting approach (encoding and persisting the content in the URL)

A simple #note taking toll in your browser can you host yourself. No servers. No cookies.

https://notepadtab.com/

https://github.com/revolter/notepadtab.com

#opensource

ross,
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@davidbisset You saw that I did this with a Scrabble game, right?

https://words.pico.games/

Interesting how people have been playing with this idea.

sarajw, (edited ) to random
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Holidays* with children are hard. I'm going to need several weeks of work to get over this...

*aka vacations

ross,
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@sarajw It’s true.

Stay strong.

alifeee, to random
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managed to get some lovely images thermally printed

neat!

printed content from @openbenches

next: the world!

see next post for a video :)

picture of a thermal printer, with receipt paper sticking out. the paper displays a low quality picture of a bench underneath, some text, which is: "IN LOVING MEMORY OF EILEEN YATES WIFE BELOVED MUM & AND AWESOME GRAN GONE FOREVER YET ALWAYS NEAR"

ross,
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@alifeee Dang. This is cool. I want all my Mastodon bookmarks to print like this. 😃

rhyswynne, to random
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This is the stupidest manifesto idea I have ever heard and I remember when the Natural Law Party stood on a manifesto to teach everybody in the country to fly via Yoga like fucking Dhalsim from Street Fighter II

https://news.sky.com/story/sunak-says-he-will-bring-back-national-service-if-tories-win-general-election-13143184

ross, (edited )
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@rhyswynne I love how they now want to “address social fragmentation” like that’s not something they are actively involved in creating. 🙄

Also: have they considered any aspect of volunteer management here?

ross, to random
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OK. This week I become a proper full-time EV zealot.

I have hired a petrol automatic for a week.

It’s crap. I hate it. It’s loud. It’s unresponsive. The brakes are harsh. Petrol is expensive and smells.

Its only redeeming feature is the range.

Everything else is worse.

(Hybrids probably represent a good half-way. But gosh I love my EV)

ross,
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@castaway we’ve not hired a hybrid. It’s fully petrol. And yes. Very modern.

kev, to random
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Any users here? I've just started testing it to see if it's better than Apple notes. I've created a couple notes and tagged them, but the tags aren't showing on the sidebar.

What am I doing wrong? This isn't a great first impression…

ross,
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@kev @asier How many columns are showing? Try pressing Ctrl-3 and see if another sidebar pops up? (Or view -> Show tags, notes and editor)

sarajw, to random
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I enjoyed giving a talk, dare I even say it'd be fun to do another one? I don't know what else to talk about though. Do ideas for talks just come, like blog posts? Or should I ask followers for what they'd like to hear about?

ross,
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@sarajw Well done!

Personally, I find it odd that some people apply to speak at events with no idea what they will speak about, or ask people what they should speak about.

I've only ever done public speaking on a topic that I care about, know about, want to share with people, and think I can make entertaining in some way.

So, yeah, I submit talks when I have the ideas for them. And it's usually: I know lots about this interesting thing that an audience doesn’t!

ross, to random
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I am This Close to ordering a garden office/studio. Exciting!!!

ross,
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@Noneeeed yeah. We don’t have space IN the house for an office. So we’re making space elsewhere. We are fortunate to have such a large garden!

ross, to random
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Still freaks me out that “0” is falsey in PHP. In some ways that’s super clever. But in other ways it’s super annoying.

Proper type hints save the day regardless!

ross, to random
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I've been talking a LOT at work about abstractions lately. They're probably all bored of me. And yet, abstractions are SO important.

In code, the right abstraction at the right time is such an enabler!

b0rk, to random
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when I release a zine, I always make a version that looks good when printed at home on a black-and-white printer

so today I'm at a cafe reviewing the black and white version of the git zine

ross,
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@b0rk This person who lives a large shipping cost away and has a black and white laser jet is VERY appreciative of your work today. 🙌😃

dartiss, to random
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@ross I'm getting a PHEV next week (not full, EV I appreciate but does 50 miles on battery, and I intend to use that as much as possible). Any advice you can share to get the best out of it would be appreciated.
One area I struggle with is understanding when public chargers are cheaper than using petrol, as comparing the 2 is tricky.

ross,
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@dartiss hmm. Maybe I forgot something about the standards. But yes. Type-2 at home. CCS is for rapid charging. Which is why I’m confused. I thought Type-2 went up to 7kW

A good primer…

https://rosswintle.uk/2023/06/my-simple-ev-terminology-cheatsheet/

ross, to random
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Loving working on the serverless Scrabble clone. Nice, intricate logic. Fun to test!

https://words.pico.games/

Fixed some simple, but hard-to-find bugs for edge cases tonight. You can now actually play a game right to the end! 🤦‍♂️

I'm thankful for people playing and reporting bugs! 🙏

Key things to add:

  • Skip/swap tiles as a feature
  • Double/triple squares on the board

Then it’s kinda complete!

Nice to haves:

  • Some drag-and-drop or keyboard entry
  • Some instructions
  • Better UI/design
ross,
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@raphadue What do you mean by limit where you are allowed to place letters?

I use the original Scrabble tile set but without the blanks.

ross,
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@raphadue Thats a bad idea. You might accidentally load your opponents view of the game.

ross,
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@raphadue I don’t understand this one either. You should always get the same tiles for a given link. Can you explain more please?

Thanks for playing and for the ideas!!

ross,
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@raphadue Sure. You’re just less likely to accidentally do it if I don’t update the URL. There’s a certain amount of trust here.

ross,
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@raphadue Yeah. I don’t enforce that. Maybe one day. Doesn’t feel hugely necessary. Your opponent can just refuse your move if it’s wrong - same for dictionary. I could enforce English. But maybe you want to play your own dictionary?

It’s kinda like I give you the board and tiles. You bring the rules!

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